Birthday and a Party!

 

 

On the 18th, I finally got to call myself 12! I was going to go and see The Nutcracker for my birthday, but I didn't really want to see it, so instead I went to Milton Keynes for Dinner and Christmas Shopping with my mom and dad! When we got there, we went for a delicious meal at the Coal. I had a full meat dinner that consisted of chicken, pork and beef! It was absolutely to die for! Unfortunately, when I'd finished I was way too full for a desert.

After we had stuffed ourselves with meat, we went shopping. The Christmas lights were lovely and the shops were full of Christmas shoppers! We didn't really buy much, but it was still a nice day out. I felt like my feet were going to drop off by the time we'd finished!

Now, time for the most exciting part! Unwrapping my presents took longer than I thought it would because I had so many! I got a lovely bag from Eileen and some very sweet smelling bath bombs and nail paints from Stephen and Ian. I also got some more Warrior Cats books and a little Minecraft figure from mom and dad. I also got TABINOF! (The Amazing Book is not on Fire!)

However, the best thing I got was a massive chunk of ham! It was amazing!

Now for the second part of this blog post: my Pre-Christmas Party! Liv-Astrid and her brothers, Tilly, Lavinia,William and George came. We did loads of fun things like going to the park and playing Mario Kart against each other!

Mom prepared us a delicious buffet with chicken skewers, pizza, other little bits and bobs and even some salad! It was really late when everyone left, so I'm clearly a good party host.

There's not much time to relax now though, it's Christmas in 2 days! I can't wait!

Knebworth Christmas Party!

It's Snowing!

Just like last year, it was snowing in Knebworth! Only it wasn't real snow, it was a fake foamy snow. It was still really fun to play in! Today was the Knebworth Christmas Party. There was quite a bit of painting to do and lots of crafts, but the most delicious part of the party was decorating cupcakes!

Mmmmm!

There were also some cups of warm, melted chocolate that you could make your very own chocolate button with. All you had to do was get a spoonful  of the chocolate and make a little circle on a sheet of greaseproof paper paper and sprinkle anything you wanted on it! I sprinkled blue and white snowflake sugar decorations and some shiny silver balls! Once you'd finished decorating, you just had to wait for it to set then you could pick it up!
You could also stick 3 scrummy marshmallows on a skewer, dunk them into the warm chocolate and roll them in sugary sweets. And then you just eat!

The most eventful thing of the party was the Bucking Reindeer! I had a go on it, but I made sure the operator of it knew I wanted it to go slow! It was like it was in slow motion! Maybe next time I'll go a little faster.

There was also a stall that had a competition to see if you could throw two little balls into a bucket, and if you did, you won a prize. I only managed to do it once, and I won a lovely, little grey bear!

Next, it was time for some competitions! There was a competition to see if you could guess how many sweets were in a box (which I completely failed at!), and also a thing that was kind of a raffle. We all had to line up and when it was our turn, we could pick a lollipop from a massive tray of them. If the lollipop you picked had a short stick, you won a snowman toy (I didn't win that one, either)! There was also a series of dancing competitions. Me, Tilly and Lavinia had some awesome moves!

We even did a pyramid with 2 other people! The judge clearly didn't notice us, as we didn't even get one prize.

Even if I didn't win a prize, I still had a great day! I can't wait for next year!

A week of Tilly!

I'm not a crafty person, but if there's a time of year that you should try out crafts, it's Christmas! At Gamlingay, the theme was Christmas Crafts! I painted a little wooden star a with sparkly, golden paint. I think it looked quite pretty! I also made a  Christmas card. I used a crayon to draw a Christmas tree on it. I tried to write on it, but because it was a black card, the pens didn't come up very well. It still looked nice though!

Christmas Stars

Last Thursday, I went swimming with Tilly and Lavinia! We had a great time and played loads of games. After swimming, Tilly came home with me for a two night sleepover! We decorated a Gingerbread house each with a wide selection of delicious sweets. After we had decorated the houses, we dusted them with some icing sugar, It was really cool (and mouth watering!) at the end!

Sweet Gingerbread Houses

We also tried to bake some Gingerbread men. Easier said than done! The dough wouldn't clump together very well, and it kept cracking and breaking apart. When we'd finished, the cookies did turn out quite good, though. We hung some on the tree, and now the room smells like ginger! Mmm!

Gingerbread men and cookies

After the sleepover, we took Tilly back to her mom and went back home.

But that wasn't the end, because we met Tilly and Lavinia again on Thursday and took her back for another sleepover! This time, it was a 5 night sleepover! The first thing we did was go out shopping.  We got loads of crafty things to do! We got a pack of 6 cardboard boxes and painted them. We did some really beautiful designs, and I'm really proud of them!

Christmas Crafts

I'm really pleased with our boxes

While we were out shopping we stopped for a little meal. I had a tasty cheese and ham toastie, while Tilly had a Tuna Melt and a massive hot chocolate on the side! The hot chocolate was massive!

Matching hats!

Next we went to see Santa's Grotto and feed the animals. There were Reindeer, Llamas and Goats and they all LOVED carrots. Luckily, the man at the till selling the carrots gave us a big bag. They didn't last long though!

The Llamas loved the carrots!

You can never have too many carrots when there are Reindeer to feed!

The Llama look so funny when they are chewing!

 Later, once it was dark, we went to see the Christmas lights in the gardens at Springfields. They were beautiful. There were little penguins and foxes and polar bears all twinkling in the darkness.

So Christmassy!

We did even more crafts. We made soaps (which didn't turn out very well) and Bath Bombs (which turned out very well indeed!) We put them in little bags, tied with ribbon and added a gift tag. They will make lovely Christmas presents.

Bath Bomb Christmas Presents

I painted and decorated a little wooden chest. It took a lot of coats of paint but it turned out lovely. I am going to store my pony rosettes in it.

Tilly made Christmas Stockings for her and Lavinia. Mom helped to embroider their names on them. They are so cute. I didn't make one as I already have a stocking with my name on it.

Rudolph!

Monday, it was time for Pony Club! It was a lot more fun having Tilly there. She seemed to be a bit nervous though; she forgot to breath while she was trotting!



Breath Tilly!!

In between all of the pony clubbing, crafts and baking, we played a bit of Sims and even wrote a story! The story was about our tribe of people that were being terrorised by a dragon, and how we had to seek advice from the mysterious Warrior cats. Unfortunately, we only had time to do about one chapter!
On Tuesday, we went swimming again and said goodbye to Tilly. Can't wait until next time!

Merry Christmas!