This morning i made sure we were ready to go into town togther. I had forgotten to get the pram out of the car this morning so i had to just take the little pram and have Ethan walk. He was so good!
We got on the bus to which Lily fell asleep on. We made a visit to the post office to post some more items and then to Wilko's to get some light bulbs and other bits i needed for the curtains. Ethan was so good. He was pulling the basket for me as i couldn't and a few people obviously didn't see him, bless him. He did so well!
After we did our odd jobs, we went for some lunch at a little cafe. Jared and i went there when we were dating. I always think of that when we go there. Ethan was so good there too! I have to say, although they say Welsh people are friendly, they most certainly aren't in this restuarant. Whispering, no smiling, having a chit chat before finally serving you...etc. The usual ignorant customer service! I how how they spell potatoes too. 'They have a selection of Jacket Potato's.' Hahaha. Anyway, Ethan sat and ate his lunch like a good boy while i sorted out Lily. It's always awkward when you are trying to feed and you have a young audience. Especially when the parent's are there, not doing anything. Slightly annoying really. She stood right by me, touching distance, watching. Thankfully her food came and she was back in her seat!
We caught the bus up to school and i walked with Lily back home. Bless her, she doesn't like spending too much time in the pram. Ethan loved it as a baby. She does not. It was super windy too, she was getting blown away!
When i got in, Pauline called to offer to pick up Ethan for me. Yes, i'll take that! So she did.
I can't really remember what else we did that evening, apart from putting kids to bed. Jared did stay home from football to study while i worked out. Not mega exciting!
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
It's really cold!
I've kind of finished half the cleaning of the house and can't really face it right now, so i took the kids out down town to get some bits and bobs. I bought a really nice new duvet cover too, woo! We ate at a really cute little cafe before getting the bus to school.
I then walked home with Lilsie all asleep. I was just about to ask a friend for a lift to school when Pauline called to offer her services...yey! I finished on the cleaning up and getting the washing done before starting dinner for Jared. It's not been a mega exciting day really, apart from the fact that i am really starting to question if I'm pregnant. I am panicking a little as Lily is only just 4 months old. 4 MONTHS?!! This can't be happening! The last time i got pregnant was with Ethan, 5 years ago! I have been so careful. Just one occasion protection fails us and BAM! Jared is out at the moment jamming with a friend on his bass.
I better get on with the housework to finish it off before nipping to Tesco to get a pregnancy test. I really REALLY hope it's not positive. Baby number 3 can come next year!
I then walked home with Lilsie all asleep. I was just about to ask a friend for a lift to school when Pauline called to offer her services...yey! I finished on the cleaning up and getting the washing done before starting dinner for Jared. It's not been a mega exciting day really, apart from the fact that i am really starting to question if I'm pregnant. I am panicking a little as Lily is only just 4 months old. 4 MONTHS?!! This can't be happening! The last time i got pregnant was with Ethan, 5 years ago! I have been so careful. Just one occasion protection fails us and BAM! Jared is out at the moment jamming with a friend on his bass.
I better get on with the housework to finish it off before nipping to Tesco to get a pregnancy test. I really REALLY hope it's not positive. Baby number 3 can come next year!
Monday, 5 December 2011
Back to the grind.
Jared was out the door before any of us were up! I had no idea that he had left until i realised it was nearly 9am and he would have left a whole hour ago. I did take my time getting ready for the day. The house is just one big mess as i didn't clean up anything from the prep yesterday.
I did plan to get the bus into town to get some bits before heading out but took so long in getting ready that i missed the chance to get there early enough, so i walked it. Good too, as i felt the burn.
When i got home i started the tedious job of cleaning up..bah! I rung Pauline to ask if she would help with the school run as it was really windy and Lily is still under the weather. She said she was going to ring and ask if she could have him after school.... OF COURSE! Haha! So she did the school run for me and entertained him till bed time. I did manage to get a lot done. Pauline then offered to take him to the cinema too, so i had a little bit more time to get the house in order.
Jared and I had dinner together and he went straight out to ECDL course. I put Ethan to bed when he got in, Jared then came home and we spent the evening in watching some T.V. It was actually nice to spend some time together, it's been far too long since we just chilled together. Life can get too hectic sometimes!
I did plan to get the bus into town to get some bits before heading out but took so long in getting ready that i missed the chance to get there early enough, so i walked it. Good too, as i felt the burn.
When i got home i started the tedious job of cleaning up..bah! I rung Pauline to ask if she would help with the school run as it was really windy and Lily is still under the weather. She said she was going to ring and ask if she could have him after school.... OF COURSE! Haha! So she did the school run for me and entertained him till bed time. I did manage to get a lot done. Pauline then offered to take him to the cinema too, so i had a little bit more time to get the house in order.
