monday and our trip to belfast

well here we are on bank holiday monday and we've not really done anything! usually its a day to go out somewhere new or just somewhere different! but for lack of funds and the thought of so much stuff left to do (from the list we made for ourselves of jobs to do around the house) we've just stayed home!! but its all good and tomorrow we may go out with some friends.

so we had a blast in belfast! feel like we did a lot of stuff and saw lots of people! it was really great!!! here are some photos=)

we took a train ride to bangor, grandpa, uncle steve (boy as micah calls him), andy, micah, noah and i!


paul, karen and luke were staying up in port stewart (along the north coast) and we went up for the day...there are 11 months between micah and luke!

we spent saturday night up at carnlough (along the antrim coast) with uncle david and auntie ruth. it was originally where nana and papa lived up until their deaths in 2004. it was so nice to sit out there in the morning with my cuppa and just sit and listen to the God's creation!!

this is their flower garden that you can see from the road down below and from the sea!! its a great witness!!!

waiting

well as i am sitting here, we are waiting for the post to come and praying that noah's passport will be in there! for as they say don't make travel plans till you have the passport, we didn't listen and now our flights have been booked for ages and we are suppose to fly out tomorrow morning at 6:50... so if its not in the post, which usually arrives around 10am then we'll call and if its still at the embassy or wherever they do that, then i think we'll be going down to london to pick it up if possible!!! otherwise we'll have to postpone our flight which will cost ofcourse!! oh well...this is life at#23!!! something like this always happens b/c we don't CAREFULLY plan ahead!!
we are also searching and searching for andys mobile phone! so if anyone knows where it is, let us know! as we have been looking for atleast 5 days now!!! and andy just had a load of tracts printed up with his mobile number on the back as a contact number...oh dear (i say a load, well i mean 40,00!!!) so say a prayer that we find his phone!!

***update***
no passport today, but we can sigh with relief as we called the airline and all we need for noah is a birth certificate as we are only going to ireland!! so, that was nice to know! the passport should come tomorrow or thursday as we received the birth certificate back today with the note of the passport to follow shortly!

found a free album

this is a free kit that i found at shabbyprincess.com called 'in the groove'! i was so excited to find it as it was so simple and i was finding that i had a little mental block when it came to scrapbooking! so here i didn't have to use my creative part of my brain, no matter how small that might be!!! this is so simple to put together, that as long as you have a program to work in, all you need are your photos and you just slide them in behind the paper and voila! i did this while i was feeding noah! so all it took is one hand!! so thank you shabby princess!!!

camping

we had a great time camping with the boys! micah loved it and noah didn't even notice! we pitched our tent along side our friends caravan, so we were cheating a little bit! cups of tea and coffee, and cooked meals! the best of both worlds!!
we went into newquay on the tuesday and had lunch on the beach. wednesday we went to chapel porth beach and actually went into the sea! atleast jemima, andy and i did!! micah still didn't really care for the sand between his toes! oh well...better luck next time??
thursday we went to trevano gardens then andy and i escaped and went to st ives without the boys!
friday we came on home the long way and it took ages!!! literally!!

some photos cornwall

  

5 years

as we were camping with our friends, we were able to leave the boys with them for a few hours! we took off to st ives to have our cornish pasties and chips, sit near the ocean and walk on the beach!!! it was fantastic! st ives is a beautiful place with little streets, lots of shops, beaches and everything else to go with it! we loved it!! it was a beautiful evenging and andy and i enjoyed being on our own and thinking over our last 5 years and wondering where they have gone!!!