Big Snow in January

These pictures were taken when we had a lot of snow and very cold temperatures at the start of January. The icicles were hanging from the front of our house, and were about a foot long! I was very nervous about walking anywhere underneath them!























Ben in his igloo that he helped Ian to build.

Zoe moving snow

Christmas Day 2009

Here are a few of my favourite photos from Christmas Day. I'm not going to inflict you with pictures of me in my pyjamas at 7 am, you'll be glad to hear! Above is Ben and Zoe being their usual selves!


















And here we have them behaving for the camera for once!
























The traditional Christmas family photo.



















Ben showing off one of his many presents!

Zoe and her pushchair. She loves her pushchair - woe betide anyone who tries to touch it!

Snowy Christmas Eve!

When it snowed on Christmas Eve, I decided I wasn't going to risk life & limb getting Ben and Zoe over to the childminder's, so we had a lovely day in the snow instead! This was the first time Zoe had really seen snow, and she seemed rather impressed with it!









Then Ian came home from work and helped us to make a snowman. He's rather impressive, don't you think? (the snowman, not Ian!)

Ben's Fifth Birthday

Ben is now at the stage where he will quite happily help me with baking and more importantly, has the patience to stay till the end, when he gets to eat the cake mix from the bowl :-D Here he is helping me to make the chocolate fairy cakes for his birthday party.



The Stegosaurus cake - a feat of cake engineering if ever there was one!



















Dinosaur themed party food! (and the aforementioned chocolate fairy cakes)

And the birthday boy doing the honours with his cake.

And, needless to say, Zoe had a good time too - mmmmm, chocolate!

Ben's first day at School

In September, Ben started school. Here he is looking extremely smart in his school uniform! He has settled in pretty well - he seems to enjoy it, and his teacher is lovely too.

I have been chastised by my mother for not updating this for ages, so here are some of my favourite photos from last year. We went to Whitby for a day in September. As you can see, the weather was lovely and Ben and Zoe had a marvellous day. Plus these photos are just the thing on a freezing cold February day!

I found this again when putting some photo editing software on the computer at the weekend, and thought I'd put it on here, because it makes me laugh. And before you report me to social services, the can wasn't open. ;-)