Legoland!

We went to Legoland on Thursday with Bubbs, Hubby, girlies and T (Bubbs' bestest friend) we had an awesome time and really lucked out with the weather as it only rained for about 5 minutes all day. We met my sis and BiL and my god parents SoozJim. Such a great day. Below are pix of the boys going on their first rollercoaster, I didn't realize it was such a big one until we went up the first hill then G force all the way, the boys LOVED it. I was a bit nervous about telling T's mum but she just laughed and thought it was cool too.
The pic below is my lovely godmother with the 2 boys on the carousel, we had to stand on there with them which they were not happy about at all but thems the rules...bless them I think they felt rather invincible after the rollercoaster.
Some ice cream refreshment was needed for everyone.xx
A piccie of the boys in Brussels, this is all made out of lego and it so amazing, the photos do no justice to it at all, you could spend all day looking at all the Lego cities if you didn't have so many kids that is :-)
We finally got home about 715, and I was due out to my WWW summer social at 8pm so poor Hubby had to put all of the children to bed, T stayed the night but as it happened it wasn't too bad as they were all exhausted. The girlies had been amazing and walked pretty much all day.
The summer social was great, I am so blessed to have so many great christian friends which bolster my spirit whenever I am down. Thanks any of you that are reading this.
xx

Bubbs Birthday Madness!

Happy Birthday for Bubbs on the 9th July, seems like ages ago now! We woke to torrential rain which didn't stop all day, such a bummer for him as we got him a bike......he did sit on it alot in the living room though as you can see below...
Had to get him a cake and this is it..he loved it and so did all his little friends, we had a bit of birthday tea for him the day before so loved watching his face blow out the candles.

Bless, this is as far as he got riding his bike on wednesday outside it is hammering it down. Today though we went to the park and he was able to ride a two wheeler without stabilisers..we are both so proud of him, bless him he was over the moon it was awesome.
We also went to an indoor play area on his actual birthday after a trip to the golden arches which all the children enjoyed immensely. We don't normally go as it is really expensive and if I am on my own it is impossible to do with 3 children and loads of climbing things. Considering the weather we had a great day.

Ta Daaaaa!

So here are the long awaited photos, I am afraid there are no befores apart from what you previously see on my blog, it was the 'classic' Magnolia and is now Harbour, which is kind of a blue hinted white. I have finally managed to get out the 123 and ABC posters up which I have had in the cupboard for about year and on the left is a Lions head and Elmer Elephant that Bubbs has done which I have also framed. The below picture is as you go into the conservatory from our living room (conservatories for anyone that doesn't know is a kind of glass room that is usually added to the back of houses to give you more room, hubby says like a 'sunroom'??) This is the left hand side view anyway where we eat, before the walls were covered with sticky hand prints and more and every time I wiped it away I wiped a bit more paint off with it...this new paint is industrial strength and completely wipeable. Yippee This next photo is on the right hand side, we always had these drawers (courtesy of Ikea) but I have pared down the toys rather a lot and given it a good tidy. Again, I was able to get my world map poster out so we can point out where everyone we know lives......
This pic is of my wonderful BIG clock which everyone makes fun of but I love. My sister bought it for me for Christmas and I am soooo excited about it as I can see the time from out in the garden which is so good as I don't really wear a watch. This view is from the doors that lead out to the garden and the doors you see are the ones that go back into the living room they are normally always open, not sure why they are shut.
Anyway, I LOVE my new room it feels so US, which is great and has been so exciting making it ours and we have to make room for Mabel coming on the 27th. xx

WOW

It is 11pm on wednesday night and I have just walked in from work after having a good day for Bubbs birthday to find that my AMAZING hubby and his AMAZING friend have decorated the conservatory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will post more on friday with pix, although not before and afters, as we are at Legoland all day tomorrow but just wanted to let everyone know how brilliant hubby is, and how truly blessed we are to have friends like we do...thanks guys
xxxxxxx

Weekend Fun!

