One year ago

One year ago tonight, we lost a friend. Ivan was killed, I'm still not sure how or why.
I don't understand why someone like Ivan had to die. He was only 38, he had so much life to look forward to. I totally took for granted that we would attend each others children's weddings - that we would be friends until we were old.
There are so many other people who deserve to die, why him?
Last year we had such good times together - memories that I will never forget. Ivan showed us Cape Town and he showed us, by example, how to live. How to be spontaneous. How to laugh! How to accept people.
I miss him, I miss our friendship because, even though his wife and girls remain, it's not the same. Something is missing. He is.

Tristan's 5 seconds of fame!

Tristan was an extra in the latest MTN ad. He runs across the screen and you don't even see his face, but it's so exciting to see him on TV!















This is a screen capture of him in the ad:













And here is the actual ad:

Dolphins

I took 253 photos of whales and dolphins while on holiday last week. They're all a bit grainy, but this is the best of the bunch. I loved seeing the dolphins, so carefree!

It's winter here

So it's been raining a lot. Don't the drops of water look like gems on the leaves?

Beach babes LO

Lily the pink

Whoo-hoo, I actually got a decent photo of one of our cats. They either squint or look away when I try to take a photo, and if I try without the red-eye and flash, they move and I end up with a blurry smear! This is Lily, AKA Lily the pink AKA The Bin Raider AKA Pissy Puss (she pees in the bath!)

Together

I love this photo! DH took it of us on Tuesday morning. My gorgeous munchkins!

Some of my layouts

Whoo-hoo, I've been doing some paper scrapping (at last).

The blue LO is about our holiday last year September - it was fabulous! The sketch is from Creating Keepsakes latest issue.

The other one is about Tristan's first tooth to fall out. I don't want to let on that the tooth fairy doesn't exist, so I deviously hid the tiny little toofer in a shaker box!