Its the wifes birthday today and so I thought that I would post up something.
We've been married now for the best part of ten years and known each other over ten years. We have two wonderful bairns, who are growing up way to fast, along with two cats, 5 fish and of course, the horse. All in all, I can't think of a way to improve my life at all, except maybe persuade the wife to eat pasta and rice, but that another story!
From the moment I met my wife, I knew it was different from previous relationships, why or how I couldn't have told you, still can't, but it was. During our time together we've had our highs and lows, as any couple might well know, and we don't agree on everything, like the military, but through it all we've always stuck together and supported each other and have, I believe, come out stronger the other side.
Life would not be quite the same without her and I can't imagine life without her or what life would have been like if I we had not struggled through some of the early years. I'm sure there will be many more arguments and disagreements over the next 50 or more years, but I have no doubt there will be many, many more highs and I look forward to every one of them!
So, I would like to say happy birthday to my wonderful wife, and I look forward to sharing many more with you!
Showing posts with label Birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birthday. Show all posts
Friday, 30 June 2017
Sunday, 9 April 2017
Bithday cakes
I mentioned that the wife does the birthday cakes for the bairns, so I thought that I would showcase a few of them.
And his 4th birthday, dinosaur!
The young ladies 2nd, a little horsey cake. The young ladies just as horse mad as her mummy.
This years cake, the little mans 5th. Its missing its sail, I hadn't put it on at this point.
Well, there's just a few of the cakes, there are the other birthday cakes, the Christmas and other family occasion cake too, but I couldn't find any of them when I was writing this post. If I do find mark, I'll have to add them later.
Saturday, 18 March 2017
Birthdays the adventurous way
Well, we have finished this years rounds of child birthdays, well, our child birthdays anyway, there are sure to be lots of other child birthdays to come! While the young ladies birthday was a fairly routine affair, hired a hall, invited a few people, played some games. Its quite good as the hall that we generally hire is also the location for one of the toddler groups I attend and as such you can use the toys. So toddler parties are nice and easy, generally its friendsnand family as well, so not loads of kids running riot. This year though, the little man was to old for toddler toys, which left us with the question of what to do.
In some respects, the little man solved this for us by having a definite idea of what he wanted, one that was actually achievable! The problem was, it was outside, in feb, in Scotland. Outside in feb, in Scotland really means only one thing, it means your getting wet. Lucky, where we live, people are pretty use to that fact, so we cracked on with the plan, headed up to the woodland of choice for the little man, donned out wet weather gear and got on with it. As predicted, two things happened; one, it rained and two, the kids barely noticed, us parents on the other hand, grumbled in the background.
However, as much fun as the kids were having, there is only so much that they will put up with, so we didn't spend too long it there. My lovely wife had put a lot of effort in to a treasure hunt for the kids, so we did that as planned, although slightly shortened to avoid the windy bit out of the trees at the start. Personally I love treasure hunts, they can be great fun, I've fond memories of various treasure hunts as a child, one we did as a family in the car around the country lanes of Kent. I even remember the car, a white ford escort, L reg I believe. I also remember it squeaked a lot, somewhere down the back seats and despite several trips to the garage, they never found the route of the problem. Anyway, I digress, treasure hunts. The one funny bit was the fact thatthe kids went barreling off in to the woods at the mention of a treasure hunt and one of the teams found one of the treasure chests, it could have been a bit of a disaster, as it makes the hunt a bit pointless when you know the final destination, but as it turned out it was the wrong chest and they ended up at the other one! Oh, and the minion blind bags went down well at the end (picked up for the barfing price of 6p each! Good old wifey)
After the adventure around the woods, we retired to a local hall, it was our alternative/backup plan if it was really bad, for food, drink and cake. It got a little crazy at times, a bunch of kids with far to much energy! The wife tried to run a few games, but they didn't go down across the board, some kids ( the little man included) were more interested I charging around everywhere! Oh well, as long as their enjoying themselves!
The cake was made by the wife, and was another brilliant success, it may not be as polished as some peoples, but the little man loved it and that's all that matters!
So all in all, another successful party I think, now I just have to think of what I'm going to do for the wife's!
In some respects, the little man solved this for us by having a definite idea of what he wanted, one that was actually achievable! The problem was, it was outside, in feb, in Scotland. Outside in feb, in Scotland really means only one thing, it means your getting wet. Lucky, where we live, people are pretty use to that fact, so we cracked on with the plan, headed up to the woodland of choice for the little man, donned out wet weather gear and got on with it. As predicted, two things happened; one, it rained and two, the kids barely noticed, us parents on the other hand, grumbled in the background.
