Merry Christmas

What a full on day (no suprise there eh?) the boys have had a ball, loved the Playstation and have been on it most of the day between their new waterslide (off their Pop) and waterguns (in their santa sack).

I cooked my first Turkey today which I was really nervous about because my Mum always has that job but she now lives in Aussie and I am in Napier without my older sisters around to do it so it was up to me. Mum emailed me instructions as well as her cranberry stuffing recipe (yummo) and thankfully all went well and it was delish.

I got the ABBA Singstar which is fantastic because I LOVE ABBA but unfortunately I'm not the greatest singer in the world but have been practising on it.....hahaha. I can beat the old man so I'm happy about that.

Shooting up to Gisborne tomorrow to suprise Andrew's cousin for his 40th birthday party (he is also our boys godfather) which will be awesome as we didn't think we were going to make it but our relief driver came through for us in the end....yay!!
It will only be a very quick flying visit (up tomorrow after work and back Saturday afternoon) but it will be great to see everyone as there is going to be quite a crowd and heaps of family we haven't seen in years.

My eating has been quite good today, I haven't gone overboard but haven't really been too concerned about watching what I eat (it IS Christmas day) and I'm feeling great.
We had a cooked breakfast this morning and the big Xmas lunch about 2.30pm which means dinner will be leave overs.........yummmmmmmmmmm I love Xmas left overs.

Right I'd better get back to the family, here are some photo's. Bye.

I'm still here

Well where do I start?

Last Friday the lady who I work with didn't arrive for work which was strange because she is ALWAYS here before me. Then her hubby rang to say she had been admitted to hospital the night before with a suspected heart attack.....scary.
Anyway the poor women is still in hospital today (5 days later) and they are 99% sure it isn't a heart attack (she's 57 years old) but a blood clot somewhere so she got transferred to Wellington hospital this morning for an angiogram (sp?).

Unfortunately it is our busiest couple of weeks of the year and I've been totally snowed under. I am actually sitting here typing this on my lunch break because I just don't have any other time.

So this explains the absence.

Sunday 9th was my company's Kids Xmas party which was a total blast and the boys had so much fun it wasn't funny.
They had 'BJ Bear', 'Charlie Chicken', an air castle and of course SANTA.
Both my kids has always been very wary of Santa and I have never gotten a photo of them with Santa but this year I told them that Santa had rung me and said he was sad because they hadn't gone to see him or say hello so they were 'sweet as' at both the Xmas parties they have been to.



The theme was cowboys and indians.




Then last Friday night was Adam's daycare's Christmas party which was a really hoot, again they had the ole air castle and Santa made another appearance.



Saturday was 2 x hip hop concerts which Dad and Andrew attended as I had Adam's swimming and other things on my agenda.




Dad said the first show was brilliant and he really got into it and new all the moves and just shone :)
Andrew said the night show was only OK as he spent most of the time looking for his Daddy but did most of the dance.

Saturday night was my Work's Xmas party and I had the best time out I've had in YEARS. The theme was cowboy, indians and saloon girls and I decided a saloon girl it was going to be!
They had taxi's pick us up at 5pm and take us all the work where we had a couple of drinks (I had a few bourbons) then a bus took us on a 30 minute trip to a beautiful location where we had dinner and spent the night (I started on bourbons and then after dinner decided wine was a great idea *groan*).
The bus came back at midnight to take us back to work where the taxi's were waiting to take us home (I have no memory of this at all - apparently I slept most of the way). Unfortunately for me I was on the taxi ride home with the Company Director and one of the Senior Managers (and their wives) and they didn't know where I lived and it took them 20 minutes to get it out of me (again, no memory of this at all!).
After finally arriving home then Senior Manager had to carry me from the taxi to my front gate as I couldn't walk where I then told him I was fine and watched them drive away (unfortunately I have vivid memories of this) and once they'd gone I proceeded to drop to my hands and knees and throw up for about 10 minutes (didn't make it to the loo like Leenie).
Hence I was the sickest I've been in years - no wait - EVER!!!!
Andrew had to get up the next morning and clean up after me and then entertain the kids for the morning while I tried to not pass out or vomit when I moved.
Anyway - here is a photo of me at the start of the night with my sisters and brother-in-laws.




Here is me with about an hour or so left of memory (look at the size of those glasses).




I then got to go to both the hip hop concerts on Sunday. The 2pm one is a bit of a blur but Reece spotted me and was a happy camper even though he only danced through some of their song. But when I went back for the 6pm session (where I got to sit next to Leenie and giggle about what old lush's we are) I felt heaps better and really enjoyed the show. When Reece's group came out I was really excited but that soon fell away when he didn't do any of the dance (apart from 1 or 2 moves) as he was too interested in looking for me or looking at the pretty disco ball on the ceiling or just at the other's dancing.............hence there will be no more hip hop next term!
Here's one last photo of my little rapper:



Last night was another night out at friends for hotdog and drinks and I was definately the DRIVER......no alcohol passing these lips until Xmas day.

So as you can all imagine the good work I've done on the BEAST (ie. treadmill) and eating has all gone out the window with my night out.