Happy thanksgiving to all my us friends

I hope you all have a safe and happy holidays xxx

Christmas shopping

It seems the only type of shopping im doing these days!! This morning we had to go down to maplins to get something as the pc was playing up we have avg anti virus aswell and thats been having problems too but its all fixed now thankgod.We went down to trostre retail park we met the boys straight from school there as it is just 2 mins away from the school and we had a look around the shops i got some nice xmassy underware in peacocks well its all just a bit of fun!!! and we went into carephone warehouse for Leon to have another look at the phones before we went and bought one today.So then we slipped into tescos and it was dark by the time we got home so the dog was glad to see us!!!

Today we went down to my dads this morning to take the stuff the boys had choosen so he and my stepmum can see and wrap them before they come down to give them to them on christmas day as usual. Then we went into town and got a lot of more of the boys pressies i just need to wrap them all now and get them under the tree from what i know all we have left to get for them is a man utd top for Leon a phone for Jake some t-shirts and a pair of trainers each for them and i think they are then done!! Maybe there are a few bits and pieces left that i just cant think of right now though. I am really hoping to also try and get the new game *lips* for the xbox 360 and the new singstar for the ps3 mostly for me though cos i just love to sing lol. How are you all doing with your christmas plans so far?

Its cold outside!!!

Well i guess thats what you get living with the beach more or less on your doorstep!!! This afternoon we decided to go for a walk upto town with the children so they could buy wat the wanted with the money my dad had given them for christmas and oh boy was it windy and cold!!! and i realised just after we got half way there i didnt have my pump but luckily i didnt need it!! We went into town and Leon had a load of things for his money including a premiership football (gone are the days when a £1! footie will do!!! lol) he also had the new england football top, a manutd wallet, some hand wraps for kick boxing and a jacket he did really well. Jake on the other hand had a jacket and 2 ps3 games so his bag looked a whole lot smaller lol but they do seem happpy with what they had chosen so thats all that matters. I walked Leon over to kckboxing and then went back to meet Jake and Donny and i had some pressies too which will be going under the tree tonight. We then walked back to meet Leon to walk home and do you know ive had a bath and everything and i still cant walk up!!! roll on summer oh wait winter hasnt started yet LOL

Deck the halls!!!!!

Tonight is our family tradition night.Its the towns christmas carnival tonight its a week earlier than normal as they have the opening match at the new rugby stadium next friday so they moved it foward so we are just a bit earlier!!! Since the children were small we have given up trying to take them to the carnival one of them would end up screamimg at the fireworks and youd have to stand for hours to get a good place to look and then someone would come stand in front of you on the road and its always freezing and yes half the time you get rained on!!! so we opt to stay home have a nice meal put up our decorations and watch a christmas film well we did that sort of xmas anyway lol we atched snow buddies and it was really good too!!! So i will leave you some photos there are more of course in my deck the halls album and there are more to come!!! as we hhave to get some more stuff to add!!

Finally finally finished!!!

I am just so happy to finally have my santas dragon finished just in time to put up my decorations tomorrow!!! I would like to thank Shirley who bought me all the threads for xmas last year and Nicky who bought me the fluffy stuff for santas coat. I would also like to thank Carla for the loan of her chart it was so so kind of her to let me stitch it first!! she can finally have it back so she can now do it her self lol. And finally last but not least id like to thank Heather for collecting the fabric from her local shop for me i think it looks lovely on it.Today is my dear friend Nickys birthday so i made this card for her and she has recieved it in time with her pressie so id just like to say *happy birthday Nicky* i hope you have a fantastic day because you deserve it.

We had a phone call from the school yesterday afternoon Leon had been hurt and they wanted me to collect him at the end of the day as the day was almost over he has a nasty cut on his face but he will live and the school are sorting it out so there is no need for me to get involved in this matter at the moment. He is cooking mince pies in school tomorrow so that will be nice as he doesnt like them there will be more left for the rest of us lol.

Well id better get back to it ive been so busy cleaning windows blinds and noets and i have pulled everything out of my glass cabinet to have everything clean and tidy ready for the christmas decorations to go up i just thought while i was drinking my cuppa id show you all i had finally managed to finishe my dragon

I have been tagged

Well I have been tagged and need to tell you 6 things about me and then tag 6 more to do the same.

So here are the rules:
1. Link to the person who tagged you.2. Post the rules on your blog.3. Write six random things about yourself.4. Tag six people at the end of your post.5. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.6. Let the tagger know your entry is up

So Joan was so nice to tag me. Just learned how to set a link--Whoa Who!

