Hello all. I've certainly had a week filled with smiles this week.....we've been celebrating my darling hubby's 70th birthday and he's been well and truly spoiled.
We enjoyed family time on Saturday evening....and there was cake eaten [as you can see] :-)
I love this photo.
On Monday Louie went with a couple of his friends to a place called Tiny Town, Newport and as you can see he had a wonderful time.....I wonder what he will be when he grows up?
Yesterday he dressed up as a Gruffalo for World book day...he's so different from his big brother who never liked to dress up at the age :-)
He wasn't the only one to dress up for World Book day :-) Michelle dressed up as a red crayon.....and yes she is a teacher :-)
This was my exciting news of last week. I can now share with you that she had been for an interview for a new job and she got it. She will be starting a new full time teaching job at a lovely little school just 10 mins from her home after the Easter holidays. I'm so very proud of her.
It's been a week full of good intentions but ended up a week of plate spinning...and not always managing to keep them spinning. I wrote and posted a blog on Wednesday with the intentions of commenting on all my friends and, as yet, not managed to visit one sadly. I'm pleased to report grandchild number 7 is still insitu as long as Gina rests as much as she can...and that's not easy when you have a 5 yr old....
...especially this one. When walking to school on Wednesday morning he was so busy chatting that he walked into a picket fence and had to go back home to be monitored for the day....needless to say that meant Gina and Theo ended up spending most of the day with us so Gina could rest....I will add Theo was absolutly fine. Hense I didn't get my sewing done and my plate spinning started. 3 o'clock we had to fetch the twins from school, tea them and take Lexi to her drama/dance group...but that's another story....Oh the life of the Grandparent eh?
I truly wouldn't have it any other way and sewing can always wait when the family needs us so I have been playing catch up all week. Yesterday was my darling hubby's birthday so that also included visits from family members and I will be playing catch up again today with all the sewing jobs.....but it's so lovely to celebrate these special days especially when it included a lovely meal out last night.
This week was World book day so one day Theo wen't to school in his pyjamas and he made a book in a box to take in with him and here is Stephen all dressed up for his special day.
The only other thing I have to share with you today is this collage of a few funnies I've found.
I hope your week has been a little less hectic but that you have had plenty to make you smile. Please share them by linking u below if you can.
Hello all. I hope you have all had a wonderful week filled with smiles. I like to spend a little time each week focussing on the happy moments in my week and sharing them with those that like to drop by for a smile....and hopefully will share your own smiles by linking them up below.
These are a few pics that have had me smiling this week....
It's been World book day here last week and our grandchildren have enjoyed dressing up for it :-)
Here's Amy's three...they all love to share their photos with me.
It especially made me smile because Phoebe is wearing the outfit I made for her mummy when she was the genie in aladdin when she was at school...it's been used many times since :-)
Lexi dressed as Thing 2 from Dr Zeus and her best friend at school was Thing 1 :-)
Sam was Harry Potter of course.
I do love that their schools join in the fun of special days.
Shell sent me this photo of their puppy Jet stopping their cat Monty
from going out through the cat flap....I think she wanted to play :-)
I
snapped this pic of two ducks on the roof of the house behind us on
Wednesday...I think even the ducks have had enough of all the floods
now!
I saw this on Facebook this week and it really made me laugh....please don't read if you're easily offended.
Another week has passed and I've yet more smiles to share with you.
As the twins celebrated World Book Day on Friday last week instead of the Thursday I didn't have their pics to share with you when I wrote my blog so here's their outfits....Lexi is Veruca Salt and Sam is Charlie Bucket from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. A fun time was had by all as you can see.
Sam didn't find learning to swim easy but is now going from strength to strength and has now gained the next swim certificate.....well done young man, so proud of you.
When I was a little girl one of my party pieces was to touch the back of my head with both feet at the same time and Lexi is determined to be able to do the same as her Nanny....she's getting there and is now just an inch off.
I struggle to believe I was ever so flexible now because there are days when I can't even put my socks on!!....old age!!
Amy sent me this pic of Molly puppy with the slogan...
"She's no lady!!"
My comment was that she's obviously very relaxed and at home there now and at least she does have her legs crossed! :-) What a cutie she is now.
I found this on Facebook and thought I'd share it with all you Grandmothers out there....this certainly applies to me, how about you?
That's all my shares for today. Please leave me a little comment and, if you can, then link to your own smiles below.
Hope you all have a great week filled with smiles.
I have just been looking back at some of my Smiley posts and was amazed that I first started writing them way back on 18th Jan 2013!! What a lot of happy posts eh? Many more joined in back then and it was really lovely to see what was making everyone smile. If you'd like to see what was making me smile back then here's a link.... My First Friday Smiles post. It wont surprise you that my Grandchildren featured in that one because they never fail to make me smile....and this week is no exception.
Lots of you have come to see Theo in his Stick Man outfit....I'm sorry to say that it's just not going to happen....but I'm still laughing about it. I only have the one photo of it and at this point it's not quite finished....
