Some pictures .....because I have been really too lazy to take any recently and decided I need to download some to keep up the interest. Also not taking pics has somehting to do with a 21 month old person in the house who screams MINE as soon as she sees the camera and grabs it from me to take pictures, she holds the camera at arms length and pulls a very scrunched up funny face! I have deleted loads but they were funny!

Today we were at a christening for our good friends little girl Lilly, they live about half an hour away and were the ones responsible for us looking at houses in South Northants...! and a great decision it has been so far too!

I now know why I am mainly only wearing flat shoes these days....today I wore a pair of high heeled pointy black stretchy boots...coming down the stairs in Sara's house carrying Nelly and ooops got the pointy heel caught in the carpet and came tumbling down the stairs, twisted my ankle and the heel came away from the boot! They were about three years old but they were the best ones...! Oh well back to the flat ones - check out the picture of the latest bargain acquired in Tesco in terms of boots!

It was a year ago today that we got this message from BLAS at 8 03 am....

Dear Family

We are glad to inform you that CCAA has finished the new matching and you are lucky to be matched a child. CCAA has already sent the orgininal referrals to DfES the day before yesterday.

We have already got all the referrals for UK families from CCAA and sent them to be translated but unfortunately CCAA has not informed us the child's name to each family because they think it is fair to all the families. We are sorry we are not albe to send the translation to you at the moment. Please let us know your child's name when you receive the original referrals or when you got the name from DfES. We will try to send the translation to you immediately. Thank you for your understanding.

Have a nice weekend!

With Best Wishes

Consulting Department
BLAS

Tomorrow will be the anniversary of the letter that came through telling us her name and where she came from, date of birth etc...We were dancing on air for days! I remember the day so well ....what a wonderful years we have had!




Sara and Lilly before the vicar came towards her with the water!

after the baptism...
Nelly in residence on her snack step in the kitchen....
ONe of Nelly's pics....think the Tesco boots are looking good though - think I should go and buy a second pair !
Nelly munching raisins in church!

OK this is what the blue kitchen really looks like - we got sick of people coming in thinking that we had blue units so last weekend decided to pull off some of the protective plastic/...
Our new kitchen chairs - since putting them out in the kitchen at the stainless steel topped table we , well me in particualr , could start her own power station from the shoocks I have been gettting from things in the kitchen. We think it may be the polypropolene chairs and the friction on the floor...any ideas greatly appreciated - I get shocks odd Nelly, the Aga, juice cartons...!Rob!

Rob looking a tad perplexed! will this ever be finished!