In the loop

Well a lot has happened since i last posted, and i can't possibly write it all down - you might get a bit bored!!

The house is nearly there, can you believe it, we will soon be in... i'll hold back on giving a date though! When we're done, i'll do a little 'from this.... to this...' film strip. And of course we'll have a house warming party, which you just can't miss.

We've got a few busy weekends, in September, the weekend before last Gary worked on the house, and i went to London to the 125 Anniversay of the Church we use to go to. It was a great time, very nice to catch-up with people and i was amazaed at all the info they had including originals from when the church started in 1881. So that was a good time, tiring as i was trying (not very well!!) to stop Lucy sticking her fingers in the cake, climbing up the stacked charis, removing her clothes and dancing round the grass with nothing but her socks her because she was hot... and and catching the buggie (or not catching it) as it fell backwards whilst lucy was supposed to be 'sleeping' uuuummm!

Last weekend was the youth weekend away - it was a really great weekend, God did some fantastic sutff and we all had a lot of fun. Lucy and Erin made a great terrible twosome running here there and everywhere - most of the photo's are blurred as it was tricky to get a photo of them standing still!! But they had a good time too.

Well, this weekend we've got the church leaders weekend away, no doubt Erin and Lucy will have fun at that and i hope we will too - i'll let you know.

if only....

If only there was a camera in the office (not really) but just on this occasion, we do have them now and then.

Nige and I just had a 'Wayne's World' moment to queen - you can't beat that for Wednesday morning office work/entertainment. You've really missed out on that one peeps :o)

What happened to the week?

No really, what happened to the week - it's suddenly disappeared!

At the end of last week, we went down to Kent for Gary's Nan funeral, which went well. It was really nice to see family but not so nice circumstances! Gary's Nan was 87, and there's no doubt she's in heaven having a good time, or as Lucy said "She's a having party, like Noddy!". When she was ill in hospital, the chaplain came to see her, and after much chatting said "Marjorie, can I pray for you", to which see replied "don't pray for me, lets pray for all these other people in here that are poorly and don't know Jesus or where they're going" - what faith!

So we had a nice time seeing different people and staying with my family - and of course Jordan the dog. Then when we came back we went to the 'secret Garden'.... Across the road from where we are staying there is a park that you have to have a key for, which Lucy loves, and so do I. It's surprising as you'd never know it's there, and it's so big, with a lovely lake, great for picnics... although they'll be few and far between now we're getting into September, and as Suzie said...Christmas is coming! Then I'll really be asking, what happened to the weeks.

Thank You

Gary and I have been married 9 wonderful years today, and he bought me some lovely roses.

I can't believe it's 9 years, it's been great to share those years with Gary with all the up's and down's life brings . We've moved about during that time, but most of the years we've been in sunny Birmingham. So we look forward to the future years, and all that God has is in store for us.

The colour goes on

Yes.... finally the colour goes on - in more ways than one!

Last weekend we spent a fair bit of time painting, it's great to see some colour go on the walls, and it's amazing the difference it makes. It's really beginning to look like a house, and also feels like we're nearly there. We've not got much left to paint now, just one bedroom upstairs and two main rooms downstairs. The 'sparkys' have been doing the finally fittings, we got the lights today to go up, so really not long now. So here are some lovely pics so you can see how we're doing, and yes to prove that I have been painting!!!


I know it looks yellow, but it's not - that's the flash on my camera, it's magnolia ceiling with white walls.

Now the other colour that has been going on is me, not just when painting the walls - I do look like I've been rolling in the paint before putting it on the wall - I just like to get 'in there'!!! Anyway, I went with a couple of friends and had my colours done - this was part of a birthday present for my big 30!

I have learnt that I'm a "sunny spring", and that nearly all the clothes in my wardrobe are the wrong colour! Oh dear, what a shame I'll have to go shopping :o) but seriously I was surprised the difference it made when the lady put a colour against me that wasn't right, I either looked 'blotchy' or I looked pale and washed out, in fact slightly blue! Not a good look. But before I get into buying the right colours, another present I had for my birthday was a 'style' consultation - so I'll let you know how that goes. Once I've done that I'm hoping to be transformed..... mmm.... let's just wait and see.