Sunny Sunday

Mike and I are both feeling our age today after two days of "celebrations".  He had a very nice birthday on Friday with lovely presents and, of course, Becky and the boys spent the day with us.

As Dean could not join us earlier in the week, it was arranged that we would have a joint Anniverysary/Birthday dinner yesterday.  We decided on a Mexican meal as it is one of our favourites and Dean did all the cooking and preparation.  It is quite a long time since we have all managed to eat together as Dean works long hours and is often on stand-by and gets called out over the weekends.  We all ate too much of course.  Where little Nathan puts it all, I have no idea but he burns off so much energy because he never stands still for two minutes, that no doubt he needs it.  He polished off a large helping of chicken, salad, hard boiled egg, two helpings of ice cream and a chocolate biscuit.  Not his normal diet but - we were celebrating. He danced the whole time Strictly Come Dancing was on, he loves that programme so much.  He is a natural.

Dancing with Mummy

Baby Daniel was quite content to watch and chuckled for a lot of the time.  We did not get any photos of him yesterday because it was all a bit hectic at times but no doubt I will be posting some in the future.  He will be four months old on Christmas Eve, how the time flies.

Surely, there must be some left in here!

We seem to have awakened the street because our neighbours are all putting up lights. Now there are four of us in a row.  Mike went out to take a picture but unfortunately, the occupants of home number four were out and their place was in darkness but here are the remaining three of us.

All looking very festive.  There are many more owners these days decorating outside,  some are a little over the top but it is so nice to see.  I feel it always cheers up passers-by when they see illuminated houses.

In the next street, Mike saw a visitor who had come early so I am going to leave you today with a photo of him.

So today will be a day of relaxation that is when I have dealt with the 198 items in my mail box and spam folder!  That will teach me to have yesterday away from the computer.

Here is a beautiful site, well worth a visit, so take a moment please.

TEACH THE CHILDREN THE TRUE MEANING

P.S. Mike asked me to thank you all for the wonderful Birthday wishes, he was really touched.