Jared and I had dinner together and he went straight out to ECDL course. I put Ethan to bed when he got in, Jared then came home and we spent the evening in watching some T.V. It was actually nice to spend some time together, it's been far too long since we just chilled together. Life can get too hectic sometimes!
Sunday, 4 December 2011
My Lily Philly get's Blessed.
Today is a great day - Lily is being blessed. We had a bit of a lie in before getting up and getting ready for the day. It seems to take so long on a Sunday, especially as we are in the afternoon. I managed to time it with her nap so i could get ready uninterupted. Just as i finished though, Ethan came bounding in, waking her up! It seems to be his big brother role of doing that!
Mum and dad arrived with the masses about 11.55am, giving us time to do the last bit of prep. Mum is so funny - when she picked the cake up and put it in her trolley, she almost immediately dropped something on it, making a mess of the icing! Luckily it looks alright - she just smoothed it over. Bea was poorly so stayed home, so Pete came by himself. Petey also helped me with making the coldslaw before packing up the car to head down the church. Poor Lilsie's chesty cough seems to have hit it's peak and she really isn't well, but it's so nice to be together. If this is what it feels like now, how much greater will it be in the eternities?
When we got there, Nic and Nicola had arrived along with Uncle Mark and Lorriane and John. It feels so good to have everyone there!! It's fast and testimony meeting too. Jared gave Lily a lovely blessing, stating the following things;
Heavenly Father is mindful of you and your passage into mortality.
The Lord has a great love for you.
He desires you to fufill your potential in this life.
Learn from your family and friends to help the people you will meet.
You will be blessed with health and strength.
You will be blessed with a keen mind, and if you keep a humble heart you will bless others.
You will lead a righteous life.
Look to examples among your family.
It was quite hard to write it all down, especially as Jared spoke so fast! In the circle, we had Jared, Grandad Evans and Grandad Bridgwater, Tadgi, Great uncle Mark, uncle John, Sam, Peter, Ben, Thomas and Great uncle Nick. There was a very sweet spirit there, and i would like to think that Philly had the privilege to witness the blessing. Both Jared and i bore our testimonies of the truthfulness of the Gospel. It was quite an emotional meeting for me, and i did get a bit upset when Peter Evans bore his testimony and Uncle Nick.
We moved onto Sunday School and Relief Society before setting up the hall for food. I have to say, Cheryl's lesson was brilliant, talking about the Christmas Devotional given last year by the General Presidency of the Church. What a blessing it is to have the knowledge of what Christmas is. I am definitely going to focus my attention on Christ more attentively this year.
We set up the tables and food, and had a brilliant time! It was so good to be all together on this day. Mum and dad chilling in the house, waiting to drive to the chapel;
Mum and dad arrived with the masses about 11.55am, giving us time to do the last bit of prep. Mum is so funny - when she picked the cake up and put it in her trolley, she almost immediately dropped something on it, making a mess of the icing! Luckily it looks alright - she just smoothed it over. Bea was poorly so stayed home, so Pete came by himself. Petey also helped me with making the coldslaw before packing up the car to head down the church. Poor Lilsie's chesty cough seems to have hit it's peak and she really isn't well, but it's so nice to be together. If this is what it feels like now, how much greater will it be in the eternities?
When we got there, Nic and Nicola had arrived along with Uncle Mark and Lorriane and John. It feels so good to have everyone there!! It's fast and testimony meeting too. Jared gave Lily a lovely blessing, stating the following things;
Heavenly Father is mindful of you and your passage into mortality.
The Lord has a great love for you.
He desires you to fufill your potential in this life.
Learn from your family and friends to help the people you will meet.
You will be blessed with health and strength.
You will be blessed with a keen mind, and if you keep a humble heart you will bless others.
You will lead a righteous life.
Look to examples among your family.
It was quite hard to write it all down, especially as Jared spoke so fast! In the circle, we had Jared, Grandad Evans and Grandad Bridgwater, Tadgi, Great uncle Mark, uncle John, Sam, Peter, Ben, Thomas and Great uncle Nick. There was a very sweet spirit there, and i would like to think that Philly had the privilege to witness the blessing. Both Jared and i bore our testimonies of the truthfulness of the Gospel. It was quite an emotional meeting for me, and i did get a bit upset when Peter Evans bore his testimony and Uncle Nick.
We moved onto Sunday School and Relief Society before setting up the hall for food. I have to say, Cheryl's lesson was brilliant, talking about the Christmas Devotional given last year by the General Presidency of the Church. What a blessing it is to have the knowledge of what Christmas is. I am definitely going to focus my attention on Christ more attentively this year.
