Christmas Tag!

Since its a month to Christmas Day thought I would post this!

1) What is your favourite Christmas movie?

I have two that really get me in the Christmas spirit! Two very different movies

First one is National Lampoons Christmas Vacation I love Chevy Chase and this movie is always saved for Christmas week in our house with a glass of Baileys!
The other on is It's A Wonderful Life we always watch this movie either on Christmas Eve or Christmas day.

2) Do you open your presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning?
I guess I'm a little lucky that my birthday is on Christmas Eve so I always have presents to open on Christmas Eve! I remember as a child my brother would get upset that he has no presents to open, so he was always allowed to open one small present from under the tree on Christmas Eve!!

3) Do you have a favourite Christmas memory?
I have so many wonderful Christmas memories ones with my brother as always extra special since he is no longer with us. I do have a lovely memory of our last Christmas with my Nanny when I was 11 she had a huge party in her house Christmas Day we had lots of fun, games, music and all our family around us. I am looking forward to my first Christmas as a Mammy and making lots more memories

4) Favourite festive food?

Turkey! I really love turkey especially my Mam's or my husbands. I also really love my Mam's homemade stuffing she has passed the recipe on to my hubby. He does a good job but no one can beat my Mam's stuffing it's the best! Just the smell of it reminds me of Christmas! 

5) Favourite Christmas gift?

Does my baby boy count? He was born the 27th December last year and he was the best late Christmas present I ever got!

6) Favourite Christmas scent?

The smell of all the lovely things cooking coming from the kitchen! Perfume wise I always wear Tommy Girl around Christmas as it reminds me of my brother. My favourite candle to burn is Christmas Eve or Cherries on Snow by Yankee Candle 

7) Do you have any Christmas Eve traditions?

We have alot of different Christmas Eve traditions because my birthday is Christmas Eve it's slightly birthday and Christmas things! I always have breakfast in bed with bucks fizz and open presents. Hubby prepares tomorrows dinner and then we always go to my parents for dinner. We then usually go for a couple of birthday drinks in our local pub, last year this didn't happen as I was heavily pregnant, this year we are not sure because of Oisín.  Looking forward to my first birthday with my little one!

8) What tops your tree?

A large gold star tops our tree

9) As a kid what was the one (crazy, wild, extravagent) gift you always asked for but never received?

I can't say I ever asked for an extravagant gift! What ever I asked for I got, but we never asked for huge extravagant gifts! 

10) What's the best part about Christmas for you?
Spending it with the people I love and care about. Family time. This year will be even more special as we now have a little one in our house hold and the magic of Christmas is just about to be re-discovered all over again.

What We Got Up To This Month - December 2013

Hey Everyone wow, can't believe 2013 is over and we are the are heading into a fresh new year! 2013 has been a crazy whirlwind for us and the most life changing amazing year. December was the month when everything changed, from the the very start of the month when slow labour pains started for me, to mid month when I felt sore, heavy, and fat, to Christmas and then giving birth to the most amazing beautiful little boy! Here what we got up this month:

- Having wonderful friends who brought up treats for me after getting discharged from hospital with slow labour pains

- Pretty flowers from friends

- Watching Little Blip grown and my bump drop!

- Paul's Christmas slippers!

- Trying to get into the Christmas spirit while in slow labour!

- Having a pamper day getting nails and hair done

- Birthday treat from hubby meal out at Jamie Oliver's!

- Lovey birthday meal out

- Beautiful Christmas lights at Dundrum

- Being prepared for Christmas encase I went into labour early!

- Snuggling while watching a Christmas Carol

- A lovely Naivety scene

- Little soft toys from Nanny for Little Blip!

- Having bad labour pains so having a duvet day and watching old game shows!

- Getting ready for Blip!

- Can't not watch The Snowman at Christmas!

- Paul and Dad on Christmas Eve

- Me and Mam raise a glass for my birthday on Christmas Eve

- Mam and Dad in the Christmas spirit on Christmas Day!

- Merry Christmas

- Me on Christmas Day ready to pop!

- Lovely Christmas presents

- The best Christmas present we could ever get our Little Blip Oisín Furey was born on the 27th December. This picture is when he was 20 minutes old!

- Our beautiful little boy!

