Hi everyone, I haven't blogged in a few days. Just been enjoying the holidays with the family. I've actually got the flu so I've been curled up with a blanket watching movies all day. Not alot to say really on Sunday I went shopping with my Mum and sisters. It's always nice to shop in the sales I bought quite alot of stuff.

I did buy a nice dress for my wedding, we haven't yet decided on whether we'll be having a big wedding with my white wedding dress in the US. We were thinking of maybe having a very quiet simple wedding in the US when I move. Then in the summer of 2005 come back to Wales and have a nice blessing with all my family and friends. So either way I have both dresses now. My white wedding dress is hanging up waiting for the big day, I will get to wear it!!

Other than that not alot has happened I have been following Most Haunted Live it's getting pretty good it's all about Dick Turpin very interesting.

I've talked with Clayton most of the night he has till Friday off. So that's nice for us to spend the New Years together. It has been snowing really heavy with him, my weather pixie is saying it's snowing. It's actually right lol, we've talked on the phone today and he was watching it fall really heavy. Lucky thing wish we had some snow, can't wait till I'm there and I can watch the snow fall with him.

Anyways I'm off to bed. :):)

New Layout, I decided to have a go at making my own layout for a change. What does everyone think? I got the Ocean picture from Free Foto Some of the layout is the same with the menu box in the picture. I might change that tomorrow now when I get a chance haven't decided yet.

Anyway I hope everyone had a good Christmas, I had a great time. I had quite a few presents. This is what our living room looked like early Christmas morning

I had this really cool gift off my darling hubby to be.

Countdown Clock It counts down to an event, I just need the event to happen now lol. I also had this Cute Kitten Calendar from him too.

These are just a few other things I had off family + friends

A Welsh Candle off my sister Eloise

Cleo the Egyptian Dancing Hamster off my Mum & Dad

Tatty Teddy Bears off my Mum & Dad

A dolphin Fleece throw off my Mum & Dad

Bagpuss Slipper Socks off my Mum & Dad

George Strait CD off Stacie & Alex

I had alot of other stuff too, Jewelry and I had some money from the family. So all in all I did fairly well. Christmas day was pretty cool, we had a nice family Christmas dinner along with Christmas Crackers and Christmas Pudding. Then in the afternoon we went to my grandparents house for tea. Saw the family my Aunt and uncles along with my cousins, that was pretty fun. Then on Boxing day we had a nice lazy morning, and then went down my sisters for afternoon tea. We brought gifts for the Children, it was nice seeing Joanna and Ethan opening their presents.

A few pics for you all to see

This is a picture of me and my niece Joanna

Me and my two sisters Eloise (right) Emily (left) and me (middle)

And that's my Christmas, I hope everyone else had a good one too.

Today has been ok, I babysat my niece and nephew for most of the day. Called Clayton for about an hour before he left, he had to go and register for his new class he's taking in January. He's taking a real estate class, hehe he's gonna be an estate agent. Ooh my packages got there safely that's good, was starting to wonder if they'd get to him in time for Christmas. My sisters came also on the same day.

Been wrapping some of my presents today, I'll do the rest tomorrow now after work. Hmm yeah I know I have work tomorrow on Christmas Eve. Someone has to I guess, it's only for 3hrs so it's not all that bad. Then I have the rest of the week off yaay I go back in on Saturday though.

I managed to chat with Stacie for a little while, it was nice to be able to wish a good Christmas. I missed talking to her. Sorry to hear she had a cold, get well soon hun.

Anyway's that's about it, if I don't blog before Christmas I hope everyone will have a good one. :):):)

Well, I'm back people. I haven't been very well over the past few days. Apparently the doctor says I have viral vertigo, so I've had tablets to stop the dizziness and sickness. But the headache is still there. I've been trying to stay away from the PC the last couple of days, to see if things will get better. My head has been really dizzy, and I've been feeling quite nauseated with it. The only way I felt any better was in bed sleeping. I haven't been in work, cause I couldn't stand. But I'm doing a little better now. The tablets are working, they are making me feel quite drowsy though.

I think I'm already for Christmas just about, I've wrapped everyone's Christmas gifts up I just need to go and visit and deliver them all now. Which to be perfectly honest I haven't got the energy to do. I'm still very weak, after the past few days. I hope I get better soon, I hate being ill over Christmas. Shades of last Christmas spring to mind, when Clayton was here and everyone was sick, but at least Clayton was here to take care of me then.