I'll start by apologising for the blurry pix but still wanted to post them as we had such a cool day. Ourselves and another family went to London today for a day at the Natural History Museum! We bundled up all the kids onto the train and off we went. The boys thought the train was fab and sat in a seat together bless them and proceeded to put the trays on the back of the seats up and down....you can imagine how much the people in front of them enjoyed that! Girlies just tried to run up and down the entire time befriending anyone who would look their way, lovely and cute now but not so sure I want them to be that friendly in their teens :-) Below is a pic of the tube on the way to museum. London was great but the amount of steps in the stations was exhausting and we are certainly feeling it our arms tonight, the girlies weigh a tonne along with the pram. We made it to the museum in one piece and all had a blast. We got these explorer back packs that gave the boys clues to look for and the safari hats that you can see below. They did really enjoy these and posed for cute pix below with the polar bear.
We had a really great day going to Covent Garden afterwards and just enjoying a bit of sunshine and great family and friends time.. We ended the day off with pizza in the park and managed to get back on the train and home just before the heavens opened. Thank Goodness.

Saturday was another scorcher and a party day for Bubbs. They had an obstacle course and loads of games and yummy kids party food, don't you just love it and Bubbs came home on a complete sugar high but had such a great time.

Hubby and I had a night out to a friend 40th birthday party with all our church buddies and it was a really great night. Hubby and I thought it would be really good to spend some time together but managed to spend time with everyone else but each other, still we had a lovely time and the party was wonderful.
Friday was American Independence Day and as Hubby is American we went all out and had a bit of a 'do'. We were having a couple of neighbours round for chili and fajitas and while hubby was putting Bubbs to bed I dashed round the house and put up as many American flags and bunting as I could find so when he came downstairs he was really pleased. Bless. We had a great night and our neighbours had all brought American style food, P and J had even baked corn bread for us....that is something we don't have over there so great effort, thanks if you're reading they were yummy. Brilliant night had by all I think so we'll definitely do that again.

Hubby still on holiday so next week is going to be sparse on the blogging front but there will be lots of before and after pix, tomorrow we are doing the girlies bedroom as we went to Ikea again on Friday for beds. We are also going to decorate the conservatory and sort the kids toys out. Tuesday is another induction day for Bubbs at his big school and Wednesday is his birthday....he is getting a bike without stabilisers so you can imagine what we are doing that day..On Thursday we are going to Legoland as his birthday treat with his friend T, we are meeting my sis and BiL and my godparents so going to pray for nice weather that day. When I look at this it makes me want to hide in bed as there seems to be rather a lot to cram into one week but hey ho we'll get as much done as we can....

Speak soon,

xx

Meet Mabel

This is our gorgeous new puppy she is about 6 weeks old now so still too little to bring home but hubby, Moodle and Jim Jam went to visit her today...how cute is she

This is Moodle being cuddled by Mabel and another puppy, Jim Jam was too busy playing with the mummy to be bothered with the little ones

AWOL

I feel like I haven't posted for ages and the main reason being is that Hubby is off for 2 weeks (1 of which is nearly over) so we are getting things done. I also found I was spending so much time on the computer that I think I am going to limit myself to once or twice a week as it means I having more of a relationship with my laptop rather than Hubby!

We are getting loads done whilst on holiday though, we are not going anywhere as it is still school time but so far we have done major tip runs, and we are in the process of picking out paint for the conservatory and probably living room now as we thought we might as well do both rooms at once....still not sure about that one though. I have found an amazing estore that sells wall words too so I am going to get some of those too, they are really cool sayings which will be lovely.

We finally managed to get rid of the futon out of the girlies bedroom and are now considering about getting them toddler beds rather than their cots, the don't always sleep well and I am wondering if beds might be better, what does anyone think? They are not 2 until Sept and Bubbs didn't go into a bed till he was nearly 3 and only then because we moved and needed his cot for the girls, I don't think he was bothered but girls seem so different??!!

Weather here is amazing so we are trying to do stuff outside, I know for Hubby this doesn't seem like a holiday which is a shame but I know where he is coming from, maybe next year we will get to go to France to see my parents in their french home. Talking of them, my grandparents are over there at the moment and they are having a great time. How wonderful is that!

Not much else going on, Hubby went to see Mabel our puppy again today so I'll post a pix in a minute, she is adorable and we can't wait to get her. We are going out tomorrow to get some puppy stuff and maybe the girls beds too if we can make up our minds about them.

Happy blogging everyone
xx