The beginning of this month kicked off with the morning at home decorating the living room Christmas Tree, i.e. the kids tree :) They had fun and it wasn't too stressful getting it up and decorated which was good! Then after lunch I took Ian for a spin in the cargo bike which hadn't got much use and wanted to give the battery a bit of a power cycle over the winter.

On that first Tuesday after work we all headed down to Southwick Square and joined what seemed like the rest of Southwick to see the Santa Bus pass through. We had an Elvis impersonator keeping everyone entertained ahead of the bus passing through. The kids had a great time seeing all their friends and obviously loved the sweets seeing the festive bus.

On the next weekend, after Ellen had finished PQA, we popped up to Holmbush Shopping Centre for a quick shop, then over to Mayberry Garden Centre to buy a (real) Christmas Tree which we then spent the afternoon decorating. On the Sunday I took Ellen out to Worthing for Lola's birthday party at Hollywood Bowl which she thoroughly enjoyed, followed by an afternoon playdate at their place.

On Wednesday 11th it was Ellen's Nativity play at school which was a combined play from both year 1 as well as year 2 kids.

On the Friday we went through to Light up Shoreham Christmas Market. Turned out to be really popular with loads of people and stalls and a funfair as well as some singers and musicians keeping everyone entertained. Despite the cold it was a good evening walking around there. On the Saturday we headed into Brighton to Exeter Street Hall to watch a small play based on the Pugs of The Frozen North book which the kids enjoyed. Then Sunday we headed out to Walton for lunch at Greg, Kim and the boys with their Christmas Show church service in the evening.

Yesterday we headed down to the Cricketers as Ian had been invited to Auggie's birthday party there, and after staying for the party we decided to have lunch and a few afternoon beers and landed up being there for a good bit of the day :) Then today we decided to head out to Sheffield Park and Garden for a walk around there as part of The Snowman (from the book) they had over the Christmas period.

It's been quite a busy December already and I've got just tomorrow left at work then finish up until early January, so I'm looking forward to a bit of downtime and getting into the Christmas spirit :)