31st July 2013- the beach

although we live 20 mins away from the beach we don't go very often. Lottie stayed at home as I didn't think it would be fair to take her...when we got there, there were lots of dogs there. Think we will take her when its not so warm.







We went home for dinner and then Daniel and I took Lottie for a walk round the village the kids go to school and called at the mobile library to pick a book up for Evie. Its raining now but least I got some washing dried first and it was fine when we were out.

30th July 2013

Did I mention Richard has this week on holiday, well I still had to work this afternoon. This morning we decided to go swimming. Evie does lessons on a Saturday and has progressed really well, Harry and the rest of us only go in the holidays. We cant take photos at swimming which is a shame, but we had a really good morning. Harry clinged to either me or Richard but half an hour into swimming the life guard/evies swimming instructor said there was a parent and baby swimming lesson starting and would I like to do it with Harry....well Harry loved it, lots of singing and playing in the water. While we did this Richard took the other two into the bigger pool and they enjoyed that too.

I took this picture after swimming, Harry got a bubble gun for his birthday, I am still on the look out for a reasonably priced bubble machine for him.

Harry's 2nd birthday

Lucky snapping is having a photo week...
Today is Harry's 2nd birthday, we had family over yesterday and did a walk this morning at a beach/wood with Lottie too.




Above photos were taken yesterday at the family tea party, cake a Hull City football shirt.
The beach this morning, we forgot to look at the tide times and it was high tide when we went so not much beach lots of rocks...it was ok though and we could still do the wood.






In the afternoon we had another rain/thunder storm!
I haven't done any scrapping for months now, but I do still get the paper out now and again, here is a card I made for a friend...Evie helped me to arrange the hearts.

appreciate

using Lynnes quote
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” ~ Voltaire  -  French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)

here are a few photos



appreciate the small moments, the egg and spoon race and star of the week.


My grandma, reaching 90 years young :)


Time in the sun.....playing nicely and no fighting/arguing....



Partners in crime, think we will have to keep an eye on these two and a lock on the other side of the gate!!!


Thank you lynne for making us look for the little things we appreciate and often forget or take for granted :)

the view

a bit of a different kind of view for you from me this week.
Evie will be 7 in September, which means she is old enough to finish Rainbows and go on to Brownies....so my view is Evie with her Rainbow. It is called flying up to brownies as traditionally brownies fly/jump over the toadstool on to guides. Myself and a friend actually started the rainbow group in the village that evie goes to, so it was nice to see the rainbow I painstaking painted still in use...the girls walk under this rainbow onto their brownie journey.

She is so looking forward to becoming a proper brownie :)

Lottie is settling in well...this photo was actually taken on Saturday when we brought her home.

She has had her first imms so waiting for another week before the next ones and then Daniel will be able to take her for walks which he is looking forward to.