First finished room... well nearly

So the bedroom is just about done. Painting finished, feature wall papered, room tidied. All that is left to do is finishing touches with pictures on the wall and the mirror hung.

Here are some before and after shots. I forgot just how bad it was. Great job Jules!

Aliens

We had a competition a couple of weeks ago when the kids friend was over to see who could draw the best alien. Needless to say I (Chris) lost by a mile, I have great ideas what I want things to look life but my head and hand never seem to work in tandem.

Emmaleigh & Aimee both did a great job but I think that Em just sneaks this one. Anyway judge for yourself.

My poor effort!!!

I think Emmaleighs is great! Surprise surprise it has two mouths so she called it chat chat. The thought of Em with two mouths talking to each other doing bear thinking.

Aimees is just typical Aimee!

Birthdays, round tables and finally using our garden

So as you can see from the post below it was Hollies birthday last week. She loved the day, her cake, presents and cards. Anna-Belles birthday is this week so she was disappointed that she couldn't open any presents.

I say that Hollie enjoyed her cake, not as much as Anna-Belle. Here she is with the chocolate Peppa Pig from the top of the cake (that bit was hers apparently)

Juli was back on Ebay trauling for bargains again and came up with this for £12.50. Frees up quite a bit of space and when covered is quite nice, meals have been much more enjoyable.

We finally had nice enough weather to make it outside. Hollie didn't know what to make of it as this is the first time that she has been outside to play since she could really do anything.

Hollies Birthday

Decorating and puck

Honestly, since half term, which was about 4 weeks ago at least one of us has been ill. I don't think there has been a day when all three of the older ones has been to school and I've missed two weeks of church. I'm hoping that they will all be back on Monday as it's starting to drive me crazy! That said the better weather has been good-I have actually been in the garden and discovered that we have a veg patch-even if it is a little overgrown. We also discovered a path and that we have alot of work to do, but hey, what's new. The inside is getting there. I managed to strip the rest of the paper off the kitchen so the yellow is gone! When I painted the kitchen ceiling I was amazed at what a difference it made. This week however I've focussed on our bedroom which should be done by the end of today. I've stripped the rest of the wallpaper off, papered, painted, just need to paint around the window, paint the woodwork and paper the feature wall, o might finish next week!

This is Anna-Belle holding my legs so I don't fall! In truth she nearly pulled me off. Will put some more pics up when I find the camera.

Bobslieghing!

I know it's been a while since I put anything on the blog, but we have been doing quite alot I think. Anyway, inspired by the inter olympics and some church adverts about using your imagination to have fun, Chris thought it would be fun to pretend the bath was a bobsleigh-Cool Runnings style. So kids suitably dressed in their ski helmets it was off to the bathroom.

(the video has no sound if you were wondering) I have to say it was one of the funniest few mins we've had.

World Book Day

So here it was again-World book day. The day the children are allowed to go to school dressed as their favorite charahcter from a book. Hummmmm yes well-shops don't stock fancy dress for chaeacters other than Disney so we end up having to make them. After alot of tears and fuss-Emm finally agreed to go as Hannah Montana. She did want to go as the Mad Hatter but I just couldn't do the hat and it's so difficult to find the right stuff. She was happy in the end when I agreed to put make up on her.

Aimee on the other hand wanted to be Wordy from Look and Read. This was the best I could do for that one. Aimee was happy as normal with her quirkiness. She was the only Wordy I have to say unlike the dozen or so StTrinians and millions of Snow White and princesses.
Danny missed out this year as he is still off with his foot. He did go in for the first half hour where parents go in a read with the kids. He loved that as I think he's been missing his friends alot. They've changed the dressing on his foot today so he can now get his shoe on. School tomorrow I think-oh yes.