Daisy's school play

Nanny Anne's birthday

Samuel's first time on a board

His daddy was very proud of him

England gets covered in snow, but not on our road

With not a snowflake to be seen anywhere in our road we drove 10 minute's up the road and we found what we were looking for... snow! We were wrapped up in all our snow finery's and headed to Stamner Park with our sledges to meet Aunty Jo and Uncle Murphy.

We were the first in the park and had fresh tracks, well it was only 9am! We had great fun sledging, although a little frightening for mummy at times as we did pick up some speed. Daddy did some snowboarding and Sammy boy had his first go on a snowboard and did not disappoint his Daddy, turns out he is a natural. We also played with Uncle Murphy's snow gun before heading over to their house for bacon sarnies and a nice cup of tea! We had to park in the next road though as they had so much snow our car would not have got through!

After a lovely snack at theirs we headed home where us girls chilled out and did some baking and the boys headed out for more snow. I should have been so on trend and posted some pics of our baking but unfortunately it had been eaten before I thought of it, opps!

Samuel's first drum lesson

Samuel has been asking for drumming lessons for as long as I can remember, he currently has a piano lesson with his Grandad once a week and can play the violin (he cannot read music but can play along to a track) but it is the drums he is desperate to learn to play.

At our church the pastures son, Jamie is a musician and plays the drums at church. We are very lucky as they have a full musical set up at the church. Samuel is Jamie's no 1 fan so we finally arranged at Christmas for Samuel to start lessons in the new year.

So at 3.45pm with his drum sticks and ear defenders Samuel aged 5 yrs and 3mths, climbed up the steps to the drum box for his first ever drum lesson (on a set of drums that cost £4k - yik's) and had the best time ever. He did not stop smiling from beginning to end.

I am glad we have found something for him to take part in as he thinks football training is too rough and karate too dangerous!!

I love the things my little fella says

Our little fella is a real character, loves classical music and steam trains but is also a classic boy shouting, running and loves being involved in rough and tumble. He has so much energy he can be quite exhausting but thankfully has such a loving, sweet and fun personality to make up for it.

Since Christmas he has really calmed down, he is now doing everything himself like most 5yrs olds do; getting dressed, showering, brushing his teeth, etc. Before Christmas we had to ask about 4 times and then end up helping him just to speed up the process but it seems he has also chilled out which has made life less tiring for us!

The other night whilst we were lying in bed after story time, he told me that he loved me so much and the reasons were because of my beautiful face and I was funny. I am not afraid to say my heart melted. Normally I would not share such private incidents but I loved this so much that I wanted to write it down as I know one day along with the busy life we lead I will probably forget this incident and it will be so nice to read it back in years to come.

No news

I have been very slack on updating the blog recently, one of the reason's is I have been home alone for 16 days (over 3 weekends) with the little people whilst Daddy has been snowboarding in Switzerland and Austria. He has gone on specialist snowboard camps and has been learning lots of new tricks.

We haven't been up to much just getting back into our weekly schedule after the Christmas hol's. I have been busy with corporate work and Tea Cups & Tiaras so along with the little people and the house do not have much time to spare. Hopefully life will get a little more exciting as the months go on.