Thanks Giving

We were invited to Sabrina's and Damith's for Thanks Giving there were 16 of us including 3 children and we had a great time.

Cody's First Thanks Giving

Picture of Damith carving the turkey with Sabrina getting the rest of the food out of the oven.

Steffan and Brandy giving a hand

Siew Gin waiting to get the photographs.

It was an enjoyable day and Tyler enjoyed eating Turkey.

Steak at Damith's

We were invited to go to Damith and Sabrina's for steak, I think Lloyd was quite upset that three of us wanted out steak well done. It was cooked to perfection and it was nice to meet Sabrina's sister, brother-in-law and Lloyd Junior.

Thought I would take a picture of the steaks we all had one Hish and I only managed half.


Alan and Tyler waiting for their steaks do you like their hats

Lloyd Junior

More Pictures

Cody asleep on Grandma's Bed

So peaceful

Tyler trying out Cody's chair

Snowing in Colorado

It started snowing yesterday and when we woke up this morning there was quite a few inches of snow. I was very impressed as two tractors came just after Tyler and Alan had finished clearing the snow from the drive way and path and cleared the road. In england only the main roads get cleared and then not very quickly.

Some photos of the snow clearing.

Daddy, Tyler and Cody

Alan and Cody taken in the hospital.

Tyler looking after his new baby brother.

We have a new grandson

Cody Ryan Mills born on 1st November 2009 weight was 6lbs 6.8 ozs.

This picture was taken at the hospital just two days old

Cody leaving the hospital

He is a lovely baby and his brother Tyler is very gentle with him. Tyler was not allowed in the hospital so I have no pictures of their first meeting will get some from Siew Gin and Alan and post them later.

JAKE IS FIVE

It is Jake's birhday and he had lots of presents he was excited and so was Daniel

Openig mum and dads presents

What is there more

Opening presents from Grandma abd Grandad what can it be.

After school he had a small tea party here he is blowing out the candles with his cousin. He is having another party with friends on Monday.

Looks like his brother Daniel enjoyed the party.

After a busy day Daddy and Jake found time to make up the Wally toy.

Grandad was sorry to miss Jake's birthday but he had to work he did speak to him on the phone.

Jake also had a phone call from his cousin Tyler who lives in Denver.

To end the day grandma and Jake had a cuddle and a story from two of his new books before he went to sleep.

Jake is Five tomorrow

Last picture of Jake aged four im his school uniform he is going to be five tomorrow.

Geocaching

It was a lovely day so we thought we would go for a walk and do some geocaching as we had some Travel Bugs that we had picked up in USA and they needed to be moved on.

The walk was 8 k arround the Stourhead Estate, there are lots of lakes and wooded areas.

St Peters Pump on the estate we stopped before here for lunch.

After walking up through the woods we came out onto this lovely open area and of course there was another catch up to 6 at this point.

Going through the area where they are logging to clear trees ready for replanting some new ones, not very easy to see but I am using my new camelbak that Alan introduced us to when we were over visiting. Do not know how we managed before with just bottles.

Photo of the Travel Bug Droos Dollar which we left at number 7.

Unfortunately we did not get number 9 as it had gone missing will have to go back to do it another day. Then we went off to the National Trust restaurant for a cream tea well deserved we thought.

To round off a lovely day we then spoke to Siew Gin, Alan and Tyler on Skype he is growing up so fast and we saw some lovely pictures of him I expect Siew Gin will put a link on her blog.

Leaving Denver

Cannot believe that the holiday is over we have really enjoyed our time with Siew Gin, Alan and Tyler. We have had a great time and have enjoyed getting to know our grandson, he is really good and brings a lot of joy.

He learnt some new words while we were in the USA very useful one of them was Harold he is a helicopter and also grandad.



Alan and Tyler seeing us leave

Last picture of Grandma, Grandad and Tyler

Weekend in Colorado Springs

Damith and Tyler watching the game

It was the state games and we went down to Colorado Springs for the weekend. They played on the Saturday and we enjoyed a very pleasant time, Alan and Siew Gin did not play as they were organising the event.

It was Steffan's birthday and this is the banner the gang made for him.

On Saturday evening we went out for a very good meal to celebrate Steffans birthday, the staff sang happy birthday to him.

Tyler riding with the suitcases leaving the hotel on Sunday morning.

We all went to a very posh hotel for brunch the food was delicious and there was just about everything you could think of to eat. Patrick and I may quite a few trips to the buffet.

Hotel

Waiting for the others to arrive the setting of the hotel really beautiful.

Siew Gin and Alan enjoying the brunch

A walk after the brunch

Damith and Tyler watching the ducks in the hotel grounds

Wiggles

Siew Gin booked tickets for us all to go and see the Wiggles they were much older than I thought, the children all enjoyed the show. Tyler was very quite to start with but I think he ejoyed himself.

Wiggles on stage

Siew Gin, Alan and Tyler getting into the mood

Holiday in USA

Great flight over we had an upgrade it was really good to have real knives and forks and be able to lie out flat to sleep we could get used to this.

Tyler and Alan met us at Denver Airport and we could not believe how he had grown although I had seen him in January. Quick trip to Broomfield and to meet up with Siew Gin.

Grandad and Grandma meeting Tyler

Up todate Pictures of Grandsons

Some happy photo's of my grandsons. (They always seem to be happy and smiling)

Jake enjoying hiding and eating an apple.

Tyler has a new bike and he looks so proud.

(took this from mum and dad's blog)

Daniel he has one tooth now and is always smiling

Tyler relaxing he is always smiling and is growing up so fast. It was great seeing him on skype on Sunday not only does he like books, he also likes writing and the phone.

Jake is now into Ben 10 this photo was taken for Grandad.

Look everyone not only do I crawl but I can stand up and walk round the furniture.

Weekend vist to Eden Project

Patrick and I went down to Cornwall on friday to visit the Eden Project it is something Patrick has wanted to do for some time. The weather was perfect and very warm.

So after a Lazy breakfast we set off and of course did some geocaching on the way.

Lovely views from here over Bodmin unfortunately it was still misting so not a great picture.

Next cache we approached from the wrong way so it was a long walk but very enjoyable and we saw some great views of the country side. Picture of Patrick on one of the bridges.

The off to the Eden Project it would be very busy here during the summer never seen so many car parks.

View of the Domes at the Eden Project (one of the James Bond films was shot here and Patrick and I made the leather outfit for James Bond in fact we made quite a few as the stunt men needed them as well)

Spring is here there were lovely spring flowers all the way down to the domes.

This was in the Mediterranean dome which also had some desert areas

There were lots of figures of bulls and animals they were to guard the grapes

Waterfall in the jungle dome they had tried to represent different area's it was very hot in here.

This is the Malayan jungle showing a hut.

After spending some time in this section with all the tropical fruit we headed off for coffee and to see the rest of the project.

On Sunday we headed off home and did some more sight seeing and of course geocaches. We visited some really lovely villages.

This is the Jamaica Inn which used to be on the old A30 before they put in the new road, unfortunately we were too early for lunch

We found this very small pub for lunch it used to be a cottage and is now called the Post and Pint. It was very small only a few locals were there but the food was really great.