Archive for August, 2010

Searched around some old photos and found this gem from 10. Sept 2006. So cute!

I had such good plans about blogging regularly this time. Even when I went back to work after the vacation. But it’s really hard sometimes to find time, especially when I also want to do some scrapbooking So this past week / weekend I’ve been scrapping my heart out – and it’s been great! But on this last night of August 2010 I just wanted to make a little post. Just to say hay, just to tell I’m still here living my life both online and inline..

We are getting back into the everyday life, both kiddo and I. Starting to get used to the early mornings and the scheduling to make sure we manage to do it all… So far it’s been good, even though it’s been a challenge to remember everything some days.

I think I’m ready for September now. It’s fall around here anyway. The nights are starting to get darker and the weather is getting colder. I’m not sure I like it. But I will embrace it and enjoy the colors.

Tomorrow I’ll bring my camera along in the car. I might run into something beautiful that needs my attention and snapping.

I don’t think I’ve mention this before, but MT have started reading books. Not only cartoons, but real books. Books written for children, off course, but anyway books. Last week I was a bit late coming up to sing for him at bedtime, so he found a book I bought him this summer and started reading in it (I’ve been trying all summer to get him interested, lol..). When I finally got up he asked if he please could read a little bit more after I said good night. It’s so exciting, he told me. I was excited too, I spent my childhood borrowed in books and I love reading! So I told him, yes, you might read two more pages – and then you have to sleep. Yay! I’m so proud of him and LOVE the way they are teaching the love of reading at school!

O.k. so this has been a totally random post, so I might as well add a photo from a previous august day (26th 2005). Originally I had some  plan of a “5 years ago post”, but I never got around to it. It’s the same this year anyway; time to harvest at the farm – if only the rain could stop! The oats are beautiful at close op

See you around!

I’ll hope you join in for this fun contest starting September 1st. Lots of fantastic prices and tons of fun to be had together with fellow zilla scrappers (just look around for some crazy avatars in the forum).

Read more about it in the forum at Polka Dot Plum . Or leave a comment here at the limeblog.

Update: more details at Polka Dot Plum blog.

Another installment of the iPhone photo project. Week 12/52 is now accounted for.

I’m changing things up a little, but you can still jump over to Flickr to see the photos larger if you want.

1. New Place Outside, 2. Daisy; Prestekrage, 4. River and sky, 5. Stripes and Sweets, 6. The Red Rule,
7. Take me to Botswana, 9. Sunshine on River

Credits: Papers from You are here by Paislee Press and Queen of Quirk

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77/365 – July 12th 2010

Finally they finished laying the new decking outside. It looks good now, not as messy as it did before. I wonder what I’m going to put there…..

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78/365 – July 13th 2010

One of many wild flowers in my garden. I love these.

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79/365 – July 14th 2010

I love living by the river. I love living by any kind of water, to be honest.

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80/365 – July 15th 2010

I went by my parents this evening. My mom made me dinner and then we moved out in the tent (of sorts) and had coffee and sweets. It’s been a while since it’s been only me, my mom and my dad together for an whole evening. Strange but nice. Missing MT a whole bunch.

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81/365 – July 16th 2010

The Red Rule demanded this picture taken. In this case you might even call it the Blue Rule as the door was just as important as my friends coat, but anyhow. I spent a nice evening in this house, chatting, eating, laughing and even got a late evening walk in the rain.

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82/365 – July 17th 2010

I’ve read these books several years ago. Now I’ve started up again and added two books to the collection as well. This is #4 of 9, so I have great reading for the whole summer

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83/365 – July 18th 2010

On my way home in the early evening – after having had three services in three different churches – the sun shone so beautifully at the river. I had to capture it.

Another installment of the iPhone photo project. Week 11/52 is now accounted for.

I’m changing things up a little, but you can still jump over to Flickr to see the photos larger if you want.

1. How to make a marzipan rose, 3. Driving Home, 4. Birthday BBQ, 5. Green and white polka dot,
7. My Evening Routine, 8. Out Walking, 9. Evening Light

Credits: Papers from You are here by Paislee Press and Queen of Quirk

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70/365 – July 5th 2010

My friend Bea is busy preparing for the wedding of her son and (soon to become) daughter in law, she loves making cakes and have several in the works. This is all for the wedding cake, it’s going to be fantastic. I’m leaving my son with her for a few weeks, he’s going to have a great time. I’m going to miss him.

