SNOW!!!!!!

we woke up this morning to find snow, went to work and we had more and more and more.
Such a shame we had to stay in as evie is potty training!! I dont like snow, or should i say i dont like having to go out in it.
Daniel made the traditional snowman and what a good job, he even did two. One little one in the morning and then dad helped him make a bigger one this afternoon.Oh and he also did his first snow angel, which i think looks great

Evie seems to be doing quite well on the potty....but we need more pants!
Richard is doing a trial next week at a factory, only thing is the start time is 6, so he will have to get up beofre 5.30 and then i will have to get up at 7 and try and get daniel to school, please pray we dont have icy mornings next week.

Playgroup photos

On saturday we went to have evies picture taken for playgroup. She burst in to tears soon as we got there and took a dislike to the man taking the pics, she came around eventuatually and he managed to get 5 pics.

Daniel seems to have been in a mood all weekend, can he really be a teenager at 6 yrs old??!
He bought some simpsons xmas cards in tescos yesterday, so he has started making a list of who he wants to give cards to so that will keep us busy for the next few weekends.

Also got the school pics back last week, which look great and of course makes great xmas gifts for the family.
Still no good news on the job front, the one we were quite hopeful for, he got a rejection letter on saturday, so its now fingers crossed for the factory job, or me finding something.

half term

its the begining of the school hols, a whole week off. Tomorrow we have swimming and then watching my nephew playing football, hope its not raining.
We havent got much planned for the week off. Hubby has finally got an interview, so fingers crossed. The new swimming pool will be open and they are training up some life guards to be swimming instructors, which means daniel can have a swimming lesson for only a pound in the new pool, so he is booked in for two lessons, their will only be 6 children in the group as well, so should be fun. Also had a letter from the opticians, daniel needs another check up, hope i can get an appointment for this week.



Just found out how to put a video on my blog, so thought i would show evie dancing in the car, taken in the summer.

been a while

well its been far too long since i have updated, but nothing of interest has happened really.
I thought i would have an early night tonight and start a new book i got from the library, but dont you just hate it when you start to read it and think i have read this before. Brown owls guide to life, good book and enjoyed it the first time i read it, but just cant read things twice. So thought i would get the laptop instead.

Been doing a few extra hours at work covering a colleagues holiday. Dh still has no sign of a full time job. Had a low offer on the house, which we declined, so not going anywhere fast. Children fine, had there cousin to stay all day last week which they enjoyed. Daniel looking forward to starting football practice after half term, he has changed his swimming to a sunday, so that does our lie in that i sooo look forward to. Evie is settling in to playgroup well and seems to have lots of fun.

So thats it really, just plodding along....must try and do better next time and update quicker.

Daniels 6th Birthday

I was going to write this last night but i was too tired to do anything, there is still pile of ironing waiting for the fairies to come along and do it.
So it was daniels birthday yesterday, he took buns for his class and teachers.
He had to quickly open his presents and cards before going to school, then had a bit of a play with the new things then it was swimming lesson, not passed grade 1 unfortuately, and he really wants to go to football (they are on the same day) so we will have to see about that one. So then it was tea time and the cake.
Daniel told be exactly how he wanted the cake, a bit different to the tank that he first wanted.
So busy day for Daniel!
Yesterday evie hardly ate anything yesterday and then had some horrible nappies. When we woke up this morning she had been sick, so no aquatots for us, we hadnt managed to get any swim nappies either. She feels a bit better today but is very quiet and not her usual self.

Another birthday

....and its daniels turn tomorrow.
Buns are made for school tomorrow, chocolate with sprinkles this time. Cake done according to his majestys instructions.
Had a busy morning, what with making the buns and cake, i also did an egg and bacon flan, some lemon curds with the left over pastry and some bread. Had some chocolate left from decorating the buns tonight so did a few krispie buns.
This afternoon was school photos so i took evie along so they could have a pic together.
Daniel looking forward to his birthday and opening presents tomorrow, he has his swimming lesson tomorrow so will be doing a proper birthday tea on friday.
So pics to follow tomorrow.

