I'm sure I'm a winner!!!

If you know me, you'll know that I'm very competitive. I like to call myself motivated and driven, but in it's basic form, it's really just that I like to win.

And I'm positive that my icicles have to have been the biggest around!!! Our house was absolutely covered in icicles, but the ones on the back of the house were the best. Maddie and Bella both have rooms at the back, and spent days competing (oh god, that DNA!) for the title of longest icicle! Maddie won with one which went past her windowsill!!

Anyway, the start of this post was written before christmas and of course so much has happened in the past week.

We had a lovely christmas eve with the crib service where the kids were angels (yeah right) and cam was a shepherd. Followed by a lovely evening at a friends house before coming home and leaving the mince pie and port etc for Father Christmas. Check out the footprints he left in the morning!

The children all enjoyed opening their presents (I was woken at 4:45 am but we've forgiven Cam as in the 7 years we've been parents this is the earliest we've been woken on Christmas morning by at least 3 hours). Bella was underwhelmed to say the least with her dolls house. Her list had all along been a pet elephant - a real one, a pet ladybird - a real one, and an aeroplane - a real one. She sets her sights high. And when all presents had been opened she couldn't understand where her pets were!

Christmas Day was the best we've had so far - very relaxed being just us, and after Jon had spent a couple of hours at the pub, we had a gorgeous, relaxed lunch just the Chances.

The rest of the holiday has been spent mainly with friends, with some family thrown in the mix too.

We were incredibly lucky, as usual, to have such wonderful parents, and in the case of Jon's parents, their gift to us was some peace and quiet. We had some money and dashed up to Ikea as soon as we could to kit out our new sitting room#2. It's going to be decorated in the New Year, but is all kitted out with new TV, DVD player, wii, sofa, gorgeous rug etc, and the double glazed doors ensure that kids and adults can entertain themselves in peace! Lovely!!

I'm sure I have plenty to share, but it's all gone from my mind now. We are now busy preparing to NYE, and ready to start those resolutions. I have lots. Do you?

Here are a few pics from over the past couple of weeks.

Thanks for stopping by!

PS, have you booked onto Skrapz yet?? My mini-book class is perfect for scrapping those snowy/christmassy memories!!!