Now 6 Random the things about me:
its harder this time beacuse ive already done it once!!!

1. I am terrified of bees and wasps one day while riding my bike down a busy road a wasp flew next to me so i jumped off my bike and ran away!! my sister was laughing so hard at me lol

2. I love to watch football my huusband and two sons are all footie mad so i have gotten used to sitting around watching it and i managed to watch a lot of the european cup this year.

3. I love to sing while driving the car and i do it more so to embaress the kids when they have thier friends in the car lmao.

4. I am always have cold hands and feet it doesnt matter if im wearing socks or not and gloves do nothing!!

5. I dont really like chocolate when i was pregnant with jake i went off it and i have never really gone back to it if i eat a chocolate bar i feel sick afterwards i can eat a bit but not a lot.

6. I love to dress up and have parties with the kids im sooo going to miss it when they no longer want to humor me lol/

Ok thats enough about me here are the six people i have tagged

Dawn
Kath
Sally
Tonya
Sue
Barb

Starting to feel more like christmas.

Its our family tradition to decorate our home for christmas on out towns carnival night we tend to not go into town to watch the carnival as it is always so cold and normally raining and for the last few years our boys have been too big to be dragged to town with s to see the floats lol The carnval usually takes place on the last friday of november which isnt too far away to start getting the house all christmassy but this year the carnival has been moved foward one week so it doesnt interfear with the first ever scarlets rugby match at the new stadium so not to brake our family tradition we will be getting our decorations up a week earlier this year so this week i will be busy getting the place all ready.

As we are talking christmas i thought i would show you what we have decided to get the boys this year as they are getting bigger its been so hard trying to decide on what to get them apart froma new phone and clothes so we decided to get them a new pc as the old one they have is so old its so slow and rubbish they have no idea about this though so it will be s total suprise it didnt cost too much either as we built it ourselves and it is better than the one we use!!! here are some photos for you to see.

I do hope they will like it!!! So far though it is the only thing we have got so we really need to get shifting on that front!! I am hoping to be back later or tomorrow with my finished santas dragon the headache ive had for the last three days has slowed down progress but it really will be finished very very soon.

Another week has just gone so fast

I can hardly believe a whole week has passed since i blogged last i guess things have just gone by so fast for me i just havent found the time but never mind i do have a few new things to share with you all while i have five minutes before i have to go out to tescos before the boys come home from school.
Here is the xmas ornie/rr exchange for october i made for Louise at my board one down two to go but as this one has arrived i thought id share it with you all dont forget the link to my board is in my links section and you are all more than welcome to come join we will be under going a christmas change in the next few weeks.

My second piece od news to share is Leon with his red belt that he earned in kick boxing we are so very proud of him as he has earned it so quickly as he has only been going a few months he has had it just over a week but now i have finally had the chance to get a photo of him with it for you all to see and as you can see from the smile he is very proud of it too!!!

I do have a lot more news to share but unless i get going i will have the kids in tow to tescos and i really dont want that lol so i will be back later tonight.

A few early christmas pressies!!!!

The last few days my christmas cactus has been in full bloom and they are just soo beautiful that with feeding my christmas cake brandy last night is reall starting to get me in a more christmassy mood!!! arent they just so beautiful?

I also had a wonderful suprise in the mail today an early christmas presant from my very very dear friend Shirley she is such a wonderful lady and i hols a place in my heart for her such a wonderful friend to have thankyou so so much for everything you do for me.Thankyou so much for everything you do for me i am so lucky to have you in my life.

Remebrance day 2008

As you all know my boys have been attending sea cadets and this weekend the rembrance ceromony was held in out local town and this year Jake had the job of handing over a wreath to be layed onto the rembrance statue so me and Leon went to show our support too. Jake was so nervous he managed to spill a hot chocolate that was given to him to keep him warm all over himself not a great start at all. The wind was blowing at gale force and the children got rained on several times but they al kept thier heads up and showed respect at all times and i have 2 videos uploaded to show some of the ceromony and showing Jake and how well he did.

Just after the ceromony was over the thunder stroms came in and we had a whole day and night of them they were so bad we thought at one point we would have water inside the house the lightening was terrific and went on and on for hours we even had hail and belting rain and we still had the gale force winds at one point the lightening was brightening up the whole room i was just so glad we were all home and safe and together it was very frightening.

Its almost the weekend

I thought i wouls show you all a little fo whats been going on with me ive been making somemore christmas cards but im still not finished there yet i still need more!!!

We also went out this week and bought a bird table for the little birds we have been seeing quite a lot of in our garden as its been getting colder we thought it couldnt do any harm to do something nice for them!!! lets just hope it doesnt drive the dog too nuts lol

Another hospital vist.