We set up the tables and food, and had a brilliant time! It was so good to be all together on this day. Mum and dad chilling in the house, waiting to drive to the chapel;
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Rachel looking totally hot;
Cuddles with cousins;
All the Evans/Branston men!;
Those funny Bridgwater people!;
Pauline and her dad. He bought me the biggest hamper of goodies for Lily!;
After cleaning up, everyone went their seperate ways home. I am really looking forward to getting together at Christmas. Family is so important. I didn't bother cleaning up after emtying the car, it can be done tomorrow. Time for bed!
Saturday, 3 December 2011
Getting ready for tomorrow...
It's the last day (hopefully) of Jared working on his law open book exam. I help by getting out of his hair for the day! I didn't get up till 9am, i am seriously just knackered. There is a slight worry of being pregnant right now, so the thought of doing this while being pregnant is scary. Fingers crossed i'm just over reacting...
Anyway, i took the kids down the chapel to clean the loos as they need a clean. Obviously picking a key up on the way from the lush Katie Taylor. I don't think they got cleaned last week, so they are extra grimey. I gave up after 10 minutes as Ethan was running riot and Lily was screaming. The only way i can do this is help from Pauline! So i get the kids back in the car and drive up to Paulines house to plead for some help! We decided to get the rest of the blessing stuff, so i drove to Aldi and Asda to get the last bits. It's just so busy on a Saturday. I wanted to go early, but just couldn't get out of bed. Lily is poorly too, poor bubsie! You get the usual grumps moaning about not getting in the queue soon enough..etc. I wish that was the only trial i had to face!
Once we had finished the shop, we stopped back to Paulines to have some lunch. Yummy pasta bake! Ellen Jones has started a book club, so we had a good look at the books available on the top 100 reading list by the BBC. Looks like it's going to be 'The grapes of wrath' as our starter book. Need to have it read by the end of January to have a meeting to discuss it. Exciting! Pauline said she has always wanted to be in a book club!
We left Ethan with Peter - he is not having a good day today :( - and headed down the chapel to clean the loos. We took it in turns of holding Lily, shes just not well and wants to be held, bless her. The HOV presidency were there too setting up for the Christmas party tonight. Once we had that done, we headed to my house to drop off the food bought, drop the key back to Kate's and then back to Paulines to chill for a bit. Pauline came with me to help get the kids ready as i put some make up on. I look half dead without it.
The party was really fun. Morgan Howells was doing some kids games while the adults sat at their tables. Santa came and visited, giving out gifts and we ate some food together before the cabaret started. It was cute! And best of all, no one asked me, 'what are you doing here?' Horray! Here's some of the shots from the night;
We set up the tables for the baby blessing so it doesn't have to be done tomorrow. In between i was swinging Ethan around - he loved it until i swung him by his legs, scaring the daylights out of him and causing him to cry for Nanny. My bad!
Pauline kindly followed me to Tesco to get some bits - she stayed in the car with the kids as i nipped in. I then came home to Jared who had just finished his law exam. He put Ethan to bed while i settled a snuffly Lily. He watched MoTD as i sat in bed blogging. We have a big day tomorrow! :)
Anyway, i took the kids down the chapel to clean the loos as they need a clean. Obviously picking a key up on the way from the lush Katie Taylor. I don't think they got cleaned last week, so they are extra grimey. I gave up after 10 minutes as Ethan was running riot and Lily was screaming. The only way i can do this is help from Pauline! So i get the kids back in the car and drive up to Paulines house to plead for some help! We decided to get the rest of the blessing stuff, so i drove to Aldi and Asda to get the last bits. It's just so busy on a Saturday. I wanted to go early, but just couldn't get out of bed. Lily is poorly too, poor bubsie! You get the usual grumps moaning about not getting in the queue soon enough..etc. I wish that was the only trial i had to face!
Once we had finished the shop, we stopped back to Paulines to have some lunch. Yummy pasta bake! Ellen Jones has started a book club, so we had a good look at the books available on the top 100 reading list by the BBC. Looks like it's going to be 'The grapes of wrath' as our starter book. Need to have it read by the end of January to have a meeting to discuss it. Exciting! Pauline said she has always wanted to be in a book club!
We left Ethan with Peter - he is not having a good day today :( - and headed down the chapel to clean the loos. We took it in turns of holding Lily, shes just not well and wants to be held, bless her. The HOV presidency were there too setting up for the Christmas party tonight. Once we had that done, we headed to my house to drop off the food bought, drop the key back to Kate's and then back to Paulines to chill for a bit. Pauline came with me to help get the kids ready as i put some make up on. I look half dead without it.
