Summer holiday

We have just returned (can it really be 4 days already?! Eek!) from our summer holiday, in our favourite place. Here is a smattering of phone and Instagram pics but there is a complete deluge of photos to come! 

Check out all this food!! Omg! 

Mmm s'mores 

It was awesome, it was busy, relaxed, tiring and rejuvenating. 

I want to back!! 

June

June was good.

Apart from the broken arm, but even that had positives! I feel like the broken arm has given us a bonus summer! Basically if Fraser could do anything else he would! But ... He can't.... So he is having to tag along with us! Bonus summer :-) 

Follow this link for our June in pics 


Looking forward to July! Birthdays and holidays and hopefully some sunshine!

Happy.

And then this happened......

We had spent a lovely sunny afternoon , watching Kirsten take part in her school sports day (another post for another day) 

Fraser was out cycling with his friend and murray and I were cooking in the kitchen. 

The front door opened and fraser rushed in. 

"Mum!! I think I have done sometching really bad to my arm." 

He wasn't kidding! 

He bent the bone in his forearm and required some surgery to correct it.

His first plaster cast. 

It's never as fun as it seems as a child, right?

Bless him he was so brave.

And even indulged his old Mum in a hospital selfie.

(Look at that handsome face!) 

We were ever so glad to get home that night, unfortunately the evening was not without incident :-( 

(We had a poorly girl) 

Tomorrow we go for his second weekly x ray and follow up appointment with the surgeon, hoping for the same good news we received last week. 

In other good news, 

Summer has officially begun!! 7 weeks of fun with my favourite people.

Happy. 

This moment.

Joe boy turns four.

I'm still playing catch up but I just had to share these pics from way back in April. 

What a fabulous fun-filled, family-filled day. 

We love you Joe Boy. 

You are fun and special, funny and spirited, cuddly and full speed. 

We wish you a fun filled year of four, filled with love and smoochies

With all our love from 

Uncle Murray, Adie, Fraser and Kirsten (Jessie) 

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