Busy busy busy !

I haven't written for a while as firstly i didnt have anything to sat that was even remotely interesting and then i was busy panicking about Emily's birthday celebrations at the weekend. I had decided to start excercising regularly last week but events and a bout of sinusitis conspired against me. Emily's birthday celebrations went really well including the family BBQ that i thought would end in disaster.

We went to Southend beach on Saturday and Emily had her first "toe in the sea" experience and made a sandcastle too.

We had a wonderful day (Em, her dad and i) but had to set off for home earlier than expected as it was about to storm. I had really been looking forward to eating out at a pub or restaurant too. Before we left and after we had been round the Sea Life Centre (which was great) Emily had eaten a large quantity of fruit and drunk one and a half Fruit Shoots. In the car she proceeded to get tired and whingy and eventually got herself so worked up that she puked all of said fruit and fruit shoots up over her new car seat, the car and all of herself.

I was so worried that Emily was going to choke on the half strawberries that she was bringing up that we had to stop in a bus stop layby off a dual carriageway. I crouched down to clean her up and the only pair of jeans that fit me ripped at the top of the leg rendering them useless. We got back in the car and continued on our way after a lengthy clean up and were just about to go onto the M25 when the storm hit. It hailed and rained so hard that Jon (Em's dad) could hardly see to drive. I mentioned to him that perhaps it was nature's way of telling us that we shouldn't actually go anywhere ever. He didn't seem to find this funny and was not impressed. Lol. I treated us to a chinese to make up for it when we got back.

The BBQ on the Sunday was at my Aunt's house and we needed to get a cake and now some new trousers for me to wear that day too. We picked my sister up just after 1pm and set off for Asda in Hatfield where Jon works. I got my trousers and the cake and just before 2.15pm we set off for the BBQ. I was panicking at this point as i thought we were going to be late but somehow we still arrived at 2.30 at my Aunt's house.

The BBQ was already on when we arrived, the garden looked great and everyone was in high spirits. We had some food, drank some drinks and entertained the kids for a while with bubbles. Then my sister got the cricket set out and she, my uncle, Jon and my mum's boyfriend played that with hilarious results and a lot of competition too. We all left at about 6pm (a lot later than we had planned to) tired, fed and happy. We dropped my sis off at her house and i came home and put Em to bed.

Today i have woken up with the need to make cakes for Mother and Baby tomorrow and to implement my idea for a fitness regime. I have in my head to do my Yogalates DVD on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and to do a "walk, run, walk, run" on Thursday and Sunday when Jon is here. I have planned to record my weight each day, the food i have eaten during the day and what exercise i have done too. So my next post (two in a day again) will show this.