The party was really fun. Morgan Howells was doing some kids games while the adults sat at their tables. Santa came and visited, giving out gifts and we ate some food together before the cabaret started. It was cute! And best of all, no one asked me, 'what are you doing here?' Horray! Here's some of the shots from the night;
We set up the tables for the baby blessing so it doesn't have to be done tomorrow. In between i was swinging Ethan around - he loved it until i swung him by his legs, scaring the daylights out of him and causing him to cry for Nanny. My bad!
Pauline kindly followed me to Tesco to get some bits - she stayed in the car with the kids as i nipped in. I then came home to Jared who had just finished his law exam. He put Ethan to bed while i settled a snuffly Lily. He watched MoTD as i sat in bed blogging. We have a big day tomorrow! :)
Friday, 2 December 2011
Chillin with my babes!
Jared took the car to Cardiff today to help him get back in time from Uni to study, so i stayed at home with the kiddies. I did sleep in till 9ish as the kids last night were up and down like nobody's business! I am so tired, getting up was a killer! Anyway, I got the kids washed and dressed, put Lills down for a sleep and cleaned the house up a bit. The washing pile always gets massive when i leave it a day or two. Annoying! On the plus side, Ethan and I made some cakes together. He desperately wanted one but we had to leave for school. It is really cold today, but dry, so we are walking to school instead of calling on a lift. He cried and cried at the thought of going to school, telling me, 'Ethan said no! No school!' Poor boy! He does love it when we get there though!
His little legs can't walk the 2 miles to school, so i managed to balance him on the foot rest of the buggy while Lilsie is sat in the seat. The tears stopped immediately! It was a good walk, a heck of a lot easier than walking it on Monday. I suppose my fitness is getting a little better. I walked back home to find Jared was back studying. I had lunch with Lills before doing some more washing and cleaning up. I did spend half an hour lying on the bed with Lills as i am so tired! She went down for another nap. If i knew Jared wasn't up to his eye balls in studying, i would have made him go and i have a little sleep!
It's amazing how quickly i can get Ethan from school without having Lily with me! We were in and out like a flash. I stopped in at home to check if she was still sleeping then went with Ethan to poundstretcher to get some cutlery and plates for Lily's blessing on Sunday. He is so good. He was looking at the toys asking for a present, and when i said no, he just accepted it. He's such a good boy. I love my kids so much.
When i got in, i started dinner and had a chill with the family before they went to bed. I have a goal of getting 10 items on ebay a day, so i did that too while Jared continued to study. It feels so nice having the house in order. Jared went and picked up a DVD of Harry Potter to watch together. It seemed a little pointless as he doesn't understand what is going on as he's forgotten what's happened, but it was nice to fill him in on the way. It's weird too, as the last time i saw the last film, i was due with Lily and Philippa was in the cinema with her parents while i was with mum. That was the last film she ever saw.
We went to bed late and although ive done well on the diet, i didn't run. Feel a bit bad for not doing that. We spent some time in bed putting people we know into the houses of Hogwarts. It was funny! Poor Lilies has a bad chest too, i hope it clears up soon. :(
His little legs can't walk the 2 miles to school, so i managed to balance him on the foot rest of the buggy while Lilsie is sat in the seat. The tears stopped immediately! It was a good walk, a heck of a lot easier than walking it on Monday. I suppose my fitness is getting a little better. I walked back home to find Jared was back studying. I had lunch with Lills before doing some more washing and cleaning up. I did spend half an hour lying on the bed with Lills as i am so tired! She went down for another nap. If i knew Jared wasn't up to his eye balls in studying, i would have made him go and i have a little sleep!
It's amazing how quickly i can get Ethan from school without having Lily with me! We were in and out like a flash. I stopped in at home to check if she was still sleeping then went with Ethan to poundstretcher to get some cutlery and plates for Lily's blessing on Sunday. He is so good. He was looking at the toys asking for a present, and when i said no, he just accepted it. He's such a good boy. I love my kids so much.
When i got in, i started dinner and had a chill with the family before they went to bed. I have a goal of getting 10 items on ebay a day, so i did that too while Jared continued to study. It feels so nice having the house in order. Jared went and picked up a DVD of Harry Potter to watch together. It seemed a little pointless as he doesn't understand what is going on as he's forgotten what's happened, but it was nice to fill him in on the way. It's weird too, as the last time i saw the last film, i was due with Lily and Philippa was in the cinema with her parents while i was with mum. That was the last film she ever saw.
