National Zoo and Aquarium (post is a little longer than I'd planned...)

We took the boys to the National Zoo and Aquarium on tuesday for Malakai's birthday. It was such a gorgeous day weather-wise and we had a wonderful time. The only thing we would've changed was actually charging the camera batteries before we went :( these are the only photo's we got (besides a few other dud ones) before the battery went dead. Normally we'd also have mum's camera, but she was in Sydney lol! It was one of those 'learning' experiences that we hope never happens again :(

The boys and I at the monkey enclosure

Daddy holding Malakai up to see the giant crayfish thingy

We thought the zoo was great. But the aquarium was what particularly got the boys attention. Both of them were just nuts with excitement. It was really cute. So now we're planning a trip to the big aquarium in Sydney :)

Aaron started his new job on thursday :) it's going well altho lots of new stuff to learn of course. He's moved from a section where there was only about 2 guys to a section where there's only about 2 women. lol, that's nice for a change cause the disability sector was also predominantly women.

Praise the Lord we all seem to be better now :) Kai and I are still coughing but it's the tail end of it thankfully.

All my friends around here are seriously getting crafty. Makes me feel a bit slack cause I haven't done a thing lately! I used to be into sewing but I'm not that good, so I just kinda let that die a natural death (altho I've still got quite a bit of really nice fabric that I am going to sew into something 'one day'!). Then I got into cross-stitching/embroidery/needlework etc but my style has changed, and I'm not really into that anymore. I have this HUGE cross-stitch that is practically finished but I haven't bothered with the last bits cause I know I don't really want to put it on the wall around here...very disheartening. Maybe one day I'll change my mind, and it'll still be there waiting lol! I made a quilt once, and I love it, but it's still not my thing. One friend (hi Ruth) is particularly into cake decorating and I remember loving that in high school (wasn't half bad at it either ;) but it's not really the thing for me right now either.

I guess that leaves me with my passion for scrapbooking :) and I'm more than happy with that. So why do I still look at the end product of what other people are doing and think that I should be doing it too? (Cause it all looks really awesome everyone!) Or perhaps because I really haven't done a lot of scrapbooking lately and there's not a lot of 'end product' of my own around here I feel a bit slack? Or there's a silly mind-set in me that thinks I should be doing something cause lots of other people are?...wanting to be a part of the 'group'...

The bottom line? I need to get some scrapbooking done! lol, and just enjoy it cause it's what I love doing. Maybe that's what it is that draws me to what others are doing...the fact that they are enjoying whatever 'thing' they do.

I think that's it.

Well then, I'm off to 'enjoy'...might start with a trip to the scrapbooking shop ;)