Happy 1st Birthday!!

I have been blogging a year today!!

So much has been going on lately that i'll do a proper post tommorrow.
I just wanted to call in and thank everyone for a wonderful year.
xx

A big day and a big post about lots of things...

Today is my wedding anniversary.
We are planning a lovely home cooked meal and we are going to sit and snuggle whilst watching a film and eating choccies!! (I love the pink and black of these, don't you?)

It was also the littlest boys first day at Pre-school...argh!!! he screamed as i left bless him. I didn't look back, just walked away with a tear im my eye. I hope he doesn't cry tommorrow!!
I took myself off to get some yummy food for tonights meal and then came back to do some serious cleaning and sorting.
I have a plan you see. When the littlest is at pre-school, just two mornings a week, i shall have two and a half hours to get my house back into the working order (before i plan to start up a little buisness ;) it was in before i had children. I think it will take a few months!! Today i tackled our ensuite - sorting out my vanity unit took most of the time, but it is now lovely and orderly :)

So on to the last few days:

Happy New Year everyone!!
I have spent alot of time eating - my waistbands are much tighter and i really don't see the point in starting to eat healthily until all the 'bad food' is out of my house ;)
May i suggest these as the yummiest choccies ever:

I had a lovely new year with my hubbie and the 2 little boys at my best friends house:

'erm..i'm sure i saw someone put a bowl of choccies up here....'

'....yes, yes..i was right.....yum!!'

I don't like to make New Years resoultions, as i never keep them.....they are normally to stop biting my nails or excercise everyday.
So for the last few years, i simply hope for a happy year.
This year though i have added one...a nice one.
I am going to wear more dresses!!!
I hardly ever wear dresses.....but i have lots and love them.
So here i am on the 2nd wearing my first dress of the year......well actually i was wearing the most gorgeous dress on New Years Eve too. (I must get a photo of it, it's so lovely)

We always save a bit of money to have a little spend in the sales at Bluewater.
Here is what i got:

Another gorgeous dress from New Look!!!! Some lovely teatowels from Paperchase, some ribbon from John Lewis - have a look below to see how i used it, a lovely book - it caught my eye-i hope it's as good on the inside as it is on the outside, a gorgeous necklace from Urban Outfitters and 2 more from New Look.

My very cheap curtains in our bedrrom needed some tie backs, so hey presto:
Lovely brooch was my dear nans.

Must show you close ups of the lovely necklaces:
(This one has space for a photo at the back of the flowers)

(Bambis remind me of my nan)

And my hubbie chose me this lovely nightie from Zara Home. He knows how much i love long white Carrie (Sex and The City) type nighties!

For christmas my hubbie had asked my dad to get me two things from Urban Outfitters. He got them both wrong!! so i swapped them for these:

And lastly dear friends - get yourselves down to Sainsburys to grab these lovely tableclothes and napkins!!!!!

xx

Happy New Year!!

May it bring everything you wish for
xx

Our Christmas.....

So...did you all have a good Christmas??
We did, i'll share a little bit with you.

There was lots of snow, sadly it didn't stay for Christmas day.

We went up to London to visit Father Christmas:

anxiously waiting:

We have had fun at home:

Inside and out......
ahem....2 'big' brothers fighting in the snow!!!!

I made my mum a hot water bottle cover to keep her warm, not too bad for my first:

Lots of pretty decs:

Cristingles given to the 2 little boys at church:

A happy full santa and rudolph:

Happy little boys:

A very happy ME. Do you remember me saying that i wanted this. Well turns out the hubby does read my blog occasionally!! i love it:

Lots of presents for the boys, i have no idea where they will all go!

A sneak peak at just some of my lovely gifts: I also got the 'I love you mug' that i had said i liked here.
A gorgeous smelling candle from Cox and cox.
I got these small vintage spoons for my DH from the country living fair:

Some of the ovely pressies from my Mum:

I did a post a while back saying i loved a few items. I was lucky enough to recieve all of them from my lovely inlaws!!

And some great books i had asked for:

xx

Stuck indoors..

I was ment to be out today :(
We were taking the boys to my husbands work do in Islington, but the littlest woke up with a really bad belly (if you know what i mean!!)
So the eldest went with my hubby and i have been stuck in with the little one, not doing much else but rushing to the toilet, changing nappies and cleaning poo from the carpet!! oh...the joys of motherhood!!
When he went down for a nap i decided to a have a look round blogland to chill myself out.
I saw a meme on Victorias blog.
I cannot resist memes!!!

Join in if you want too. :)

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Seeing as i don't eat eggs it would have to be
hot chocolate. I love a yummy mug of hot
choccy and have at least one a day in the cold
months.

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them
under the tree?
When i was younger the tradition was that 1 or
2 big presents were left unwrapped by the
fireplace from Santa, i've carried that tradition on for
my boys and me and my hubbie give all the
other presents wrapped up under the tree.

3. Coloured lights on tree/house or white?
Has to be white.

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
If i see some, i'll get it, but i won't go
hunting. We don't have any up ths year.

5. When do you put your decorations up?
The first weekend of December usually, this
year they went up on 1st Dec which was a
Tuesday (i couldn't wait till the 5th!!)

6. What is your favorite Christmas dish?
I love to have all the trimmings with my
veggie roast...stuffing, roast potatoes,
parsnips, carrots, cauliflower cheese and my
mother in laws mushy swede and always with
gravy and some cranberry sauce. i think my
fave food at x'mas has to be mince pies
though...i eat loads!

7. Favorite Christmas memory as a child?
Coming down the stairs to find out if santa
had been.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about
Santa?
I asked my mum when i was about 8 if he was
real because some friends were saying that
they didn't believe.

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
No, it is a nice tradition though. I sometimes
let my boys open a gift....normally pj's,
slippers or a dressing gown.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
It has been the same for years, red baubles
and lots of mismatch deccies that we have
collected over the years, plus handmade bits
from the kids.

11. Snow! Love it or dread it
Hmmm..a bit of both, i love the look of it
when it falls and i like crunching through
first fallen snow, but i hate the
cold!!!!!!!!!!! and when snow turns brown and
slushy.

12. Can you ice skate?
Yes, but not as well as i used to.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
As a child i was most excited when i got my
ala carte kitchen when i was about 4.

14. What’s the most important thing about
Christmas for you?
Sitting down to christmas dinner with family
and recieving cards.

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert?
ooo i said that before...mince pies with
brandy butter.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Decorating the tree with the 2 little boys and
my husband, with hot choc, mince pies and
music and then my hubby picking the boys up to
put the star on the tree....its like something
out of a film, i love it!

17. What tops your tree?
A glittery silver star.

18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?
I do like recieving if i've given a
list....but if not, people just never get what
i want right!! lol,
i don't like presents that most
people would want. (I think thats why i like swaps in blogland so much, as we all pretty much like the same kind of things).I love giving..thats the
most exciting part for me..buying them,
wrapping and then seeing peoples faces.

19. Candy Canes?
I don't like to eat them myself, but i love
them for decoration.

20. Favorite Christmas Show?
Old repeated christmas films.

21. Saddest Christmas Song?
Lonely This Christmas..took that one from
Victoria as couldn't think of any.

22. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
ooo lots....rockin around the christmas tree,
santa baby, any fun dancy one.

I probably won't post now until after christmas...so Merry Christmas to you all!!!! Have a good one.
XX

We have been:

Watching:

Making:

Baking and eating:

Giving and recieving:
Christmas stocking swap:
(What i sent)

(My gifts from Angel):

Handmade christmas swap:

(What i sent)
(My gifts from Twiggpeasticks):

Don't you just love Christmas?!
xx