We went to bed late and although ive done well on the diet, i didn't run. Feel a bit bad for not doing that. We spent some time in bed putting people we know into the houses of Hogwarts. It was funny! Poor Lilies has a bad chest too, i hope it clears up soon. :(
Thursday, 1 December 2011
Adventureland...again!
Jared's not on placement today so i could give him some space, i took the tiddlers to adventureland. We did get up super late - these wakeful nights are just so tiring! Anyway, i was there for 11am and had packed Ethan a lunch so i could take him straight to school.
He loves it there with the other kids, but if he has a run in with one of the other children, that's it. He will follow the kid around to almost provoke an attack and then come to me crying if he gets it. He's such a tinker like that! As i sat and watched, i heard a group behind me talking about religion, particularly J.W.'s and the Mormons. Some were not so kind about us, but one stood out to me inparticular. She said she wished that they had knocked on her door years ago. Anyway, the conversation changed and i sat with Lily watching Ethan. A little while later, she came to me with her little son who had run over to me. We got chatting and got onto the topic of religion. She said she knew Emma Jane and Portia and said they were women of God. It was so interesting to find someone who wanted to find the truth, but didn't really know where to turn. She attends her Presbyterian Church and said she was feeling complete, but i don't believe her as she still has so many questions. It was nice to come across someone who wants to know God personally and figure out what he wants of us. She told me her family think she is mental and that her friends are anti- God. I'm sure i will cross her path again soon and invited her to church. I suppose we will see.
The time just flew by and before i knew it, i was bordering on being late for school, so i dropped tincer off and drove home to do a bit of house work. I started to work on selling Philippa's clothing on ebay, but Lily had other plans! Before long i was getting Ethan from school. I made a quick stop at Aldi as they have some special buys in on thermal clothing (perfect Christmas presents for Jared!). I did get him to try it on though, so it's not really a surprise. He told me to run anymore purchases by him first. Haha!
Peter, Pauline and Sam stopped over for a bit, bringing over some advent calenders for us. Lily was on my lap when Peter called out to her, using Philippa's name. He said she is so like Philly as a baby. I want her here with us :(
I cooked dinner, tried to get Ethan to settle to bed without much luck, listed 10 items on ebay and worked out! I also washed up, cleaned up, settled Lily to bed and blogged! Jared is downstairs watching Questiontime, hopefully he will come to bed soon.
I have binged on so much chocolate today, it's not even funny. I am currently 10st 12lbs and i want to be 9st 5lbs. If i get to 10st by Christmas, i will be one happy girl. I've got to push myself and get some proper self disipline in my life again!
He loves it there with the other kids, but if he has a run in with one of the other children, that's it. He will follow the kid around to almost provoke an attack and then come to me crying if he gets it. He's such a tinker like that! As i sat and watched, i heard a group behind me talking about religion, particularly J.W.'s and the Mormons. Some were not so kind about us, but one stood out to me inparticular. She said she wished that they had knocked on her door years ago. Anyway, the conversation changed and i sat with Lily watching Ethan. A little while later, she came to me with her little son who had run over to me. We got chatting and got onto the topic of religion. She said she knew Emma Jane and Portia and said they were women of God. It was so interesting to find someone who wanted to find the truth, but didn't really know where to turn. She attends her Presbyterian Church and said she was feeling complete, but i don't believe her as she still has so many questions. It was nice to come across someone who wants to know God personally and figure out what he wants of us. She told me her family think she is mental and that her friends are anti- God. I'm sure i will cross her path again soon and invited her to church. I suppose we will see.
The time just flew by and before i knew it, i was bordering on being late for school, so i dropped tincer off and drove home to do a bit of house work. I started to work on selling Philippa's clothing on ebay, but Lily had other plans! Before long i was getting Ethan from school. I made a quick stop at Aldi as they have some special buys in on thermal clothing (perfect Christmas presents for Jared!). I did get him to try it on though, so it's not really a surprise. He told me to run anymore purchases by him first. Haha!
Peter, Pauline and Sam stopped over for a bit, bringing over some advent calenders for us. Lily was on my lap when Peter called out to her, using Philippa's name. He said she is so like Philly as a baby. I want her here with us :(
I cooked dinner, tried to get Ethan to settle to bed without much luck, listed 10 items on ebay and worked out! I also washed up, cleaned up, settled Lily to bed and blogged! Jared is downstairs watching Questiontime, hopefully he will come to bed soon.
I have binged on so much chocolate today, it's not even funny. I am currently 10st 12lbs and i want to be 9st 5lbs. If i get to 10st by Christmas, i will be one happy girl. I've got to push myself and get some proper self disipline in my life again!
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