Happy anniversary

i would like to wish my wonderful husband a fantastic day today we have been through so much and i am amazed to think it has been 14 years we have been married we have been together for over half my life and i love him so much i really dont think i could imagine it with out him. So heres to you babe may we have many many more to go xxxxx

Pembrey car show.

Today we went with Rachel Lyndon and thier family who are Leons girllfriend Emilys parents to the Pembrey car show the weather was wet windy and cold but the boys seemed to enjoy the cars where i prefered the fair lol. It was nice to have a day out but to be honest this weather really isnt much of a fun way to spend thier summer break its like last year all over agin. The pool has just sat in the garden for most of the summer lonely and unused as it just hasnt been hot at all.

I have so neglected everything lately i havent picked up a needle in months i am never going to get my fairy finished my halloween this year. My decorating has been neglected i feel like everything around me is just kickboxing these days but i guess it will calm down when we come home from Dublin.I have found a new friend in Emilys mum though and it has been great getting to know her this last few weeks and she has been dragging me out much more than i am used to lol thats nice too!!!

Party in Penyfan park

Today we were at Party in Penyfan park running a bake sale for the kickboxing team doing fund raising again!! Yes sometimes this does seem never ending but we are trying so so hard to get the kids over to the world championships for free but it is taking a lot of work. We did quite well even though it was raining on and off all day and it was quite cold at times but we struggled through :-). We were there just after 9am and stayed right up untill 7pm and did make over £127.00 which was fantastic and goes toward the fund so it was all worthwhile.

While we were there Leon and his girl firend Emily decided they would go backing for Emilys sister Aimee in the Penyfans got talent contest here is the result lol yes my Leon is the one in the purple dress and blonde wig sit back have a giggle and enjoy!!!!

The welsh kick boxing team on the BBC

A few weeks ago i wrote to BBC Wales to ask if they could do a spot on the programme to help with fund raising and Sian Lloyd got in touch and they came down to interview the children here it is enjoy!!!!

Busy busy busy

I am still having problems finding time to fit everything i need to be into my days at the momment and with the boys being home for the summer holidays that isnt helping but at the same time it is lovely to have them home when i get to see them that is!!! I have been so so busy trying to get things done to help with Leons team to try and get as much funds in to help the children go to the world championships for as little cost as possible it has been truely time consuming but i have made 5 minutes for myself to come on here while i can as i will be starting kick boxing with Leon this afternoon to try help me along with my weight loss which hasnt been doing too well i have to admit i seem to be getting smaller but its just not showing on the scales which is a little frustrating i have to admit!! I am dreading it mind lol!!!

We went bag packing at our local Tesco last saturday morning for four hours and after a few hours spend counting up the money i am thrilled to be able to announce that we managed to bring in £600.06 which is fantastic!! a great big thankyou goes out to all those who tryed to help support our cause!!! We have made a new website HERE and if you go to events and then past events you will be able to see Leon on the slide show who has now dyed his hair red lol mind you thats an improvement on the purple he had the week before!!!

On Sunday after helping out at the car boot we were at a demenstartion for a charity event to try and help a local boy with a disability to get equipment so he can stay at a local comprehensive school HERE is the video that was taken of Tennassee,Lauren and Leon. Then of course we had kickboxing class after that!!

Wr are also going to be on BBC Wales tonight they are coming down to record us on tuesday afternoon and then we will be shown on the news hopefully that evening i will let you all know as soon as we return on tueday aftrnoon thats going to be exciting as they will be interviewing Leon we are looking foward to watching that!!

I also have my car going for its mot on monday so please keep your fingers crossed for me!! mind you if it fails i suppose ill get fitter quicker having to then walk more lol

Happy birthday Jake

Well its hard to believe that Jake is 14 all ready where does all the time go? its mad lol

It doesnt seem that long ago that he was sleeping in my arms and now he is almost all grown up doesnt it just fly by.I spent the morning in the car boot sale again raising money for Leon and his team mates im doing that every sunday morning now right up until we go. Then i spoke to Jake when he woke and Leon came down to the car boot sale to meet me and we went into town after. When we got back Jake was given his pressies and then i was out again with Leon to his kick boxing class. Whe we got back we all had some cake and then the boys dissapeared upsatirs on thier computers. We had an Indian take away which was lovely before we settled down and played guitar hero and sing star for the evening which was a lot of fun!!!

