My gorgeous Christmas girlies

Each year at Christmas I like to take a photo of the girls for their photo album and they look fab this year. Couldn't resist putting in their first Christmas photo in 2005

Thanks for pressies

Thanks to everyone for the lovely gifts for the kids. We spent Tuesday making a mess with the art sets and also managed to put together the marble run.

Boxing Day

Our second Christmas Day on Boxing Day is spent with my family. After a lovely walk to run off steam and get some fresh air in our lungs a lovely lunch by Val. The cousins have a great day together.Hannah's present from Uncle Drew and Auntie Val, almost the same size as she is and now has no more room in her bed for her to fit !!

Christmas Day

A lovely Christmas Day with lunch at Una's

With help from her Elf !!

Followed by presents, tea and quiz at Granny & Grandad's

And of course playing with all the toys

Or just reading them !!

Or neither !!

Getting ready for Santa

Christmas Eve in our house is great fun with the excitement of Santa coming. Firstly we ensure Santa is happy by leaving him brandy and a mince pie.

Then we ensure the reindeer are ok with carrots and water - nine were put out this year rather than one as all of them need a carrot not just rudolf!!

Along with the Santa stop here signs we also then leave our stockings out hoping for them to be filled.

And surprisingly every year they are !!

Then we have very happy and excited children in the morning.

This year Lucy got a new scooter

Katie got an ipod touch

And Hannah a Hello Kitty toy with a lovely glowing bow !!

Ho ho ho it's Santa

Just before Christmas we go to the Catenian Christmas Party for some festive fun and a visit from Santa. This year we had some face painting and tattoos as well, although Daddy didn't quite get the festive theme for his face painting !!

Teenager

Last week Lucy finally became a teenager to match the moods we have recently had !! She had a lovely day with her friends coming over for a sleepover and then going to Coral Reef with her cousins.

Very pleased to discover she had been given an ipod touch !! And has yet to be parted from it.

Happy Halloween

On Saturday we celebrated an early Halloween with a whole gang of friends. We had a great evening with crafts and games all very spooky.

Lucy apple bobbing !!

And of course the doughnut eating from a string with no hands !!

Our spider room !!

The mummy game is always a laugh, above is Hannah, next is Lucy looking very weird and finally Katie.

And lastly the pinata.

Day out to Paultons Park

As it was half term and we all needed a day out we went and visited Paultons Park, which includes Peppa Pig World, hurrah !! The younger members of the family had a lovely morning with Peppa on the rides whilst the older members went on the more scary rides of the park.

Jack and Hannah had a lovely time on the rides, chatting away, splashing in puddles !! Not sure they knew there was a dinosaur behind them !!

The older girls had a lovely time in the park with Harry whilst the parents had a much needed rest and cup of coffee !!

Boo, says Harry.

The two monkeys in the park

We got a bit more daring in the afternoon on bigger rides, Uncle Martin had lots of fun with Jack on the roller coaster (Jack is behind the frog loving the ride !!)

Then finally the most daring of the family went on the biggest scariest ride, which for all of them was the best ride of the day, especially Hannah who is usually too short to ride the roller coasters.

A lovely day was had even though we saw an amazing amount of rain, thankfully mostly from the car, and three rainbows !!