Playgroup

This was Evie this morning on our way to playgroup- doesnt she look cute!
She needed to take something - hence the cat as they do a treasury bag, the children put a toy in the bag and then just before home time they play touch, feel to find their toy in the bag.
We had a few tears to start with, she didnt want to change into her indoor shoes and then wanted to go straight to playing with the toys instead of doing the register.
She soon settled though and started to wash the cups and plates, and drink the soapy water, yuck!
She then got to do some painting, i think she did put some on the paper, but most went on her shoes, some on her trousers, some in her hair and on her hairband.....but she was happy and thats the main thing.
I actually left her when she started to paint, i said bye to her and she stayed happy, i only went into another room in case she did get upset, but she was fine.
She fell asleep in the car and when we got home, she talked about ruby, who has a little sister called evie and she looked after her, helping her to wash her hands etc. And we heard lots about the painting...so lets hope shes ok next week!
Other news, richard went to college for an assessment for adult apprenceship in motor mechanics, which went well, the tutor wasnt availble though, so he will have to go back another time.
I got a tax rebate on a savings account so ordered a making memories trimmer, which is meant to be very good.
Tomorrow is school photos in the afternoon, so will take evie along to have her pic taken with daniel and then on thursday its daniels birthday.

good day

we had a really good day today, we went to aqua tots and this time we had some instruction as well as free play, evie really enjoyed it.
Richard has got an interview at college to do an adult apprenticeship on tuesday so we will see how that goes.
Two houses will soon be going on the market where i want to move back to, one will be more then we can afford, but it is lovely, but of course we have this to sell and we have the issues of a lack of monthly income, will have to see if our mortgage is portable. But its so nice that people are thinking of us and telling us just a shame it wasnt a year ago when we had to move in with my parents!
Managed to do the weekly challenge on ukscrappers.
So the weekend, work tomorrow morning and sunday dinner at the pub....and then another week will be upon us.

Evies Birthday

Evie was Two today!!
Here's a pic of the buns we had at toddlers.

And then we had the cake at teatime

She does look happy!

pretty dress

So here she is in her 'pretty dress'. We thought she could wear it tomorrow for her birthday....she'll be two, where did those two years go??? Presents wrapped, cake made, buns done for toddlers. No party, just a special tea.

Another week

Well time has flown again and a week has passed since i have updated. So on Tuesday Evie and i made our first visit to a local playgroup. Unfortuanately we wont be able to use the same nursery that daniel went to as the owner died, i am still really sad about this, but we have to move on dont we. Anyway evie seemed to really enjoy seeing more children and of course more toys, so she is booked to start on a tuesday morning after her birthday, so we will start on the 23rd.
Wednesday we had toddlers and next weds i will be taken buns and singing happy birthday for evie. Thursday we went and got some canvas shoes for evie a bargain £5 in the sale, these again will be for playgroup as they need to wear indoor shoes.
Today we didnt go to aquatots but hope to go next week.
We have the wedding to go to tomorrow, my brothers 3rd, evie is meant to be a bridesmaid for photos, so we will see if she cooperates, she is loving her 'pretty dress' as she calls it and swirls around in it, bless.
Also need to see our neice on sunday as its her birthday on monday. So a busy weekend, will be strange not going to work tomorrow morning though.

Aqua Tots

Very proud of myself today, this morning in the pouring rain myself and evie went off to aqua tots. Its meant to be half an hour of instruction and then half an hour free play. So i was slight disappointed that soon as we got in the pool the instructor started to throw toys in- no instruction in sight! Evie really enjoyed it, there were some children from toddlers there and she had a good play, we did 'ring a ring a roses' spinning on a round float and then of course falling in the water.