Today here in the uk is fireworks night and i did have plans to take both my boys down to the last ever fire works display in the Llanelli Scarlets rugby stadium as it is the last ever fireworks display ever to be held there as the team is moving later this month to its new stadium to start its new era it will be much easier for us as the new one is so so much closer to where we live.
Anyway Jake decided he did not want to go so he stayed home with Donny and the dog and i drove me and Leon down and parked within walking disdance to the stadium and we got there by 6.20 which was planty of time as the display was starting at 7pm. Well it didnt start until 7.15pm as there were so many people trying to get in and it was freezing!!! but well worth the wait as the display was beautiful!!! Leon has it all taped on his phone when i can get him to sit still for two minutes i will try to get it uploaded for you all to see.I hopo all myy uk friends had a great night,

November 5th

Today here in the uk is fireworks night and i did have plans to take both my boys down to the last ever fire works display in the Llanelli Scarlets rugby stadium as it is the last ever fireworks display ever to be held there as the team is moving later this month to its new stadium to start its new era it will be much easier for us as the new one is so so much closer to where we live.

Anyway Jake decided he did not want to go so he stayed home with Donny and the dog and i drove me and Leon down and parked within walking disdance to the stadium and we got there by 6.20 which was planty of time as the display was starting at 7pm. Well it didnt start until 7.15pm as there were so many people trying to get in and it was freezing!!! but well worth the wait as the display was beautiful!!! Leon has it all taped on his phone when i can get him to sit still for two minutes i will try to get it uploaded for you all to see.I hopo all myy uk friends had a great night,

Happy halloween!!!

I just wanted to show you all a few photos of some of the things we made for halloween this year we had a lovely evening it was cold but dry and my boys came home with a lot of goodies after going trick or treating we didnt get many callers here but i guess it is just because our street is just so small and full of ealderly people who dont answer the doors so the kids just seem to skip us which is a shame as i really enjoy seeing the kids all dressed up and having fun!!! I thought id just share some cooking that we did too!! i am hoping to get some more of the halloween photos of the kids in thier costumes uploaded to my halloween album too!!! i hope you all had a happy and safe halloween i knoe we did i always enjoy watching a scary movie on halloween so thats what we did!!!

A day out at Cardiff

A few weeks ago i told you that i had won some tickets to Cardiff to the craft show so i decided to go on thursday morning and Leon said he would come with me so on thursday morning at 6.30am we both got out of bed to make our way to the railway station in the car to be on the train to cardiff at just after 8am. The journey took and our and a half but we had fun playing hangman and chatting on the way up it was dry but very very cold.

We finally found the place at 10am after getting a little lost!!! but we were finally inside in the warm we had a look around and then founs a place where you could have a go at making your own paper for 70p so we both had a go and i have to say even though it was a wet and messy experience we both had a lot of fun and here you can see the results!!!

There was also a place where you could learn how to knit i already know how to but Leon insisted he wanted to try so i decided to leave him there and go take a little look around for myself!!!

Here is what we found to buy i did have one or two good bargins but in whole i was a little disapointed with the whole experience there where very few stitchy shops and a lot of them where very expensive i was hoping to get some mill hill beads and some krenick but there wasnt any there at all i think if i ever decided to go agan i would save and go to birmongham as the one year i did go there even though it was a 10hour round trip there was so much more to choose from and i really did enjoy it so even tough Leon and i had a day out and a little roam around cardiff hwere i did find a fantastic beads/charms shop i am a little disappointed with the show .

What a busy day!!!

wI had a call from my dad yesterday morning as he was supposed to be calling down his car had decided to die on him so i went to meet him in town with his shopping took him home and used my machine on his car i then followed him to the shop not far from me to get a new battery then followed him again to my house where i helped replace the battery in the poring rain then he had a cuppa with us while he dried off before he went home its still ok as far as i know as i havent heard from him.

The christmas lights arrived and Leon and me tried them on my tree but they werent big enough so we put the tree away and went down to b&q and then down to homebase and morrisons but have not bought anymore as yet by the time we camehome it was cold and dark so we made some pizza ut the heating on and settled down to watch a dvd for the night.
I recieved my first rr/orniment exchange from Sue yesterday this exchange is currently being run on my board in the last three months of this year the idea is you send an unfinished orniment to your 3 partners and finsih the ones you het back as you choose this is what i recieved from Sue and its lovely thankyou Sue!!!! I also have an update on my santas dragon its coming it really is at long last im starting to see siggns i may acually get it doen by the end of next month!!!!
Im going to try get some cleaning done today cos i wont be here tomorrow and make a list of anythings i may want to pick up at the craft show and then an early bed because me and leon leave early tomorrow!!!

