I’ve been thinking of a gift for my friend whom I haven’t seen in ages, she’s coming over for a visit so I thought I’d give her a little something. I always thought a nice lingerie would be nice but I’m not sure of the size. Or maybe I’d relate my gift to her personality. She likes cooking and is also into music and books so will check out that in a bit. Meanwhile I gathered all the cute dollhouses I saw at the kidkraft page and thought I’d share them here. Check them out!

*pictures grabbed from the site of kidkraft

Jillian Ward's doll houses

I was reading about new back surgery when I saw a four storey dollhouse from a facebook contact, it was a four feet wide and four and a half feet tall majestic mansion dollhouse by kidkraft. It has 8 rooms and has about 35 pieces of furniture and accessories. This also happens to be one of the many collections that child wonder Jillian Ward has. She now has 2 kidkraft dollhouse and a few ones from mattel, the famous maker of the toy Barbie. Among her other collections were anything hello kitty, and she has quite a few. From blankets to duvet, plush toys, tent house, toothbrush, books, coloring pens, bag, shirts, watch among others.

Playtime for kids is always fun time and exciting. Jillian may not be your regular 6 year old  but she sure knows how to play just like any other normal kid.

her collection

child wonder Jillian Ward @ play

*Special thanks to Mareng Jen for the pics…

Before January 31, Tuesday at 4pm, book your short break trip to Alton Towers Resort an get your kids entrance for free. Free entry to Alton Towers Theme Park for kids, Alton Towers Water Park for kids and hotel stay with scrumptious breakfast.  So what are you all waiting for, book your theme park tickets directly from altontowers.com to receive a free early ride time. Alton Towers Resort will be open on Feb 11 at 10am. So get ready and prepare your nicest swimsuit, your most comfortable women’s shoes and get ready for an action packed 2012 short break!

Book a short break now for fantastic benefits for hotel guests including:

• Early Ride Time – enjoy a fantastic range of family attractions 1 hour before the Park opens! (Early Ride Time not available in Feb Half Term, Scarefest or Fireworks)
• Add Theme Park tickets to your booking and you can enter the Theme Park on both the day of your arrival and departure – two days for the price of one!
• Superb evening entertainment
• Exclusive Hotel Guest voucher booklet, offering discounts for retail, food, Spa, Extraordinary Golf and lots more!!
• Free parking and monorail service to the Theme Park entrance
• Fantastically themed restaurants and a great selection of bars
• Waterpark, Spa and Extraordinary golf on your doorstep

* For more info click here.

Paultons Family Theme Park is the Home of Peppa Pig World! My daughter Alyssa never outgrew her love for this cute and charming pig. It has been her dream to visit this theme park. Maybe someday somehow we can all go and enjoy this theme park but for now. Let me take you out on a tour!

This theme park has about 60 different rides and attractions which includes Edge, which will spin you through the air reaching a height of 15 meters. Jumping Bean, Kontiki, Astroglide, Rio Grande Train, Magic Carpet, Flying Frog, Trekking Tractors, Vking Boats, Teacup Ride, Jumping Jack, Seal Falls, Rabbit and Digger Ride, Stinger Roller Coaster, Wave Runner and so on.  They have 2 restaurants available inside, Dadydy Pig’s Big Tummy Café and Miss Rabbit’s Ice Cream Parlour which offers tempting snacks, treats, drinks and yummy ice cream in all flavours. To check out the prices click here. The  Park is now closed and will re-open for February Half Term on Sunday 12th February 2012. Better ready your maps for gps on your trip to this park!

Photos grabbed from : https://paultonspark.co.uk/

Every year we take a family photo by our Christmas tree and this year we did the same thing. And we are more excited to spend this year’s holiday with our precious newborn Sophia. So before heading out to eat our simple Christmas dinner, munching on yummy chocolate bark and opening more presents, our family of 4 posed for the camera for the annual Christmas photo shoot at home. Our theme for this year was rich plum. I couldn’t find a matching plum outfit for my girls as we were really in a hurry so I got a spaghetti strap dress for Alyssa and a short sleeve dress for Sophia. I took an extra effort this year by curling my hair and hubby is wearing his usual corporate attire for this year’s photo shoot.

From our family to yours, Happy Holidays everyone!