The internet now plays a huge part in our lives. In our house it is used more than the phone, more than good old fashioned 'snail mail' and certainly more than texting. However like all technology it has it's good and bad days. And lately it's had more bad days than good! We don't get broadband to the gate, we use mobile broadband and so are really stuck with having to use one provider. We good use satellite but at eight hundred to set up, that's probably not going to be a happening thing. According to Telecom we should get broadband to the gate in 2020, oh well, that's not too many more years to wait!! I mean we only live on the outskirts of the second biggetst city in the country ;-) Anyway the point of this waffle?? To say sorry if you I haven't commented on your blogs for a week or two... Last week we had these gorgeous young souls over for a visit...One of my cousins is married to a Cantab, and while they live in Auckland they are frequent visitors South and so we get to catch up fairly often. A few months ago (well five to be exact) she gave birth to this young chap - Finlay - and we got to meet him for the first time last week. That's his big sister Helene, with him. She loves to raid my scrapbooking room when visiting 'Aunty Tracey'. And she's quite the artist I must say.

Like everywhere else in the country, Spring has well and truly sprung around these parts. Here's the evidence of that! It's a little difficult to resist taking photos when everything is blooming beautiful ;-)

In scrappy news, I've been busy putting together a Project Life album for next year. I've brought the Becky Higgins page protectors for the year (a whole lot of random ones as I love change) and I'm making up the cards to go in there. I know if I do it before hand then I'll enjoy the whole process, where as if I try and do them as I go along, I get too time driven and then it just doesn't work for me. Having had a break from doing Project Life this year, I'm really looking forward to getting back into it next year. Also here are my two final layouts for my guest design team spot over at Scrappin Patch.

Here's wishing you a great end of the week - Mandy, only two days to go!!