The weekends here again

I can hardly believe tomorrow will be march already this year just seems to be flying by so fast. We have had a busy week Leon went back to school wednesday but was then sick again that night even though he had seemed fine and he has had trouble again last night im hoping that will be the last of it though

Here us the wonderful borthday gift i recieved from Louise this week its a beautiful card she made me and the sss is something i can always use thankyou Louise :-) for thinking of me i love it all!!!

Here is my lastest finish it is by smo and brings me up to date with my monthly orniment challenege on my board ( if youd like to come join us please see my links section) i am almost done with my monthly finish too so i will be ip to date i havent picked up my needl today yet though as i have been struggling woth a migraine since yesterday which has started to slow up though so hopefully will be gone soon. I hope your all having a good weekend :-) mine would be better if we would of won the rugby last night lol oh well at least we won the footie today!!!!

Another day another hospital visit

Donny had his eye check up today but at least the news wasnt too bad this time they have decided that he should take his drops every other day for the next two weeks and then stop and see how it all goes so fingers crossed it will go better this time.

The boys went to my friends when we were in the hospital straight from school i had a text from my friend when we were on the way home to say Leon had a migraine and had been sick he was laying in her oldest sons bed when i got there we came back and he was sick again all in the car just outside the house all over the pavement and my garden i brought him in put him in the shower and to bed and cleaned up he has been to sleep and sick several times the poor love i hope he feels beter soon hes still up at the moment as hes just been sick again and its passed his bed time he may have to stay home tomorrow which wont go down well as he has rugby training as he has been picked for the a team in school to play in a tournament on wednesday we will just see how he goes through the night and how he is in the morning and go from there.

I acually managed to hold of microsoft today to register the problem with my dads xbox 360 and they are sending someone to collect it tomorrow so it will be going to Germany to hopefully be repaired it didnt go down well with my dad when i explained that he was going to be without it for 3 weeks maybe more but at least he will be able to play it again.

We have had a date now for the kitchen and bathroom works again now that the meter has finally been moved outside its 16th march this didnt go down well with Leon as its just a few days before his birthday but im sure we will still be able to do something with him even if we do it the weekend as he will be in school on his birthday anyway. We also got a call from the carphone warehouse and Leons phone has been repaired it was a broken speaker but now its all fixed!!!

I REALLY want this!!!!!

I was taking a look at 123 stitch for ideas of themes to do at the bingo at my board and i seen this and i just HAVE to have it asap!!! i am kicking myself for spending the gv that Tonya give me and not hanging on that bit longer (even though i am very happy with what i picked to buy at the time) its a shame though as its going to have to wait as the postage is nearly the same price as the chart!!! which i cant justify paying for just one chart at the moment so im a bit sad about that but at least i do have plenty to be getting on with in the meantime. I did have a little peak around and seen these too and they are all definatly going onto my wish list!!!

Happy birthday to me!!!!!!!

I cant believe another birthday has come around so fast wow where does the time go to? I thought id jump on quick and share what ive had while the boys have thier friends over and we have a busy noisy house!!!!

Yesterday afternoon the boys where upsatirs playing computer before they went to kick boxing or so i though they had acually been raiding my stash to make me cards which was such a sweet thought i didnt really have the heart to yell at them lol here are the beautiful cards they made me

the first one made by Leon and the second Jake arent they so clever? they also went shopping yesterday on thier own and these are the gifts they chose for me all by themselves and i love them :-) thankyou boys xxxxxI also had some lovely cards from my wonderful husband and friends the fist one Donny got for me along with the karaoke player i had a few weeks ago which i really love thanks so so much Donny!!!!!!! and i love it the second one is from my wonderful friend Rose who also sent me a beautiful friendship card for my wallet that i love thankyou Rose!!!!!! and the last is from my friend Nicky thankyou Nicky i love it!!!! I also had a beautiful card from my dad and stepmum and some money to buy myself smething nice :-)I also recieved these lovely gifts fron my very good friend Nicky she is such an angel and does so much for me there was no need to spoil me so much but it was lovely that she did!!! thankyou so so much Nicky!!!! Well ive had a nice day so far and i am going to have a nice evening playing with my new karaoke machine with my boys while Donny watches ufc then we are going to settle down and watch a dvd together when the boys are in bed but forst im going to have some cake the boys got me a button one when they were down tescos yesterday and make a vindaloo for tea yummy!!!!!! i have some vodka and cherryade so im going to have a few quiet drinks i hope you all have a lovely weekend xxxxx

Checkups

This week we have had a lot of appointments at different places on wednesday Donny had an appointment in Carmarthen with another dr that we wont hear from for a month so we are still none the wiser we decided to leave the boys with my Dad so i drove down and we left them there and then had an hour long bus trip up to the clinic to see the dr it was not all bad the boys had a great day and i got to get a new wine kit so it is now busily bubbling away in my kitchen so they wont be coming to fit it for at least a week!!!!

