Rememberence Sunday

Whilst I was away at Scout Training, Mum had planned to Alexander and Cassandra to Church parade for Remembrance Sunday.

 However, Nicholas' football match had been cancelled due to the wet weather so he and Lee got to go too.

 Alex had the honour this year of being escort to the flag bearer Merrick

And even Cassandra enjoyed herself as she took the class mascot "Maple" too :)

Dib, dib dib...

Most people will be more than aware now that since resigning from the school PTA, I've thrown myself and my non-existent spare time into Scouts - such a wonderful world wide organisation that I'm bummed that I didn't do it sooner!

Anyway, back at the beginning of November, there was I all packed up for a weekend of Scout training..

 

I was a little apprehensive to say the least as I was out of my area and didn't know anyone and at times, yes I did fell a little lonely, but I'd brought a good book to read in any spare evening time too :)

A lot of the time we were in our allocated groups - working things out as a team and considering I was covering 9 modules it was quite fun and it went fairly quickly. 

 We'd all be tasked with coming up with a demo of a "skill" and I choose card making!

 The best bit for me had to be one of my two choices of skill to learn - mine being fire lighting..

The girls won against the boys!!

and my other one was map reading!

 It was Remembrance Sunday whilst I was away, so we held "Scouts Own"

 Spent time with some nice people and learnt alot.  Just got to get everything validated now!

Cassandra

She may be a Missy moo, but she's a gorgeous one at that....

All Hallow's Eve...

Halloween this year saw us all (Mum included) over at Barleylands in Billericay for their spooky Halloween party.

Cassandra of course had to be a Witch princess, Nicholas this year chose to be a zombie complete with groan and outstretch arms, Alexander was a Dark wizard, Mum was a witch and I was the bride of darkness (again)!

We arrived a little early as we had pre-booked to had early bird entry and were kept amused by watching other people and chatting about costumes.

I had bought Cassandra a pair of halloween tights and although they didn't quite go with her outfit colour wise, she loved them!

So, the kids had the chance to "trick or treat" around the shops. giving passwords to get some sweets..

we all went on the spooky train (although not really spooky)

They got to hold some owls...

They joined in the disco, played some games, went through the scary tunnel and to top it all off...

They got to hold some really YUCKY creatures!!

Even Cassandra was brave and touched the python..

 

 I was the bravest though - never again!!!

Thanks to the hubby for the awesome photos!

Pumpkin Carving

Haven't posted for a while, so thought I'd best get catching up, so....

We've always carved pumpkins every year with the kids, Lee is the one in charge, I just clear everything up!  However, this year the kids had a go themselves and the results were amazing!

 

All ready for Halloween!

Embellish Me Happy October Challenge

Embellish Me Happy have a challenge going and I'm hoping I'm just in time to enter - had to be either Halloween or Autumn based - and I love this pic that I scrapped of Nicholas and his big brother..

Here's the link to their challenge - their last one :(
http://embellishmehappy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/september-winner-and-october-challenge.html

ScrapaGoGo No.11

Having just returned from another WONDERFUL GoGo scrapbooking retreat and having completed 21 layouts (a record even for me), I thought I'd share the 7 class projects/layouts I did...

 This was one of my favourite classes - the technique being that we had to dress the manaquin..

Loved this class too - the most fun as the spiders move up and down!

This had to have been my favourite technique class as the peach paper is actually loo roll as are all of the white cut out flowers!

 Chevrons are in - big time!

 Lots of fussy cutting on this one with a great pic of my girly..

Loved this class for its simplicity and the photo of Alexander and I on his first day of school this year is just perfect..

Never having attempted anything like this before, I was very pleased with my canvass end result.  I'm going to give this to Cassandra for Christmas.  

I had a wicked time with Mum and met up again with some great friends.  Roll on March next year!