Our sponsored walk

I was so happy when we got up this morning we were looking at a beautiful warm sunny day for our walk to help with the fund raising for the junior welsh kickboxing team Leon and I had managed to do really quite well with the sponsoring and we are very grateful to all those who supported us along the way :-) we still have a very long way to go before we reach the traget we are hoping for but every little helps and we still have a lot of events we are planning to do up to october.We had quite a good turnout and with the samber band with us for a while it was all very livly. Even the littlest ones managed to walk the whole eight miles which was a lot for little feet especially with all the hills they had to walk up too we are all proud of each and everyone who took part and grateful to all those who supported us along the way.

Neglected

Thats how this blog should be feeling at the momment and its all my fault!! I have been so so busy this last few weeks i havent even had enough time to sit here and tink let alone type to let you all know how im doing. Well this is what ive been up to i seem to have thrown myself in at the deep end again lol the holidays. I have had a very busy weekend yesterday i was out all afternoon fundraising with Leon for the funds we need for the junior welsh kick boxing team who will be traveling to Dublin in november for the world championships as Leon is a double welsh champion it is improtant i think for me to support him in every way possible to try to get all the children there for as little cost as possible we are woring hard on looking for sponsers and i have managed to get myself into the secretery/fund raising spokesperson and all i wanted to do was help a little!! lol i will never learn to be the quiet mum i dont think!!! this morning i was with one of the coaches really early doing a car boot sale to raise yet more funds so i have decided there is another way i can help out i have decided that i will be running a raffle on my cross stitch board where the tickets will cost £1 and the winner will recieve a £15 gift voucher for my online hand dyed fabric shop the more i raise the more chance i have of helping out i do have photos of Leon with his gold medals on my multiply and facebook if anyone who hasnt seen would like to take a look. If anyone is interested in taking part in the draw just email me and i will add you to my board and give you the link.

I have also been very busy in the house and garden even though it has beev very hot and humid here i have cut down trees sorted through weeds built 3 new beds and taken the old ones down to be recycled we all needed the new beds and boy do they make a real differance they are amazing the boys have had midi sleepers and the love the new looks just the decorating to do in the rooms now but i will have to finish downstairs first as at the moment both the kitchen and bathroom are still only half done but very slowly we are beging to take shape my goal is to try and get it completed by christmas but i do understand with everything that goes on here it may not be possible but i will be keeping my fingers crossed!!!

I would also like to wish all my us friends a very happy 4th july weekend i do hope you are all having a wonderful holiday with your loved ones.


Well im off now to work on my halloween fairy who has been very badly neglected this week due to the meetings and fund raising and of course taking care of my boys and my hubby who had a better visit to the specialist this week it wasnt good news but then again it wasnt bad either thankfully.
Hugs Kay xx

Sharing some love xx

Recently a very dear friend of mine told us she had breast cancer. We met on the smo board and she came along to my runboard when i set it up for all of us to have somewhere where we could all go to chat about anything and nothing without being moaned at for being to off topic oe personal. When she told me i was in shock as she is such a loving giving lady who was always joining in exchanges and competitions and always there to chat and i have to say it hit us all very hard there were a lot of tears shed.
Rose and i chated and we decided that it may be a nice idea to make her a quilt so it would feel like when ever she needed us she could just wrap the quilt around her and we would all be there for her keeping her warm and strong through the difficault days. I pmd everyone on my board and Jacky,Louise,Sarah,Sue,Nicky and her daughter Lyn all joined me and Rose in making squares for the quilt. Lyns friend Lorna who has recently also become a member of the board did a fantastic job in making up the quilt and we are all very grateful for the wonderful job she did as you can see.Here is Joan with the quilt and i know she loves it as she left a very heart warming thankyou message for us all. Joan we are all here for you and we hope that stay with us for a very long time to come. I would liuke to thank all the girls involved in making this possible as it was worth every minute to make you smile Joan xxxxx

A busy week and a sick child and hubby

I have been so busy this week its really hard to believe its just wednesday!! I have managed to fir in four days of ecercise since sunday and even though my legs are very sore im really quite enjoying it!! I started on saturday morning and did a kick boxing fitness dvd with Leon we are trying to get us both fitter by the time we go to Ireland for him its to help for me its to get back into some of the jeans i have folded at the bottom of my wardrope lol!!! Jake had his friend Sean stay over again saturday night that was fun there was four of us to have a bash on sing star and the karaoke machine that was better as the teams were more even that usual!! I should of thought then when Donny went upstairs to watch tv that something wasnt right with him then again when he watched the grand prix up there all afternoon on sunday leaving me to stitch and watch the notebook (which i would really recomend if you love to watch a fantasic love story i really enjoyed it). Well he got steadly worse through sunday night he has a really bad chest infection he is coughing really bad and breathing worse and looks awful even walking short distances is wearing him out. I have told him i think he needs to go to the drs but he is insistant he is taking enough medication so i just have to keep a very close eye on him and see how he goes i guess.

