Weekend with my Boys....

Weekends always fly by that quickly because they are always so much fun, and when you are spending them with the people you love, you tend to want to hold on to these days more tightly and wishes that they would just last that much longer...... No fancy photos, just regular iphone photos which i snapped really quickly cause with him around, the iphone just doesn't allow me to take proper photos of him not looking too blur.....he doesn't like having his photos taken, and normally i will always have a photo of him with a plate covering over his little face. I'm lucky this time.... At Canton-i with his darling Piggy buns (for your information, he hated them, he refused to eat them, or even have them this close to him....i made him take a photo so you can tell by his facial expression that he is not one bit excited.....horrible mommy). He is born in the year of the Pig, so i thought i would ordered them and surprise him with it, but nope, i failed!!! Kay took over, and took this shot of Jayce which we thought, hey not too bad for a beginner.....as long as daddy says the photo is NICE and pleased with it, it is NICE!!! and you know he took a zillion shots of Jayce, and most of them he looks okay, and Kay only took 2 photos of me, and it's never of my face.....he only took me from my nose to my chin....wahhhhhhhaaaa. That's my son!!

I wish for more time with them. With both of us working on the weekdays, we don't have much time together as 3 cause daddy works over the weekends, so we try to squeeze in as much trio times as possible even at meals. We are even planning to go for at least 1 holiday this year. Both of us talked about it, and we are giving it a serious thought that we should actually GO for a holiday in the 2nd half of the year, and we'll go to Melbourne. We both liked it there, we've been there for our honeymoon, and now we would like Kay to share this place with us, we're sure he will like it as much as we do. We're keeping our fingers crossed that we will get to planning this holiday for us.

How has your weekend been?

As I work......

My dearest most beloved lil guy who happens to not be in school today because of some sniffles.....he is enjoying his life....doing his most favourite thing.....eating 2 half boiled eggs.... To be extremely busy the last few days at work having overseas suppliers over, it can make me feel really good to just open my e-mails (and thanks to my brother and sis in law who happens to be on leave at this moment) and see these photos of Kay popping in...makes me smile for sure, and all of the sudden i don't feel that tired anymore. My son has a certain effect on me whenever i see him....and in rare occasions he does pop a surprise by visiting me at the office when i least expect.... So here he is....when i'm at my busiest time of the day.....

I miss scrapping to a certain extend, and since being away from our home for the past 2 nights (been staying with my parents so that at least they can watch over Kay for me when i have late nights with my suppliers), so definitely hope to work on new layouts when I'm totally done feeling this tired.....yes yin wen one more supplier to go next week and you'll be back to normal.....till another 2 more weeks....

Completed my latest LO using Sassfrass Lass "foldies", a random mix of Crate Paper's chipboards....& so much more pink for a lil guy's LO. So far my son has yet to ask why i always use so much more flowers, and softer colours for his LO, so i'm scrapping according to how the photos make me feel, and to the scrap materials that i pick and choose to match his photos...

Title" He's turning 4

Have a great Tuesday you all and for me one more dinner with my suppliers tonight where i surely will be stuffing my face.

With all my time......

I'm looking at some spent planning for Kaylen's 4th birthday coming up in May. it's surely going to be a"Lightning Mcqueen" birthday themed birthday at school with the cake, all that yummy birthday treat bags that we're going to fill mostly with (decided not to have the usual birthday treat bags filled to the brim with snacks and sweets) little sticker books, erasers, pencils, crayons, party blowers, and yes a some lolly's from Sticky's and once i get my hand on those Lightning Mcqueen treat bags that i've been searching high and low for since 2 weeks back, Kay will start putting his treat bags together. I even have the treat bags catered for boys and girls in his class. The boys gets Lightning Mcqueen pinball games, and girls get a pack of Hello Kitty silly bandz (i so much prefer the girls treat bags for sure) besides all the other shared common items. This will be his 1st time celebrating his birthday at school and having friends celebrate it with him so i know he is looking forward to this and i have already plans to have this made into a mini album for sure. So much plans for May since it's Kay's birthday month, i'm booking our tickets online soon for Universal Studio (our birthday present to him this year cause he's got enough of trucks, trains, cars so we though he would like an experience and time spent just with mommy and daddy, and just the 3 of us), our stay at this boutique hotel- Studio M (kay has this thing for staying at hotels, it's one of his favourite places to be) since this was a price I won some months back given by one of my suppliers. I'm looking forward to also having some time to just scrap away, drown myself with all that latest products from my favourite brands, and just not think about anything other then scrapping. I will be lucky if in the next 2 weeks, i can even scrap 1 layout cause we've got overseas guest in town again, new business systems being implemented at work, so if i'm left with whatever ounces of energy left, I will steal away even if it's for that few minutes to just scrap a little. So bear with me if you don't see much of me......it will get better i know. Here's my latest play with Crate Paper....a mix between some products from both Portraite & Emma's Shoppe....hard to resist ranges...

Title: My Love

I hope i hope to see G soon cause i didn't get the chance to see her this week again....I certainly do miss chatting and updating each other with our busy lives.....& did i mention i haven't touched the camera for more than 1 month now, i hope by next weekend i will have the chance to just take Kaylen's photos cause he has grown so much, and i don't want to miss this for anything.

This weekend, it's just back to only me & him time, so even how tired i am from this week at work, i know all i need to perk up is just some Kaylen time, it's good enough for me.

Till then, my dear friends, thanks for still coming by....love you all!!

Catching up with Time...

Where did all my March days go?? Did i even take some time to just stop and take a breather? I can't believe that March just flew past me that quickly.

