Awww, Bless!!!

Had a lovely afternoon/evening with Ally, Shane, Amber and Jacob! Haven't seen them for a while and the first thing I notised was how HUGE Jacob had got! My god, they've been feeding him Baby Bio! It was a lovely afternoon, Shane made us a gorgeous spag bol with garlic bread, the kids ran riot but played nicely together, Rob and Shane discussed DIY projects, and Al and I caught up and planned a weekend away (sans kids, yay!) for her next birthday (I won't mention which one it is if you don't Al!!). So, lovely day all in all. Here's a few pics (inclusing a rare one of me with Ally!!)

Happy Memories!

I've been wanted to scrapbook this picture for ages and have had it sat on my craft table for weeks now! The I found a perfect sketch for it on Pencillines and so, while Mum took Billy Jim for a walk this afternoon I got cracking.

For some of you out there, you might remember this day 8 years ago and may have remembered this photo being taken. It's of Mum, Nan and I on my wedding day (you'd never guess from my get up would you?!) and I really love it so was really excited when I found a spare copy as I knew I could scrap it! Sadly Nan is no longer here but it's such a lovely photo to remember her by and she was so happy that day as she worshipped the ground Rob walked on! I swear, if me and Rob ever got divorced I'd be without a family as they'd all go with him!

In other news, good news from Stef, Lillie got through her operation OK and they're hoping to bring her home on Monday. Yay!

Got a nice weekend lined up (even though the weathermen don't seem to be in on the act!). Tomorrow we're going for tea (and a few cheeky vinos!) at Shane and Ally's house. They have 2 kids, Amber who's 3 and Jacob who's 2, so it might be fairly chaotic when you throw our 2 into the mix too! But, no doubt me and Al will be laid on the sofa with a cheeky Pinot Grigio to numb the pain!

Then on Sunday, we're driving to Lincolnshire for Grandad's RAF reunion service. He, Clare, Kim and Richard are there for the whole weekend, but we're going over to see the spitfire and Lancaster bomber (which is what Grandad used to fly) flyovers, and to catch up with everyone. Should be a really fun day!

Oh btw Rach, would Scott like me to send him some pics of the planes? I've seen them before and they're fantastic!

Nighty night!

Get Well Soon Lillie

Please send get well wishes to my friend Stef's rottweiler Lillie. The poor thing has been in and out of the vets with leg problems and they found out yesterday that she has bone cancer in one of her back legs. So, tomorrow they're going to amputate it and give her a bout of chemo, so hopefully she can get back to being my footrest when I go round and dribbling all over me!

Get well soon Lillie, Auntie Lou sends big cuddles to you and mummy and daddy!

Fruit Kebab Making Soggy Wedding Belle!

So, what do you do with a 5 year old girl when it's been raining none stop for days and she's coloured in every colouring book known to man?! Well, yesterday, we happened to find our wedding video and Emily asked if she could try my dress on. Oh, every mother's dream, having her little girl dress up in her wedding dress! So, we dusted it off (just how long has it been under the bed, Kim and Aggie would have had a fit at all the dust!) and very carefully put it on her! Bless, what an angelic little bride she made! Didn't quite fit yet which is just as well as she needs a few eons to decide which of the 5 boyfriends she's going to marry!!

Today was supposed to be Emily's sports day but, as they were planning egg & spoon races and not rowing, it was cancelled! So, instead, they taught the kids how to make fruit kebabs (ok, they dipped them in chocolate, but Jamie Oliver's half got through!). So, when she got home, she decided that she wanted to make us all some. So, we got fruit kebabs and her and Rob got apple and cheese too. Quite the little Nigella!!

So, as we speak, the middle of Leeds is shut off as are the motorways. So, needless to say, it took Rob forever to get home. Fortunately we live on a hill so we're fine here, but there's a lot of evacuations etc nearer the city. The rain's stopped now so hopefully we'll get a respite before the next deluge! And just on the point of the wet weather, obviously today has been a one off but I am correct in thinking that we do get rain in summer don't we? So why don't shops sell coats in Summer?! I trailed poor Xander round the White Rose this afternoon trying to find something with a hood on that was vaguely waterproof but most of the shops didn't have anything that looked like a coat! Thank god for Debenhams (% 20% off!!). OK, rant over!

Dull, Dull, Dull!

Well, I thought I should post as haven't done for a couple of days but things are so dull round here, there's not really anything to report! I think the glorious June weather we've had over the past couple of days has lead to a couple of rather thrilling days staying in doing housework! Do you really need to know how many toilets I cleaned today?!

Hopefully the weekend will pick up as we're out tomorrow night and the kids are sleeping over at Grandma's!! Yay!!!!!! The original plan was to go out with Lisa and Andrew for a few drinks and a takeaway, which we are still doing. But, as we're dropping the kids off at teatime, we thought a little trip to the pictures might me in order before we meet up with them. We'll have to steady on, that'll be the second time we've been to the flicks since Xander was born!

Still on my scrapping roll. I scrapped Xander's 9 month pics last night. Even though I've already posted the pics I'm going to post the layout anyway as it's my favourite so far! Marie's posted a challenge for this week entitled 'Holiday' so I need someone to take me on my hols quick so I've something to scrap about!!

Today is the end of Health Kick Month 1. I'm going to get weighed etc tomorrow though as school mornings round here don't leave a lot of time to get the parcel scales out!!

Right, better toodle. My MSN buddy is going on her jollies tomorrow so we need to get as much chatting in as possible tonight before the week long gossip drought!!

Drummers, Bloody Drummers!

So, me and Rob had a nice night out planned tonight. Rob's old band, Nightmare Visions, were playing in Leeds and we'd not seen them for a while so we planned to go down there. Plus, Andy, the guitairst/singer had sent me lots of yummy Hobbycarft stuff and I needed to thank him in person.

So, mum came over, I got tea ready, Emily had her usual pre gymnastics meltdown and then the phone rang. It was Rob, the gig was cancelled! Apparently, they'd been to pick up the drummer and he'd gone on holiday!! Er, what?! I know men can be a bit thick, and drummers are notorious for being crap, but come on!

Cake, What Cake!

I'm on a scrapbooking roll at the moment! 3 layouts in the past week. This is the latest that I've done tonight. I've found a few spare pictures of Emily from when she was a baby and so I'm starting to scrap them. I love these pictures, they were taken on her first birthday when we were down at Center Parcs. She literally just smeared her birthday cake all over her face! Mind you, not much has changed, she still manages to get more cake round her mouth than in it!!

Think I should maybe log off, we're in the middle of a thunderstorm and the telly's just gone on the blink so maybe sat typing away on a metal object isn't the best thing in the world!!