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December Daily : Day 22 – 28

Tracey — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 21:56:00 +0000

Phew all that preparing and I cannot believe that Christmas is over and New Year is just a day away – where has the last year gone??

Well I have to admit it I have fully enjoyed December Daily and Project Life and l’m looking forward to scrapping a new project for next year.

The run upto Christmas this year has been energetic and fun.

Monday 23rd – Tom and I spend the morning at the cinema in the city watching Turbo. The cinema was empty with just us and one other family. We spend the rest of the time last minute Christmas shopping before meeting Phil after work.
Tuesday 24th & Christmas Eve – We visit great gran and head out to the local pub for brunch. Such a nice way to start the day. We pack our clothes before travelling to my sisters. My sister has cooked us a lovely tea before the Christmas Elves drop off an early present for Tom, new PJ’s and a Book to read. We shower and then a couple more Christmas stories by the fire. We prepare Sherry (Jack Daniels) Mince Pie, Reindeer Dust and a Carrot all ready for Santa. Tom manages to wake 6 times during the night, but luckily doesn’t get up before 7.30am.
Wednesday 25th & Christmas Day – Tom is so excited that he rushed down the stairs and takes a breath when he sees all the lovely presents under the tree. My sister is up preparing dinner already. Tom is amazing and takes his time opening his presents until my other sister Clare and hubby Matt arrives to open more presents. Its a shame that dad is not around to share in this with us today, but enjoy Skyping him to wish Merry Christmas instead. Clare and Matt leave and we enjoy a very yummy dinner with all the trimmings. Tom loves crackers and this year is it racing Santa’s, which is good fun. After lunch we settle down to watch the lovely movie the Polar Express. We play games with Tom and enjoy a buffet tea. Somewhere in between the movie and tea Santa returns to leave Tom another Present, which he was very grateful for and said made his Christmas fantastic!!.

This photo of tom is one of my favourite of the day and is taken on my camera phone.

Thursday 26th Boxing Day – We travel back to Nottingham to enjoy the day with Phils family. Its great to see the two cousins soo excited about opening their presents. We had another fun day.

Friday 27th – With Phil back at work, I meet with friends to take our kids to Rollerworld and after to Markeaton Park in Derby. The kids lovely the roller skating, something we hadn’t tried before and great to wear them out.

Saturday 28th – With Phil still at work, Tom and me stay in our Pjs and relax. Tom plays with his toys while I do some housework and catch up with Project Life and Scrapbooking. When Phil gets home we relax with chocolate and watch Arthur Christmas.

Useful facts of the week…..My week goes from Monday to Sunday (22nd December – 28th December 2013). I am using a combination of Camera Phone and Camera Canon Isis Photos.

Tesco v Home Printing Photos.

I am using Project Life Album by Becky Higgins and Page Protectors A

I will be posting a link on The Mom Creative website

I will be posting a link on Ali Edwards Website

The December 3×4 cards are from Simple Stories December Documented.

I am continuing the December Daily through to the 31st December, so please return to read about our last few days. I intend to include a couple of extra pages to hold Christmas paper, tags, a couple more photos and a list of Toms many Christmas Presents.

Thanks for looking, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. x

Project Life 2013: Week 47 & Week 48

Tracey — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 21:53:00 +0000

Week 47

Page 1 – Its start to feel a lot like winter with some of the first frost on the ground and having to scrap the car, brrrrrr. Phil and Tom head into the city for the turn on of the Christmas lights. Tom has worked hard all week preparing his Egyptian costume for school. he looks the part.

Page 2 – Friday night is for chilling so Phil enjoys a BIG pizza from Morrisons for tea. Saturday Tom is out with his friend Frankie’s for his birthday. They watch Nottingham Forest play football and win. Phil and I enjoy a day in the city xmas shopping. Nigel comes up to visit and on Sunday we head to Sherwood Pines to enjoy a day watching the Dukeries Rally. Its lovely in the forest with the colours of the late Autumn.

Week 48

See my write up for Week 48 HERE.

Useful facts of the week…..My two week goes from Monday to Sunday (18th November – 1st December 2013).
I am using a combination of Camera Phone and Canon Isis Photos.

Tesco v Home Printing Photos.

I am using Project Life Album by Becky Higgins and Page Protectors A

I will be posting a link on The Mom Creative website

I will be posting a link on Ali Edwards Website

The December 3×4 cards are from Simple Stories December Documented.