Monday i was busy again did another dvd when i got up well some of Davinas new one until i got inturupted i was kinda glad i have to admit as my legs where still aching from the kick boxing one!! I managed to get a whole lot of cleaning done this morning you know sometimes i think i make work from nowhere when it really doesnt need doing!! I also managed to get somemore done on my firy who is starting to take some shape at last. I went to collect the boys from school and then we went up to town to finally go collect my pool cover which at long last had been delivered into wilkinsons it seemed to take for ever. Here is my current photo of my wip..

Yesterday morning i got up and when the boys had gone to school i had a go of yet another fitness dvd i just hope i can keep this up!! I then did all the cleaning, washing and ironing

and then sat and watched a dvd and stitched for a little while. When the boys came home from school Jake helped me cut down the hedge in the front garden and then we went down to the local recycling place with the branches and other stuff we were clearing from the garden. When i got back i was having a cuppa and i looked across at Leon who was sat on the sofa on the laptop chatting on msn to his friends and he really didnt look right i asked him if he was ok and he said no within minutes he has running to the bathroom to be sick. H e then went to bed and slept right through from 5.30pm untill 7.30am this morning needless to say he is home from school for the day today. After food i decided to go out the back and start trying to cut down the trees in the back garden i was out there until 10pm lastnight i have cut down 6 huge black bag fuuls and id say there is at least another 20 if not more to do you can see a slight difference but not very much at all they are now waiting for me to take them to the recycling place too.

Well with Leon home today and Donny still not doing great i think i will have an easy day today i think i may need it lol. I have told Jake i need to go shopping later and he will prob get a text from me to meet me after school.

What a wet day

We have been having such lovely weather the last week it seems starnge and unusal to have it so wet here!!! yes i know im in Wales ut still lmao!! Here is a photo i took of the sky last night before the rain came in isnt it beaautiful it was so pink i had to take this to show the boys as they were at cadets I have been so lucky this week when it comes to stash arriving in the mail fisrt was this amazing package that arrived from Kathy on the smo board i was just trying to help move along her contest whan i was choosen as the winner i was so pleased!!!! i was even more pleased when i opened the package yesterday morning and i seen all the lovely floss inside i feel so spoilt thankyou so much Kathy it was much much more than i ever expected to recieve!!!I also recieved thsi morning my exchange parcel from Sandra for the summer exchange i have been running for Helga on her yahoo group trying to help her out since she made me a moderator. I was amazed to see what Sandra had stitched for me it really is beautiful and i have never ever seen anything llike it before its like a stitched pencil case with a zip its beautiful!!! i love it so much i really do and all the goodies you have sent me i do feel really really spoilt thankyou so so much!! i also love the magazine you sent me too xxx

We have a really wet miserable day as i said its still so warm but yuck. Jakes friend is staying over with us tonight Jake was going to be going there but it was easier for me to have him this time which is fine as he is a lovely child he really is it will be great to have a forth to play sing start with us for a change lol at the moment he is in Seans house with him and they will be returning later this evening. Leon is upstairs playing ufc on the 360 so its nice and peaceful for the time being i am making the most of it listening to my cds!!

Here are a couple of photos i took of the boys in the sun they are just growing far too quickly for my liking so im trying to make the most of them while i still can :-) I hope you all have a lovely weekend!!

At the beach today

The boys were back at school today and so Donny and I decided to go for a walk down to Llanelli beach which is something we havent done for a while it only takes about 10-15 minutes to walk there and it was still so hot and lovely we thought it would be nice even though his poor eyes are paying for it tonight the hospital has said he needs to try go out in the sun and he has very strong sun glasses but its still so painful for him and i bet he will be paying for it worse tomorrow but it was still nice to get out for a little while just the two of us. We have had a lovely weekend in the garden in the sun and enjoying the pool we had a bbq last night first one for this year and it was really lovely although playing truth or dare with a 12 and 13 year old can seriously be scary if not so funny!!!!! it was brill!!!!

I thought it maybe nice to show you how fantastic it is to have a beach at walking distance this is where Leon was all day on saturday with his friends.

Its a shame the tide was out maybe next time i can show you the sea too!!!

This is where i met Donny 17 years ago just a few days ago wow its quick how time flies i guess thats why we should all stop and take time to remember where we used to spend our time when we were growing up if we can as places get changed so much these days its a shame sometimes.