On thursday we all had the dentist but that was good news all around which was good :-) When we were still in town i picked up my phone and realised i had had 3 missed calls from my dad which was really unusual and then he phoned Donny he has had a red light come on his 360 which isnt good at all but luckily we know someone who maybe able to repair it and i am waiting to hear from him i have my Dads 360 at my house and im hoping to hear from my friend the weekend fingers crossed the news wont be bad.

I am looking foward to a quiet day today im hoping to do my ironing and maybe pick up my pheonix if not at least they are back at school next week!!! I want to say thankyou to Rose to i have recieved my birthday card this morning but ive been a good girl and i havent opened it im leaving it for tomorrow i promise!!! thankyou hun xxxxx

Half term week

Yes its half term again and the boys have been home since friday but at the moment they are doing ok not too much arguing at least lol. On monday Jake went to his friends for the day after i had taken him and Leon to kfc for dinner i didnt eat but they did!!! Iwent to pick Jake up at 6pm so they had a break from each other that day. On tuesday Leon spent the day out on his bike with Jordan so they werent together again i was phoning him at 5ish to tell him to bring home his bike before it got to dark but he treally enjoyed being out for the day.

I was given this lovely silk by Nicky from my wish list this week which is much more beautiful than i was expecting thankyou Nicky so much :-)

I wanted to just update you on my stitching i havent picked it up this week with the boys home but i have realised that i have done the border a little too low down at the top but as its not touching i have decided im not going to frog it all out im going to leave it and see what happens hopefully it will be ok.

Happy Valentines day

I just wanted to wish everyone a lovely day we dont really do valentines day at our house we never really have done we dont feel we should have one day a year when you should have to tell someone you love them and buy them a gift we believe when you love someone you should show them in little ways everyday. I did make some valentine cards and then Leon chose the first one for me to give to Donny and he made me a card aswell but thats as far as we went. We did get a take away Indian meal which we had with the children which was very nice and then Paula came over to watch the snake being fed and invited us over to thier house for the rest of the evening so thats what we did we ended up singing karaoke again for the most of the night but it was a lot of fun!!!!

I hope you all had a wonderful valentines which ever way you decided to spent it!!!

What a week...........

............ and its only wednesday!!! the boys have one more day in school then its half term so we have a week of them home it doesnt seem like theyve been in school much the last few weeks with the snow ect and they are off again!!!

We didnt get the works started on our house then they have decided to wait until they have moved the gas meter outside and we had a call today to tell us they will be doing that on monday so now we are just waiting for them to get back to us with the new date for the interier works to be done hopefully it wont be too long or wont take too long fingers crossed hey.

I wanted to share with you all jakes new certificate that he recieved for 100% attendance at school for the first term he is so proud that he made it in everyday he has several of these because he will drag himself to school no matter how he is feeeling. Leon didnt quite make it after the chest infection he had and had to stay home a few days but thats ok he cant help feeling ill.

We have had a good few days weatherwise here still very cold but at least the snow does seem to have gone but im waiting as ive known it to snow on my birthday before so we shall see.

Not much news here on the stitchy front i just havent picked up my needle since the weekend but i have kept up with my exercise a little i really need to get more done on that front to ah well im off now to watch England lose the footie lol no maybe they will win we shall see.........

What a great weekend

Well we started friday with just a few snow flurries all morning and then nothing Leons rugby training wit the school was called off because of the wether we have been having so he came home and got ready for kick boxing we were going to be finding out weither he had passed his second kata and recieved his next level belt which is yellow. Well as you can see from the photo he passed and with flying colours i was there with him when he was presented his belt and we are very proud of him. He only started kick boxing six months ago and he has already been able to pass his first two katas i hope he keeps up the good work.

While the children were at school Donny and I went out while there was no snow and Donny bought me a new karaoke machine for my birthday (yes i know its not for 2 weeks) i love it so much there is such a huge number of songs that i can get yes i still have singstar and i love it very much but now i have even more choice thankyou so much Donny this is one gift that will get well used!!!!!

The boys decided against going to sea cadets friday and in a way im glad as when Paula came over to have a look at my new machine we got a covering of snow once again so just as we thought we were getting over it it came back and hit us hard again but it was very pretty and was still there on saturday morning but it did clear up again by tea time which was good because we were having Paula Lawrance and the four kids over for the evening.

And we had a ball!!! firstly the boys watched the Liverpool match and them we used my new karaoke machine all night long it was sooooo much fun and we have a big piece of us singing taped on the pc using my webcam im going to be taking a look later and if im brave enough i may think about posting it on my multiply for all to see!!! Paula was a little worse for wear as she went to sleep on my sofa just after half past 11 so i have her photo and im thinking of posting it to facebook later she is not happy about that hehehehe teach her to go to sleep!!!! they left just after 12am to get the little ones to bed but we all still had a fantastic time.

Todays going to be a little quiter well sort of we are about to watch wales playing rugby on the telly which im looking foward to i love my footie but i really love to watch wales playing rugby it used to be great when one of the boys i was in school with was playing i used to be able to tell my boys about it its always possible to do great things in life no matter where you come from!!! Well i hope your all having a ovely weekend to say safe and warm its really cold here today and its raining too so im off to make something warm for dinner before it starts!!!

