Friday, December 30, 2011

Christmas day with Family

some food....

Joe, John, Simon and James

The Gascoynes.....

Riley, Winter, Debbie, Emilia and Simon

The Grandkids...Riley, Isaac, Maya, Annabelle, Heidi, Cerys, Winter, Emilia and Emma

Grandparents....with Cerys and Maya...

The boys enjoying Port and Cigars

This is the day after....when everone was gone
We are lucky that this Christmas day was spent with family.....all the Gascoynes came to our house!  It was a great day, lots of yummy food, more presents and lots of cousins playing......

Christmas Morning.......

Hope you are all had a wonderful Christmas - we did as it only gets better as the girls are getting older.  We got some amazing gifts from Scotland....big thanks to Wee Laura, Hannah, Laura Snowdon and Angela.....it made our day even more special.   Also Thanks to our great American family and friends for sending us some great presents...my Mom and Paul, uncle Tim and Tara, Sue and our great friends Annie and Tyler - we normally would spend Christmas with them in Scotland they were missed.   Hope you enjoy some photos....we had a great time, and soiled the kids abit!

the stocking are filled


the girls got bikes from Santa


it actually did snow for a tiny bit on Christmas morning

presents everywhere.....



Cerys loving her new bike



                                     Some of the great gifts

slippers from sue

my vikings monkey from Annie

puppets from Tim and Tara


dinos...from Gascoyne family

Clothes....from Sue and Annie

Bike from Santa

Bank from Wee Laura - Cerys has one too

great books from Hannah...baby from us

Cerys new drawing board

Emma in her new tent, with blanket from Auntie Debbie

Dec 29th 2011

Cerys enjoying Emma's new bike....at least Emma is getting a ride. 

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

good thing simon never looks at the blog.....

December in the states......

love bathtime photos

the 1st weekend of dec we got our tree

Emma Elf....


emma in her pjs from wee laura

cousin Emilia and Cerys checkin out our outside lights

weekend at Mayas...gingerbread house fun

Emma

cousin Isaac crusing up the stairs

getting excited cuz there is presents under our tree

and the stockings are hung

Monday, December 19, 2011

my friends.....

Hiya everyone.....I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate you all!  I cant believe that is it Christmas week, I need to upload some photo and update this blog.  As I sit here tonight I am catching up on my friends and family's blogs......I just want to tell you thank you....and thank you for doing them - I love reading them and seeing the ever so so so cute kids!  keep it up and hopefully you enjoy reading mine as much as I do yours. ( I am tell you this also...cuz I try to leave comments on your blogs...they never let me)

Here is a few comments of would of said tonight.....
Laura....I wish we lived closer cuz our girls would be so cute together! They are so close in age and i must say pretty cute little blondies....
Lauren.....good to see some hair...dont worry it will grow! loved the christmas photo, santa photos are too cute
Hearin....Em is so tiny and cute, love the new camera and the dress!
Podge....Keep it up....I really wish I could just come to your holiday party where your cooking
Shannon.....love the thanksgiving photos...cant wait for Christmas

  Love you all, Have a very Merry Christmas

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Suprise.....

Well so I thought we were having a pretty normal day the 19th of November...except were we buying a new (used) car.    So I talked to Shannon -my sister in law a few days before they invited us to come to their house spend the night and have dinner with them since they would be out of town for Thanksgiving.......So the car process took way longer then it should of, we ended up driving both cars to Shannon and Joe's - Which Simon said that he would drive the new car and then I could drive the new car back the next day....alone!  I got to Shannon and Joe's at about 5:30ish....which we are late we normally eat with kids around 5:30.  I walked in apologized for being so late, Simon had to stop at the store.  Shannon was not bothered saying Joe wasn't home yet either, He was volunteering for the day in Boston - So about 10 - 15 mins after I got home Joe came in, we chatted the girls went up stairs to play.....there was this little knocking sound Someone said was that the door, i promptly said no it must be the girls upstairs, they were like maybe its Simon at the door....I said why would he knock.....I went on chatting.  About 5 mins later....another knock - this time they were like Heidi Check the door maybe its Simon and he needs help....so I went to the door, looked out to my surprise was wee Laura - my good friend from Scotland!   Well of coarse I cryed and was in Shock..........It was a great surprise and made my Thanksgiving so much better. Thanks to my Wonderful Simon for keeping a secret, Joe for getting Laura from the airport and Shannon for helping with the surprise.

So The next day we drove back to Walpole.....showed Laura around, went shopping in Keene, Tried to go to a movie, went for a walk up the grandparents and just hung about.!


getting Christmas presents from wee

slinky time with Laura

Happy Thanksgiving

our great dinner


our walk


Corrie Kitty
Thanks Laura, your a great friend.....it was a great suprise!