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!

A Hectic Autumn

Hello to everyone. Its been a very busy Autumn term so far and it isn't over yet. Never got down South to see anybody over the half term as we simply had so much to do up here. Denise and myself have been helping out more with church based activities; I'm helping out on an Alpha course at the vicarage every Thursday evening;Denise goes to a ladies only,Wednesday evening, church group and we both do a Bible study group every other Tuesday at our house and a friends (alternate weeks) , along with all our school activities and toddler groups we are flat out. On the final weekend of half term my very good friend Benn Mugisha from Kware in Kenya and a new friend Bronnie came to stay with us for a few days to visit my school and children to thank them for the money they raised for his charity St Thomas Handshake to Kware (£1000). www.handshaketokware.co.uk (check out the web site).
It was great to see Benn after three years and to be updated on all the latest news and work that is going on out in Kware. I'm going to add the pictures of how we raised the money later( left my pen drive at school!!!). Needless to say it involved pain(leg waxing), ritual humiliation(dressing up and parading down a cat walk in rubbish-'A Trashion Show') and a great deal of fun and laughter. The children are fired up and want to raise loads more for Kware. And we want to go out there and see everthing and meet the wonderful people and children for ourselves.
We finished this week with a fantastic bonfire and fiework display down in the park in Selby. A lovely crisp cold night, a tray of chips and all the family together enjoying the entertainment-the big children Eren and Aaron still enjoy a sparkler and a firework display not to mention Denise's Pea and ham soup before we set off which totally stuffed Aaron and myself.
10.11.10- now got my pen drive so enjoy the pictures above.

All grown up and ready for school

Maisy had her first day at nursery school on Monday in Mrs Jones class and looked all very grown up in her school uniform. The novelty had slightly warn off by Wednesday with a few tears but still thoroughly enjoyed her morning. They had a great dinosaur story and she loves playing in the sand and water trays. Today she stayed for lunch and took in her Maisy Mouse lunch box and enjoyed dinner with her little friends and the head teacher Mr Taylor popped in to say hello. Maisy enjoyed showing him her binoculars which she let him try, very honoured!! Unfortunately she is as yet unaware how many more years lie ahead!!!

Summer Fun

A great two days out was had by all, one of Which ( a trip to Sundown Adventure park) was thanks to our lovely friends Rachel, Ian , Erin and Ava who bought us a family ticket as a thankyou. It was a wonderful day out and the weather was great. The girls really enjoyed themselves. The park is designed for families with children under 10 so they are able to go on all the rides. We tried them all. The water barrels, farm tractors(Maisys favourite), Robin Hood adventure, Rocky Railway, Christmas Sleigh Ride (early I know but it was there so we went on it) and the huge indoor soft play with slides and ball pits. It was six and half hours of fun. Not to mention a lovely picnic and ice cream on the green.
Day two saw us shooting off to Runswick bay (Cornwall look a like) beautiful. Sandy beach one side of the Bay and rock pools the other, once the tide starts to go out. We spent the morning and lunch in the sand and enjoying the water then paused for an ice-cream (again) before exploring the little hamlet of Runswick and the rockpools. Didn't manage to catch anything this time but found some great fossils much to Elizabeths joy. Hope to go back again next week if we get another nice day.