One year ago today was our engagement party you can check out our pictures of that day here, Engagement Photos

Well, yesterday I wasn't feeling very well so I went to bed early and didn't blog. Today I'm much better and I'm feeling very loved. I had Clayton's Christmas package through the mail today, so that cheered me up. I opened his Christmas card, and it read "To my darling Wife" awwwww it was so sweet of him to get me a card for a wife, even though we aren't married yet. Thank you sweetie it was lovely.

Clayton also received his CD cabinet I bought him over eBay, so he also loved that. He hasn't had a chance to fix it up yet, so I'm looking forward to seeing the pic of it, when it's all complete.

Yaay my parents got all the movie channels back for Christmas so cool lol. I just finished watching "The Others" with Nicole Kidman, that's a scary movie lol. There's some good movies on over Christmas, only problem is me and Clayton watched a few of them together when he was here last Christmas. And then I miss him more than ever, hmm I try not to dwell on it. I'm focusing more on the fact that I'll be spending next Christmas with him.

Well, today has been fun. I went down town with my friend Catherine, and my sister Eloise to do some Christmas shopping. 5hrs of shopping and 90 pounds less I have everyone's Christmas presents sorted. Wow I really am broke now lol, lucky I get paid this week woo hoo :) it was nice to be able to hang out with my sis and best mate. Ooh I also bought a nice cream polar neck sweater in New Look, it was on sale for like 9 pound so that was cool.

I bought my mum this nice photo frame which was personally made for me in the local market. It had a nice verse with a lilac Lilly next to it. The verse reads,

"To a special mum"
Thank you mum for being you,
And for loving me the way you do,
You always show how much you care,
It's nice to know you are always there,
To help, advise and guide me through,
I love you mum for being you.

I liked it alot, I wanted to get her something special for helping me through the visa and helping me on emigrating over to the US. And basically for just being a mum, she's helped me so much over the last 6mths, and I don't know what I'm gonna do without her when I move.

We caught the 5pm bus back and I was back home at 6:30pm, I called Clayton and we've talked the rest of the night. His foot is getting a bit better which is good. I work tomorrow and the rest of the week but thankfully they aren't long shifts.

It's Monday night already wow time flies. Not much to say today, work was alright pretty quiet guess everyone was Christmas shopping. Came home and called Clayton, he isn't very well, more like he has a sore toe. He's got an ingrown toe nail which can be quite painful, so he phoned in sick from work cause he couldn't walk. Then went to the Doctors which apparently gave him antibiotics.

Other than that not a whole lot has happened, it's been quite quiet online this evening, so I've been mainly posting in the Loving you Forums.

I'm going Christmas shopping tomorrow with my Sister so I'm hoping to get it all done tomorrow. I can't believe it's less than 2wks till Christmas woo hoo lol. Well I'm off now to spend some more time with Clayton before I go to bed.

Missing My Hunny

New layout for Christmas, I found the layout on Blog Skins I think it looks cool, when Christmas is over I think I might keep the layout and just change the pics. I'll maybe change it to the bear I had before, I like tatty bears I'm a tatty bear fan lol they are cute.

Anyway not a whole lot has happened today, lol I've had a lazy day. Don't get much of those, so I take advantage of them. I talked to Stacie for like 2 minutes, I can't believe her online love Alex surprised her 3 days early, that was very sweet of him. Hmm I'm getting all jealous though, I wish Clayton was here for Christmas, I miss him so much. I know it won't be long till I'm over there with him, but I guess over the holidays you just miss each other a whole lot more.

Yaaay it's Friday, I've got that Friday feeling people lol. Hehe today was alright not a whole lot happened in work. The big news there is that I might get laid off, I don't think I will though. They are laying people off in a number of departments. I know one of the new girls has been asked to leave, fingers crossed I'm not one of them. Anyway's I won't be there that long. I had a big envelope from the London Embassy this morning. With a number of forms I have to fill in and send back to them. So things are starting to move along quiet nicely, I might send the forms after Christmas seeming I doubt much processing will be done much before then.

Seeming alot has been happening with the Visa side of things I decided to update my Immigration section on my site. I added a new page for the forms I'll be filling in, and I also updated my K1 Visa time-line. I also met a new US/UK couple today Tim&Bethanie their site is great, and their story is wonderful.

