Scrapagogo!!

I'm soooooooooooooooo excited!!!

Mum and I are off in a few weeks to a weekend scrapbook retreat with Scrapagogo!!

It will be our first retreat with them and we're both really looking forward to it.

All the classes were released on Wednesday, and there I was waiting until the email came through anytime between 7-8pm to select our classes.  They even sorted them all out and listed attendees that night and both Mum and I did well, with us getting the majority of our first choices :)

Best I go sort some photos out now then...

Amanda's 1st Birthday

Last weekend saw us all in Brentwood for Stu & Xuan's baby girls' first birthday party.

Amanda turned the big 1 and had lots of people around her to help celebrate.  Not sure she fully benefited from the face painter/entertainer/ballooon modeler, but all the other kids did!!!

I personally loved the layered jellies but the boys like the little chocolate cakes best!

Hope she liked her present...

And now there are two...

The weekend before last Alexander asked if he could go and watch Nicholas play football at Leigh Ramblers on Saturday morning.

I have to admit that I was a little surprised as Alex has never shown any interest in football at all, but we all went along and low and behold, Alex took quite an interest in kicking the ball around with me whilst Lee was cheering on Nicholas.

So, after a bit, I wondered over to the coach for the Under 8's and asked if he could join in (wellie boots and all) and he was more than happy for Alex to play along with the other kids.

He came off the pitch yelling that he'd had an "awesome" time and could he come along again next week please?


So that afternoon, Lee took him over to Sports Direct to get him a pair of football boots :)  He was a happy little chappy.

So last Saturday, dressed appropriately with football boots and an Arsenal shirt of Nicholas' he went along again and thoroughly enjoyed himself.

Alexander and football?  Wonders will indeed never cease, but I'm so proud of him :)

Murder....

Last Thursday Mum and I went to the Palace Theatre to see Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Nile".

I love going to the theatre, (even though it's getting more and more expensive) and it's not only musicals I love, but plays and that too.

Mum is the perfect companion for these trips and we thoroughly enjoyed the show.  I was useless and didn't figure out who it was until they told us, but hey, it was a fabby night out!

Wooop!!

I've been very lax lately in posting on my blog, however, not much has been going on really...

Although saying that................

I MADE PRESIDENT'S CLUB!!!!!!  That would be the elite of Avon to those that have no idea what I'm talking about...

So, I'm on target to hit PC again this year and to hopefully pay for the family trip to Lapland in December!!  So if you want to see a recent brochure, you know where I am!

Birthday girl!

Saturday 11th February 2012 - was Mum's 65th birthday and I'd arranged a very big treat for her to celebrate this milestone..

I went and picked her up Saturday morning and brought her back to our house for pressies, a wonderful large cupcake made by my good friend Charmaine and to see the kids..

Mum and I then set off on the train up to London...

 After various clues she guessed that we were going for afternoon tea at the Ritz!

I'd had the booking made for over a year and it was def. worth it

The sandwiches really did have all the crusts cut off...

The cakes kept on being replaced..

 

and then there were fresh warm scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam...

 and then one of the waiter's brought out Mum's birthday cake!

We just couldn't eat any more so they kindly boxed up the cake to take home.

Mum said she'd had a really good time.  I'm thinking a double page scrapbook layout coming up..

Tudors

The last few weeks have seen Alex working hard on his Tudor's project for school and on Friday he had to present his work to the rest of his class.

He'd chosen to focus on one person from the era - namely Sir Francis Drake and had worked hard on his powerpoint presentation which was full of information on him and what he was famous for (first Englishman to sail around the world) etc etc.  He also made, and painted a boat - representing the "Golden Hind", Sir Francis Drake's ship.

I was thrilled for him when he came home and told me he'd come 4th in his class - voted for by his classmates!!!!

So proud of you little man.

Guilty or not?!?!

Well week one was interesting...

After finally being chosen for Jury service on Tuesday I had a 4 day ABH case to contemplate.  Whilst I thought the guy was clearly guilty, my fellow jurors thought that he had acted in self defence so a "not guilty" verdict had to be returned.  And by me as I'd somehow been elected foreman!

Week 2 saw me sitting on a theft case, but after a day of hearing evidence, the judge directed us to find him "not guilty" too as he felt that the police had not investigated certain allegations thoroughly..

It was an interesting two weeks and I'd be happy to sit again.