- Our home smells of beautiful flowers 

- Smiles on New Years Eve

December you have been very good to us, as has 2013! Hope 2014 will be just as good as year filled with milestones we are ready for you!

Five Things 41/52

It was a little hard to pick five things this weekend as I am still in slow labour and in alot if pain! But I am trying to keep positive here is my five things from the weekend:

Pretty flowers to cheer me up from a lovely friend!

Pre-Christmas and pre-baby gifts from a thoughtful friend and her family. I am so lucky to have such great friends and family x

My very cute and thoughtful hubby went out and filled the fridge with enough champagne and alcohol to wet the baby's head ten times over!! That is if baby ever decides to come out!!

Settling down and relaxing while watching one of my favourite TV shows

Nesting went up a gear this weekend and I felt like everything had to get done this weekend!

So that's my five things what's yours?

Five Things 27/52

Hey everyone hope your weekend went well and your Monday is not too bad for you! Today is our 2nd wedding anniversary! We had a lovely but busy weekend filled with birthdays, weddings and wedding anniversary's!

Friday night I put my new pyjamas on, lit a Yankee candle, made a cup of hot chocolate and read a good book. I love these new pyjamas and the top says how I feel!

Settling down Friday night and reading a good book.

Being prepared for the craziness of the past weekend and the next few weeks! We have two weddings, birthdays, and two wedding anniversary's!! I like to be prepared as you can tell from this picture!

Getting ready for our friends 30th birthday party.Wearing my new ASOS dress which I got took up!! I really like it better now I teamed it up with tights and boots!

Going out for an anniversary meal on Sunday with the hubby. We went to the Anvil the food there is amazing we really enjoyed our dinner well I might of had a little of Paul's too!!

What's your five things? Enjoy the rest of the week,

Five Things 24/52

Happy Monday! Hope you all had a great weekend. We had a nice one spent with family, friends, yummy food and a chill out Sunday!

Getting a lovely surprise from my best friend's elderly Granny! She is a lovely woman who has being praying for us since I got told I had PCOS she was delighted when we told her I was pregnant. She sent my friend down to us with a bag of goodies for little blip! How sweet and how thoughtful I was almost crying when my friend gave me the bag.....blip's first presents!

My other friend met me for lunch over the weekend and bought me a lovely box of  chocolates which I enjoying eating while watching the season finale of Game of Thrones!

Finding this great body lotion I have dry skin in my legs and elbows so it great for that but I also use it every day on my bump and I am finding it great.

A lot of people may not agree with me and I don't normal drink since I got pregnant. I have to admit I am missing large glasses of white wine in the summer evenings or a glass of red wine with my dinner! I have been drinking non alcoholic wine but I did have a small glass of Guinness with a drop of blackcurrant in my parents the weekend. My iron levels where low and I had bad trapped wind so I though the Guinness might help. I have to say I did enjoy a little glass of the black stuff and I am sure it done no harm to little blip. It doesn't mean I am going to drink it again soon though!

Finding the website ASOS and ordering this dress I am thinking I could wear it for the rest of the summer like this and then team it with tights, boots, and a cardigan in the winter.

What are your five things for the weekend? Do you agree with drinking alcohol while pregnant? Do you think the odd glass of red wine or Guinness is okay? Or do you think its a big no no?

Love / Hate

I know we are only a few days into January but here are some of my love / hates at the moment!

 

 

Hate

 

 

* The thoughts of taking down our Christmas tree this weekend - I took down most of the decorations but I will miss the twinkle of the Christmas lights.

 

* Lazy people in work -who do nothing and give out when there asked to do something, you do know you getting paid to work here right?!

 

* Doing housework - and then five minutes later the place looking dirty again!!

 

* Tax & PRSI charges going up again - my payslip is getting less income and more tax my the day!

 

 

Love

 

 

* Getting pictures our little niece Molly over Christmas -  makes me want to take a trip to Sweden to she here really soon!

 

* All the lovely Christmas presents family & friends got me - I really got spoiled!

 

* Getting back to work -maybe the walking to and from will help shed the Christmas weight!

 

* My parents - I love them so much and I think sometimes I take them a little for granted will try not to do that much this year.

 

 

What are you loving & hating this week?

 

 



 

 

 



Surprise Presents!!

All Thanks to a wonderful sister in law. Thanks Sarah for all the lovely goodies cant wait to have a lovely pamper night :) xxxxxx