Day 360 - To Joey.

Boxing Day! I love Boxing Day! This day every year my entire Dad's side of the family comes down and we all exchange gifts. I love getting to see all my cousins and everything :D We always have a lot of fun! And this year Patrick was able to come over for a bit in the evening, which was also great. :)Ah Christmas, you definitely have not sucked this year.

Day 332 - Last Day.

Today all the family came down again one last time before the Americans head back over the pond. I'm gonna miss this kid. She's been a lot of fun to have around! The accent reminds me of all my American friends :):)

Day 311 - Dresses :)

Today I was at my cousins house and we started trying on formal dresses and my little sister felt left out so Emma gave her one of her short dresses and tied a scarf round her waist... it was funny!

Day 242 - Lemonade, Bubbles And Cameras...

Yesterday was my sister's 5th birthday so we had all the family down for lunch today. I love our family parties... there is always a lot of bant! It helped a lot that today was an absolutely beautiful day, so we were able to sit outside, drink some lemonade, blow some bubbles, take some pictures etc. It was a lot of fun. Also, today could have been my last chance to see dear Emzy Doodles before she leaves for uni, like that smart girl she is. (Love you!)

Tonight we also had an SU meeting, to organise what we're going to be doing the first day. I'm very excited for this year's SU. Gonna be EPIC!

The journey home from this meeting was also fun, it involved a lot of raving to random foreign dance songs! Good times :D

Day 238 - A Good Day Indeed!

Today I went to a picnic in Tollymore with these two lovely girls here -

They are my wonderful cousins! :) Lucy goes back to school tomorrow, so it was a good day to celebrate her last day of freedom! And Emma heads off to university soon, so it was good to get a chance just to hang, without the rest of the family running around like idiots haha! But yes, I had a lovely time. We went for a wee dander round Tollymore with Molly the dog and had a good natter.

This evening was also a lot of fun! I had another picnic haha! A blanket was laid out in my sitting room where Vikki and Mich and I sat having Chinese takeout. Good times! The two came over for some needed "3 amigos" time, I have missed this! We watched the Blind Side, which is a fantastic film. Watch it.

Day 228 - Wii!

My little sister is getting the hand at playing the Wii. It's kinda cute!I took this with my fish eye lens.

Day 188 - Buttons! :)

These are some wellyboots I found in a shop in Enniskillen today! Had a good holiday! It was a lot of fun! But I'm looking forward to the next few days...

Day 186 - Meet The Family!

There is something AWESOME about plasticine! It can cause so much joy! I'm going to introduce you to some of mine and Emma's new friends...

From left to right -

• Edna The Tortoise
• Marvin The Penguin
• Ned The (Stumpy) Giraffe
• Vicky The Caterpillar
• Anthony The Lion

Do you like them? I do. This photo below of Ned The (Stumpy) Giraffe is kinda amusing, I was using my fish eye and accidentally hadn't turned flash off. The result is really abstracty and cool!

So yeah, I'm in Enniskillen at the mo, with some of my family! It's gonna be fun!

Day 176 - My Best Friend.

My sister is such a poser! Any time I have my camera with me, she runs up to me and poses! And when I say "pose" I mean pose. I think she watches too much TV! Haha! I just managed to get this shot of her before she turned around and stuck her tongue out at me. I just love her bemused expression! My sister is my best friend :)Well yesterday my insurance for the car (whom my cousin has named Mowgli) got sorted out, so I've been driving around a few times... on the roads!! It's a little scary!! But I'm enjoying it!

Day 149 - "Ooh-de-la-lay!"

Today was a good day! The whole family came round to celebrate lots of birthdays - Thomas' and Lucy's 15th(s), Emma's 18th and my 17th! It was fun :) There was a lot of eating to be done... I'm stuffed!! Here's an example of some yummy stuff -Being all grown up and everything now, we spent the evening watching Disney's Robin Hood... time well spent I think! Ooh-de-la-lay! This is a picture of Emma and me... I love her! :)

Good day :)

Day 135 - "What Feelings Sound Like"...