Im a world record holder!!!

I had an email through yesterday telling me i was in the guiness world record books for palying itv bingo night live!!! so i just thought id show you my certificate its all very exciting lol if youd like to take a look please click on the following link :-)

My certificate

Arrrhhhh!!!!

Right i feel a little better now but its just been that type of week between cancelled hospital appointments,naughty children and broken glasses ill be glad to see this week well and truely over but hang on a minute its half term next week!!!
Inbetween everything this week i have manged to do ssomethings though i attempted to bake my fist ever christmas cake this week and after 3 hours cooking here is my cake in all its glory...

not bad for a first attempt hey???!!! i have to feed it brandy now every week ntill the week before christmas whe i will decorate it and show you again.Leons been in trouble in school this week which has led to him being given 2 after school detentions he wasnt the only one but he needs to learn not to copy everyone else too he knows when hes stepping over the line and needs to start growing up a little and he will do better he has his last detention today and im hoping that while he is home next week he will try to decide to behave better when he goes back to school they all seem to go through this behaviuor when they start comprehensive school it was bad enough with Jake now we are doing it again with Leon. Jake came home from school yesterday with his glasses broken someone had grabbed them off his face and thrown them into the wall but the school is dealing with the person so i hope they contact his parents becasue its just not on Jake is really going to struggle the rest of this week without them we git his replacement glaases ree but have been told next time it will cost £68 so he really needs to look after them this time.

The hospital called on tuesday afternoon and cancelled Donnys appointment so now we have to wait untill the 6th november to see how his eyes are going so after my rant you can see why this week has been so rubbish. I have managed to get some stitching done how i will never know but i have finished the xmas ornniment/rr for Louise but i cant show you yet and just have one more to do then all my stitched exchanges for this year are over!!! i have also done a little more on my santas dragon too. Well im off soon to go meet Jake and take him to tescos with me for Leons cooking stuff for school tomorrow Leon will be walking home as punishment for what hes done and hes not going to be too happy about that because we have gale force winds here and its raining but he has to learn

A fun filled weekend

Ive had a brilliant weekend this week i spend a whole lot of time with my family ive slipped on here to update while the boys are out Leon has gone to kick boxing and Jake has gone with him for a walk as Leon got his lisence this week he is allowed to spar this weekend and is really looking foward to it and next weekend he has his first attempt at gaining his first belt which if he passes he will recieve on halloween and he is so looking foward to that too. He almost didnt make it to kick boxing on friday night as Jake swung open the front door and smacked him on the head with it Leon had a fair lump there but was ok thankfully we were a little late getting there and i explained to the coach and she made sure she kept an eye on him for me. On saturday my dad and stepmum called as usual and i cy=ut his hair again for him before the winter comes in mind you its really cold and windy here today so i dont think we will have very many more warm sunny days. On saturday morning the postman also brought me something i really wasnt expecting!!! i have won two tickets to the Carrdiff craft show and i am planning to go on thursday the 30th oct i was planning on maybe giving it a miss this year but there is no way im doing that now!!! the onky problem i have is finding someone that would maybe like the other ticket and want to come with me Leon is coming as Jake came with me last time but children go in free so is there anyone that wants to be my company for the day??? just let me know :-)
I spend s good few hours last night playing singstar with the boys we bought some new songs from singstore after we all eventually sgreed on what we wanted one of them was the final countdown by europe that brought back some memories of school discos i can tell you lol.We had a brilliant time Donny was upstairs watching ufc and came down at 11pm and said hmm i think youd better switch it off now its getting a bit late to be so noisy!!!! so the kids then went to bed and we settled down for the night. Last but not least here is another update on santas dragon it is coming along very slowly!!!

Ive been tagged!!!

I've been tagged by Cathe .
Here are the rules of the game.
• Link to the person who tagged you.
• Post the rules on your blog.
• Write six random things/unspectacular quirks about yourself.
• Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
• Let each person you have tagged know by leaving a comment on their blog.
• Let the tagger know when your entry is posted

So here are my six random things:-)

1) Im afraid of spiders.
2) I love to watch scary movies.
3) I passed my driving test on the fourth attempt.
4) I am allergic to lady birds
5) I used to love being in the school musicals when i was in comprehensive school.
6) I entered a tallent show on holiday with my friend when i was a teenager and we came second.

So my six nominies to play along (if they wish - nobody is forced to do this) are:-

Deb
Heather
Barb
Tonya
Paula
Kath