Another wintery day

Boy is it cold here today we havent seen the sun all day long .I was kinda brave this morning though and i did take the car down to tescos in the blanket of ice covered snow to go get some much needed shoping in. The kids were home again today as the school was closed due to the ice so they had to come to but we left them playing thier gameboys in the cafe which s always much easier. The roads werent too bad once we got out of the place where we live but tesco car park was still like an ice rink it was all very scary but it was ok.

When we had got back my order from 123 stitch that Tonya had given me the gv for had come along with a book i had bought from one of the girls on a yahoo group i am in. Thankyou Tonya i love my beds and threads and fabbie i bought and i feel so spoilt. The dog did attack the envelope but luckily for him the contents where intact or he would of been sorry!!!!Jake and i just took a walk with the dog and everything seems to be better with the snow theres not so much of it now and the road in my street is nearly visable which is great but the weather is warning we are to get it heavy during tonight and tomorrow so it doesnt look to promising that the children will get back to school this week but there is always hope!!! When we came in we were frozen through so we just defrosted infront of the fire with a hot chocolate and marshmallows which was lovely. Liverpool are playing on the tv tonight so im going to get on with my pheonix dragon i managed to get a little more done last night as you can see so fingers crossed it will get done in time afterall. Everyone stay warm and safe.

And it hasnt wanted to stop!!!

This is what we got up to at 7am this morning and that was before the blizzards set in if you seen London on the news yesterday thats exactly what it looked like here dark and foggy and tons of white stuff!!! We checked on the local radio stations website and of course the school was closed they all have been localy today which was just what my boys wanted to hear they wanted to go out and play in it before it was light!!! but we made them wait as it was so bad. When it calmed a little we all went to Lidls for a walk to get bread but it was really hard on Donnys eyes as the snow was so bright. We ended up in oyr friends for a cuppa on the way home which is strange as we live just a few houses down across the road from them lol but was nice to have a chat anyway.

This is the snowmen the boys built in our garden just over an hour ago we are still surrounded by the stuff even though the sun has been shining for the last few hours and they are saying we are in for a heavy freeze tonight and even more snow either later or by the end of the week the kids are hoping so id rather it go so they can go to school!!! we shall wait see we werent expecting much to start with so this has been great fun for them. And oh yes here is Leon always the show off hehehehe hes gonna kill me if he sees it here!!! oh well stay warm and safe!! im off to finish dinner and then do some more stitching i think we will give cadets a miss tonight

I cant believe it!!!

Its snowing!!!! and we never ever get snow here i think its because we are sitting on the coast.The boys have been so excited as it is so very rare we have only had a dusting mind just enough to cover the floor but its still trying to come down now . The kids are hoping that it comes down really heavy tonight so they will get the day off school tomorrow so they can go out in it but we shall see im kinda hoping it clears up but then again i dont want them to be disapointed either so anyway here are some photos they took if it gets any better i will get them to take some more tomorrow.

I went up tp the school this afternoon for a meeting with Leons head of year about all that went on last week aparantly its sorted now but we shall wait see how it goes i think.

A busy weekend

We have had such a busy weekend. We did go to our friends on friday night and we had a fantastic time we took over our ps3 to play singstar and i wish i could show you the videos they are well funny!!!! they are all coming over to us saturday all 6 of them that will be fun!! We came home at 3am so it was a late night for us all but as we dont do it very often that was ok. Saturday we were all very tired as you can imagine but not too bad Jake and me walked up to town to get him a new pair of shoes for school and then caught the bus home as we were both wiped out lol. On sunday Leon had his next kata for his yellow belt in kick boxing i got to watch him do it this time but he wont find out until friday if he has passed or not but i think he did ok we shall wait and see. When we got back me and Donny went to war as Liverpool took on Chelsea in the sunday sfternoon match and guess what i lost much to Donny and his friends pleasure and thats all im saying on that!!! (you can see im still pouting lol)

Here is what little stitching i have done over the last few hours it is the pheonix dragon by enchanting lair i am hoping to do it for Donny by valentines day as he loves liverpool and the pheonix is thier emblem im hoping he will like it.
I also wanted to say thankyou to Barb from the smo board as i have recieved the prize from her contest i am still very much looking foward to being able to get to grips with evenweave and i am looking foward to stitching this thankyou.

5 addictions and 5 fabby floggers

So JOAN thought I have a Fabby Blog and so does she but she has already been bblog awarded SO----->>>>

I am to list 5 of my addictions and list 5 bloggers who I think are fabby. So here goes.Addictions:


1. cross stitching
2. chatting on line
3. collecting stash
4. exchanges
5. Dyeing fabrics

My fabby friends fabby blogs!
1 kath
2 michelle
3. lori-ann
4. tonya
5 cathe

I did not have to list the name of their blogs but incase your are not familiar with them. Pretty impressive blogs. Well kept up with!

Now You all must do the same on your blog
Now Claim your awards