Showing posts with label our first christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label our first christmas. Show all posts
So as promised, I thought I would share with you my favourites of the past year. 2014 was a pretty whirlwind year with so many exciting things happening! Warning this post WILL be photo heavy!!!
Probably the best thing about 2014 is getting to spend the year with this amazing boy! I literally feel like we have been together forever (although we have been friends forever)
Im sure you can guess what this is all about! Right in front of the castle at Harry Potter Studio Tour, Adam got down on one knee and asked me to be his wife.
Picking up the keys to our first home!!!
After everything that happened with Dad in March, me and mum should have been going to Chester for Afternoon Tea for Mothers Day but unfortunately we couldn't go so we celebrated at home instead.
Packing the car after our trip to Ikea - Tetris Champions!!!
Packing up my room at mum and dads, Pepper decided she wanted to help!
We celebrated our first night sleeping in our new home (where we literally just had a bed and a couple of other bits of furniture) we had no sofa and so spent the night on camping chairs but we made it work!
Spent a fab 2 weeks in Ibiza with Mum and Dad
Im sure you can guess what this is all about! Right in front of the castle at Harry Potter Studio Tour, Adam got down on one knee and asked me to be his wife.
These 2 little additions to our family have brought us nothing but joy and laughter this year!!!
We went to a family party where we all dressed up as different characters. Adam and I went as Micky and Minnie.
In September we went to Centre Parcs with Adams Family. A fab 5 days and I even got to get all outdoorsy and ride a trike - Seriously i need one of these!!!
We then spent a lovely weekend up in Sheffield with Adams family. I got to meet new addition Edward (Teddy) on the right who is Adams Best Friends little boy and absolutely gorgeous and spent the entire weekend running round after Jacob (Adams Nephew)
For the first time in my life I carved a pumpkin!!
We celebrated by putting our Christmas tree up!
Eeeeek - Went to the Good Food Show and Met Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry
We celebrated with our normal family tradition of Christmas Breakfast at Toby Carvery on the Saturday before Christmas - just the 4 of us complete with Christmas Jumpers!
We had a lovely christmas day and I was spoilt by the boy <3 Just a couple of my presents!
I cooked turkey and Christmas dinner for everyone and didn't kill anyone!
We ended our new year by spending the 2 days (NYE and NYD) with Adams family up in Sheffield - the alcohol flowed and we had an absolutely fantastic time!
And that in a nutshell is my 2014! What a year!!! I can't wait to see what 2015 holds :)
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One thing I knew that I wanted to buy this year when we started looking at buying christmas items was an advent calendar. Now i am not talking a cheap chocolate one I mean a proper one. When we spent date night a couple of weeks ago at Trentham we went to the garden centre and they had the advent calendars half price.
My mum has always said that she wishes she had brought one of these when me and my brother were small so I said to Adam we could get one now and then we have it when we have babies in the future.
I loved the mix of the colours and the nativity on this one. When we went shopping Adam and I picked which sweets we wanted to add and I also went through and added some special treats for us along the way including things such as make gingerbread together, get a drive through Starbucks, watching our favourite christmas movies (Muppets, Elf)...
I am really loving this and love the idea of adding our own bits into it!
Do you have an advent calendar. How do you put in?
My mum has always said that she wishes she had brought one of these when me and my brother were small so I said to Adam we could get one now and then we have it when we have babies in the future.
I loved the mix of the colours and the nativity on this one. When we went shopping Adam and I picked which sweets we wanted to add and I also went through and added some special treats for us along the way including things such as make gingerbread together, get a drive through Starbucks, watching our favourite christmas movies (Muppets, Elf)...
I am really loving this and love the idea of adding our own bits into it!
Do you have an advent calendar. How do you put in?
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Christmas is a time for giving and enjoying the time spent with family and friends. When me and Adam first started talking about Christmas (way back in October) and we decided with this being our first one, we wanted to make it really special.
When we looking into decorations we found some lovely ones about but when we thought about it, we didn't want to spend a stupid amount of money on decorations and bits!
Step in Wilkos! - First of all excuse the crappy iPhone photos!
The aisles of my local wilkos is brimming with gorgeous christmas goodies! Their bauble packs are AMAZING! I picked up a couple of the packs of 50 baubles for £5 which have a variety of sizes and colours. The baubles in the top picture are £1.50 and they have some lovely decorations for £1.
Also as well as decorations they have some fantastic table decorations.
I picked up these purple table runners currently £4 and the silver charger plates for £1. I really love this! In fact I really want to leave it there all year!!!
If your in the market for some new plates and dish ware they have some great deals. I brought a 12 pack in purple for £12 which are beautiful!
