Baptism, Confirmations, birthday parties and OFSTED

What a busy couple of weeks .
It all started with Denise being baptised and both of us being confirmed at our church by the Archbishop of York. Wow!! how nervous were we!
This was followed by a joint birthday party for Maisy and Elizabeth with 18 friends and two fab cakes created by Denise.
Then the news that I had OFSTED in school this Monday and Tuesday (7/8th March). So two days of intense stress and pressure. I got a good for my lesson observation but we found out they'd raised the bar so it's now more difficult for schools to pass their inspections ,so we await the results now. We think it went OK.

Birthday Girl

Happy 4th Birthday to Maisy. She had a lovely day on the 19th getting her big girls bike and Pepa Pig roller skates. She is now looking forward to her joint party with Elizabeth.
We didn't manage to make it down south this half term due to horrendous car trouble-and it is still in the garage going nowhere fast as they try to find out what is wrong with it. So its back to getting lifts to work tomorrow.

Freddie

New year and a new addition to the Robinson family with a little puppy. He is a Beagle X Jack Russle cross and is nine weeks old. He is very cute- luckily for him- as he is busy weeing ,pooing, chewing and biting anything and everything at the moment. Training has begun!!!

A Great Christmas

Another Christmas flashes by and its been lovely. The children took part as angels in the church nativity service which was typically cute and wonderfully performed as only children can.
The Christmas day service was fantastic and Elizabeth read out loud and was brilliant so much so she got a round of applause.
Denise produced another wonderful christmas cake which I have been busy working my way through and its delicious. I promise I'll work it all of in the new year.
Denise's toddler group made a lovely nativity scene-very creative and on display in the church hall for all to see.
The girls got some lovely presents and particularly loved the dolls houses they got.

And it keeps coming-SNOW!

More heavy falls of snow . We now have a foot of the lovely stuff and it is forecast for more tonight and tomorrow. The girls have been taking full advantage of the weather in their new snow suits sent by Auntie Mandy all the way from Canada. Many thanks -our need is greater than yours if it's +12 and raining out there. We also had a little visitor to the garden brought down by the snow. Can you spot him?

The snow has really built up. Day time temperatures on Fri 3rd Dec was -5.5 at mid day and we had well over 2ft of snow by the time it had finished snowing here yesterday. Very cold and our wood burning stove has been great ,we've had it going 24/7.

More snow glorious snow

For the second time this year it snowed heavily. -8 last night and more snow but it gave us a day off school and as always I spent it constructively with a colleague/friend from work (Tom) and the girls. Tom though got his seasons mixed up and seemed to think it was Summer!!!!

Aarons 21st

We all celebrated Aarons 21st Birthday, early, today it's really Tuesday but what the heck!!! Denise made an Appropriate birthday cake - ARMY STYLE to make him feel at home!