A short break

Last week in between all the chaos of house moves we took some time out to do a photoshoot for our friends' model agency. The shoot was at the Hancock Museum in Newcastle to help them promote charitable gift donations for Christmas.

We took Emmaleigh & Danny along with us and they had a great time. Em is a natural but Danny just pulls stupid faces all the time.

For some reason in the photo above I seem to have grown a giants hand!

House update

We're moving tomorrow. Aarggh!

Bad Hair Day

Will do a West PArk update later but I just had to put these on as I thought they were great. For Children in Need the school did a "bad hair day" on Friday. All I can say is what a great theme. Never laughed so much in the school yard in my life. The teachers were fab too. So these are my creations!

We have the keys!!!

Well at last we have the keys to West Park! Never thought we'd actually do it but here we are. We finally got them yesterday (blooming solicitors) but have been so busy ripping the place apart we haven't had time for much else.

Within an hour we had all the flooring up downstairs which made the house feel so much better. Today we've taken out all the carpets, fitted wardrobes, shelves and stripped two rooms ready to paint. The workmen also sorted the heating out (thankfully it worked!), changed all the valves on the radiators and took the fire out. Not bad for one day.

The kids are loving being able to walk home after school with their friends and think it even better when they call to play. Even Aimee likes the house now there is heating and friends! Now to bed ready to do it all again tomorrow.

Lucky 13?

So after all the drama of this move, could we really complete on any other day than Friday 13th? Poetic justice I think.

The number 13 has cropped up a few times in our life, we met on the 13th February, our offer on this house was accepted on 13th, this house is 13, West park is 13 and we will be completing on the 13th, lets just hope we don't have 13 children!!!!!!

SOLD

Four little letters, but that didn't stop Juli driving past the new house when one of the mothers in the yard told her that there was a sold sign up outside the house. I'm surprised that she didn't take a photo. Probably due to her phone not being charged. Nothing new there then!

First thing for the new house arrived today. Dannys transformers curtains, with his duvet cover in the post. After months of deciding between Ben 10 & Ben 10 Alien Force (2 different thing apparently) Daniel finally chose Transformers!!! He's having a red, blue and silver room. Aimee has gone for a Kelly Kitty room with red and white polka dots. Anna-Belle will have a Peppa Pig room (anyone who has spoken to her in the last month will know as she tells everyone she meets) Emmaleigh is still undecided as she wants a big girls room with no cartoon characters.

Living room carpet bought and the rest of the carpets probably sorted next week. Nailing down a builder and kitchen next week (not literally).

Juli's at a hen party tonight then another party tomorrow as well as a wedding during the day hence it is me filling in the blog.