Gosh, it's Monday already and here I am, seated in my usual nook, facing my computer, and feeling as though our drawn out 7-day holiday is now all but a faded memory.


We have been back for over a week and it has been a little busier than normal, but, that's what it's like at this time of year - things only seem to gather more momentum.


Just a quick post to announce that the bugs which had managed to infiltrate the blog before we departed are now under control, but, they have now migrated into my e-mails. I only discovered today there are 181 unopened mails that were lounging on the server.So apologies, as I am not ignoring you; I am merely getting there slowly, but, surely. Update: All emails have been attended to you, if you are still awaiting an email from me, if you would be so kind to resend it.


In any case, here's a few from the holiday and with any luck, full wedding blogging will resume!

...and hopefully some sunshine too.

Just wanted to let you know that we are away for a wee break and the studio will be closed until the 10 October 2011.

Please direct all price enquiries to the automated email address: prices@andreacarlylephotography.co.za, all other e-mails will be addressed on my return.


Have a great week ahead!

I am just posting an image from our week that was, with a random quote to match.

All three boys slept over at "uncle's" house, last night.

This morning, as I sipped my coffee and switched on my PC, I realised that the house was silent, so eerily hushed that I can actually hear my keyboard "tik tik", as I type this post....it is a strange feeling.

A silence that I thought I could savour, as I have a hundred and three things I thought I would do, once I finally had this moment of quiet, but, now that I have it, I long for the noise and chaos.

Strange.

Just yesterday morning, I was a tad irritated that I could not even go to the loo without a "Mama {insert demand}" and now that I have several uninterrupted hours, I am stumped with what to do.

I am ready to embrace the noise.

3....2...1...Blast off!

Oliver's birthday is in July, which is not only a little too cold for an outdoor party, but, it also happens to be during the school holidays, meaning that most of his friends are away. We have, over the years, held his "proper" party towards the end of August.

So, this weekend, 22 astronauts graduated from Oliver's lunar space shuttle programme. The extra-terrestrial mission included hunting for cosmic moon rocks and a spacecraft missile launch.  Rookies were then asked to eliminate an alien and participate in a deep-space experiment (Pepsi and Mentos) and finally to construct a shuttle of their own.

We had a blast!