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71/365 – July 6th 2010

I drove over several small and large mountain areas on my way back home. I tried to take photos of the scenery, but it was not so easy… Loved this one though, with a little capture of what’s behind me as well

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72/365 – July 7th 2010

Today was my birthday and I celebrated a little with family. We lit the wood stove (of sorts) that stands in the garden and it worked wonderfully as a BBQ. A great evening with tasty simple food. | here is a digital scrapbook page I did about it |

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73/365 – July 8th 2010

Every once in a while I need me a new coffee mug. I loved this green and white polka dot cup, it is my new favorite. Today I enjoyed some coffee, sitting outside just relaxing.

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74/365 – July 9th 2010

Any normal evening you’ll catch me surfing the internet, some of the evening you’ll also catch me watch telly. If I only could get around to start blogging again regularly I would be so happy.

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75/365 – July 10th 2010

I’ve started walking by the river. I really like it; all the beauty of the nature, the smell and sound of the water, the funny scrapbooking podcast on my ear. An hour well spent.

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76/365 – July 11th 2010

It’s been a rainy day. I love the light in the evening.

Another installment of the iPhone photo project. Week 10/52 is now accounted for.

I’m changing things up a little, but you can still jump over to Flickr to see the photos larger if you want.

2. First bath of the season, 3. Rain Day Play, 4. Orange River, 5. Loft bed?, 6. Football, 7. Cold Water, 8. Morning Sun

Credits: Papers from You are here by Paislee Press and Queen of Quirk

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63/365 – June 28th 2010

I’m so glad we didn’t hang out at home until it had been to late for a bath. That happens sometimes. But today we managed to get out of our house and drive to a great place for bathing right by my parents house. We even got my mom to come, she brought coffee and cookies and we spent a few hours by the lake together.

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64/365 – June 29th 2010

He’s not as eager to go out and play in the rain as he was when he was little, but he still loves to make his own dams and rivers on a good rainy day.

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65/365 – June 30th 2010

Sometimes the sunset really is strong in color. I love how the river reflects it.

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66/365 – July 1th 2010

Today we visited IKEA and MT got to try out how a Loft Bed feels. He’s warming to the idea, but still thinks he has an alright bed as it is. I don’t agree, so come fall we’ll be back buying this one. | Note to self: I have to make a blog post about this day and the trip to IKEA, not often we are told to leave the building, I’m just saying… |

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67/365 – July 2nd 2010

Every now and then MT asks me to come and play some football (soccer) with him. This time I tried to capture us while playing. The photo is just a strange one, but it makes me happy.

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68/365 – July 3rd 2010

He insisted on taking a bath. The water was cold, so this is as far as he got. But at least he got to try.

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69/365 – July 4th 2010

After driving all night we were greeted by the morning sun on the ferry taking us over to the north side of the fjord. It’s so good to be with friends for a couple of days, an so great to be in the western side of Norway again. I like it here.

Another installment of the iPhone photo project. Week 9/52 is now accounted for.

I’m changing things up a little, but you can still jump over to Flickr to see the photos larger if you want.

1. Football school; first day, 2. yellow flower, 4. Football school; last day, 5. Sunset, 6. Progress in the garden,
8. Big grin, 9. Stave church

Credits: Papers from You are here by Paislee Press and Queen of Quirk

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56/365 – June 21th 2010

MT is so looking forward to three days of football school. He’s jumping up and down of pure joy and doesn’t even care that he doesn’t know the other kids of his age group that much…

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57/365 – June 22nd 2010

From my walk by the river, lots and lots of beautiful flowers along the way, I really liked this bright yellow one even thought it’s a bit blurry…

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58/365 – June 23rd 2010

I went by MT’s football school today at lunch time. And this is how they cool off the children it’s been a really warm day. MT is having so much fun and learning a lot about the play too. He had so much fun following the sprinklers around the field, jumping up and down. And when he came up to me afterward he was dripping wet from top to toe.