What a nice suprise

This is what came through my letterbox this morning it was such a lovely suprise!! I had no idea i had won another prize from the needlework show this year i have been very lucky to win two wonderful prices it was a fantastic suprise and i love it!!!this is the first prize i won well acually it was a $20 gv from scarlet quince but this was the chart i choose it really spoke to me and i had to have it :-) I have also been lucky enough to recieve some wdw two from my very dear friend Tonya and one from Lisa on the smo board thankyou both very much :-) xx

There has also been some good news and i can now show you a finish that i did a few weeks ago as Sandra has now recieved it, It was a summer exchange that i am runing for Helga on her yahoo group Sandra said she loved it which was great :-)

And last but by no means least at all here is my lastest wip it is the halloween trick or treat fairy from the magazine Louise kindly got for me from the us last year see i have finally started her!!! i havent got too far as its been nice and ive been in the garden with the boys lol but i have started!!!

And they couldnt wait.............

To get in !!!!!!!!!!!!! Leon and I spend a good few hours putting this up this morning it was a whole lot bifgger than i thought it would be and they just couldnt wait for it to finish filling they had to get in!!! I shall be waiting until tomorrow when its full . Its been beautiful here today hot and sunny and we are to have it for the whole weekend which will be fun!! I dyed my hair this afternoon so i am keeping out until tomorrow sorry to bombbard you with all the photos i couldnt help myself lol!!!

Remember.......

When i said i was making my own vodka for the first time? Well here are the results i have to admit there is a whole lot more than i thought there was going to be as almost all the bottles you see here are litre bottles!!!We also made some flavoured ones in these bottles are tequila, blueberry vodka and apple vodka

in these bottles are marshmallow banana shots,blue cuaraco and peach shnaps

and in these last bottles are coconut vodka and justvodka

so now it just leaves the tasting lol!!! i have already given a bottle to a friend and i am waiting to her her verdict i can bet it wont last long with her and her hubby!!! so i should know by tomorrow!!

We decided to show the boys the pool we have bought them for the summer today too we are hoping to put it up for them tomorrow as we are supposed to be having a very warm few days but if it stays anything like today they have no chance as its been quite cold and over cast all day long they were very excited when they seen the pool though as i had been telling them we werent going to be getting one this year.

The great outdoors

Last night the boys decded after a very hot sunny day that they wer going to camp in the garden last night so as Jordan had been with Jake and Leon all day he decided he was going to join them. They had a great time after we had all been playing pass the parcel with a machine shaped like a rugby ball with a water bomb in it that bursts when you dont expect it which was great but the managed to work out when it was going to happen i swear as it always seemed to get me!!!! i made a curry and they went into the tent with thier gameboys and psps they were still awake just before one i could hear them giggling!! and they were up quite early this morning but they all really enjoyed in fact Jordan is still here Leon has gone to meet his girl friend for a bit though so they boys have been playing on the 360 upstairs at the moment they have gone for a walk to lidls.

I was very busy yesterday gutting the lawns and my hedges i even had to go into next doors garden and cut down thier side as they cannot be bothered and it had grown upto over 15foot it was blocking all the light by my front door it was very scary climbing up on a ladder so high and trying to balance to reach Jake was holding it for he and helping but boy am i feeling it today my arms ache and my legs are hurting too but i think thats more to do with walking the kids to town around and back this morning the sun has gone today and its colder which is great for Donnys eys as he has been struggling in the bright sun poor thing

I had some very sad news this weekend about a very dear frined who i have made over the last few years on message boards she is a very big part of my board and my heart goes out to both her and her son and daughter and thier families i am thinking about you all xxx

also when i went to kick boxing with Leon i had a very big shock!!! i thought it was just a contest that he had won in kick boxing but no!!! it was qualifing for the Welsh team and the gold medals he had were just that he is a double welsh champion and when we go to Ireland in october it will be the world championships we are so pround of him!!! its just a shame that its going to cost so much to go im starting to save now i need to lol im going to be cutting back on any stitching shopping and trying to do special offers in my shop to help fund raise to watch this spot!!!

Two new finishes

I just wanted to share with you my two new finishes its been a long while since i posted anything stitching so its most definatly about time!!! I do have another two done but they are both on thier way to people so they need to be kept secret for a little while still the first is from last years JCS halloween orniment addition that Louise got for me form the USA which i am very grateful for :-)

the second is my pheonix dragon by enchanting lair which i had planned on finishing a while ago but a lot of other things got in the way .