My sister Eloise is back from University for the Christmas holidays, so that's nice to see her again. We are planning a day to go Christmas shopping sometime soon, so can't wait to shop lol. Talked with Clayton for about 4hrs today before he left for work, so that was nice to have some more time with him than usual.

Hehe today was cool, we had a Christmas buffet in work. All the managers made everyone a Christmas buffet, they also had Karaoke. Christmas crackers, and Christmas pudding the lot. Oooh and we also had wine which of course I took full advantage of lol. It was really fun, they've got a Christmas raffle going with over 100 prizes, I'm hoping to win the cuddly bagpuss. But knowing me and raffles I probably won't win.

At the moment I'm at my sister's place babysitting her two little terrors lol sorry sis. Nooo Joanna is a cutie, Ethan is the terror lol.

Updated my site a little, just tidied it up a little. I've also had a lovely chat with Sarah Her poor little Girl Hannah is sick, I hope she get's better soon Sarah. I've also chatted with Stacie, hehe she's giving me all these links to PSP sites. I think I'm addicted to PSP please help someone lol.

I haven't talked much with Clayton today he left for work really early this morning. I think we only chatted for about an hour, then he had to go. But he did phone me at my sister's place on his break awww how sweet, he called my mother, to get the number to talk with me. The Sweetie he is :) :)

Today has been good, I had a nice long sleep in this morning seeming I didn't have to go to work till 3pm so that was nice. I came online to find a very nice email in my mail box, someone had emailed me telling me how nice my site was, they loved reading our story. They also mentioned that I was a very creative and intellectual writer. So I was very pleased with that :) :) I like getting compliments lol.

I talked with Lydia for a bit today, it was nice catching up with her for a bit. Even though I had to leave for work half way through. Work was also pretty good, I turned up to find that I was closing down on my own aaaah lol. I thought for sure I would stuff up, but it was kinda nice being the one in charge. And you know what, I did everything great, I cashed up on my own and locked everything up. So I was well proud of myself, I think I deserve a gold star lol.

I came home and called Clayton, then we met online for a while. We're actually in the middle of yahoo pool. And I'm also having a nice conversation with Stacie, who is at the moment very excited cause it's snowing with her. Lucky thing, the weather man is focasting a white Christmas for us yaaay lol it'll probably be a few sprinkles knowing us lol.

Well today has been pretty good. I went down town to do a bit of shopping for my mother as her knee is pretty bad, she has been off sick from work. I also went down to see my grandparents, they had a present for Clayton so I had to pick it up. My grandmother had made lovely Welsh cakes yummy! I came home and finished sorting out my packages to Clayton and his family and also stacie :) After they were wrapped up, I took them to the post office, I ended up paying out 69 pounds for the whole lot to be shipped. Clayton's package cost me 47 pounds to ship, which I couldn't believe! Hehe I left the post office broke lol

I just wanted to show off what Pam my friend made, she also made this from the tutorials I found online. She even watermarked him and made him sparkle, I also think it's a good idea to watermark your graphics and work. That way you won't be accused like I have! At least this states that you made him. I'm also seriously thinking of applying for an actual copyright certificate at the Library of Congress Copyright Office. This will protect me and my website from people who have nothing else better to do than to point the finger. I've phoned alot of places and enquired about that today. So my website and it's contents should be fully protected by the end of the year!

Back to the bear, I want to leave credit for the person who actually started the tutorial in the first place, I'm very careful of this these days. Bear Tutorial from Kristina If you'd like to make a Christmas bear follow the tutorial and email me I'll post it on my blog for all to see. Happy holidays everyone.

Hehehe this is funny someone really thinks they are pretty special. You know I've been accused yet again of plagiarising. You think this girl would have something better to talk about, but no, she carries on with her childish games. Certain people need to grow up and start acting like adults! You may think I plagiarised you, but your not going to win, my website will still stand and I will not be taking any pages down. I have worked hard to create a website for Clayton and I, and I wont have it vandalised!!

This person seems to think I've created a similar 100 things page. Now why would I want to copy this persons work that I personally don't even like. I'm laughing so much right now cause I think this is ridiculous, why would I want the same 100 things about her, I'm creating a page about me!! We are two completely different people haha funny or what! This is no better than bullies in a School playground. I WONT BE BULLIED! And I have no intention of pulling down this page. Please grow up - I really have better things to do and ~Yawn~ you are boring me !


