Friday, August 5, 2011

James' First Book ...

One of James' new favourite things to do is to make up stories and he wants me to write them down for him. So a week or two ago I suggested we turn one of them into a proper book. He dictated the stories and then he did the illustrations ... Look out for this in your local bookshop ...

First Harvest ... check out the size of James' strawberries!




This was a while ago but we've had some other things too, like carrots and broad beans. The tomatoes are just about ready now.

Team Mario on Daddy's Birthday ...

Our two little Americans celebrating their independence ...







Bekah the Dancer ...

Before the end of term I took Bekah to a couple of dance classes ... She LOVED the first one but was in a funny mood for the second lesson. I'm hoping after the summer she will be keen again but we'll see.






Hula girl ... she's getting really good at this!

Bekah's 3rd Birthday Party

For those that missed Bekah's party photos on facebook ...

It be a Pirate Party!

Captain Bekah's best pirate pose!

Ahoy there!

Took me ages to grow the goatee ...

Move over Captain Jack Sparrow ... there's a new captain in town!



Crazy Pirate Grandad ...

Pirate Kezia ...



Pirate tea ...



Proud parents ... :0)



Pirate Peter and Pirate James



The cake ...



Blowing out the candles ...



Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Our holiday home in Wales ...

Birthday on the beach!



We went to the beach on my birthday - and I even had a cake with candles! :0)

We had this beautiful beach all to ourselves for about the first hour or so :0)



(Last photo is us walking out to the sea - since the tide was out it was a long walk! Dan and James are the dots in the distance ... not surprisingly Bekah was lagging behind ...)

Love this photo :0)

Great action shot of them jumping into this massive hole (which conveniently someone ELSE had dug!)

Lots to do at Greenwood Forest Park - including these moon buggies!





(Sadly, Daddy wimped out of taking Mummy as a passenger :0) .... )

We all got to go on this brilliant slide lots of times - it was so much fun!



This slide may have been smaller but the smiles weren't!



Our adorable munchkins on the way to Snowdon :0)

Another photo of Mummy and Daddy (it's nice that James can take photos now too!)

She has got a very cute little bottom but really ...

Rebekah at the VERY top of Mount Snowdon!




(We caught the train to the top ...)

The Peacock Family in the clouds ...

James with a little piece of the mountain ...

Time for a little CRAAAAZY golf ....





Some strange animals I saw at the zoo...