Sorry it has been so long but I've been very busy this past year. Saul is now 7 and starts Year 3 in two weeks.

And Joel is soon to be 4 in October and been at nursery since January.

They grow up so quickly and I absolutely love being their mum.

Nothing really to report here. My mum's chemo is proving successful and her tumour count is nearly normal . Keala starts rehershals for South Pacific today and will begin touring in October.My sisters are maloots but I love them very much.

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Gareth is doing well and we are currently in the process of fixing up the house to sell. We are looking to upgrade to a nicer house in a nicer neighborhood. Which considering where we are and what we're in, shouldn't be too difficult to do.

K xx

Missing in action!

Sorry I've been gone so long! I have had issues.

But there is hope (AND PICTURES) on the horizon so don't give up on me people.

Will be back next week with a lot more info and fun!

Mummy and Boys

I wanted to take some pictures with my boys. I don't have many were I'm in the frame with them so I took these when I got the opportunity.

I took a few of just me as well. Mum told me she needs more pics of me so HERE YOU GO MA!

Christmas Pictures

The boys christmas morning!

We didn't get our christmas tree set up till 3 days before christmas because of the building works. So I took them to a christmas shop to choose some decorations to put up in their rooms and took some pictures of them in front of a tree in the store.

Saul in front of the shop christmas tree!

Saul's school nativity. He was a shepard. Easy costume isn't it?

Chim Chiminey Chim Chiminey Chim Chim Cheroo!

So we are sorting out the central heating in a week or so and the old gas fire heater needed removing. As previously suspected, the heating engineer came in to take it away but confirmed our suspicions that he would have condemed it had we asked to keep it. So we had to remove the horrible brickwork as we will be replastering the whole room and when we removed the brickwork, we found on old skool boiler system.

Apparently when these houses were initially built by the council back in the 1930's, the boiler system was built into the homes via the chimney. That cast iron monstrosity you see in the fireplace has 2 pipes coming out of it and into the walls. These pipes were used to send heat to the water tank that would have been upstairs and heat water for the house.

So as you can see, as it's built into the house, it cannot be removed without alot of effort. So we're bricking over it. I thought I'd get few pics of it before hand before it disappeared to someone knocks through our brickwork some time in the distant future.

The cat ran up the chimney while we were removing ruble. As you can see, when she came back down, she was not white but greyish. These pics were taken a week ago and I can tell you, she's STILL grey and not likely to lose the soot till spring. Friggin cat!

Art....it's my gift.

Saul's school takes artwork the children have done through the year, choose the best one, frame it, then have an art exhibition. The parents can buy the childs artwork afterwards. The one on the right Saul did when he was 4. The one on the left he recently did. He's very talented and I am very proud of the art he brings home.

Saul is quite creative and I'm hopeful he will continue to colour, model and create as he get's older.

Fancy new jumpers

Thank you Nana and Grandpa for the new jumpers!

Mum and Dad bought these jumpers for Saul and Joel while in New Zealand. They arrived on my birthday and the boys thought it was great they got a present on my birthday as well.

Joel really loves his new jumper and has worn it nearly every day. He thinks it's a thomas the tank engine jumper because of the colour. I hadn't the heart to correct him. Saul asked to wear his to school. I had the unfortunate task of explaining to him that school is uniform only and he can wear it whenever he likes round the house instead. I think they like them so much because their very soft on the inside. This, combined with the fact that we are waiting for central heating to be installed, makes these jumpers ideal for wearing about the house.