December already?

On Tuesday we had Mike Weaver and Mary Hampton round to dinner, Mike arrived rather unexpectedly an hour and a half early!! For some reason he had 6pm in his head and not 7.30pm...Lily entertained Mike while I continued to prepare food in the kitchen and the evening was a great success and left us with a great story to tell people.
On Thursday Nick finally got the phone call he had been waiting on and found out that he is to return to RAF Leuchars as OC Ops. This is fantastic news as we can go back and live in our own house in St Andrews and Nick gets to fly in the Typhoon.
On Saturday we had a family trip to the theatre to see 'A Christmas Story' which is a well known american christmas story, not to be confused with A Christmas Carol/Scrooge. It was alright, I think Tom & Nick enjoyed it more than Lily & I did because it was about a boy who desperately wanted a "red ryder bb gun...." .
After the theatre it was home for dinner and then Nik came round to look after the children while Nick and I went to Shaun & Marie's for a birthday party and a little bit of Abba karaoke!!

We were up early on Sunday as Tom & Nick were off up to Atlanta for an NFL game and were to be picked up at 7.45am. So that left Lily and I to have a girly day together until Nik phoned up to say he had 2 tickets to the ballet and could he take Lily with him to see 'The Nutcracker'
Ready to be taken to the ballet with Nik.

Check out that hairdo - you can imagine how pleased Lily was with her new look, and she got to wear my pashmina too!

Atlanta Falcons v Philadelphia Eagles.

So, I got to have an afternoon without Lily which was perfect as Dorothy & Christine were coming round for a slice of cake and a cuppa, oh, yes, and a bit of dress up - we have ordered Abba-esque outifits and needed to try them on. More on that later.