Seconds, days, weeks and moments

Time is a funny thing. 

Sometimes days feel like weeks. Like when we are away from home, together and having fun. These 3 days felt like at least a week of fun. We crammed a lot in and loved and laughed even more. 

Chain bridge, one side is England and across the other side is Scotland. 

England ......

England .....

Scotland!!

SCOTLAND !!!!!

Those 3 days days were long and fun. 

But time is a funny thing. Now weeks have passed in the blink of an eye. 

Mere moments have trickled together and we are at the end of our summer and weeks away from our long summer days already. 

Alnwick castle

This year we were lucky enough to have weekend guests again. 

One thing that we have been looking forward to all year and it was definitely on our bucket and spade list, was to visit Alnwick castle. 

Parts of Harry Potter were filmed here as it was used as Hogwarts. 

We were all very excited but our Potter fans (fraser and Lor) were especially excited.

The castle was simply stunning and it is still used as a family home today. It was filled with family photos and personal touches. I loved it. It had a lovely feel to it. 

Kp acted as our tour guide for a bit.

Here are the boys following along behind our (super bossy) cute tour guide. 

One of these windows was the one that Harry almost crashes into during his first broomstick lesson. 

Happy Hogwarts guys! 

We also found out that parts of the castle were used during filming of Robin Hood Primce of thieves!! One of my all time favourite movies. 

It was such fun looking around to find familiar corners. 

Our little Princess

 

For a few months Kirsten was desperate to cut her hair short. As it was so long, I asked her to wait until she was very sure.

While we were waiting, she discovered that it was possible to donate her hair. After some research, Kirsten chose a charity who provide wigs to children who have lost their hair through cancer or other illness.

We also discovered that it costs the charity around £350 to provide one wig. So our kind hearted girl asked if she could be sponsored to cut her hair to raise the money to provide a wig.

 

I have to admit I was slightly nervous, I was worried she had put too much pressure on herself, but I was there to support her fully and allowed her to lead the way and it led us to a lovely sunny day in February.

Marissa, our hairdresser, was amazing. She made Kirsten feel so special and relaxed.

 

As soon as we arrived my nerves disappeared, Kirsten felt only excitement. She couldn't wait to get started.

 

Finally it was time to start cutting and look at her wee happy face.

 

Love those golden locks.

 

Each strand was at least 11 inches long.

 

Marissa treated our girl to a fancy wash and blow dry.

My heart was bursting.

 

She loved her new hair! She never stopped grinning the whole time.

 

GC had sneaked down earlier with some celebratory flowers for Miss K.

It just finished off this fantastic experience perfectly.

 

And in the end she raised over £700 for the little Princess fund , which is enough to provide

two wigs and those gorgeous golden locks will go towards another.

 

I am so proud of that girl x