Daniel enjoyed going to grans for tea, he has a party to go to tomorrow afternoon, and so far we have nothing else planned for the weekend.

back to school

i can not believe 6 weeks of the summer hols have passed us by. It is back to the school routine for daniel as of tomorrow. One thing will be different, he will need to get used to a school life with glasses, i am sure there will be many trips to the opticians after a playground accident!! Mothers and toddlers also starts back tomorrow, so evie will enjoy playing with her friends again.
We dont seem to have done much during the holidays but they seem to have passed far too quickly (which i didnt think i would be saying at the start of them) so we must have done something.
He is all ready with his PE kit packed and his school bag, shoes polished and clothes ready and waiting, he had a headache tonight which i am hoping was due to the thunder storm and not the 'going back to school feeling', we will see tomorrow wont we.

We had a noisy thunder storm, lightening and heavy rain tonight. I went upstairs to see if daniel was still awake, he was petrified, with fingers in his ears, crying....why he didnt come downstairs i dont know, evie did not seem bothered at all by it.

I managed to finish the book i was reading, so can take them all back to the mobile library after school, evie so loves her books at the moment, i hope that lasts, daniel likes a story read on a night, but doesnt seem to want to be able to read them himself, i suppose that comes in time, he is a good reader at the moment as well....well as well as you can be at 5.

Oh i also got another cj in the post today, with lots of lovely alphabets (thanks joanne) so i wont have the worry over doing titles for a while.

More post

I had some more post this morning, which was a nice surprise as i hadnt had an email to say they had been despatched, so i wasnt expecting them just yet. I got some penny black stamps, one is called delights, a hedgehog with some flowers and the other is a pack of transparent stamps called holly day critters. They really do look lovely, so hope to get on making some cards- especially christmas ones (bit early i know!).

We went swimming again this afternoon, daniel is slowly making progress, evie just loves floating around. DH is going to watch the football tomorrow, so i have work in the morning and then its just me and the kids in the afternoon, so dont know what we will get up to.

POST!!!

I have had some nice post, first of all, yesterday my card kit from sarahs cards arrived. The thing is i am now getting too many cards, so i used up the junes kit by doing a LO.
The pics were taken on my phone in april and i was really pleased how they printed out, better quality then i was expecting from a phone.
So today my post was the cj (which is gorgeous) that we are doing on ukscrappers.
We have been going swimming a bit trying to get daniel to pass his grade one at the end of his block sessions....fingers crossed, he really wants to do football rather then swimming, but its the same night, so we said when he gets grade one he can do football.

Busy Day

Hubby is on holiday this week so we went swimming this morning. Also managed to see some friends there which was good, evie didnt get her usual morning sleep, so in the afternoon this was the resultWe also had a phone call to say Daniels glasses were ready to pick up, he has been so excited about getting them and couldnt wait to go and collect them, he did very well and didnt complain about wearing them, they are a bit of a tight fit though, so we need to go back tomorrow for a refit, but here he is in them....very cute i have to say.

3-2-1 challenge

Sarah's cards Ltd have a card challenge at the moment, you need to create a card using
3 patterned papers
2 Aunty Sarah's Bloomers
1 ribbon.
So i thought i would have a go with this months card kit, here it is

Busy Computer

I have just noticed a photo offer of 100 free prints, so the computer is really busy uploading all the pics this morning.
I made some buns last night so when evie goes to bed this morning, daniel is going to help me decorate them, he has been a bit of a grumpy teenager during the hols, which i wouldnt mind but hes only going to be 6 next month!!, lol.

the beach

it was so hot today we headed for the beach, it was very foggy there, but a lot cooler. I think its the first time evie has been on the beach as well, and she thoroughly enjoyed it.
daniel had his bucket to collect fossils, but we ended up with shells and stones instead, didnt manage to find any fossils. Here is the sandcastle he didand finally since i am getting the hang on this, a pic to slow the cliffs and fog!

header

yay, finally managed to do a new blog header title, thingy be bob!!

slow

ok, so i know i am being a bit slow with this blog, but i am trying, honesty.
My aim is to update the blog and make it a bit more interesting and then i can update with news, haha- what news?!

bump pic

A bit late, but this was the last pic of my bump.