Happy Birthday to Me!

Well... Where do I start?

I'll start with the good!!  This month brought with it my birthday :) Twenty five years old; a quarter of a century... That's 300 months or 1304 weeks or 9131 days or 219145 hours!!  That's a long time!!  And in that time I have a loving family, some amazing friends, a beautiful Godson, two loving puppies, a horse that I call mine (Even Vicky admits she's mine these days) and the best memories ever.  Everyone else sees age as this ticking time bomb, well don't get me wrong, I see time slipping by every now and again and think of the things that I haven't achieved yet, and all the things I want in life... But I also see all the thing that I have achieved and all the things that I have worked hard for.  That is what life is about, those moments that you look back on and think 'Yeah, I did that!' 

Anyways, enough of my rambling... My birthday started with a trip to my favourite place ever with Vicksy!  We played on the beach at Hunmanby, our sand sculpting taking on the challenge of a penguin... We had some technical difficulties with the size of his wings and feet, but he looked alright by the time we were done!  I even made it into the sea!!  We finally had lunch at the pub near the caravan and then after a quick nap at the van, we headed to Thornwick Bay :)  

My little piece of Heaven! 

 Our aim for the day was to make it into the secret cave that Sammy and I found last summer; however, we had some tidal issues - it was in!!  We spent a couple of hours sat in the sunshine, playing with rocks and watching the tide go out, then we got bored and decided to go in anyway... We headed out to the rocks and got wet!  Vernon had to hitch a ride in the straps of my top so he didn't get his feet wet.  We got soaked of course, and still didn't make it round there - it got too deep and we had phones and car keys to think about!  So next time for sure!!

Now I'd love to put some more pictures up of that adventure - I had loads... however - due to what I can only put down to a blonde using a laptop - all my photo's from my birthday disappeared in the transfer from my phone to my laptop.  You have no idea how much this hurt!  I live by photo's - everyone says I take too many, and I have never argued that - and everything I took that day, and on the day of my birthday - have disappeared into cyberspace.  No attempt from my sister could save them :(  No matter how hard she tired bless her!

On my birthday, I spent the day in a not so make shift fort - but a tent in Tara's living room :)  We had a picnic (Tara made pizzas!) and DVD in a tent because the weather forecast was nasty and she had balloons and everything :)  

I was extremely spoiled with presents throughout the day... Mommy, Daddy and Sammy got me Vincent - a batling charm from  http://www.myfrightlings.com/  

Sammy got me lots of stuff, including a loom band unicorn which I got mega excited about!!  She's so pretty ad I totally wasn't expecting it because she kept telling me it was too hard and used too many bands!  She's so awesome!!  Love her to bits.

The money that I got from family has been invested in my DVD collection... Vicky bought the new book to one of my favourite series' and Tara got me the most awesome shirt ever and a pony hehe!  Vernon likes Rainbow Dash, she now sits at the side of where Vernon sleeps!

Mommy, Daddy, Sammy and Me went out for some tea and ate our body weight at Taybarns - has to be the best idea for a restaurant ever - genius!!  And then that night Sammy and I ended up in town with Tara and Maxie... A very spontaneous decision and a rather daft one when they all had to get up for work the next morning!  But we had a great night, played some games and saw Maxie and Tara's epic Dirty Dancing routine - lift included... I had a video, but unfortunately it disappeared in the great loss of photographs...

My next adventure was my present to myself - a trip to the Great Yorkshire Show!  I took myself, and Vernon of course, all the way to Harrogate to spend the day at the Yorkshire Show :)  It was very scary but I loved every minute of it, and actually enjoyed the time with Vernon to explore and to get up to no good!  We spent a lovely day wandering around in the sunshine, sitting an watching the horses and hounds, meeting some new people, getting lots of photographs and buying prezzies!!  I think one of my favourite parts, apart from Lorenzo, the performer with his white horses, had to be Henry the Owl, he was beautiful, and didn't mind getting his photo taken with Vernon at all!!  We even bought a rosette :)

 Unfortunately, my birthday week didn't end as well as it started... On Saturday, Sammy and I took Fiona all the way to Manchester.  We had a lovely day in the sun and explored a little Roman Fort, however, on the way home I landed my car in a tree!  Yep, beached it on the rocks, narrowly missing said tree and balancing on the roots!!  When I do something, I do it in style!!
Everyone is okay!  I cannot say the same for my poor little car though!  Bless it's little tyres - after some lovely man stopped and towed us from my chosen spot to beach it, it got us home in one piece.  After Daddy had looked at it though, we found out the damage was pretty impressive... My car is currently in bits!  Bits that were all covered in oil!  Oil that managed to get everywhere it shouldn't, and was no where that it should be!!  I spent some of today cleaning it up - do not even ask how  managed to get it on my face!!  Felt a little proud of myself for getting stuck in though - not that getting mucky has ever bothered me!  More to come tomorrow as I get to help Daddy clean out the rest of the engine :)

So, now not only do I have no job, I now have no car either... When it rains, it pours!  Hopefully my baby will be back on the road by the end of the week though!  Just the job to sort out now!

All in all, I think it has been a pretty awesome twenty fifth birthday - I can't wait till next week - Bring on my trip to Brighton!

Louby xx