Half term family fun

So, our week hasn't quite gone as planned! We made the movies on Monday but that night Millie and I both came down with a tummy bug! Bleurgh! I haven't felt that ill in ages, the day started at 3am!! Anyhoo, we spent Tuesday on the sofa ALL day and I mean that too. I got up to fix W and J food but that was it, I couldn't stay awake and just felt terrible. It also meant we had to miss the Light Party which the kids were gutted about but M was still peaky and I really didn't want to pass it on! So our first day out was yesterday and what a fab day it was. We went off to my grandparents who are in their 90's and took them out to lunch which my aunt and uncle joined us for too. After we'd visited with them for a bit we headed over to my cousins where W and O played a bit of Wii, J got to hang with D and M got to try to play the didgereedoo with Uncle Mark.... He really can play it!! All in all a fab day, they all live 70 miles away so unfortunately we don't do it that often as right now it is just too expensive and the only regret I have from yesterday is that I took no pix with grandma and grandpa nee naa!! To put it into perspective for my US friends it cost me £70 ($120) to fill my car up with gas yesterday!!!!!!!!
Today is another quiet one, we go back to school Monday so are making the most of not having anywhere to go! Once we go back its the countdown to Christmas and Bill is away loads this month inc 2 full weekends and tomorrow too!!!! I'm actually hosting Thanksgiving this year too with my neighbours who have never done it before! Luckily, that is the only weekend Bill is here for!!
How's your week been??

Happy Monday Everyone

First day of half term xxx got a lovely week planned, movies today (iceage4) at the kids club, Tuesday- swimming lessons, wed- light party (our alternate to Halloween), thurs- off to see my grandparents both in their 90s, taking them out for lunch then tea at my cousins with their kids, fri- our 16th wedding anniversary, nothing during the day but Bill and I off to see Skyfall x
Can you believe it's then November!!!!! Have a great week y'all, I'll be posting any cool pix we get xx

A date with William!

So today Jaime has a party which means I have a date with William because Bill has a date with Millie. I love this one on one time, we get it so rarely. Poor William really wasn't feeling great though so wasn't much of a conversationalist and we bought that gorgeous looking strawberry milkshake home :( I'm now tucked up on the sofa with William xx let's hope he gets better for half term even if we don't have the best weather forecast!

One foggy morning.....

What a lovely walk to school this morning! It was sooooo foggy BUT it made for great cobweb spotting! They were everywhere, on the lights, on the bushes, on railings, fences and cars. The picture doesn't really do them any justice they are just beautiful.
Have I mentioned I love autumn!
Happy Monday everyone xx

Strictly or X Factor???

We are such a Strictly family in this household! We couldn't give a monkeys about the singing shows but give us the glitz and glamour of ballroom and we are away!
The pic is of the kids and Bill snuggled up, recognise the blanket Shar???
We've also had a bit of a busy day, we went to kids club movies this morning to see Brave, fab film which we all loved even if William was a bit scared in parts! We ended up meeting a friend with her daughter after and went for pizza too!! We so rarely go out to eat as a family it was a bit of a novelty AND not too expensive. We managed to take 5 of us to the movies and out for lunch for £46! If we had gone to the normal movies it would have been that much just for the film!!
Ooh, and I got to Skype my sister in sunny CA which was lovely x
Anyway, happy weekend one and all xxx

Cubs

My gorgeous boy got invested into Cubs this evening!! Bless him, however challenging things are with him right now he is still a cutie!!!!!

Gods gift

To us this morning was the most vivid red sky! It's not nearly as beautiful in this picture but you get the idea xx