However, as much fun as the kids were having, there is only so much that they will put up with, so we didn't spend too long it there. My lovely wife had put a lot of effort in to a treasure hunt for the kids, so we did that as planned, although slightly shortened to avoid the windy bit out of the trees at the start. Personally I love treasure hunts, they can be great fun, I've fond memories of various treasure hunts as a child, one we did as a family in the car around the country lanes of Kent. I even remember the car, a white ford escort, L reg I believe. I also remember it squeaked a lot, somewhere down the back seats and despite several trips to the garage, they never found the route of the problem. Anyway, I digress, treasure hunts. The one funny bit was the fact thatthe kids went barreling off in to the woods at the mention of a treasure hunt and one of the teams found one of the treasure chests, it could have been a bit of a disaster, as it makes the hunt a bit pointless when you know the final destination, but as it turned out it was the wrong chest and they ended up at the other one! Oh, and the minion blind bags went down well at the end (picked up for the barfing price of 6p each! Good old wifey)
After the adventure around the woods, we retired to a local hall, it was our alternative/backup plan if it was really bad, for food, drink and cake. It got a little crazy at times, a bunch of kids with far to much energy! The wife tried to run a few games, but they didn't go down across the board, some kids ( the little man included) were more interested I charging around everywhere! Oh well, as long as their enjoying themselves!
The cake was made by the wife, and was another brilliant success, it may not be as polished as some peoples, but the little man loved it and that's all that matters!
So all in all, another successful party I think, now I just have to think of what I'm going to do for the wife's!
Tuesday, 24 May 2016
New toy.
Ok, so this isn't very baby related, although it does involve children's car seats.
My beautiful wife gave me an early birthday present the other day.
Yes, I realise that most of you are going to have one of two reactions, either, that's an old car or why have you got an MG. Well, yes its old and yes its an MG and I love it! I had an MG ZR 160 in my youthful bachelor days and I sold it as it was sitting around on sorn (Statutory Off Road Notification or not taxed/registered for road use) rusting away when we were sailing. I didn't really want to sell it but I couldn't justify keeping it either. Ever since I've wanted another and I've looked at a couple but it was never the right time, as I could never justify spending the money on something we didn't need.
However, when this one came up for sale I had to have a look, it had everything I wanted, 2.5 litre, 180BHP V6 with the proper boy race spoiler on the back. I drove it and loved it, only to be told that the seller had changed his mind and needed to keep it as his other car was broken (needed a turbo rebuild). Little did I know my wife was conspiring behind my back to surprise me for my birthday, I didn't have a clue.
I drove home the other day to see it sat in the drive, taxed and insured ready to go. Needless to say we went for a drive and I've been nipping out in it at the slightest opportunity, I'm still grinning just writing about it.
Sometimes I just can't understand how I've been so lucky to end up where I am, a beautiful wife and two wonderful kids, a lovely home and now an amazing car
My beautiful wife gave me an early birthday present the other day.
The car
Three very important number
Yes, I realise that most of you are going to have one of two reactions, either, that's an old car or why have you got an MG. Well, yes its old and yes its an MG and I love it! I had an MG ZR 160 in my youthful bachelor days and I sold it as it was sitting around on sorn (Statutory Off Road Notification or not taxed/registered for road use) rusting away when we were sailing. I didn't really want to sell it but I couldn't justify keeping it either. Ever since I've wanted another and I've looked at a couple but it was never the right time, as I could never justify spending the money on something we didn't need.
The old MG ZR 160
However, when this one came up for sale I had to have a look, it had everything I wanted, 2.5 litre, 180BHP V6 with the proper boy race spoiler on the back. I drove it and loved it, only to be told that the seller had changed his mind and needed to keep it as his other car was broken (needed a turbo rebuild). Little did I know my wife was conspiring behind my back to surprise me for my birthday, I didn't have a clue.
I drove home the other day to see it sat in the drive, taxed and insured ready to go. Needless to say we went for a drive and I've been nipping out in it at the slightest opportunity, I'm still grinning just writing about it.
Sometimes I just can't understand how I've been so lucky to end up where I am, a beautiful wife and two wonderful kids, a lovely home and now an amazing car
Just because........
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