Anyways on other topics, I've been getting my package ready to send to Clayton and his family. I've also got my cards ready and a package to Stacie and her family to send also. So I'll be going to town tomorrow to post them off. It will cost me an arm and a leg to post everything lol.

I also wanted to give a big thank you to Sarah my sis and Stacie my blog bud! For sticking by me. Stacie your a good friend and it's times like this where you really realise who your friends really are. So thank you hun! :) ~Big Hugs~

Look what I made today, I made him from a tutorial me and Stacie found online. The tutorial I used was from Kristina. Isn't he cute, I'm calling him the Christmas Bear lol. I'm having so much fun making these from the tutorials.

I also made this for my sister's MSN group, so I hope you like sis :)

Not a whole lot has happened today, it's been pretty quite online. Haven't chatted to Stacie today so I hope she's doing ok. I finally found Clayton's main Christmas present on ebay this evening. I've found what I wanted at the Target, Walmart and Amazon websites but they wont take my Credit Cards from the UK grrrr. So I decided to go searching on ebay, and found what I wanted. So it's all bought and paid for, lol can't share what I bought him cause I know he reads this lol sorry babes. But hopefully they'll ship it out to him in the next 4 days. :) :)

I also won an award this week from the Site Fights for the Best Spirit Page the award is really cute! I'm really pleased with myself lol.

I talked with Clayton for about 2hrs before he left for work, the time we shared this evening just went by so fast. Felt like we didn't have any time together. I was thinking this evening that this year will be our last Christmas apart, and next year will be our first Christmas together as a married couple. The thought made me all warm and happy inside awwww lol. Anyways best get off to bed I have work in the morning. ~Hugs to everyone~

Look what I did today 100 things about Natalie it took me all night to do and I'm very pleased with it. Not much to say really today has been ok, work was alright. Came home and wrapped some Christmas gifts for Clayton and his family. Packed them all up ready to ship them out soon. Decorated the Christmas tree, low and behold it went back in it's original place again lol.

Talked with Stacie for a bit she's just been giving me some psp tutorials. Look what I made Click here I was very pleased with myself. It's quite fun making your own graphics. I think I'll do more tomorrow.

Oh well it's really late I'm off to bed.

Aww look what I had in my mail box, ooh I'm getting all these cards lol.



Not much happening really, work was alright they wanted me to work Sunday but I said no. It's funny the work is having like a fancy dress party at a local pub. And no one has put their names down for the Sunday shift cause they all know they'll have hang overs lol, me being one of them hehehe. Haven't decided whether I'm going out yet though we'll see.

We've been putting our Christmas decorations up, I wanted to start decorating the tree but mum and dad haven't decided where it's going to go. You know they have this discussion every year, and they still put it in the same place every time. Ever since I've been born it's been in the same spot in the living room lol. And I'll bet ya, it'll go in the same spot this year lol.

Haven't talked to Clayton much today he phoned me quick earlier, to tell me his monitor for his pc died, so he had to go out and get a new one. He's back now and we're just about to play some yahoo pool.

Oooh look what I had in my mail box,

Thanks girl it's so sweet of you!! The cards were made by Bonero Graphics

Well, my day has been pretty lazy really lol, taking advantage of my day off. I watched a neat tv show on living tv this morning. Called "E-love" all about UK/US couples who met online and were meeting for the first time. I thought it was pretty cool, brought back all the memories of my first meeting, awww lol.

Yaay Clayton has a day off today and tomorrow, so we can spend a little more time with each other, which is good. He just said he had the approval notice for our petition through the mail this morning so that's also good news. Apparently I should hear something from them in the next 5wks, they now have to send our case to the NVC (National Visa Center) for further processing and then they send it to the London Consulate, who should then get in touch with me for more paper work as well as my interview and medical.

Other than that not much has happened today, gonna play some yahoo pool with my hunny now, and then I'm gonna watch my tv show "Most Haunted" I also found out that the Spirit medium Derek Acorah, was gonna be visiting my area to do a show in March. But when my mother went to book the tickets they were all sold out already. How mad is that, he is very popualr in the UK though. Hmm I really wanted to go and see him too. I'm all into all that supernatural stuff.