We wish you a wonderful, prosperous and healthy 2013.
Enjoy yourselves more than before, take more time out than before while working harder than before. Easy 🙂
Make 2013 your action year in both your personal and professional life
Good luck – see you all soon…
We went over to Halifax for lunch etc at Granny Cuckoos 🙂
The boys were spoiled as F.C. had delivered many goodies over there as well 🙂
Oliver wanted to leave within 1 hour of arriving as he wanted to get his new Percy train and Toby tested out properly on his train set… He has managed to get 1/2 hour in tonight before his bath and the mail train is now setup so that the mail bags are collected and deposited automatically. All that we need to do now is nail down the new tracks that Uncle Tim and Heather bought for Olly and consider the purchase of a new digital controlling system…
Here are the photos that we have taken over the last couple of days – as usual they are in the Gallery…
We spent today in Derbyshire at Drayton Bassett with the Box’s at ThomasLand in the Drayton Manor Park. Thankfully the rain stayed away all day except the 25 minutes that we were indoors watching the Polar Express 4D – which incidentally was VERY good. It got colder as the afternoon progressed to the point that we decided to go for the cars at 5:30 as the fireworks were running. Sadly the fireworks were not as cool as we were all hoping – could have been the fact that we stood in the cold for 30 minutes waiting for them however….
We actually didn’t managed to get to see Father Christmas today as his queue was well over one hour long – although in fairness the boys did not seem hugely disappointed by this.
Poor Elliot is full of cold – as is Gracie – so there’re plenty of sniffles and little coughs today. Olly was, well just Olly :-S
We stopped at the Tame Otter in Lichfield for dinner so we did not get home until nearly 10pm following a quick detour to Kerrie’s house to collect some curtains and curtain rails for Jenny and Justin’s new flat. The boys were flat out in the back of Bruce, so mummy took Olly in and daddy Elly. Elly was in bed asleep approx 6 minutes later – Olly took a little longer as he decided to go for a full on “I am pissed off” approach. Great 🙁 Particularly since we had been treated to about 40 minutes of crying before we actually got home….. 🙁
Oh well, long days and short nights over the weekend are catching up with them both – the boys were at Grannie Cuckoos over the weekend and we are guessing didn’t get as much sleep as they could have…. 🙂
Today we went to the pick your own Christmas Tree farm in Methley near Leeds. It is a large farmers field with several thousand Christmas trees from 6″ to 20′ in height.
We took our wellies and trudged through the field in search of our perfect Christmas tree. Olly fell over in the first 15 seconds and then again half way around – to the point that he needed de-clothing at the car and then a new set when we got home 🙁
Anyway, see the photographs below – our tree is on the right of the first photo and in daddy’s hand in the second, and is now sat in the Conservatory getting used to the new environment 🙂 Hopefully we will get around to decorating it tomorrow before Kurtiss’ birthday party.
