My Baby's all grown up

Am very sad tonight :( My little man is all grown up on me. Despite him turning 3 at the weekend and despite him being able to answer me back now, it really only hit me now how grown up his when he stopped looking for his BaBa. BaBa is a baby doll that my niece very generously gave to Ruairi after he had destroyed it in dribble 2 years ago. BaBa has been the fourth member of our family for the last two years, she came everywhere............holidays, wexford, town, bed......... you name it BaBa came with us. Two weeks ago BaBa got left in Wexford by mistake and Ruairi didn't ask for her, so when she was posted back we didn't give her back but she got found and the two were inseparable again. So we made a decision that when we were coming back from Wexford at the weekend we would hide her again, so BaBa is as I type in the back of my wardrobe. Ruairi hasn't asked for her not once and he's even been sick and out of sorts tonight and I am heart broken. I think I've been in denial for the last few months, trying not to notice how grown up he is getting :) I really dont know where the last 3 years have gone, it really only does seem like yesterday when the surgeon's voice came from behind the green curtain "my god that's a big baby" before holding up all 10lb 9oz of him !
So bye bye BaBa, enjoy your stay in the Wardrobe, I promise to take you out again for Ruairi's 21st!

Some Holiday Snaps

These are a very small few of our holiday photos i just downloded a few of them....







As promised a few snaps from our hols.......

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two long months

Wexford didn't win the All Ireland :( But that's not why I haven't been around. No Sheer Laziness I think is the phrase. Since I was hear last we've been on our Holiday to lovely Kerry & Cork, we did the Dingle Peninsula (sp) the ring of Kerry and the Beara Peninsula in my in-laws camper van. We really had a great time and apart from the miserable rain on the tuesday we had good weather after that, the showers all happended while we were driving and it was dry when ever we stopped. I do have loads of photos, (about 3 memory cards full!) and I will post those up later cos there are some great ones. Ruairi had a ball , he's been to every playground between here and The Kingdom, he's only request every morning when we started driving was "play ground an sea side" so we found as many of them as we could and one day we even found both in the one place! We got in loads of walking, up to the coppermine in Alihies and around Gouganbarra another day, it was great, very relaxing. My in-laws are trying to perseude us to take the van to france next year.......we'll see.

My Mam had her surprise 50th Birtday a few weeks back, we really surprised her, we thought she had twigged something was up but no. We took her for a meal in a local hotel where they had this little dining room set up just for us, whilst all the neighbours and relations were gathering in the bar, my sister and I were going in and out like mad things and she still didn't realise. We had a great night and my mam loved it, here are a few pics,

The family including my mams godmother;


My Mam and Granny


My little bro (on the right) and my cousin


So that's it for now, thanks for taking the time to read my ramblings.

Karen

C'mon de yella bellies

Off to see the match this afternoon, hope to be seeing scenes like this at about 5.30ish.........

Another Month Gone - Aghhhhhhh!

Another month has flown by and a miserable month it was too weatherwise. Our August started with a day trip to Doolin with DHs parents. Ruairi had to be shipped off to Wexford for race week as that's when the baby minder takes her holidays so the Grannies in Wexford were only delighted to have him. Alan's parents brought him back up in the Camper Van - he loved it sitting in the front with Granda looking at the world go by. On the Saturday we headed off for doolin - they were going to spend the rest of the long weekend there. We had a lesurely drive down and we all relaxed a bit in the campsite. I took some photos and this is the least wintery looking of them :-)



We hope to get away in the camper ourselves at the end of september - when the Indian Summer arrives lol. At least if it's too miserable we will be able to drive home!


I've been busy finishing off some wedding invite orders and despite thinking I got nothing else done for the month I did get to do some very nice crafty things in between. I went to my very first cardmaking day out in on Siopa Bui in Spiddal. It was brilliant. Jackie gave some lovely classes and I forget the other girl's name who did the bella's. Here are some of the cards we made on the day.




I had a fantastic day and really enjoyed the classes and the company and especially the shopping........ I bought Markers, bellas, punches, water brushes, inks, scoring boards.......I have no idea how I ever made a card before without these items :-) And I got loads of good advice from MayoMom who helped me all through the day and must have thought I was the greenest card maker ever!

So of course having got my new bella stamps I had to put them to use and ended up using two on the one card for a friend who had a load of really nice things happen to her lately and I wanted to wish her well, the most exciting of these being she is pregnant, so armed with colouring pencils, water brushes and stamps here's the result





I also manged to get me second invite order finished, do 60th Bd invites and get one or two other cards made.






Well that's it for now, that was a long post so thank you very much for taking the time to read it.

Karen xx

Tuam Sunset

When we viewed our house for the first time the estate agent told us that on a fine day you can see Croagh Patrick - That same morning we were doing well to see Tuam only 4 miles away it was a wet dark november morning at 8.00am! Well he wasn't lying! I took this pic only this evening, it would make you think it was summer!