Thanks for looking, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. x

Project Life 2013: Week 45 & Week 46

Tracey — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 21:40:00 +0000

Week 45

Page 1 – I love November 5th and firework night. We visit the Papplework fireworks with friends Karen and Charlotte, we love the smell and colours of the fab fireworks. It was a lovely display as usual. Now we can start planning for Christmas.

Page 2 – Saturday we visit great gran before heading down to our friend Pams house for tea & fun. We love to see the boys playing together – tonight its all about play fighting. Sunday is a lovely summy autumn day so we visit Salcey Forest for a walk and a bit of geocaching.

Week 46

Page 1- Its a busy week at work. Its Children in Need week so there is lot of fun rasing at school. We get to meet Toms school teacher at Parents Evening. On the way out of school Tom is proud to show us his work on display in the entrance hall. Thursday is the open evening at John Lewis for the staff to Christmas Shop. Tom spots Santa from half-way across the store, He shouts ‘SANTA’ then pulls me across to meet him – MAGIC.

Page 2 – The weekend is fab I spend it with some girl friends. Saturday we head over to York for some xmas shopping before travelling further onto Whitby where we enjoy an evening of tea and drinks. Sunday we travel home by Robin Hoods bay and Scarborough. Phil and Tom enjoy a bike ride to Newstead Abbey on Sunday.

Useful facts of the week…..My two weeks goes from Monday to Sunday (4th November – 17th November 2013). I am using a combination of Camera Phone and Canon Isis Photos.

Tesco v Home Printing Photos.

I am using Project Life Album by Becky Higgins and Page Protectors A

I will be posting a link on The Mom Creative website

Thanks for looking, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. x

Project Life 2013: Week 43 & Week 44

Tracey — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 21:19:00 +0000

Week 43

Its October Half Term and its an action packed week starting with travelling home from the Lake District.

Page 1:

Monday We visit my Aunty in Kendal before heading to Blackpool. We enjoy a lovely fish and chip tea in Bispham and walk back to the tower at night looking at all the beautiful lights. We had parked near the tower, so before setting off for home we travel the last set of lights back to the Pleasure Beach in the car. They lights are truly fantastic.

Page 2

Tuesday is a day of rest after all the travelling so we watch a movie and enjoying chilling out.
Wednesday Tom spends the afternoon at Granny and Grandad Moore’s house while we enjoy a leisurely walk around the Lambley Dumblies and introduce our friends into Geocaching.
Thursday Phil is back at work so Tom and I play games at home before heading to the local park for Tom to play on his scooter.
Friday Is shopping in Nottingham, and Tom gets to buy his own Ukulele. They are holding fun running competitions in the Market Square which Tom loves, and there are lots of giggles.
Saturday is enjoying Halloween at a local club with friends.
Sunday Phil travels over to Derby with Tom for more fun on his scooter and a unsuccessful geocaching day while I catch up with a little bit of work and scrapbooking.

One of my favourite pictures of the year is of Tom laughing away at home = Priceless.

Week 44

Page 1 – Back to school is back to normality with afterschool clubs and homework. Its also great grans birthday, which Tom makes a fab birthday card for.

Page 2 – The weekend is a bit chilly but nice and sunny. On Saturday I hold a Phoenix Card Trading party with Liz before going to visit Great Gran in hospital. Sunday we head out for a walk in Rufford Park. Tom enjoys taking part in the fun Halloween Trail with chocolate at the end as a price. We stay for Bruch before going to see Great Gran in hospital. She is pleased to see Tom and us.

Useful facts of the week…..My two weeks goes from Monday to Sunday (21st October – 3rd November 2013).

I am using a combination of Camera Phone and Canon Isis Photos.

Tesco v Home Printing Photos.

I am using Project Life Album by Becky Higgins and Page Protectors A

I will be posting a link on The Mom Creative website

Thanks for looking, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. x

Project Life 2013: Week 41 & Week 42

Tracey — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 19:15:00 +0000

More catching up on Project Life today…..

Week 41

Week 42

With the start of the October Half Term holidays its a bit wet but that didn’t stop us traveling up to the Lake District for a couple of days. Saturday we visited Bowness on Windermere and walked 3.5 miles up Brant Fell followed by Coffee. Sunday we visited the National Trust property Wray Castle A surprising fun day with a pretty castle and some geocaching in-between the rain. Afterwards we travelled upto Grassmere for some traditional ginger and a coffee. Tom loved his very yummy ice cream. We are looking forward to visiting family and Blackpool tomorrow. x

Useful facts of the week…..My week goes from Monday to Sunday (14th October – 20th October 2013).

