Christmas Day 2

OK so I couldn't narrow down the photo selection at all.  Here are a few more from the day

Theo and Louis investigating the contents of a gift bag.

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Theo reading the tags and giving out the presents.  He was so excited I ended up surrounded in everybodys presents because he was dishing them out faster than they could be opened. 

Finally, something I'm allowed to bash

Louis 'reading' his (upside down) Night Garden book

After dinner at Lisa's we all had a play on Liam's new Wii.  Here Lisa and I are playing tennis.   I won, yay.

Christmas Day

Now Christmas has got to be one of the hardest days for picking just 1 photo but here it is.  Of the multitude of photos and video footage we took today, this is my favourite.  Theo opening the present that Santa gave him when he came to school.

Note the new pyjamas too.  Apparently Santa made an early stop on Christmas Eve and dropped off a new pair of pyjamas each for the boys so they wouldn't have to get dressed before they opened their pressies.  You can tell just how considerate Santa is by the fact the Louis pyjamas (and Theo's to a lesser extent) have plenty of growing room in them :D

Relative Relations

About 6 months ago my older sister Sheila and I had a falling out.  Not to go into details but needless to say that until recently we haven't spoken to each other.

Well anyway, cut a long story short (and prevent any further fallings out), our cousin had a birthday party to which we were both invited and from there conversation kinda happened.  Things are not perfect but they are certainly improving.

Just incase a big family get together at Christmas was a bit too much so soon, we decided to all meet at Farnley Working Mens club for a bit of an early Christmas to exchange gifts etc.  I took  a couple of boxes of mince pies, a tin of chocolates and a box of crackers and we pretty much made an evening of it.  We decided before hand the we were going to let the kids open their presents there so we could see.

This is a picture of Theo wearing the Spiderman3 mask that Toby got from Aunty Lisa.  Do you like his snazzy shirt and tie?  I had my first ever shopping trip to Next this week and found this.  Not only is it a shirt and tue just like Daddy wears, but it has cuff links too, just like Daddys.  Someone was very pleased to be wearing this out, he likes to be smart :D  (and I like Next! Why have I never shopped there before?)

This is a picture of Theo in the PowerRangers outfit that Aunty Lisa bought him

and here is a photo of Louis with Theo's Power Ranger mask on.

Lets see, what else was there?  Theo got a creative box set from Aunty Sheila with lots of different crafty things to do.  He's already tried the glitter one :D

Louis got a Kid Knex Penguin from Aunty Lisa and a Bath toy set from Aunty Sheila.  He played with them in the club but he hasn't had chance to play with them in the bath yet.  The will come, he loves playing in the bath :D

Another Quick Update

Theo went to a school friend's birthday party at one of the local playgym's.  There was a face painter there and initially Theo was just going to get an eye patch to go with his pirate outfit.  However, he saw Seth with a Batman face so he changed his mind :D

Adam and the boys decorating the Christmas tree.

This is Theo's school nativity play.  If you look carefully you can see Theo near the middle, he's a brown donkey.  He did really well if I do say so myself.  Only a little fidgeting and nose picking (bleurgh).

This is my latest masterpiece.  A denim / flannel rag quilt I made as a Christmas gift for my niece Tayler-Marie.  The squares are 6" so you can see it's about 4' x 6'6".  If you look carefully about 1/3 or the way down and 1/3 of the way up there are pockets in the denim patches.  I'm really pleased with this.  Next job is to make one for her sister :D

The last picture of this entry (for some reason I can only put 5 pictures in each entry) is my sleeping beauty.  Look at all those gorgeous curls.

More to come later but right now it's late so I'm off to bed.

Night all

Karen

xx

Quick Update

I have a theory about blogs.  Either there's lots going on in your life, in which case it is hard to find time to update your blog, or nothing is going on in your life so there's nothing to write about!!

I'm not sure which category I fall into really, probably in between.  There's a bit going on but no too much, which in theory means I have enough time to write about the fewer things that do happen.  It doesn't seem to work like that though.  My to do list is growing and the time in which I have to do it seems to be shrinking.  Are the days getting shorter?  I know Christmas is getting closer so those things I have to do before Christmas are getting more urgent.

This year I decided I should make the boys advent calendars rather than buy them.  I've started them (this afternoon!) but still have a way to go and I have to get them finished and filled before Monday.  Where did the year go??

Anyway, school run shortly followed by Theo's french lesson so I won't be back on here 'til about 7.  When I am though I shall add some photos and do a bit of a catch up.  That's if I'm not sewing advent calendars and stockings.

I made that

I have just spent ages moving blog posts from my old blog to this (sad I know) but in doing so I noticed that last year I mentioned a secret project I was working on for Christmas. Now most of you have seen the results but it occured to me that some of you may not have so here they are.

Handmade quilts each for the boys. Theo's has Thomas the Tank Engine and Buzz Lightyear characters on and Louis' has bright patterns and they are both backed with blue marbled fleece.

I'm working on 3 other quilting projects at the moment, hopefully I should be able to post some photos soon. One of them is for a gift so I won't be posting photos until after the lucky (?)recipient has seen it.

Here is a photo of a quilt I made for my friends Peter and Lilia for their son Alexander. It is all flannel with cotton batting (filling). I had no idea flannel was so hard to work with, it stretches and keep moving around! Anyway, the finished product was definitely worth the effort, I think.

To Infinity And Beyond..

This is one of Theo's favourite Christmas presents. He's a very big Toy Story fan and already has a Buzz but Santa Claus put a few smaller versions of the other characters in his stocking so now we have a Daddy Buzz (the big one), a Mummy Buzz (above) and a Baby Buzz (that was in his stocking) together with Woody, Rex, Bo peep and Mr Potato Head. Oh joy, the hours of fun we're going to have playing with these