What a weekend!

We have had a very fun filled but hectic weekend. John A, Kristen, Brennan and Jonathan arrived back from their trip to the USA. They spent some time with my parents before returning home on Friday afternoon to find a very cold house. Their central heating boiler had broken down - So they repacked some bags and along with my parents came up to our house in the hope of getting it fixed on Monday or Tuesday. So our house just managed to accommodate 6 adults and 3 kids! At the same time we still had our Christmas tree up since we were going to have a second Christmas with them when they got back. So on Saturday evening we went out to dinner as part of our Christmas celebration, on Sunday evening we had a finger food dinner party to celebrate David's birthday (which was on the Monday). JA and family went back down to their house on Tuesday evening. My parents left on Wednesday afternoon. It was just as well they all came as it turned out to be one of the coldest few days we have had this year with regular snow falls. The best part was that on Sunday afternoon we got our Christmas tree down! I could not believe how much space we had, it had been up so long I had forgotten what it was like to have room. Though there were so many of us in the house we seemed to have enough room and we had some great fun. The kids all coped great and seemed to have fun with all the attention from grandparents and aunts and uncles.




My sweet wee nephew, Jonathan.




Cousin bubble fun - Jonathan, Brennan and Abby




Sweet cuddles with Grannie



Dada's forest fire, I mean birthday cake. (I'll post more on David's birthday later)



Story time.



Out in the snow.