Have you shopped in Wilko's this year?? Are you impressed by their offerings?
When we looking into decorations we found some lovely ones about but when we thought about it, we didn't want to spend a stupid amount of money on decorations and bits!
Step in Wilkos! - First of all excuse the crappy iPhone photos!
The aisles of my local wilkos is brimming with gorgeous christmas goodies! Their bauble packs are AMAZING! I picked up a couple of the packs of 50 baubles for £5 which have a variety of sizes and colours. The baubles in the top picture are £1.50 and they have some lovely decorations for £1.
Also as well as decorations they have some fantastic table decorations.
I picked up these purple table runners currently £4 and the silver charger plates for £1. I really love this! In fact I really want to leave it there all year!!!
If your in the market for some new plates and dish ware they have some great deals. I brought a 12 pack in purple for £12 which are beautiful!
Have you shopped in Wilko's this year?? Are you impressed by their offerings?
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Hello my lovelies! Grab yourselves a brew!!!
Today I have decided to go for a nice hot chocolate 'cause you know you can't beat a hot chocolate on these cold nights!
How on earth are we nearly in December? Where on earth has November gone??
This month has been a right busy one! Lets catch up with what I've been up to since I last posted!
Me and Adam has been collecting lots of Christmas bits! It started at the end of December when we went shopping at our local garden centre in Trentham Gardens! Then to make it worse we nipped to Sainsburys home base for something and they had a 7ft Christmas tree on offer which obviously came home with us! Since then we have had a couple of trips to various stores which resulted in lots of Christmas decorations sitting in our spare room! Anyway yesterday this happened!
We had our Christmas Fayre at church on Saturday and planned to spend the afternoon watching Christmas films and we just decided that was it - we couldn't wait any more! We had planned to do it on 1st December which coincided with our Monday night date night but oh well! I love it!! Its getting me so excited now! :)
Last weekend me and mum went off to Leeds on our annual christmas shopping trip which is organised through work - normally its Manchester but it was a nice change to go to Leeds as Ive never been to Leeds before.
Leeds is a really lovely city and we didn't really see that much of it! We didn't even come across the Christmas Market! I loved all the little arcades and picked up some really cool christmas presents!
We have had a couple of lovely nights with friends! My best friend who this year moved over to one of the nearby towns finally got to meet Adam on Saturday when we went round to her new home! It was so lovely as me and her got the chance to catch up but also Mark (her partner) and Adam had a lovely little bonding session chatting about football, Sheffield, gaming... It was lovely to see.
In terms of blogging I feel really behind! The last couple of years I have normally done some of my gift guides by now, to be honest in terms of Christmas I am pretty far behind! I have only brought a couple of presents! I need to get my act together!!! Gift guide posts will defiantly be coming up over the next couple of weeks! I also have some new products to share with you!
Hope your all well! Catch me up with all your gossip!
Today I have decided to go for a nice hot chocolate 'cause you know you can't beat a hot chocolate on these cold nights!
How on earth are we nearly in December? Where on earth has November gone??
This month has been a right busy one! Lets catch up with what I've been up to since I last posted!
Me and Adam has been collecting lots of Christmas bits! It started at the end of December when we went shopping at our local garden centre in Trentham Gardens! Then to make it worse we nipped to Sainsburys home base for something and they had a 7ft Christmas tree on offer which obviously came home with us! Since then we have had a couple of trips to various stores which resulted in lots of Christmas decorations sitting in our spare room! Anyway yesterday this happened!
We had our Christmas Fayre at church on Saturday and planned to spend the afternoon watching Christmas films and we just decided that was it - we couldn't wait any more! We had planned to do it on 1st December which coincided with our Monday night date night but oh well! I love it!! Its getting me so excited now! :)
Last weekend me and mum went off to Leeds on our annual christmas shopping trip which is organised through work - normally its Manchester but it was a nice change to go to Leeds as Ive never been to Leeds before.
Leeds is a really lovely city and we didn't really see that much of it! We didn't even come across the Christmas Market! I loved all the little arcades and picked up some really cool christmas presents!
We have had a couple of lovely nights with friends! My best friend who this year moved over to one of the nearby towns finally got to meet Adam on Saturday when we went round to her new home! It was so lovely as me and her got the chance to catch up but also Mark (her partner) and Adam had a lovely little bonding session chatting about football, Sheffield, gaming... It was lovely to see.
In terms of blogging I feel really behind! The last couple of years I have normally done some of my gift guides by now, to be honest in terms of Christmas I am pretty far behind! I have only brought a couple of presents! I need to get my act together!!! Gift guide posts will defiantly be coming up over the next couple of weeks! I also have some new products to share with you!
Hope your all well! Catch me up with all your gossip!
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