The weather has been beautiful this week - I will ignore the fact it is raining today. The trees in the area are all covered in blossom it is just gorgeous.


I took Caitlin down to take a picture of the finest examples of blossoms in the village and she was supposed to hold the branch steady - I had provided chocolate ice-cream as bribery but I think she was a bit distracted to say the least.


But then again she was a bit excited as her best friend Lauren had just returned from Australia with lots of pictures and pressies.


Lauren and her family are emigrating in the summer and Caitlin is so sad to be loosing her friend but I have promised she can keep in touch - the Internet means Australia isn't quite so far anymore.
I have been busy this week as we are in full potty training mode with Rachel - it was her choice as she knows BIG girls go to playschool and she is so eager to go to playschool especially after this weekend.


On Saturday we took her to an open day at the playschool and she just loved it, they had their faces painted and released balloons and played with the new playschool bunny- in fact they have an opening and so in a couple of weeks time she will start attending for a couple of days a week just to begin with to get her into the swing of it before she goes full time. I can't believe she is already for playschool now- the time is just flying.

I have been getting into the swing of things too - I have been so removed from the scrapbooking industry that I didn't even realise it was National ScrapBooking Day until I was blog hopping. I used to be so prolific ( I know I have 11 albums to prove it ) so I decided to try and do a layout - and I managed 4 - 4 that is more than I have managed all year !!


So here is the first - it is going into our "Things we do" Album under the Cooking tab - I used up some of the many Scenic Routes papers I have left.
While I had the Scenic Routes out I also whipped up this little number for my family pages in the Family Files album.


I have to say it is easier to do a layout when I know where it is headed, it gives me a focus and makes me remember why I actually have this strange little hobby.

I will share the other two next time ( as who know when I might actually scrapbook again !! )