The legwarmers!!

Susannah had hinted LOUDLY that she would LOVE legwarmers for Christmas!!!  So everybody ignored (LOUDLY lol) this fact.....and suggested she buy her own ;)   Abigail surprised Susie with some though and let them be one of the very last gifts Susie opened :)

Happy girls :)

Best Brother Award :)

A gift to Chris from Abigail...

The pleasure of giving.....

Sam just adores his 'Soooo-say'  he wants to marry her and he loves her so much.  When it was time to choose gifts for siblings, he told me he had seen a ring on the television that had a red diamond in it.  He wanted to give that to Susie for Christmas!

I told him that we couldn't get quite the same one, but we could look for a ring with a red stone!!  WE set off for Claires and Ardenes for a ring within his budget!!  He found the perfect ring - a pretty silver ring with a little red rose in the centre.  We bought that and I found a ring box that he could put it in to give to her!

Yesterday as soon as it was gift giving time, Sam found his gift under the tree and raced over to give it to Susie - he couldn't WAIT to give it to her - we were soooo surprised that he had found that gift under the tree to give to her, instead of wanting one for HIM to open himself!  He was so excited to see her open it!  Susannah opened the ring and was so pleased with it and Sam even showed her how it was supposed to go on!!

It was just the sweetest thing!  He got a big hug from his Sister :)

Christmas dinner yesterday....pulling crackers before we ate...and Chris saying to me "If you DARE take a picture of me in this hat and blog it i'll....."

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And yes, my flash didn't work in a couple of pictures so they're a tad dark.....sigh....but you get the idea ;)  Oh and there was actually a lit candle in the middle of the bowl of baubles - you just can't tell from the pictures.....another sigh......lol ;)

Christmas Pickle Champion 2009

Susannah found the Christmas Pickle this year and won the prize!!  Yay - she finally beat Chris's winning streak!!

We passed on the tradition of the Christmas pickle to Vals family this year and gave them their very own pickle to hid - and a prize for the winner!  Vals oldest Son, Jason, was the Pickle Champion in their house!!!!  Well done Jason!!!  ;)

You can read more about the fun tradition of Christmas pickles here:

http://german.about.com/library/blgermyth11.htm

Myth or not, we think it's a really fun Christmas tradition!!

Happy Birthday...

Happy Birthday to Stacey's little girl Kylie, who turns FOUR today :)

Happy Birthday Beautiful!!!  I hope you are having a lovely day :)

Christmas Eve fun....

On Christmas Eve we sat and watched the Christmas episode of 'The Vicar of Dibley' (sooooo funny) and then we all played Quelf!!  This game is hilarious!!  BIZARRE!!  Lloyd had to make a mask out of household items (hence the strange bag on his head which is part of the game and not some weird sexual thing lol - and kids NEVER put plastic bags on your head!!!) I had to be a mime who could talk (???) and I had to act out how I broke out of prison and ran off with a dance company!!!  Laurence was a cowboy riding an ostrich around a whale!!  Susannah had to do a ballet and Abigail had to do a slow dance with Lloyd!!  Chris had to make his belly button talk...I wasn't allowed to photograph that!

Val - tell Travis that Chris also got the lipstick card but was not as willing to participate as Travis :(

We STILL have not managed to find the invisible harpoon that comes with the game...we think we might have left it at Vals last week.....

Golden Wedding wishes.....

Today is my Mom and Dads Golden Wedding Anniversary.  Yes, they have been married for 50 years.  The bottom picture above shows them celebrating their Ruby Wedding 10 years ago.  Time certainly flies!!!!  My Dads Mom and Dad were also married on Boxing Day!!!

Happy Anniversary.  I hope you have had a lovely day!!!  We tried to call a few times but don't seem to be having any luck getting through.  I hope the card arrived safely and that you like the gift we sent for Christmas/ your Anniversary.  We are heading out now.  Have a lovely evening celebrating!

Gingerbread houses.....the movie ;)

This is a movie my Son made of the gingerbread house making last Monday :) All speeded up!! ;)


Enjoy!!!

Emails

I can get Emails now - and have been replying to many of them - and writing to people BUT I don't think people are getting my Emails.....so please be aware that YES I can get Emails but I may have replied but you may not get my reply - or I may have written to you in the last few days but you may not have received it!!!

Sigh.....  :(

Santa is in the UK!!!

We've been tracking santa all day on the NORAD site and just checked and he is in LONDON :)  So off to see Isaac very soon :)  How exciting!  I hope Louise, Lynne, Lynn and everyone else I know with little ones in the UK have lots of sleepy heads over there!!!  Goodnight!!!  We still  haven't had supper yet, and our neighbours are dropping by...then we're playing a game and watching a movie before bedtime!!!  Santa has 7 hours or so before he gets here!!!

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The finished trees....

Aren't they wonderful???  :)

Christmas Eve craft...

Today I made some Rice Krispy Christmas Trees, and the children decorated them all with the candies left over from the gingerbread house decorating on Monday.  It was a really nice little craft for them to do on Christmas Eve :)

Seasons Greetings To One and All!!!

Merry Christmas to everyone who passes by this way today and over the coming days!

Thank you so much for dropping by my blog and for sharing in a part of our lives over the last year.

I hope you have a safe and peaceful Christmas and a wonderful 2010.  

Warm wishes

Jane

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The tree with the train....

The children love having a train under the tree this year - we want to get a really nice one but we'll wait a year or two until sam is a little older and the dogs a little calmer.  This one is a train that Sam can play with constantly and it doesn't matter if it breaks - it blows out steam and it plays songs and its fun for the children - it's cheap and cheerful and they love it :)

It looks cute too :)

We've never had a train under our tree before but I really like it - we always go and see the train in the shoe store window, so I think Sam was really excited to have one under our own tree :)  Laurence liked it too :)