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59/365 – June 24th 2010

Sometimes and evening photo is all I can manage, it’s been a busy day – and a busy busy week.
| blog post from this day: A Couple of Thoughts |

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60/365 – June 25th 2010

Last fall they had to dig around the house since there was some trouble with a damp cellar. Now they are finally here to clean up and finish the job. It is so nice to see the ground flat and even again. I look forward to see the grass taking over…

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61/365 – June 26th 2010

We where playing outside, throwing a ball over the table. He was throwing in all kinds of directions and I told him to play nice. “Me, I didn’t do anything”, he told me with a fake smile.

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62/365 – June 27th 2010

Today I had service in this and one other church. I love this old church, it’s beautifully built and quite old. It was a beautiful day as well.

O.K. so here we go again with the iPhone photo project. I’m still shooting a photo a day,
but I’m sooo behind on my uploading (Seems familiar?!) Anyway…

I’m changing things up a little, but you can still jump over to Flickr to see the photos larger if you want.
My weeks now goes from Monday to Sunday (since Monday of this week already is covered I just left it out..).
1. Surfing, 2. Great views, 3. Smashing, 4. Hellooo, 5. Waiting on Grandma, 6. Searching for wild flowers

Credits: Papers from You are here by Paislee Press and Queen of Quirk

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50/365 – June 15th 2010

I played the catch-up game with my photos. I’ve been good taking a photo with my iPhone each day. Not so good about uploading and writing a few words to accompany the photos. This was a looooong day at work, it was good to come back home and spend some time in front of the computer in the evening to regroup and recharge. It’s going to be a busy week.
| blog post from this day: A Sunshiny Day | Updated… |

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51/365 – June 16th 2010

The last church council of our local church was held in one of it’s members home. This is such a beautiful place, I just had to snap a little photo of the view. It was a beautiful day too.

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52/365 – June 17th 2010

The children and teachers at MT’s school invited us parents for a summer party. With hot dogs, coffee, talking and playing. All of the children got role in a musical play, MT got to dance, and it was so fun to watch them. Here he is trying to smash the ball right before we went back home.

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53/365 – June 18th 2010

MT is officially out of 1. grade. He is starting summer vacation.

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54/365 – June 19th 2010

Today MT went to stay at the farm with his Grandma and Grandpa. His cousins were visiting too. I had to work and missed it all…. Here he is waiting for Grandma to pick him up, we met up on the half way there since I had a wedding ceremony to be back for. I miss him when he’s away, but I’m so glad he gets wonderful summer memories to cherish.

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55/365 – June 20th 2010

Today we had an outdoors service celebrating Gods creation. Afterwards we went on a little hike looking for wild flowers in the fields – and on the side of the roads. We had fun, the weather was warm and filled with sunshine. My mom and dad, my sweet niece, my uncle, aunt and cousin all joined us. A good day.

It’s back to school days around here and MT is super excited to start up again. He could hardly wait yesterday to be with his school buddies again and to play in the school yard.I’m so glad he’s eager to start up.

Right now I’m planning how we are going to make the home work easier and more fun to do, we had a few fights about that last year and I want it to run smoother (if that is possible). I’m thinking about a way to give him credits when he does the home work (and a few added duties) in good manner. When he’s saved enough credits they can be used for a) a visit to a aqua park or b) a visit to the cinema. His choice. Hope it’ll work. Something along these lines.

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A little conversation this morning.

Me: Do you want me to hang around a little at school since it’s your first day back?
MT: Oh, no! I’m not a little kid any more. You can’t be there!

He’s growing sooo fast!

I have a color challenge up at the PLUM, please please jump over and join in

This is the colors that inspired me to scrap

And this is what I made

journal:
I found my perfect place to hang out this summer.
A place to breathe, drink coffee, read a book and enjoy the sunshine.
I look forward to revisit it next summer already.
credits:
papers, alpha and elements from Audrey by Pixel Perfect Designs
papers and elements from Nolan by Sweet Tomato Designs
made for this weeks color challenge (8/18-8/24) at Polka Dot Plum.

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So what do you want to do with the colors? (If you don’t scrap, but take photos, you can link me up in the comments on this post with a photo that uses at least tree of the colors from the above color swatch. Fun.)

So we had a little garden party last Sunday, with my brother + family and my mom and dad. It was so nice to fire the BBQ grill again and be together on one of the few nice, warm and sunny days of August (so far). And MT was so happy, after being a bit sad over missing out on our last gathering in the garden (my birthday, also see below).

