James & Emma's Wedding

Last Saturday on a beautifully sunny day was James & Emma's wedding. Lots of fun was had with friends and family. Thanks guys for a lovely day.

A very lovely couple, Peej & Mel looking fabulous together.

Thankfully not Pimms !! Katie was asked to guard James' Pimms and did a fabulous job. Good job he didn't ask Lucy !!

A very handsome young Max in his new suit.

The cousins had a lovely day together. Jack here as always cuddling / rugby tackling Katie !!

The happy couple.

A very rare family photo.

The girls had a lovely time in the evening boogieing the night away !!

At the end of a very busy week

After the first week back at school Hannah just about managed to change out of her school uniform before it was too much for her and she fell asleep. Bless, year 1 is far more hard work obviously.

First day at school

Lucy has now had three weeks at her new senior school and is having loads of fun, meeting new friends and having different lessons. This is on her first day looking smart, it lasted one day before the hair was not tied up and top bottom not done up !! Parents have access to a website where you can check their attendance, behaviour and homework. So far all is well.

Katie's Birthday

Yes it's nearly a month later but hey it's been busy !! Katie had a lovely birthday. It started with a family supper on the Saturday before her birthday with some cousins and Grandma & Grandpa. Then a joint party with Jack on Bank Holiday Monday. Then a day out to Thorpe Park with sisters and mummy on her birthday, along with several treats during the day !! And finally with 5 friends swimming and then for a sleep over. Pheww a very long birthday week. Thanks to everyone for presents.

Katie's present from us was a pair of 'Heely's '. So far no accidents have happened but she has been very cautious on them !!

Katie's favourite present was big bear from Auntie Val, Uncle Drew & Charlotte. I think he has been everywhere with us since.

Tradition says (well Daddy anyway) that with every birthday comes a new board game. This one has been played a couple of times since and is very good - that's because i won !!

Testing out the new heelys with Uncle Paul. Surprisingly it was Lucy who came in screaming and crying having badly stubbed her toe and not Katie falling over !!

Different days out

So we couldn't decide which place to go to so I took Hannah to Monkey World while Daddy took the girls to Bovington Tank Museum. Both lots had loads of fun.

The result of an afternoon looking at monkeys and playing like a monkey and buying a monkey !!

Day out with Auntie Viv

On one day we went to visit Auntie Viv. We went to Ham Hill which is a great place for the kids to go running up and down the hills. We went there 3 years ago when we last went to Somerset and the girls remembered having photos taken there so we took the same ones again.

The girls running up and down all the hills


On top of the hill with a lovely view.

The same shot in 2007. Funnily enough on this years holiday Katie wore the top Lucy is wearing and Hannah the one Katie had !!


This was our favourite shot of Hannah from 2007 which I still have on my wallpaper on my PC at work.


So of course we had to take another photo again. I still think the original one is the cutest.

Days out

Despite the bad weather we did make it to the seaside on one day to Weston-Super-Mare. We were very british and ate out fish and chips on the prom, rode donkeys, flew kites on the beach and played in the sand with out wollies on !! The only thing we didn't do was go on the pier as it was still shut !! However we did go to a sand sculpture exhibition which was very interesting seeing all the different characters made out of sand.

Out first day out was to Crealy adventure Park. We had great fun seeing animals and going on the rides.

Summer Holidays

Our Summer Holiday this year was in Somerset just outside Taunton. We stayed in a lovely converted barn which was a great base for us to visit lots of different places as well as a nice place to stay.

Summer Days Out

Our first day out for the Summer Holidays was with Jill and Eleanor to Beale Park. The girls had a lovely day seeing all the animals and playing in the parks whilst Jill and I had a chat, and more chat !!