Saturday, April 18, 2009

Holly's 3rd Birthday!!!




Wow, time certainly flies! Holly is now 3 years old. She had a lovely day today, which started nice and early at 5.45am. We had a stupid idea to put her Thomas clock (a present we bought for her with Nana and Grandad Sheridan's birthday money - Thanks Nanny and Grandad!) in her bedroom for her to see when she woke up. We didn't expect her to wake up that early! Then she was too excited to go back to sleep - whoops! After opening the rest of her presents and waking up Jamie, John took her for a ride in the truck (which a rare and very exciting thing for Holly) to get some things for breakfast and fresh bread from the bakery. We had a yummy cooked breakfast then John took Holly to the Fire station open day where she saw lots of fire engines. She was brave enough to have a sit in one. (Sadly I had to stay at home with Jamie as she was sleeping.) Nana Adams came for lunch and birthday cake which John made into the shape of Lightning McQueen (Holly's favourite) and I iced. It looked good, even though it was missing a couple of wheels (but hey he lost some tyres in the movie too!) After Nana left and Jamie went back to bed, Holly and I went for a walk to the shops to get out the Madagascar 2 DVD (with free beach ball). We decided to go to the local coffee shop for a drink and play 'ladies'. So Holly had a special one on one time with mum and dad today. She had a lovely day and went to bed very tired. Happy birthday Holly! xxx

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Building update - Feb 2009
















Things have certainly moved along since the last building post. The steel frame has gone up with thanks to John's helpers Kerry Tuna and Kerry Stirling. The boys have worked hard to put up the frame and it looks great! The roof is on and the windows in! YAY! It's now looking like a house. We are getting very excited now. The brick layer should be here by the end of the week, then things will be looking very different. Well done boys and thanks to everyone who has helped so far.

Christmas Day 2008




Christmas was even better this year with the girls being older. Jamie is still a bit young to take it all in but Holly was on hand to help open her presents. The girls joint present this year was an art board, the girls have had hours of fun, painting and drawing. Sadly the whiteboard pens didn't last long as somehow they managed to get on the hallway wallpaper so now it's just the chalk left! My sister Karen, hubby Chris and girls Melissa and Becky came down for christmas day. The girls were fabulous with Holly and Jamie! Hopefully next year we'll be in the new house. Thank you to everyone who spoilt them rotten!