Robots and Aliens

The children's school had another weekend activity for nursery through P2 (however Rachel came with us also) They had an Alien and Robot theme. The kids got to make k'nex robots and use remote controls to move them around and race them.

We call ours 'babybot'. It was designed to be a babysitter for mom and dad. One eye could watch Natasha, one eye watch Rachel, another Rosie and all the other eye's on Brucie!!!
After the robot race, we got to create aliens using junk. The kids loved this. Rosie made a pink alien and Rachel green.

While the younger two were busy creating, Brucie was playing football with his team. They won 3-1 so that's good, when I came home Brucie and his dad were watching footie on TV analysing tactics!!! Natasha got to go to Nola and Lola (two really good friends) birthday party. She was so excited as they were bowling. Natasha got the highest score of 118 and won a free game of bowling. I've had a lovely afternoon making some Christmas gifts for family. Would tell you what they are except they will probably be reading this...wouldn't want to spoil the surprise!!!

New Blog

A few of you probably know that Julia comes over on an afternoon and plays with Rosie. So I thought it would be fun to make up another blog of the things they get up to. You can get the blog address link from my sidebar menu.

Pudsey Party

The church Primary put on a Pudsey party on Saturday...Great fun. They all looked as though they really had a great time. Lots of running round, games, food, and friends! As Natasha reminded me, this was her last stake Primary activity before she becomes a beehive! Raymond D. came dressed up as Pudsey...it was funny to see the response of the kids. Some loved him and kept wanting to shake his hand, others tried to wrestle him to the floor and pull his head off, and the younger children wanted to stay clear!!!

Well done Raymond you played the part fantastically!

Tam O' Shanter

Brucie took part in an opera this evening. Two local schools teamed up with Scottish Opera and Aberdeen arts and put on a small production of Robert Burns; Tam O'Shanter. They did really good. Bless him, Brucie was absolutely terrified but he did amazing with his dances and singing! Another once in a life time experience.

Footdee

On Monday we had the most beautiful crisp autumn day. Rosie and I took Sister Ott and Sister Spackman to footdee to see the fishing village with all the dinky houses and authentic out buildings. If you haven't been it's one of those things you just need to see. I can't believe people live in such small houses, and they try hard to keep it as traditional as they can, so you get a reall feel for what it was like for the fishing folk.

All Change

So these past couple of months have brought about a lot of change in our household. Bruce started his new job as a fire fighter at the airport and is LOVING it. They get a quite a bit of free time, in which to do sporting activities to keep up their fitness (I think is how Bruce described it!!) So he gets to go to the gym while at work now, and play football (soccer) loads. His training has been put back to January so his hours are 8-4 mon-fri. Not bad! We're all liking it:)) Then came the change in that Bruce was released from serving on the Stake Presidency. So we've found ourselves with much more free time than usual and have been able to socialise and enjoy all the annual activities much more. I like having Bruce around, everything is so much easier...I hadn't appreciated just how good it is.

At the weekend I participated in the Stake speech and music festival. With a group of girls from the ward we transformed ourselves into the 'Bangles' a group from the 80's. We sang 'Eternal Flame'! I was so nervous, Have no idea what we sounded like and I'll probably never do anything like that again, BUT I had so much fun!

So we have (left to right) Jenny, Me, Cassie, Amelia, Kate, Rachel. The photo doesn't do our eye makeup any justice. Thanks girls for a night to remember!

Remember Remember the 5th of November

Remember remember the 5th of November... I love this night. The smell of a crisp, fresh winter evening. The anticipation of excitement and all the bright colours and noises the hustle and bustle of everybody with friends and family. I was determined NOTHING was going to spoil this night. We were going to spend time together as a family and have fun...I'd even agreed to everyone eating out!!! The kids all came home excited and got ready to go, My oldest decided just standing around and doing nothing was boring and she wanted to stay home. No matter how much we tried she just didn't want to come. Still determined that we would have a great night we all bundled into the car only to have another child in tears as they didn't want to eat the same place as everyone else. So we decided to make her happy and cross town to where she wanted to eat...only the traffic was so bad we were late for the display and missed the first 15mins to which another child got all upset as they didn't want to eat they only wanted to see the display and not only were we late but most of the roads were closed so we could only watch from a far distance. However we were still going to make the most of it when the mobile phone rang, my father in law needed Bruce to go straight across town to visit with his sister in hospital so we left the display and went over to visit with Angela, we took her out in the car, and went to some high hills in the city to try and see some more fireworks but there just weren't that many around this year. So even though the evening did not go as I anticipated Spending time with family doing something different was good!