More 'out and about!'

Where I work there is a committee of hard-working people who are there to raise our profile in the community, get our work colleagues doing something exciting, and raise money for our Charity of the Year which is Save the Children.

On Easter Monday they organised a 'Family Fun Day' in the grounds of our buildings and it was great! Emmy had a great time and did well in the Easter Egg hunt!

Dragging Grandpa off

Having the bouncy castle all to herself!

Emmy adopted this face before Kay had even started!

Surprisingly still....for now!

She didn't want any more but still looking very pretty.

Dancing in the bubbles

Today Aunty Mel (Not really an Aunty but in Wales that's what you call Mummys best mate!) came to see us and we decided on a whim to take a trip to Cefy Mably Farm Park which is currently being refurbished to make way for some huge changes!!

There was still plenty to do and after lunch we fed the animals with no nibbled fingers this time!

We also saw a rather randy peacock 'shakin' his thang' at the lady Pea'!

How you doin'?!?

He took a shine to Emmy!

I think that mouthful was all she ate!

Mel however did well!

Then we popped to the Cefyn Mably Arms round the corner and had a coke in the beer garden while Emmy collected Daisys and pointed out every bug going!

This has been a great Easter break so far, and it's not over yet!! Tommorrow will be a boring DIY day for me while Emmy goes to see her Nanna and Grandpa but Thursday will see us popping to the Cardiff Natural History museum, and who knows we might even track down some dinosaurs! Grrr!

:-)

Easter Sunday BBQ!

Today was a good day!

Being with my family is always a wonderful thing and being outside and in the sunshine makes it pretty perfect!

Today we went to Cwmcarn Forest Drive, of which the entrance to it is only about 10 minutes walk from my house, and dispite having llived here for about 6 years we've never been up any further than the lakes!

It was great! We had a BBQ at the 'Land of the Tylwyth Teg' with views as far as the eye could see...

Panoramic view of our BBQ

Everyone was soaking up the sun

Jon looking natural

My Sister

The kids - Emmy insisted on one pink and one blue Croc!

Emmy sat in the Wizard Chair

Mind you as the Sun took hold Emmy preferred to be safe than sorry...

Is it E.T.?

No...It's Sister Emmy soaking up the rays!

 After a fab BBQ by my Dad and a few hours exploring the area and the playgrounds and the sculptures we took the trail back down via 'Windy Ridge'

That's pretty much a sheer drop down there!

A view of Cwmcarn. My house is just round the corner from the base of the hill.

After that we continued down to Madocs Place which celebrates the Welsh prince Madoc who "Sailed to America in 1170, over 300 years before Christopher Columbus in 1492. This area has Welsh Indian inspired sculptures"

A quick stop at Golygfa Y Mor next (although by then we were pretty hot and tired)...

Back to ours for coffee and then a hard earned rest for the rest of the evening with a nice cold beer!

That's for sticking with me.......I hope you get a feel for how fab our day was. We certainly felt it! xx

Easter Holidays

I was originally due to work over the Easter holidays but as there was no-one in there didn't seem much point sitting in the office like Billy-no-mates while I could be enjoying the break, the weather and time with my Daughter.

Unfortunately my Husband hasn't got the time off but there are enough Bank Holidays over the next week to have enough time as a family!

On Good Friday we went to Caerphilly Castle with my Sister and Nephew for a picnic. The weather was great and Emmy was excited at going to a real Castle!

Can you spot us?

My Nephew Deakon

Cheeese!

What's up there??

Daddy pinching Emmy's lunch!

We have a BBQ up Cwmcarn Forest Drive planned for tomorrow, a 'Fun Day' at the place where I work on Monday and then the worlds our oyster from Monday to Thursday!

I can't wait to spend such precious time with my girl!

Days out

I love it when the weather turns nice as it means we can leave the confines of our poky house and get out into the fresh air without moaning that it's cold or wet or windy!

I took Emmy to Symonds Yat Butterfly Zoo and hedge maze yesterday and it was great fun!
Emmy loved the butterflies although did get a bit wary when they flew too close!

Here are some of the pretty ones:

 Then after the Hedge maze we went to have a cuppa and an ice-cream:

 Then today as the weather was even nicer we went to Caerleon Car boot and while my Hubby was having a look around (they're not really my 'thing'), Emmy and I had.........an ice-cream (can you see a pattern forming here? :-)):

We also popped into The Snug in Caerleon which we go to every Sunday for a cuppa and a cake (highly recommended!!!).



Emmy sat in a lovely hand carved chair.....well she 'lounged' in it!

"Help me! I can't get up!"

Lets hope this lovely weather continues as I fancy taking Emmy to see some castles!!!

Ta Ta for now! :-)

Cars and Butterflies

I played a little trick on my friends and unbelievably some fell for it!

I said that I was buying an Aston Martin (which wasn't untrue as I bought an Aston Martin computer mouse).
People straight away jumped in and started saying "How did you get one of those!" etc! Madness!

So I kept up the facade and when the 'Aston' arrived I posted a few photos.....

My new Aston Martin!

An arty shot (On my stairs!)

I can't wait to use it but the handling (Hee Hee!) will take a bit of getting used to!

I also spent all day with my Noodles and it's been long overdue as all I feel like I ever do with her is get her dressed and then put her to bed as I work every day like a lot of other Mums have to do.

After having breakfast in bed (which she was so excited about!) we made little butterflies and a flower out of pegs.

Here is the outcome! I am so proud!

Beautiful!

And the picture was taken on my windowsill too so I'm pleased with how it's come out!

Well I'm off to have a Baileys and ice......Night all. xx

Emmy-isms!

I love my little girl more than all the world and when she started to come out with random but funny comments that only a child could then I thought I'd record them for prosperity!

Here are a few of my faves:

"The Dragon's crying because he doesn't like the big 'O'!"

"There's a Rabbit in my jeans and he's tickling my tippy toes!"

On getting her hair in her eyes - "Mummy my hair's gone MAD!"

On her ankles sticking out from under her trousers - "Oh no Mummy, my knees have fallen out!"

Me and my Noodles

 Today we went to see Charlie and Lola in our local theatre and she loved it! It was so well done and half way though there were bubbles and butterflies came down from above like confetti!

It was great fun and I hope to take her to things like that more often! :-)

Making Cakes

Noodles and I like making cakes! We usually make little fairy cakes but today we decided to go for the big one!

Licking out the bowl of cake mixture as the cake cooks

Making the icing

"I got some on my nose!"

Thumbs up!!

The finished product! Yum!

As long as I save a piece for my Sister we can eat it today! Yay!