The last two days have been busy getting ready for my first son Elias Lauri's birthday. Yesterday evening we had quite a lot relatives over here, so there was a lot of housevleaning and cooking and last-minute shopping to do prior that. Is it really 5 years already? Somehow, it seems like yesterday that I first had that little boy in my arms. The time flies really fast, doesn't it?

So we had birthday guests yesterday (it was Elias' actual birthday). Ando's brother was here with his... well, can't say wife, as they're not married, but it's kinda funny to say girl-friend, considering they have already three kids together. Thir two tounger ones were here, too. Allan, their firstborn, had decided he'd prefer to stay with his grandparents. Actually, I can understand him. When Elias and Erki-Erik, second son of Ando's brother, see each other, they tend to form an alliance to pick on the older boy. Well, they also try to shut my younger boy, Kalev Toomas, out of their games, but most of the time, he prefers to entertain little Selene (third child of Ando's brother and their only daughter) anyway.

My mother and siblings were also here. And this means, lillekas, nenji_kun, and last, but certainly not least, luinthoron. So I used the chance to get luinthoron to help me with discovering LJ a little. I mean, I haven't changed the layout since I first got my LJ and there have been quite some changes since then. So now I've got a pretty new layout (which could need some customizing, but well, all in it's time, right?). And he also helped me with getting Semagic to work. OK, that was kind of my own mistake, that I just accepted that it didn't want to work under the restricted rights user account on mu computer and I didn't even try to delve to think ablut what the problem could be (simple - it couldn't save drafts in the Program Files folder, as it doesn't have the right to change it). Well, actually it could have worked, but it was just too annoying to always click on the 'can't save drafr' messages, every minute or so. No, I'm not blonde. Have never been. I just didn't care enough to take the time to think, because I could get my posting done at LJ, too. Anyways, what I'm trying to say is... Thank you so much, luinthoron.

Now that the birthday-rally is over (for the moment, we're expecting some more guests for saturday), I can finally try to get the shana_icontest banners done. Countdown is still at 2 weeks and 8 banners, as I really haven't found the time to work on them in these last two days. And after I finish that, I need to take another look on the icontests I'm making banners for, to see, whether the last weekend has provided me with more due banners or not.