....the top has had slits cut in the bottoms of the sleeves and around the bottom of the top. The headband has had black centres drawn in the eyes.
It fit and looked really lovely.... to us that is! Theo was fine until he saw himself wearing it in the mirror and he went into meltdown saying..."I'm not Stick Man I'm just Theo". He insisted it was taken off and refused to wear it.
Gina was so sorry that I'd spent time making his outfit and ended up buying him some Peter rabbit pyjamas to wear instead. She put the outfit in a bag to take to Nursery with him, just in case, and was greeted by two other mums at the Nursery door with outfits in bags too. It must be something to do with the age of the beasts but it has certainly caused lots of giggles.
Here's Amy's three dressed up. Lulu and Steve were two little puppies from 101 Dalmatians and Phoebe is Hermione from the Harry Potter books.
You will all be used to Poppy Dog sitting in on their photos but it really make us smile to see little Molly has joined in too....she really has made herself at home now.
The twins school is celebrating World Book Day today so I don't have any pics of them as yet.
My other smiles this week are of these two. They are getting used to each other now as you can see. Poppy is such a placid tempered dog that when Molly wants to play and nips at her legs she just walks away and wont tell her off but when it comes to nap time they are happy to snuggle up together.
The bottom pic came with the slogan....a cuddle or strangle? :-) :-)
That's all my smiles for this week so please leave me a comment and then share your smiles with us too by linking below.
Another week....more smiles. I can always find something to share each week that has made me smile.....I'm so lucky. I have changed my header photo to share our gorgeous little tete-a-tete daffodils....Spring is on it's way and that always makes me smile. [Even though there is the promise of more snow this week yet!].
This week our 5 school aged grandchildren had a day at school celebrating world book day....It was delayed because of the snow. They are all lovers of reading and a new book is always a treat ...
Amy's three went dressed up as The naughtiest school girl, Dennis the menace and Matilda.
Lexi went as one of her My Little Pony characters and Sam went as Cat in the Hat.
They all really enjoyed their day and were pleased to use the school vouchers for their free books.....brilliant idea.
Both my hubby and I have had this week off work and have enjoyed our time together and today we have this gorgeous little man coming for the day while his mummy works because his other Grandparents, who usually have him on a Friday, are both poorly. I'm sorry they are poorly and really hope they are better very soon but we will enjoy our little visitor today.
I hope you will leave me a little comment to let me know you've called by and will then link up to your own smiles below.
Have a great week filled with smiles and thanks for joining in the fun.
Well? Did you miss me last week? I hope you felt able to link up in my absence.....many thanks to those who did. As you will have seen I was visiting our very own Lunch Lady Jan in their lovely new home in South Wales. We had a wonderful time catching up and had lots to smile about.....we both shared our pics on Wednesday's posts so if you haven't already seen them that's where you can see them.
My smiles for this week have been many and here's a few snaps I can share with you....
We had all the family round on Sunday to share a slice of birthday cake with their dad/grandad and managed to get a snap of the 6 grandchildren all together
Plus for the first time since little Theo was born we managed to get all 6 of them lying down together....what a giggle. I do wonder how many years they will do this for us.
It was world book day last week and here are the 5 grandchildren all dressed up as their book characters ready for their day at school.
Poppy dog insists on lining up with the children when ever a pic is being taken.
And finally but by no means least here are a few snaps of the gorgeous Spring flowers that are popping up round our garden at the mo......don't you just love Spring?
Now all I ask is that you leave me a little comment to let me know you've called in and then if you can please link up to your own smiles below......lets fill the Internet with happy posts.
Week 160????? Where does the time go? That's a lot of weeks of smiles isn't it?
Firstly I want to thank you all for joining in last week's smiles. I'm so thrilled that so many of you take the time out of your busy lives to join in the fun. My featured blog from last week it one some you might have missed because she forgot to link up her post but I know the intention was there because she said so :-) Our Wednesday 'leader' Julia shared a pic of a lorry load of stripeless zebras....now I'm pleased to say she did include a pic cos if she hadn't I would have been asking her what she'd been drinking. :-) I mean, stripeless zebras????? hehehe It sure did make me chuckle so if you missed her post then feel free to click on the link to check it out....thanks for sharing Julia.
Next as many of you will know it hasn't been the best of weeks here for us but I must thank you all for your lovely messages and the love that you sent us at the loss of our furry baby....I think I'm suffering empty nest syndrome but I'm sure things will get easier with time.
I do have something to share with you that really made me smile this week. Our daughter-in-law Gina is an infant teacher and for World Book Day their school had to dress up as a favourite book character....of course teachers also have to make an effort and Gina sent me this pic to let me see the outfit she had made....
It made me smile for so many reasons. I'm so proud of all my family and in-laws and really love the fact that they are all willing to not only have a go but succeed in all they try and always like to share their results with me.
Doesn't she make a perfect Little Miss Chatterbox?
I love the outfit and the fact she made it herself made it all the more special.....I bet the kids will really love it too.
That's my smile for the week.....what's yours? Please leave me a little message to let me know you've called by and link your pics up below.
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