Sherwood Forest

The kids had an inset day on Monday so rather than lazing around the house we thought we'd go visit my Mum, Dad and Grandma. As Mum and Dad still had to work we took Grandma and the kids to Sherwood Forest. I haven't been there since I was a kid but it was fab.

     

There were some amazing oak trees that were just so twisted it was great. 

The Major Oak, supposedly the tree Robin Hood hid in. The kids having fun below.

Sick Day

After spending the weekend with their friends at their caravan the kids ( Em, Aimee and Dan) came home a little worse for wear so I kept them at home today. Oh how I wished I'd sent them to school with a dose of calpol by dinner! 

Anyway the sun came out in the afternoon so we went out to plant the pots with daffodils and tulips for the spring. I can't believe I've been organized enough to plant them before march! We had some good fun can't wait for spring to see how they come out.

      

HUGE Spider

I know it's the time of year for big spiders but I nearly wet myself when I saw this one running towards me out the corner of my eye. The coin's a five pence, but that pic doesn't do it justice as it scrunched itself up. No kidding it was one of the biggest ones I've seen! Urghhhh

 Look at the thing- look how close it was- it was massive!

Scan Pics

As promised the pics of our latest little alien. Can you see the family resemblance? We should know next week if it's a little boy or little girl alien-can't wait. Danny says it's got to be a baby boy as we already have a baby girl. 

 For the less experienced of you out there-these are good pictures, especially as it seem to take after it's siblings and is incapable of being still for more than two seconds!

Chris' Birthday

It was Chris' birthday on Thursday, the ripe old age of 31!! As he's not a big cake fan we thought it would be fun to decorate lots of little cakes. The kids loved it.

 

Anna-Belle didn't quite get the concept-she just thought she could eat all the marshmallows and chocolate chips!

The final result! Yummy!

Doesn't Chris look thrilled

More old photos

I love having all our old photos on the computer. Here are just a few. Chris and I went to Paris for our first anniversary. We went to Parc Asterix which was great. This is a special picture as Chris who hates roller coasters went on the one in the background.

This was our first camping weekend together in the lakes. We went with some friends of ours. We couldn't resist jumping into this waterfall! It was freezing, but it was a great time.

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This is one of our house before we had some work done. It was a picture like this that we saw on the details and fell in love with the cottage/Georgian look. I love our back garden as the sun (when it shines) always shines on the house so it is always warm in the garden!

I had to put this one in of Aimme just because she looks so much like Anna-Belle

   

Scan

Well it's official, there's one one in there!! I've never seen Chris look so relieved!  It was too early to tell whether Danny will get a brother but we should be able to find out in a few weeks. So my due date is March 9th yet another march birthday! I'll put the pictures of our little alien on later.

Wedding Pictures

We bought a scanner a few weeks ago so that Chris was able to get all of his mission photos on the computer. The best thing is we've been able to put all of our pre-digital photos including our wedding photos on the computer. Here are some of our favs!

First Day

It was Dannys first day at school on Monday. He was so excited to be a big boy! Just two more weeks and I'll only have Anna-Belle at home all day to keep me occupied! Can't wait. I can't believe where the time has gone, Emmaleigh is now in her 4th year of school-it only seems like a few weeks ago she started reception!

Aimees Birthday

Aimees finally six! She was so excited to have birthday money we has to go to town and spend it straight away. We were not surprised in the slightest that she bought yet another snugly toy!