1 year on....

From this...

To this............

To this...............

Our Baby Natalie Mary is 1 TODAY!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATALIE!!

We will be back soon with an update, both girls have been ill over the past few weeks (it's Holly's turn just now), so no time for blog updates.

Hannah

End of Part 1

Hello All,

Well that's the base work done so we are now waiting for the joiners to come in, which is not meant to be till May the 4th :(. Hopefully it will be brought foward as I think it will be very frustrating looking at the bricks for 3 weeks! Anyway photos are below, not an awful lot of change from yesterday but at least the garden is tidy again!

Ciao for now!

Ian

Day 3

Hi All,

Well they're cracking on and it's looking pretty good to me! :




Just to say as well poor Natalie is ill again :( She has a temperature and is quite bunged up so we think she may have a cold or flu and also a wee stomach upset - but you don't really want the details on that part!

Bye for now

Ian

Day 2

Hi Folks,

Here's the photos from day 2's work. Starting to take shape now! :)




Ian

We've got the builders in!

Hello all I'm going to be hijacking the blog over the next few weeks to keep you all updated on the progress of our new conservatory/family room! So unfortunately no cute photos of the kids I'm afraid.

First photo was taken at 07:23 this morning. I cleared the patio myself last week prior to the builders coming in:

and just after I took this picture a man turned up to dump this in the front garden:

Then not long after that the builders turned up. I went to work and left them to it for the day. Then came back to this:

So that's Day 1.

Bye for now

Ian

Easter Sunday

Hello everyone, I hope you all had a lovely Easter Sunday and are not too stuffed from all that chocolate!

Thankfully we had a much better night with Natalie last night so all woke up feeling much better than yesterday. Once we were all up and dressed, Mum, Dad and Sarah came up. Mum and Holly decorated eggs for rolling later on, which Holly loved doing...

After that we went out in to the garden to see if the Easter Bunny had been, which he had!! Holly was delighted and hunted out the Easter Eggs. The Easter Bunny had left arrows to where the eggs were hidden, which Holly thought she had to pick up too!!

Tucking in to her findings!!!

Here is Granny and Holly rolling (or throwing in Holly's case!) their decorated eggs....

Poor Miss Natalie slept through all the Easter goings on, but here she is with her Granny when she got up, wearing her bunny ears (provided by Auntie Sarah!)

Once everyone left we had a quiet afternoon, then a yummy roast dinner provided by Mum!

Both girls were very tired tonight, so are sound asleep, I think they enjoyed Easter though!

Bye for now,
Hannah

The Chicken Spots are back....

.... And this time they're serious!! Poor Miss Natalie has the chicken pox now. She was very fed up on Monday and Tuesday this week, she had her injection on Tuesday mornng and cried for 15 minutes afterwards, which is very out of character. On Wednesday morning we woke up to her having several spots on her head and the next day she had loads. She now has many more and is very very fed up with it. We have had 2 terrible nights with her, and she is very clingy to me, she just wants her Mummy. I have been giving her lots of baths (with Bicarbonate of Soda in them!) and putting on Calomine lotion. We really think that Holly was very lucky when she had them as she was nowhere near as bad as this.

Anyway you can kind of see how bad her spots are in this photo of them sitting together yesterday, Holly told me she wanted a 'Shot' of Natalie so I put her on her knee...

So it's just been a quiet few days, we did go over to see Liam and Emma on Thursday, as Liam has the chicken pox too (probably got it from Holly as they had been playing together the day before she got it!) and Friday was a quiet day. Of course it is Easter weekend, we were going to do something tomorrow as Mum and Dad are through, but that's off now Natalie is so poorly. I have told Holly that the Easter Bunny will still be coming though and we will have an Easter egg hunt for her tomorrow.

Last weekend we had both sets of Grandparents through as they were all going to see Lionel Ritchie (?!) in concert. Holly and Natalie were just delighted to see everyone. Here is Nat playing with the ball which both Grannies were throwing to her.

Here is a photo of the girls I took one morning last week, Holly was lying watching Peppa Pig and Natalie kept throwing herself back on the floor to lie like her sister, very funny!

And finally Holly outside sweeping up the sand she kept putting on the step.

That's about it really, apart for the exciting news of a new arrival (no not Ian's Playstation 3, poor me I am a playstation widow!) our friends Angela and Martin are expecting a baby in November, I am just so excited for them and can't wait to meet Matthew's wee brother or sister. I was speaking to Holly about it the other day and she said "Alla have Natalie" (Alla=Angela) I think she is expecting Natalie to go and live with them now!

Well that's it, Happy Easter all!
Hannah