My super cool boys

Yesterday I had the boys pose for a proper photo shoot at home. I put up my black screen and had them sit & stand for photographs. I was so pleased with how they turned out. My purpose in taking the pictures was to take some up to date pictures to send out for Easter as Easter cards. My boys certainly performed well, though we did have to bribe they with pocket money.

I've posted a few more pictures on my new photography blog - see the link to the right. It's more dedicated to the pictures I take. My hope is to start up semi professionally now. I still have a lot to learn, but I can learn the rest as I go. The photography blog is the perfect way to show examples of what I can do.

After taking the pictures the boys had a lovely relaxed Saturday and went off to bed so well, then at 11pm we were woken up to the sound of Tayler coughing and being so sick. Poor little boy. He hardly slept through the night. Jarom missed out on some attention so he was also awake with a runny nose. They both stayed home from church today and Jason looked after them. I had to go because I had to teach in Relief Society. Despite having only a few hours sleep myself I was pleased that my lesson went well. So much better than I had expected really, so many beautiful comments and thoughts from the Relief Society sisters, it's just a joy to be a teacher there at the moment. The other really wonderful thing is that I have a whole month to prepare the next lesson! How great!

Mother's Day Weekend

We had so much fun this weekend. The biggest treat was to have Grannie and Grandpa come to stay. We love having them stay. The home comes alive when they arrive and we laugh, chat and play more. On Saturday we went to Blaize Castle together (the boys love the park) and then as a special treat Grannie and Grandpa treated us to Bella Italia. It was such a noisy vibrant restaurant and the food was really yummy - we'll be back for more spinage and ricotta cheese cannelloni.

Sunday was Mothers Day. The boys made me lovely cards which were fantastic, and I loved what they wrote inside. Tayler - 'Dear Mummy, thank you for my lunch' and Jarom - 'To mum, you show me that you love me in the things you do and I know I'm very lucky to have a mum like you, Love from Jarom'.

In primary Jarom was supposed to make a mothers day book mark. His version involved a huge battle with machine guns, and resulted in his bookmark being disposed of because it was unfit to be given to any mother. What can I say? Boys will be boys? That's not usually my motto, it's usually 'Boys will be Men!', but my boy was so good all weekend looking after Grannie and Grandpa that machine guns were easily forgiven.

After church we cooked a lovely roast pork dinner for mum with help from my boys of course - they made the caramelized apple sauce. The weekend went by too quickly. We're so glad we're meeting up again soon for easter.