Death of the highchair

At long last the highchair is no more. Hollie is now big enough to sit at the table. Yupieeeee, I think she likes it too.

Emmaleighs Birthday

Even though it was over six weeks ago I really needed to share some of the pics from Emmaleighs birthday. Our little girl is now 9! I can't belive how big she is. I have to say that this was one of the most relaxed and chilled out "parties" we have done and there has been a few. I'd got all my hair, make-up and general girlie gunk out, along with a few foot spas all set up and ready to go. All her friends came over in their pjs and dressing gowns, we made some banana & honey face packs and then just spent the evening pampering them, giving them foot massages, doing their nails, giving them facials etc. The girls LOVED it. They were doing each others hair and make-up. It really was 100% girlie time. We then had nibbles and cake and I'd made 'party bags' of bright pink flannels, bath pearls and hair bobbles. They looked great but no pic, sorry. This is Emm preparing herself for her face pack.

All gunked up with banana and honey.

Some of her friends enjoying and foot spa and pedicure.

Abbs getting in on the fun.
The girls all making their own face packs from a selection on ingredients. Some of them looked absolutely gross.
Had to put this one in of Emms friend. I just thought she looked so funny.

Anyway great party, she was a very popular girl that week-I was just exhausted.

Before and After

I know two posts in one day but I had to just quickly do this before and after. With so much to do on the house I forget how much we've done in only a few months.

Beavers and Wall

Too much has happened since our last blog that I'm not even going to try and catch up! Anyway, tonight was Daniels Promise night with Beavers. He loves going and was very excited. His friend Callum was doing his promise tonight aswell, all I can say is I hope their leaders know what they are letting themselves in for with them two there.

All lined up ready!
Making his promise

When he saw he was getting a scarf, woggle and badges!

All done and ready to come home.

The other achievement of last week was that we made a start on re-building the wall in the front garden. We had to take it down to make the drive wider as you couldn't open the car doors. Quite ironic really as the car has died and awaiting a trip to the garage. However all that time shifting stones in Bel Air has paid off as I think we've (really Chris) has done a great job.

This is about the best picture I could find of the wall before.

This is it after.

We need to do some more work on the half towards the house which I think we'll do tomorrow. I really underestimated at how long this takes but I do think it looks infinitely better than it did before, especially as neither of us has done this before. Well done Chris, really proud of you.