I am using a combination of Camera Phone and Canon Isis Photos.

Tesco v Home Printing Photos.

I am using Project Life Album by Becky Higgins and Page Protectors A

I will be posting a link on The Mom Creative website

Thanks for looking, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. x

Project Life 2013: Week 39 & Week 40

Tracey — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:40:00 +0000

I’m catching up on Project Life massive time – but i’m still really really behind ….

Week 39

4th Anniversary for us and Phil surprises me with a weekend away. He even kept the destination a secret, which in our house is a massive challenge. My parents-in-law have Tom over night and he has lots of fun with his cousin Grace. Thanks all round.

I’ve loving the ‘selfie’ picture of us.

Week 40

Yellow is a fab colour this week considering the sun is still shining and it’s still warm. On the school strike day the boys take advantage of their Merlin passes and head over to Alton Towers for fun.

The weekend was action packed as usual. Back in the summer we won an outdoor photo shoot, which the kids really enjoyed. The same day we met up with Grandad Harwood and Ann and we enjoy ice creams and watching the steam trains at the Loughborough Steam Gala Day.

Useful facts of the week…..My week goes from Monday to Sunday (2nd December – 8th December 2013).

I am using a combination of Camera Phone and Canon Isis Photos.

Tesco v Home Printing Photos.

I am using Project Life Album by Becky Higgins and Page Protectors A

I will be posting a link on The Mom Creative website

The freebies I have used are from MissTiina and avegasgirlatheart – Thanks loads.

Thanks for looking, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. x

Project Life 2013: Week 48 & December Daily : Day 1

Tracey — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 21:01:00 +0000

Wow where do the weeks go, and I can’t believe December is here already.

I know I am many weeks behind with my project life, but I have kept a document of all the weeks and hopefully it won’t take me too long to catch up.

In the meantime December Daily for me this year is going to be included within my project life. I bought my daily cards this year, and they are in my folder ready and waiting. With this in mind it has made my job of documenting the first week a lot easier. If you’ve not heard of Ali Edwards check out her fab website here for all the information.

Week 48

Page 1 – The weather is getting colder, brrrr and we have another couple of days of frost. Tom is catching up with his homework, then had the sickness bug so we come home from school early (but he was ok to eat his lunch!?) saying nothing else he was ok to go back to school the next day. At the end of the week it was more homework with a oil and water experiment.

Page 2 – Its another fun packed weekend!! We pop to see Great Gran now she is back at home after her stay in hospital. We travel to our friends house for the Saturday afternoon, where the boys play before heading out to see their Christmas light switch on.

…… its December Daily time…..yehhhhh!!!

On Sunday Tom wakes up and dashes into our bedroom to tell us the Elves have delivered his advent calendar. We head over to my Dad’s new house for the first time. Its lovely and they have made it a real home. After lunch we head out for a walk in the Autumn sunshine.

This close up is one of my favourite pictures.

Dad and Tom laughing always make me smile.

I know I am going to find this year’s December Daily hard with only 1 photo and some journalling, but that’s ok its all about documenting the season, recording the traditions, family and all the fun activities I will holds I can’t wait.

Useful facts of the week…..My week goes from Monday to Sunday (25th November – 1st December 2013).

I am using a combination of Camera Phone and Canon Isis Photos.

Tesco v Home Printing Photos.
I am using Project Life Album by Becky Higgins and Page Protectors A
I will be posting a link on The Mom Creative website
I will be posting a link on Ali Edwards Website
The December 3×4 cards are from Simple Stories December Documented.

Thanks for looking, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. x

Project Life 2013: Week 38

Tracey — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 08:43:00 +0000

I’ve loved documenting this week, its fun to record the every day. This week is the first this year where every photos has been taken from a camera phone. Its lovely that you can record the small details so easily and quickly.

Some weeks always shine and this is one of them. Its the last sunny and warm week of the year, I can’t believe how lucky we have been this year.

We enjoyed the last warm day of the year with a BBQ, who would have believed we are still wearing summer clothes in September too? Tom loved his reading book from school this week, some books really capture his imagination. Tom also made a god’s eye out of wool at school, and was desperate to show us how he made it. The gods eye’s have traditionally been created for celebration or blessing, presented as a gift or designed to bless a home

The weekends are so much fun, we head into Derbyshire for a walk and some geocaching finding. The leaves haven’t turned yet but we did find lots of yummy blackberries too. We also found our 100th find – woohoo. Sunday was ice skating for the boys, and watching the classic film ET at bedtime. Tom asked a hundred and one questions through the film, with laughter and tears too. Priceless.

