Life is a blur...and Sketchy Thursdays...

The last few weeks have been a little bit blurry.  We've enjoyed having my in-laws here and have seen a lot of beautiful places.  Yesterday was a rainy day and I was secretly thankful as it meant we could stay home for a little while.  Sooooo...I used that time to sneak in some scrapbooking.  :)  The challenge at SketchyThursdays was a great one for this layout of Aden cutting his hair.  I've been a mother for 11 years now and Aden was the first to cut his hair.  His response?  "Well, you said I needed a haircut."

My next layout is for scrapbookers-anonymous.  Their challnege this month was to use 17 buttons on a layout.  Well.....let me say that my 23 buttons on this layout didn't even come close to making a dent in my stash!  And that's not even including the big tin on vintage buttons my sister-in-law gave me for Christmas.  Love those!!!  This layout is about my boy's love for water.  They have always loved water, even as little babies.  Living in New Zealand, they would go to the ocean every day if we let them.  And the water here isn't exactly warm.  We are only 1900 miles north of Antartica so the water is VERY cold.  I don't think the tap water runs as cold as the ocean here.  Brr...but it doesn't stop them.

I thought I'd include this sunset picture.  Its been a joke around here about if the sun shines here or not.  Typical New Zealand weather has been around for my in-laws visit.  This evening we were watching for yellow eyed penguins, the world's rarest.  I just had to capture the sunset too.  It was beautiful!  Here is one of the pictures of a penguin.  So cool to have seen them in the wild.  Next week, my in-laws leave and the boys start school.  I think I'll loose myself in my paper and glue for a few hours....or days.  :)