**  Thank you everybody for my birthday wishes!! I have had a lovely birthday week…

**  We’ve continued to enjoy our NZ guests!
Sadly it is their last night with us tonight

**  Admittedly a small part of me is looking forward to being able to put my house back together & all have our own rooms again, but we are going to miss them lots and lots once they leave.

**  Here is a little glimpse of a few things we’ve been up to…

Getting our creative groove on while the babies play with water :

Getting our nails made all pretty:

Enjoying some family time together in the sun :

**  I’ve also had some awesome mail this week…

Firstly I received my super duper awesomely fantastic Mouthy Stitches tote bag from the lovely Jennifer of Ellison Lane Quilts.
Check it out… didn’t I get super lucky!!

Also a few little birthday presents to myself arrived…
Tacha’s new book:

And some gorgeous scraps from Blueberry Park:

(Yes the irony that I just recently destashed my scraps then went and ordered more is not lost on me 😉 )

**  Also my fluffy birthday present Miss Bella is settling in well as part of the family. She has the most gorgeous personality and really is such a friendly (and brave) wee thing.

**  This is what she was doing just 24 hours after coming home with us…

**  What a good kitty hey! The dog (Izzy) and Miss Bella have become fast friends. I knew they would be, I just wasn’t expecting it to happen quite so quickly!

**  The rest of us have had plenty of snuggles too…

The pink push chair was Abbie’s doing… Tolerant kitty!!

**  Even Mr Flutter has got in on the action, despite him claiming that “You can get her as long as you realise that she’ll be your cat and I won’t be doing anything for her…”
Pffftttt, I knew that wouldn’t last long in all!!

**  And that is our week in a nut shell…