The nice thing about Sunday was that it took little to no planning. We just brought with us whatever we had on hand. I didn’t even have time to clean the house before this or set the table outside, we just didn’t care about the mess. It was more important for us to enjoy the afternoon and evening together. And to be honest they are family and know about my quirks and messes anyway.

My brother was nice enough to be the grill chef and barbecue the food for us. Thanks again We enjoyed being together, the food and the weather.

And we had some fun too.

Both kids and grown ups.

Later we spent some time talking about this and that, so great to be together and catch up on life. And the I got some help from all the guys to move a closet into my bed room too. Yay, it was a really good day. Now I have room for more clothes upstairs. Note to self: The closet needs some washing… and you need to fill it with clothes too.

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Anyhow, here is a scrapbook layout I made from the last barbecue in the garden, the birthday one (the one MT missed and felt a little left out of when he realized that his cousins where there and he was on vacation in western Norway).

Credits:
Template by Scrapping with Liz
Papers and element from Finley by Sweet Tomato designs (the red paper and banner is recolored)
Click the image and jump over to Flickr for journaling…

I’ve been thinking about entering the contest of I ♥ faces for a while. Finally I just did it The challenge for this week is to present a photo with a face and some SHADES. I just knew I had a few photos of MT from when he was around 3 years old sporting some shades, looking cool. Thankfully I found them!

And above is my favorite and the entry for the contest. Below are the runner up You can read more about this weeks entries in this and this post.

Just a little reminder to my self.

MT’s one and only fishing hook is stuck under a rock in the river. He need a new one a whole bunch of new ones. He says this is a urgent matter to solve.

So on my shopping list it goes.

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..I’m kind of glad the hook isn’t stuck to my bag anymore. These hooks freak me out a little. I just know how badly they will hurt if I get one in my hand/face/foot. And the way MT is waving the fishing rod around… Ouch.

A couple of days ago we went fishing in the river. MT desperately wanted to use his new fishing rod and I didn’t have any excuses for not to go. It was a nice evening and there was no rain in the air. So we went.

Our river is rather wide one, so it’s a lot of places to stand throwing into the water. Most places we would need boots to reach, though, so we didn’t go there. But we still had to struggle a bit through the bushes and over rocks to try out a few different places. Once MT got stuck in a thorn bush, poor guy. He got himself out of it, but not without some scares and cries.

Since the river is rather shallow at the banks the fish hook got stuck in the rocks, MT had to wade out into the water to save his fish hook more than once, I think he found it rather exciting to go out in the river like that some places it runs rather wild (not that he would wade out into the river on those places) and he was so pleased of himself for not falling on the slippery rock, I sure would have. The last time the hook got stuck he wasn’t allowed into the water, since it was deeper there, so that was it for the fishing hook and for our fishing trip. And now we need to buy a few more hooks before next time fishing is the thing to do He’s already told his Grandma that Mama needs to borrow Great Grandpa’s old fishing rod to go fishing with me.

Time will tell; and we still have to figure out which one of us is going to kill the fish. My vote is on him….

Kiddo got in trouble surfing the Internet yesterday, so now he’s not allowed to use any of my browsers anymore. To many searches for fighting games from his side…

But we’re trying out a new browser called Kidzui, anyone used it? I hope it is fun to use, but also that it’s not easy to manipulate from his side of the table…

So now, if only no one teaches him how to delete surfing history in the other browsers I can keep on telling him: “If you use my browser, and yes I will know if you do, then it’s no computer time for a week”.

Off to check up on how he’s doing and how he’s liking his new browser.

Hello – I’m good, how are you?!

This summer has flown by like a racket (or something else that flies super fast). I can’t believe July is over and that I already have been on vacation for three weeks.

I want to capture the days as they fly by; take my photos, write my words, be in the moment as well as document the most important ones later. I’m kind of behind on all the above. Or, maybe not; I’m taking a photo a day, I have a whole bunch of pages already finished for my July 2010 book (with a photo a day theme) AND I HAVE BEEN SCRAPPING. So something is still happening. And it was sooooo good to finally get those scrapping muscles flexing again (reminds me that I have some walking to do as well). Must exercise regularly.

Anyhow, just wanted to say hi – and to show of a couple of recent layouts too

Click images for credits and map.

See you around!!