December Catch Up

So- it's time to apologise again. I've been slacking on the blogging front... but I promise to try a lot harder this year and keep myself motivated! I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas and New Year- I've been snowwed under with uni deadlines so far this January (excuses for my lack of blogging) but here is what I've been up to before, during and after Christmas.

December catch-up in pictures!

Photos 1,2 and 3 were all taken at my fave restaurant: Gusto. Over Christmas I spent way too much  time at both the Knutsford and Alderley Edge restaurants feasting on Chicken Primavera and their insane Nutella Calzone - so if you have a Gusto near you you have to go.

1) Nutella Calzone - possibly the best desert ever.

2) Me, in Gusto Knutsford before Christmas

3) My girlies Alex and Frankie.

Photos 4 and 5 are of my pretty mama. She had an operation in December, and despite complications is finally on the road to recovery! yayy XX

4) Harry visiting mama on Christmas Eve

5) Some beautiful 'Get Well Soon' flowers

6) My festive themed bed.... Okay so I still haven't taken down these fairylights but they just look too pretty- Decided to keep them up all year round instead!!

Photos 7 & 8 were taken before Christmas at the One Direction tour in Wolverhampton. Luckily, I was able to go with Gemma and Harry's family meaning best seats & backstage haha. It was a fab night though and the boys were great.

7) My bezzle, Gemma and I 

8) One Direction performing

9) Before my mum went into hospital she decided to buy a tonne of Selfridges cupcakes to fatten us all up over the Christmas season. These were just a few of the amazing cakes we ate

Photos 10 & 11 are of myself and girlfriend Lani as we went on a MASSIVE winter walk just before Christmas with one of her friends little dog Eddie - so frickin cute.

12) This was actually taken at the beginning of December (my bad) but, it was at Gemma's twenty-first and therefore a large event of the month! Me, my mama, Gem's mama: Anne, and Gemma. <3 xxx

XXX-FACTOR

Okay so, thanks to the wonderful Mr Harry Styles.. the family and I were able to get tickets to the X-Factor tour in Manchester last weekend.

Totally excited to see H up on stage, I kind of forgot the likes of Matt Cardle, Rebecca Fergurson and Cher Lloyd would also be performing...

Charlotte (sister), Mama, Me, Gem (Harry's sister) and Anne (Harry's mum) at the ready with our £11 (WHAAT) foam fingers!!!

tweeting whilst watching - a twitpic of me, gem and charl

Rebecca looked GORGE and sounded amazing as per

 MATT.CARDLE <3

Didn't dissapoint..

All the acts were literally soo good.. Cher Lloyd - who I previously didn't like, was probably the biggest turn-around when she performed Willow Smiths' : 'Whip it'

Paige, who I'd previously thought "meh hes okay" was AMAZING.

Mary's fans waved tesco bags as she belted out the big ones.

Wagner... well, lets just say I wasn't converted to a fan.

And of course, the boys were fabulous- so so so weird watching people SCREAM (I was one of them) at them, waving banners and singing along. And the addition of Bruno Mars within their set did it for me..!

After the show, we were able to go back to the hotel where the performers were staying to briefly congratulate Harry... the crowds outside were MEGA, with teenage girls queing in order to catch a glimsp of one of the performers.

 Charlotte and Wagner... one word : creeeeeeeeepy

Cher Lloyd - literally one of the sweetest girls EVER and 'Nora' became best buds.

Her new 'rihanna-red' hair looked hawwwt (even though I thought it was a wig!)

note- opinion totally changed of Cher, so cute and hillarious.. not at all chavvy

Gem with Louis and Zayn

  

 Matt and mama

The night ended with a dance-off between Cher and Wagner 

Extra:

Katie had the nicest ever miu miu bag.. J.E.A.L.O.U.S

Cher showed us her new RayBans which matched her hair colour- exactly.

Matt bought Charl a drink (yes- she nearly died)

The owner of SONY (very important big business man) completely bailed after one too many JD and Cokes maybe?!

Lloyd Daniels rocked up - looking TOTALLY different and a little less blonde, from 2009

and Aiden Grimshaw wore a wooly bobble hat and geeky glasses all.night.long.