Well this is going to be a long blog entry, mainly because I have once again neglected to blog.
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Connor has been growing his hair for a while now and it is now down to the middle of his back, he loved it that long, but being a typical boy it is a pain in neck to get him to brush and wash it, and with going on holiday, I finally managed to persuade him to have it cut, although if asked he would say I forced him!! honestly I didn't.
Anna's husband Connell drove us all the way there and all the way back bless him, and I do need to say that he has the patience of a saint.
This next picture is a 'had to be there' I have just explained it to Tye and he didn't think it was amusing, but we were all killing ourselves laughing. The lifts didn't go down to the parking until the ferry came to a complete stop, but these two rather large men got in the lift and the doors closed and 5 minutes later the lift had not moved and they were still in there, we all thought this was amusing and had to press the door open button and try not to laugh until the doors closed again, but as I said you 'had to be there'.
We had to have the obligatory photos with the teach and if you notice we are all doing the 'thinning pose' one leg forward, learn forward and chin out. LOL not sure it worked.
The boys bought me a gorgeous Troll bracelet and lock and beads, and later took me into town and Tye bought be another bead for our Anniversary. My troll bracelet is definitely building up, Maria bought me two beads, Tye of course bought me three and Connor bought me a beautiful silver cat one, Lynne bought me a music box, John and Sue bought me a bead and so did Mal so I now have quite a collection.
Tye took me out for dinner at Valle dore which is a gorgeous Italian restaurant and we had a lovely meal.
Sunday I had organized a BBQ for the camp, I was panicking slightly because the weather was cloudy and it did rain a bit when we were setting up, but all in all the weather stayed good. The organization was a pain in the butt for the this, and a big thank you goes out to Jimmy Rocket, Angela and their team for the wonderful entertainment. I spent the day organizing kids games and worrying that everyone else was enjoying themselves, which I think they did.
Sometimes I wonder why I agree to these things, they always seem a good idea at the time, but me being a perfectionist cannot stand back, I have to make sure it all goes well. Never again lol mind you I said that after the Easter Function
I love my scrap club and all the girls, and Maria, Karen and Anna I will never trust you guys again, talk about sneaky !!!!!!! Maria had organized for everyone to do pages for me in a special 40th Album, which turned out to be two albums and had even sneaked some photos from me at Lynne's crop and I didn't even notice (does this mean I have far too many photos!!!) The books are amazing, thank you everyone buts especially Maria.
Thank you
Wedding Weekend
June has been an horrendous month with something every weekend, first weekend in Holland for Scrap-a-ganza then my 40th then Mick’s Wedding then the all day crop then one free weekend to panic before going off to Florida !!!
I bought a lovely dress for the wedding something really different. I asked Anna's opinion and I love her dearly and if you want an honest opinion she is definitely the person to ask, she told me the dress was disgusting and looked like a pair of really bad old fashioned curtains. She then told me she had seen the dress in the window of Debenhams and so everyone would be wearing it!!!
Back to the wedding, what is there to say, well I didn’t want to go, I don’t have a lot in common with my brother anymore and don’t feel that I actually know him and the times that I have spoken to him he has always come across as arrogant. His girlfriend I dislike because she has basically put a wedge in our family and is very conniving. Things in the North seem to be going ok at the moment and I am pleased about this because I hate to see my mother upset or pushed out, as she was, so I am very pleased that this is a little better. I don’t want to be involved in this though, my relationship with my father has suffered since she has been on the scene and that is something I will never forgive her for.
I went to the wedding I made an effort with what I wore and the wedding gift, which I bought beautiful frames and printed out photos of the wedding that I had taken on the day to put into them. I smiled and talked in the right places, but one day was enough. I am glad the day went well and that nothing went wrong I would never wish that on them.
I had planned to spend the day with one of my dearest friends Helen, at the last minute we decided to go for a pub meal and had a great time catching up. Unfortunately Karen decided to phone to say thank you and bless her, mum always feels that she has to justify my actions, I wish she would just let it be and not worry about what I did, but then on the other hand I don’t want things to be taken out on her for what I do. So apparently they were told that I had gone out with Helen, mum was a bit mortified by this, but of course it didn’t bother me.
So I have now done my duty, and it will probably be another 10 years before I see them again.
When Tye got home he took them all to the pictures to see Narnia - Prince Caspian which was only released on the day of Connor's birthday which made it even more special. Unfortunately one of the boys threw up when they reached the car park, sick is one thing that Tye doesn't deal with very well, lol Luckily the boy was ok and they still got to watch the film
All in all Connor said he had a brilliant day, but a long one.
The Saturday was my June all day crop which was a complete sell out, in fact an over sell out, but we managed.
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Sunday we had a Vallely dinner at Pizza Hut, 10 adults and 1 child and OMG how many pizzas!!!!!
We had a giant Birthday cake brought out for Connor bless and and it took him a while to decide what to wish for.
After Pizza hut we all went back to the house and a game of giant frizbee was in order!!!!!!
