Very sad that the year is over and it is the end of my blog.

Thank you to everyone for helping me comptete the activities, for being fun, for all the lovely birthday presents and taking the time to read this blog! Becasue of this I am now 40 and it was quite painless getting there!

I have enjoyed this year (mostly- not sure about the abseiling!) and enjoyed reporting everything on this blog. It has meant I have a record of what has happened and a place to put all the photos and videos. And it has meant everyone can see what happened - especially important as my relatives live so far away.  In fact I have enjoyed it so much I have created a new blog! Yes a chance to bore everyone further! The new blog is to report the activities of the Wallace family rather than just me though.

If you're interested follow this link:

www.whereswallaces.blogspot.co.uk

Final one of the list completed: number 6 -have a PJ day (well we all wore onesies for a day).

So it all started on Christmas eve:

George left an apple and glass of milk for Father Christmas- the message in the plate explains how the apple is healthy for a change!!

Lots of presents!!

 

We all got onsies as presents (thank you!!)

 

Putting them on:

 

First Iain and Sophie

 

Then George put his on.

 

Finally we all had them on

Don't we look good

 

 

Christmas dinner in our onsies

 

 

 

Later we played rapido, animal quiz and doggy doo (thank you Father Christmas for such a lovely game!!)

 

 Feed the dog

 

Roll the dice and pump the lead (causing lovely noises until poop comes out!).

The winner is the first to scoop 3 poops

Once the children had gone to bed Iain and I played Trivial Pursuit too.

A successful onesie day - number 6 completed and the last one on the list.

 



All videos of New York now added

Latest photo of plant. It seems to have survived this year! No flowers yet though so no money! Ha ha

 

Also added this to the nurture a plant for a year page.

 

Completed Number 10

Completed the penultimate one of my list.

Changed number number 16: Try a Segway (new way to travel) to:

Try a new technique in the kitchen.

So yesterday I made a yule log. For this I had to separate 6 eggs - in my 40 years I don't remember having to separate eggs before - how sad is that!! Probably because I am very likely to pop the yoke and spoil it!!

Here is the lovely yule log.

 George liked it!

I am also posting a picture of my Christmas cake - it is a reindeer (not a dog!!)

Finally finished the videos of our trip to New York. They are taking time to upload.

Day 6 uploaded today.

Hopefully I will get the videos up soon. But Christmas is coming soon.

Up loaded day 5 (see new page). Only one more day to write about and a couple of videos to make!!

Still got two things left to do on blog. Will I finish this blog before the end of 2012??

Day 3 and 4 written about and new page created.

Photo of fellow tap dancers from the Wednesday night beginners class with Miss Marie.

Day 2 of New York trip uploaded (see new page).

Working on videos!!

Looking over previous entries I could:

Dye my hair
Cook a new cuisine
Try a new cuisine

Iain suggests I dye my hair red as it is Christmas! Is this a good idea?

Segway cancelled today - too rainy and slippery! Won't have chance to do this before end of this year. Need to change blog! Need to think of something else to do instead of Segway.

What's left:
Sing karaoke
Segway

I was thinking of changing singing karaoke to 'hold a pj/karaoke party'- invite friends to come over in pjs to sing karaoke with us! Not sure how many would come! Ha ha but this was going to be the last thing on the list and therefore a chance to celebrate the end of the list and thank everyone who helped me complete it (by asking them to sing in their pjs- some thanks!!). And to do this would need a karaoke machine too!

If I do that what can I do instead of Segway? Only 2 weeks or so left in 2012!

What to do?

I have decided to create a new page for each day of our NY trip. And then a few videos too.

Day one complete - take a look at the link.

First video completed - see video page

Number 25 completed - See an old flame.

I have re-named number 25 from Go to America and see the sites to  --  see an old flame. I have created a whole new page for this.

There where 386 photos and 45 videos - I may need more than one page to document this one!!

Make take a few days to update!!

Completed number 15: Go out in disguise.

Went to Newbury today to take part in a Santa jog in aid of the BHF. Ran around Victoria Park with Clair Gowing (and George and Catherine joined in!!).

Of course I have created a short video montage (after the photos!!!)

 

Before the start



 

Warming up

Running

We got a medal at the end.

The video