Today I finally got to meet up with my wonderful cousins! Emma was playing with her orchestra, CBYO, so I went to go watch her play. It was really really good! Makes me wish i was musical... that gene kinda surpassed me in my family! There was a lot of bant, we headed out to town afterwards and I met a lot of her friends from the orchestra!

Me - So what do you play?

Friend - I play the bassoon.

Me - Oh really?? That's cool!

Friend - Yeah! I'm impressed you know what it is!

Me - Yeah... I don't.

Apparently it's like a giant clarinet thing! So yeah, look up some CBYO stuff on Youtube... they're very good!

I love my cousins, we don't get the chance to meet up much, so when we do, it's really exciting and we have a lot of fun! :)

Day 129 - I Love My Sister!

Today I decided to take a picture of something that means a lot to me. This is a picture of my bracelet. I'll explain why it's important to me below.My sister made me this bracelet. It's nothing fancy, just some beads on a piece of wire, but I love it. One day in Sunday school the kids were making bracelets for themselves to remind themselves about the Easter story. There were beads left over, so my friend Sarah, who was helping the class, told Katie (my sister) that she could make another one "for someone special". So Katie said "I'll make one for Joanna!" When I heard this it made me smile a lot, 'cause my sister's only 4, and so everything's about 'Mummy' at the minute. So when she made it for me, it kinda meant a lot.

So I've been wearing it since then, and every time she notices I'm wearing it, it makes her really happy, which makes me really happy too! I love my sister. We're best friends.

Day 117 - 'Snap'

I'm feeling a lot better today! Took the day off school though...

So my brother was in a reasonably good mood and we started messing around on this cheap-ass PC version of Photobooth I downloaded a while ago. It's called 'Snap'. It fails. Photobooth FTW!

Anyway, I know these aren't good Project 365 photos, but I'm sick. I have an excuse!

Day 109 - JUMP!

I convinced my brother to jump of my garden shed roof to get some good pictures... the bottom one is blurred, but I really like the angle of it! It was kinda fun! I'm thinking I need to get out and take some good portraits, as I want to be able to take good ones by the time summer comes around... maybe over study leaves, during a break from revision, I'll head out with a few friends and get snap happy :)

Day 107 - Everybody Loves Saturday!

It's Saturday! Horay! I am totally living for the weekend right now! Summer really can't come soon enough.... it's gonna be immense.

It was a really nice sunny day today so I sat with my sister outside and took a few photographs. The problem with 4 year olds is, I could see the sort of photo I wanted in my head, but she would just not do anything I asked her to! So I just kinda let her do her own thing, and I think the pictures I got are actually pretty cute!

So I haven't been writing much for the past few days... this is due to a mixture of laziness, busyness and lack of interesting stuff you write! Ah well... you probably like it better the less I write any way ;)

Day 73 - Happy *** Day!

So today is -

1. Mother's Day

2. Pi Day

3. Dasha's birthday

Happy Mother's / Pi / Dasha's birth Day everybody! =)

Yes. It's yet another crappy photo. I read on a Project 365 blog somewhere "If all else fails... shoot dinner". All else had failed so I did shoot dinner- this was desert.... lemon cheesecake with grapes. It was my Grandad's 70th party today so we had a nice dinner for him.

Yet again tonight I hung out with the CCU team! They're awesome... hopefully I'll get to see them on St. Paddy's but I'm not sure yet!

Day 45 - The Most Adorable Things...

Today I went to my great aunt and uncle's house to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary and also to see my new baby 2nd cousin... or 3rd cousin... or 2nd cousin once removed... family stuff confuses me! It's my mum's cousin's kid... whatever that is! The baby was adorable... I never got the chance to get any pictures though which disappointed me, I was hoping that little baby Max would be my photo of the day as he is really cute! But then my great uncle brought out his new 7 week old puppy, Holly. I have never seen a more adorable dog in my whole life! She was like a little teddy bear! So I got pictures of her... :)