Happy Birthday Ali!

Today is my friend Alison's birthday. The girls and I popped round to see her and drop off her present this afternoon. We stopped and had some tea and cake and whiled away the afternoon chatting and playing/talking with/to the children. A lovely afternoon and nice for Jake and Emily to catch up before they start school again on Thursday.

In other news, I have started Shimelle's "Learn something new every day" class. It started yesterday and although I've done my first layout I'm not posting it yet because I don't know if it's how it's going to stay. Emily is going to a party tomorrow and I may just pop out to The Craft Barn to have a look at their paper and cardstock. I think this is going to be fun and I'm really hoping that I keep up this time. Hopefully tomorrow I will sort out the supplies I'm going to be using and put them in one place to make it easier to make a layout each evening. Fingers crossed. I will post pictures of the layouts as I complete them.

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This afternoon

We had a lovely afternoon round at Theresa's. She had lots of cakes for everyone - including some Weight Watchers ones :o). Tyler was on top form once he'd got used to us all being there and kept us entertained. He's now 19 months old and is quite a little character.

Theresa/birthday girl ;o)

Tyler through the afternoon New puppy - Smokey Tyler had been sitting on Will's lap watching him show us photos on the computer when, the next thing we knew, he was fast asleep. Theresa took him from Will and he didn't even seem to notice. He hadn't had his nap today and I guess it had just got to the point where he couldn't stay awake any longer. Too cute!!

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A quick layout

We are going round to Theresa's soon for birthday tea and cake (her birthday was on Wednesday). I've already given her her present but felt that I would like to take something for her. Theresa wants to make a scrapbook album for her son Tyler but hasn't got round to starting yet. I decided to make a quick layout to get the book started and to show her that layouts can be kept simple.

I know, not normal colours for a newborn but I like it ;o) The layout is 8x8 (the size of her album) and was made with goodies from my stash. The colours for the letters were chosen to match the dots round the numbers.

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Forest Row

Today, Carol took the children on a bike ride from East Grinstead to Forest Row (Carol walked and the children rode!). Claire and Emily had been invited to join them but decided against it - they know what the ride back up to East Grinstead is like (haha!). However, seeing as Jake and Leah were doing the ride I offered to pick Ali up and take her down to Forest Row to wait for them. Leah has only just turned five and we didn't think she'd make it on the ride back up the hill but by meeting them in Forest Row I could put her bike in my car and she could come home with us.

Claire and Emily came for the ride (and lunch) but took their Nintendo DS's with them for something to do while waiting for the others to arrive.

We didn't have too long to wait You can just make them out coming up the other side of the road in this one ;o)

Carol leading the way with Leah and Jake following.

Once they got there, we were so busy chatting and sorting out food, I didn't take any more photos. We sat at the hotel for about 3 hours before deciding to make a move again. As Ali lives in town, we all went to her house to wait for the bikers to get back. Not tired enough, Jake, Elliott, Michael and Emily then went to the park for an hour while the Mums, Claire and Leah stayed at the house having a cup of tea.

A great afternoon with friends. Now to see what we'll fit in next week before Emily goes back to school on Thursday.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

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