I know - its been AGES again!!!!!!....as always, we've been madly busy and here's a quick summary....
First of all, we were joined for a couple of weeks by a rather gorgeous male pixie bob called Jenkins - he and Muffin fell in love and hopefully will have a litter of babies sometime around my birthday! If you click on the link on the right - you can see the Muffin blog but here's a little pic of the lovebirds.....
We also had the best night for Lauren and Brent's UK reception :o) Lauren and I picked out beautiful bridesmaid dresses for the girls in Debenhams and Lauren organised for them to have their make up done at her house so they had a wonderful girlie spoiling time :o) Check out Lauren's blog or my web album for more pics and details! Here are the 3 gorgeous girls tho......
Izzy and Caitlin were due to walk in carrying their bags of petals and laying a path for Lauren and Brent - both were all excited and, at the appropriate moment, walked in ahead of Mr and Mrs Laidler. As they walked in, they were greeted with "ahhhhhhhhs" and clapping and Izzy's smile crumpled and she burst into tears and refused to take another step! Fortunately, Lauren's good friend Claire was also at the door and she picked Izzy up and Izzy snuggled into her shoulder and came in with her ;o) The girls LOVED ceilidh dancing - Izzy did so well! I ended up being the man to her girl for about 5 dances and she coped really well!
We also had Ian, Kay, Adam and Ryan up at the back end of the half term week :o) It was great to see them and we all went over the Transporter bridge together (mine, Caitlin and Izzy's first time despite living here for 12 years!!!!!), played on the Wii and the PS3, did SingStar and generally hung out :o) It was a lovely relaxing time and Adam and Ryan were so great with the girls :o) Gives me hope that having teenagers might not be that bad!! Kay brought up lots of lovely Virgin Vie stuff and I had a fab time spending money on delicious smellies ;o) We also went shopping and I accidentally bought a brand new coat.....don't know how that happened ;o) Its got a gorgeous teal blue colour in it and I got a scarf to match - I've never really worn blue before, didn't think it worked on me, but I do believe I may now have found a blue that works!
This weekend, the girls are at my Mum and Dad's so Nick and I could recable the lounge and mount the telly on the wall and hide the cables in the wall - that took all day yesterday and was a fiddly and frustrating job however - we got there and it looks fab! Really, that's thanks to Nick - I would have not bothered and stuck the telly on a stand but fortunately he has more patience and more design integrity than me and he made me stick it out - and now I'm pleased he did!
The reason for doing that is our new suite arrives tomorrow (Monday!) - I'll take photos and blog them when its all done :o)
Aside from that, Christmas preparations are continuing apace :o) Ros and I went for our annual Leeds shopping trip 2 weekends ago and had a lovely time staying with Mum and Dad and then Dad very kindly dropped the 3 of us (Ros, Mum and me) off in Leeds and, as usual, we did amazingly well and made a fab start to the shopping :o) Our hands were KILLING at the end tho - plastic bags are just evil when they're heavy!
Christmas preparations are also running on at church too :o) This year I'm teaching the kids a signed version of silent night and we started it last week. They picked up the first verse really well so its onto the second verse today :o)
Also very very excitingly - it has snowed in the night and the snow has settled a bit! Here are pics from the attic room window where I'm sitting at the moment :o) You can also see that they've (finally!) started work on the park area out the front of our house - its a lot bigger than the plans led us to believe.....hmmmmmmm......the snow is already melting but it is beautiful to see!
Hope you are all enjoying the early winter crispness where ever you are!
On Thursday, the four of us are off to EuroDisney for 5 days - so that'll be another blog to watch out for! Santa will also be at EuroDisney so we're all very excited to see him too :o)
That's all for now - I'll update you on ski-ing plans next time!! ;o)
Love to all
Nikki xoxoxxx