Useful facts of the week…..My week goes from Monday to Sunday (16th – 22nd September).

I am using a combination of Camera Phone and Canon Isis Photos.

Tesco v Home Printing Photos.

I’m using Project Life Album by Becky Higgins and Page Protectors A
I’ve tried to use all of my cardstock from the xxxxxxx range.
I will be posting a link on The Mom Creative website.

Thanks for looking, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. x

Project Life 2013: Week 36 & Week 37

Tracey — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 20:13:00 +0000

Back to School & Normality

Week 36

Last few days of the summer holidays gives us a sneaky day out to Alton Towers for the 2nd time this holiday. Tom queued for Smiler the new ride for 2.5 hours and his face afterwards was amazing. He was so chuffed that he did it!!!

Can you also believe it with over 16 weeks to Christmas the chocolate hit the supermarket shelves. Tom also enjoys a fun day with Grandad Harwood.

Tom has returned to school in Year 4, he’s in Plum Class. Friday is Tom’s first Cub Camp. He cried a lot, and seems spooked at staying over. After clinged onto us for near 45 minutes before we could sneak off. He stays over for two nights, has fun during the day but tears at night.

With Phil at work I enjoy a Scrapbook Saturday with my sister and sister-in-law. On Sunday Phil and his friend Jayne take a work trip to London which gives me more time to help me catch up with my project life.

My favourite picture of the week is Tom fast asleep after cub camp!

Week 37

Normality has returned, although Gran is in hospital after a fall. Work and visiting takes over the week, before Gran is returned home.

Tom and his friends enjoy a trip to the cinema to watch Despicable Me 2, I love hearing them giggle and laugh. We enjoy getting out Tom’s games and catch-up with household jobs. With Gran returning home we go to visit, its lovely to see her well again.

Phil and Tom take a sneaky trip to Arnold to find the geocache in the town centre – its the little things that make you smile.

I am still loving this project and with only just over 7 weeks to Christmas I need to get up date quick before the Magic starts.

Useful facts of the week……..My week goes from Monday to Sunday.

I am using a combination of Camera Phone (10) and Canon Isis (2) Photos.

Tesco v Home Printing Photos.

I’m using Project Life Album by Becky Higgins and Page Protectors A & D.

I will be posting a link on The Mom Creative website this week Tuesday 12th October.

Thanks for looking, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. x

Project Life 2013: Week 34 & Week 35

Tracey — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 18:25:00 +0000

With being so busy at work I haven’t been posting at much so I’m trying to catch up a little today.

Its still the summer holidays and Weeks 34 & Weeks 35 were still action packed.

More inserts again this week of Alton Towers and Warwick Castle.

Phil is still on holiday too so there is more fun too.

We loved our day in London visiting the sites. After the disappointment of our tickets not being valid in August for the London Eye we enjoying a walk along the banks of the River Thames. The Southbank is amazing and certainly full of lots of fun and cafes. We had tea near Tower Bridge before watching it rise.

We enjoyed a fun day with School Friends at Alton Towers where the kids were just tall enough for the 1.4 meter limit. Tom was so excited and smiled all day. He is certainly a fan of the BIG rides now.

We also enjoyed the opportunity to pushbike around the Donington Race Track. Certainly a dream come true after watching many motor races here.

Saturday we enjoyed a family day at Warwick Castle, before travelling to our very best friends Pam’s House and enjoying a bank holiday day out on the Sunday.

Week 35

Phew what a summer holiday. Now with only 1 more week to go it’s back to a bit more normality.

I’m back to work in the office while Tom is off to Athletic Camp in Nottingham. He really enjoyed it with his favourite activity being the longer distance running.

The sun is still shining so lets keep enjoying the BBQ’s too.

We have a couple of days of shopping for school wear and relaxing too.

At the weekend we had a picnic a Arnot Park and enjoyed looking for the geocaching. Sunday was relaxing breakfast in bed while the boys made a bird box.

I’ve used Project Life to list what school wear we have bought and the costs – ouch – but I can’t wait to compare the prices in a few years time.

I will be posting a link on The Mom Creative website this week Tuesday 5th November.

Thanks for looking, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. x