December 17th. Birthday treat.

Every year, our kids get the choice of a birthday party , or a birthday treat. For the last 5 or so years, Fraser has chosen a birthday treat. Some dinner, maybe some bowling or a movie and he gets to bring a friend.

This year he chose for us to go to an all you can eat chinese buffet and then to the cinema to see Arthur Christmas. We had such a blast! Beebs and Lor Lor came with us and made it even more fun.


First up was lunch at Jimmy Chung's.

Sigh.

Here are the boys, attempting to eat their body weight in jelly.

K with her new friend, Petal.

Next time Granny C wants something collected, I'm volounteering! Apparently you get to buy toys with the change.....

Sorry ladies, I know I said I wouldn't put it in but well......

and Peaty was there too, he was just sitting next to me and somehow evaded the lens! Hmm must keep an eye out for that in the future.

Special Christmas Emmy came to enjiy the fun (of course.) She even gets her own little seat in the cinema.

I found one! See he was there, well I think it's him!

The boys got their own special seats, as far away form us as they could get! LOL. Just kidding, but 13 year old boys do like popcorn, juice and then left alone.

Wehad a quick stop at Tesco, not to stock up on food (we could still hardly move after lunch) , but to get a few essentials for the big day.

I totally started pointing and shrieking could hardly contain my excitement when we pulled up and saw Santa outside. We had had such a fantastic day, just watched a magical Christmas film and then it was finished off by a quick visit with the big cheese.

It could only have been bettered if it snowed.

It didn't.

But the day was still awesome.

A challenge!

Last week I was cruising around blogland, as I like to do, and I came across a button on Mrs Spoonful's very sweet blog. It was a button I could just not resist clicking on!

( Here is the link because I am not clever enough to work out the button , sorry )

I may have mentioned it once or twice, but I LOVE this film. I love the characters, I love the sweetness, I love the New York setting.

Sigh.

So anyway, once I had clicked on this cute button, it took me to a site where there was a challenge running. Now this challenge actually began back on Jan 1st, but I emailed the sweet lady who is in charge and I am allowed to join in! Yay!

The challenge is basically to read as many of the books, featured/mentioned throughout the film, as you can throughout the year.

I am super excited to get started! I love to read, although I am not exactly into the classics. I am a Jodi Picoult, John Grisham, Cecelia Ahern kind of gal.

I am determined to read Pride and Prejudice during this challenge but I don't think I will start with something quite so, um  challenging.

And  until I ask the ever so nice Librarian if I can return to the library to borrow books, after I was struck off for having books out for too long, (oops) and promise to return them on time, I will need to use what I have. And what do I have on hand?? Well it just so happens I have a son who adores Roald Dahl books and has the whole collection.
Back in my childhood I read every children's book written by this fine man , but it will be fun to take a trip down memory lane and enjoy the magic that he can create with his amazing words. I will start with Boy, as I think that is the one that Kathleen is reading as the Story Lady in the film.

Here is a little bit of one of my favourite feel good films, it even has a little bit of Christmas in it!

It's like it was made for me!