My Boy

.......is 2!  We've had a busy week.  I've been on holiday and spent the first half of the week preparing for the Toddlers AGM last Wednesday.  Being the group treasurer does involve a fair bit of work making sure that everything is up to date and logged properly so I wanted to make sure that I had everything correct.  Which meant that I checked, double checked and triple checked the accounts before the meeting.

Then Thursday was the Dude's birthday, this is him in one part of his birthday present.  We didn't get a chance to build it up until the morning of his birthday which was interesting to say the least.  It's looks fairly simple doesn't it?  We didn't think it would take very long - it's only a few pieces of plastic after all!  Over 2 hours later we had a different view of it!  But he loves it so that's all that mattered.  The other part of his present, which is bigger, went together so much easier and quicker - sod's law eh! (that's my nephew checking out the doorbell)

I attempted to go one better than last year's cake and I'm pleased with the result.  I'm going to spend some time this year improving my icing technique before the next birthday but it tasted really good and my butter icing was just amazing :)  (that'll be why my jeans are tight!)

And to finish off my week off work we spent the weekend at Grannie's Heilan' Hame holiday park.  It's at Embo, which I'd never heard of before, but it's about 3 miles from Dornoch (the place where Madonna and Guy Ritchie got married) and it's lovely.  Check out this beach ....... (and blue sky)

I'll be back tomorrow with more about the weekend.  Just now I'm off to have a decent cuppa (I'm contemplating taking my own mug on holiday the next time to try and get a proper cup of tea) and watch a programme about space archaeology!??!

It's been a while

I've been doing a bit of this and a bit of that. Mainly working, but I'd better not say too much about that as all employees have been reminded about the 'social networking policy' that is now in existence - so I cannot comment in case I say something potentially negative which could lead me to be sacked!! Suffice to say my daily theme tune is 'Happy Days are here again'.

So onto more important things, the following is a brief tour of my life from the last few weeks .........

We've been to Toddlers (the dude is in the stripe tee),   

we've been entertaining small people,

we've been to look at lots of lurvely quilts at the Quilt Championships,

and I've playing with bits of material, trying to make a baby quilt for a little new person who is due to come into the world at some point this week!  It's not the greatest of pictures, it looks quite pink but it's a range of pastel colours.

All things BIG!!!

It's been a BIG week in our household this week, firstly I've been off on a weeks' holiday - yay!!!

Secondly the dude had another round of immunisations, his first in months, but he was a big boy and after a teeny, weeny little cry when the needle actually went in (well who wouldn't!) he was fine and smiling his charming smile at the health visitor. (We've definitely got a future heartbreaker on our hands)

Thirdly, biggest news of all, it was the dude's FIRST birthday this week. Mucho organising was done, a bit of an odd looking cake was made (OK I appear to be good at brownies, not so much at birthday cakes!), tons and tons of presents were bought/built/opened/played with and the duder had a great time. So much so that he fell asleep sitting up in his cot listening to his bedtime story.

Lastly, I'm developing a fairly big bump on my forehead - it's what comes of trying to open a car door and not moving your head out of the way!!!

Best Ever??

these TRIPLE chocolate brownies are apparently the 'best ever', well that's what the receipe was called.  Only my second attempt at making brownies and they were MILES better than my first attempt.  Very moreish according to Pedro.  And everybody at work, so much so that I only managed to rescue 3 pieces to bring home to Pete.  Need to make another batch.
The house is still for sale and I've still got the cold.  Not much else happening in Biffland.  Oh no, wait a minute, Gadget Girl has ventured into the world of e-readers.  So I'm (im)patiently waiting for the arrival of my new shiny piece of gadgetry!!!