It's been already a week since I returned back from my business trip in Germany. Survived through the jet lag, the hot and humid weather since I've been feeling so cold pratically all the time when i'm there, 2 whole days where i felt my feet didn't belong to my legs due to the endless hours of walking through halls after halls, booths after booths & zillion products to go through.., the long flight hours (thank goodness for inflight movies, I watched straight for the whole 12+hours flight there & back, just not the type to be able to catch any sleep when i travel). Work loads at its highest peak, time spent with Kay in March is just so much lesser because i have to work over the weekends (another one more Saturday tomorrow, and I'll have my weekends with Kaylen again), no photos taken at all of Kay in March, not much scrapping done cause I'm totally tired out each night.

I have so much i would like to do, but it looks like i'm only going to get them done when i priortise, and nothing beats spending more time with my ever growing lil guy....i see him telling me now that he wants to be doing this or that "HIMSELF", yup signs of him not needing me so much like before......but that's life....he is really growing up.

I see him grow as i scrap out his and our stories through the photos. I like this. I enjoy just how much memories each of his photos reminds me of the time the photo was taken, and it only brings me smiles. I like how scrapbooking is to me, the meaning it has for me, and i see myself scrapping for a very very long time.

My recent piece before i left for Germany.....

Title: Falling Hearts

I'm looking for some time over the weekends if i'm not too poofed after putting Kay to bed that i can work with the new range from Crate Paper, Webster Pages.....they are just sitting there in the bags waiting for me patiently.....

Have a great weekend ahead you all. I certainly miss catching up reading all my favourite blogs. I will get to that soon, i hope :)

Working with.....

scrap materials for the past 3 days, and how good that feels to my soul. The Art Republic gave me this chance to work on 2 layouts for their store.


Materials from My Mind's Eye - "Fine & Dandy" series of papers, and brads.....& using my most beloved lil guy's photo taken during Christmas 2010 & Chinese New Year.

Title: Kaylen Mine

Title: Silly Faces

Next on my scrap desk, playing with American Craft's latest - "Hello Sunshine" papers. Love how they come in kraft too. I've got loads of photos from the past months to work on, and i hope i get to work on them this weekend before I fly. Counting down to the days where i'll be missing Kaylen so so very much, and counting down to the days where i will have him in my arms again.

Have a Happy Happy Thursday!!

It's been a tough week....

When you're already working almost over the last 2 weekends straight, no weekend time with Kay ever since, totally not enough of sleep, headache's & having to drive around with a very very heavy head as a result, and one very very sick lil one. This almost sums up my week since last Wednesday night.

It's very busy at work cause we're having our annual SALE event, and all that work & preparation needed drives me nuts at the very last minute, and then out of the blue, Kay came down with a fever on Wednesday night. No coughs or flu or sore throat to start with, just fever, and this time fever was high (went up as high as 39.8 degrees, and needing the serository at one point of time) and we just had no idea what's this sudden cause. He then started to say that his left cheekbone hurts when i press on it, and his voice was starting to just disappear. So doctor said he's sinus area is inflammed causing the pain, & his throat was inflammed following by the virus attacking his voicebox too. So you can just imagine me, worrying as always, and everything he's fallen ill, it hurts me to see him feeling all weak & all that medication he had to take leaving him all cold hands & feet, and not able to sleep well at naps or at night. Just in 5 days, 3 doctor visits.

He had earlier fell ill right before Valentine's day, and now this episode....we're both drained out and so are the grandparents who i'm thankful for watching over him when i have to work over this last weekend, and it keeps them awake late at night wondering how their grandson is feeling, non stop phone calls every hour to check on his condition, and yes we are all drained out.

This photo I've taken of Kay in Feb when he was ill, and just sitting & watching his favourite cartoons....in this photo he still has his cheeks....you should just see him now...sunken cheeks, 2 black eye circles from lack of sleep, and very very husky voice as he regains slowly his voice back again.

I just want him back, to be running around like mad, to be giving me his fancy antics, and silly sentences. Since yesterday's bed time, he's already treating daddy "badly" (this is his usual self) so we know he's going to be back to his happy healthy self soon.

I'm leaving for Frankfurt this coming Sunday, dreading the super cold weather (the last time i checked it was 6 to 7 degrees...yikes!!!), the days away from my lil guy. It's enough for me to not look forward to this trip. It's my job so i can't say no, just going to brave the bitter cold weather, and hope that my days will just fly past and i'll be back in no time......

Since Kay's starting to feel better (yes still at work i call back constantly to just check on him, and to be greeted with this super squeaky voice, and most of the time i can't make up what's he is saying), and i'm just looking forward to meeting G (FINALLY after a long one month+ of wait, the last time i saw her was days before CNY, so this is a much needed catch up), and hopefully i can also start on some scrapping. Miss this hobby so much since my last V-day scrap (been so busy at home & at work that i've no energy or juices to think about scrapping), and seriously itching to work on some new stuff i bought since weeks ago.

So till my next post (i miss reading & catching up all my favourite scrapping sites), I will see you again.

Have a Happy Tuesday!!

Minis....

Falling in love with creating them and looking at them, I see memories after memories, and i like it. I like how each of them reminds me of a time in Kaylen's life, and my minis are definitely growing in numbers through my scrapbooking years. Averagely i will work on 3 to 4 mini albums a year for Kaylen, and still on my pending tray to complete is our family's Szechuan 2010 travel mini (gosh it's going to be 1 year since our travel in April last year) & Kay's X'mas mini. I'm not sure when i will get the time to finish them, but i'm sure they will get completed for sure.

They are indeed my memory keepers, and i'm looking forward to working on many more of these mini for this new year.....& a new storage for these lil babies of mine for sure.

Till then, have a great Tuesday!!