brians surprise and nail art

Well I finally got around to getting brians surprise for his birthday and retirement with out him knowing. I slipped the aquarium shop girl my mobile number and we sorted things out so when dad went to pet shop i tagged along... I managed to get a guy to come and install everything even fill it for me, alas i did have to call Brian home so he could see how to work the high tec.. filtration system. He loved it on sight whew.... he is fussing over it already and there are no fish in it yet not until we get back from holidays oh the wait will kill him.....

Now here is a sight for sore eyes posing for this was not an easy task. but as you can see i have happy hands now. Yesterday they looked more like sand paper when you felt them so I returned and they fixed the u.v polish by removing it and i insisted i have nail art done even though I have french polish.... The customer is always right, right, but it still cost me fifteen dollars I got discount, so I should have they were at fault, but im happy now and ready for holiday..

brian and cheryl

newly wed bride and groom

u.s.a. bride and groom

brian and billy

lauren 26 weeks

life of the house

well it wont be too long before life in the dixon family changes. i think over the last 2 yrs as to how many changes there have been we have been to the states and seen two wedings one son now on the move to a new home and a baby on the way for the other in august and in between all that brian has retired and i have had my opp on my back and feel better than i thought possible although i move more slowly .

before

hey kids this is before water restrictions ....we still have a quater aof our yard as lawn sort of once the sour sobs die off and our soon aproaching baby can play there.

before drought

renovations

our new back yard

well the ferns are dead and trees are gone but we are in the process of making the yard a far better place to look at and not have to water its a slow process but we are getting it done slowly we have new bird bath a water feature pond wich will have fish in it once more when i work out how to stop hungry birds from eating them all and we even have a cement seat but are waiting for oblong pots to go on each side in front of newly painted shed lastly we have two nice large square pots at base of stairs our old bird bath is now out the front by the extended carport.