Week Fifty

I can't believe we've reached week fifty already!  Here are the highlights:

Alfie has been finding it hard to get up in the mornings, the lazy hound!

It was so cold the pond froze over!

I still went swimming though, obviously in a swimming pool and not the frozen pond :)

Zumba was fun and the hall was very festive :)

Me and my girl spent a lot of time chilling :)

Santa visited the town :)

And then the building opposite work caught fire!

Tiles were ripped by hand from the roof!

Then they called in the big guns!

And the high street turned in to a car park for 12 fire engines! It took a couple of hours for the fire to be put out and I don't think there were any serious injuries.

I gained half a pound at slimming this week, my first gain in over 22 weeks!  I still enjoyed my festive dirty pudding though :)

After work on Friday I had to cut a set of broken lights off of the Christmas tree for the second year running!

Then I baked 18 mince pie cupcakes and 18 coffee cupcakes!

Before making 14 Christmas cards!

All for my Christmas crop on Saturday :)

I started the day as I meant to go on with a festive treat :)

Then a delicious buffet for lunch :)

There were homemade crackers and a secret Santa and it really was a great day.

In the evening I went out with the girls to the Christmas party at the bingo where I enjoyed my second buffet of the day!

Entertainment was laid on and the singer sat at our table to serenade the girls :)

On Sunday I was straight back on plan and up and out early to get my 10,000 steps done :)

I got the car cleaned.

And spent the rest of the day watching Christmas films :)

We had a lovely sunset :)

Maddie joined me to watch Elf :)

And then in the evening, after dinner, we snuggled on the sofa and watched Christmas Vacation while I finished crocheting a Christmas present :)

So I had a really lovely week and a fantastic weekend!

I hope you're feeling as festive as I am :)

Thanks for stopping by
Jo xx

Week Forty Nine

Week forty nine was brilliant, here are the highlights:

It was freezing cold but I still went for a 50 length swim :)

We had a few laughs in the office :)

Zumba was great and certainly warmed me up!

Maddie wanted to do her Charlie's Angels pose!

Our weekend started at 12:30 on Wednesday and the sun was shinning :)

This cheeky minx wanted us to have a photo with our hats on :)

My friend Steph travelled down from Yorkshire and stayed with me for a couple of days :)

We put the Christmas tree up :)

And started our #jandsadventselfie photos :)

Alfie was so pleased that he hadn't been left out of the advent calendars :)

I lost 2.5lbs and was Slimmer of the Week :)

I then met up with my friend Davide:

And he treated me to this amazing dirty pudding :)

Some arsehole hit my car!

I dropped Alice off at school, I think she was a bit excited!

This is one of my favourite Christmas traditions, drinking Disaronno while wrapping presents and watching Christmas films :)

And now I'm all done and can put my feet up and enjoy the rest of the season :)

I went to dinner at Sarah's, she decided to make me a fancy coffee but I ended up with a cup of ground coffee beans! :)

On Saturday morning I was hanging!

But I went to Sarah's to help put her Christmas decorations up, Bingo joined in :)

She decorates like a toddler, I had to keep moving bits so they weren't all clustered together.  I think she just gets a bit excited :)

At bingo in the evening they gave us these cute Christmas pugs :)

On Sunday morning I had a lovely walk over the golf course:

I then spent the afternoon making coffee cupcakes and creating mincemeat cupcakes with a brandy butter frosting :)

Before soaking in the bath with my Christmas scented bubble bath :)

This week is going to be lovely and quite but there are some great things going on at the weekend.

Have a great week and thanks for stopping by
Jo xx