Catching up

Just a few bits and bobs I have found when downloading from the camera.

This is practising an "argh" for Leon's 3rd Birthday party. It was themed as a pirate party!

Life is good, our house is coming along but for now we have stopped painting as it gets mega boring and we are tired of it. We took the sold sign down last night... only 3 weeks late but it wasn't a massive priority as so much DIY inside needs doing!

Jamie starts GCSE exam marking tomorrow so he will be glued to a computer screen for the next 3 weeks. He is at the Foo Fighters and Manic Street Preachers concert tonight so I expect him home late and hoarse! We love our house despite its irks and quirks, for example, the toliet is not attached to the ground, it moves when you sit on it and whan you clean around it. The kitchen floor is very uneven and feels like you are on a rollercoster as you walk from one end to the other. BUT the garden is so, so great. When Emily makes up, most mornings she will say "Outside please." We are having so much fun out there, it is just a shame it takes so long to cut the grass. I am still weeding slowly as there is so much to do.

Our little nephew is so cute. He is tiny and Emily just adores him, as do we all. She is gentle, loving and generous to him in sharing... lets hope that is a positive precursor to her sibling arriving in 10 weeks time!

On Bank Holiday weekend we went away to Castleton with Church for the weekend. We had a great time, it was like an NYI holidy, bunks and all with a toddler in tow. It was a shame that Emily had a cold and couldn't breathe at night consequently causing her to wake around 5am each day. That was hard to manage as everyone else was sleeping and so were their toddlers and kids! We walked, fed lambs, ate ice cream, chatted , attended services and seminars and had a great time with our churhc community. Lots of fun, but really exhausting.

One of our oldest members from church passed away last week. She was a fab lady and will be missed greatly. She was a lady sho lived through war, poor times, the developing society with technology that we now have and had many stories to tell. SHe was also one of the few peole who was at our church when we started going 8 years ago. She stood by our little church when it was little and tried to embrace change when it grew to what is is today. Betty, you will be missed but your testimony lives on.

I think that is all, my 2 sisters are in the last 2 weeks of their preganancies so we are waiting for a phone call any day now. We are excited and looking forward to the new additions to the family. Emily and I are going to visit them at the end of June if the Dr will issue me a fit to fly paper. Before that there is lots to do, School starts abck next week, reports need to be written, its my birthday soon as well as Emily's and Fathers Day in in there too! What a lot to do.