Bank Holiday Monday

We spent yesterday out with our friend Steve. Steve picked us up in the morning and we drove down to Oxford where his brother lives. Jonathon (Steve's brother) lives on the edge of the city so that we could just walk on into Oxford. We got down there just before lunch time, so after a cuppa at Jonathon's we went on first for a hunt for food for lunch. So after a trip to Marks & Spencer's we made our way to ChristChurch and sat down near the river to eat our lunch! Which was quite amusing as there were people rowing or paddling or punting (?) their way down the river..and sometimes up the river! These people usually didn't know how to punt and would get themselves stuck or get the person at the front stuck in the bushes along the side of the river!

We walked some more and then found another field where we played cricket (with a tennis ball and a ping pong paddle) and then micah and steve had a wrestling match! Micah has always liked Steve so he was climbing all over poor Steve who loved it all. Then it was off to find ice cream, but intstead stopped for tea/coffee at a cafe outside of a church. We sat outside in their herbal garden that smelled like 'thyme' and we were sitting on tumb stones and all! I love cemeteries but that was a first!!

Then a bit more walking through Oxford until we decided it was tea time (aka dinner time). We ate at *The Big Bang*!! It was yummy! All they serve is bangers and mash (aka sausages and mashed potatoes) and wow! We loved it! There were I think about 10 different flavours of sausages, some vegetarian and all. And maybe 5 or so different variations to the mashed potatoes. All were served with peas and cabbage and some onions. Oh and ofcourse gravy! Awesome! Must go back!! THEN we had our ice cream! There was a homemade ice cream shop around the corner and so we all had ice cream cones (minus noah who ate some of all of ours!). My flavour was after 8's, (which are a mint somewhat like andy's candies) and it was divine!

Then home again home again, jiggety jig!

p.s. just 2 random pictures...micah is doing really well with potty training. doing #1 in the potty is no porblem a few accidents, but not too much. no #2's yet and today was the first time he went in his pants. *yuck*

So here we are just one more full week before schools go back. where has the summer gone and why in the world does it have to go so incredibly fast? We are making plans for our last week of summer time. a day to maybe oxford with steve...a morning out to the botanical gardens to meet up with a friend of andys who has a little girl a few months older than noah. possibly a funeral on friday and i maybe assisting at a wedding with another photographer. she is new to wedding photography, but not to photography. anyway, we'll see what happens =)

noah is now officially walking and almost all the time. maybe i shouldn't say walking but toddle-ing! so cute. micah is going to be 3 in like umm...9 days? and nothing is planned. but i think we might try and get to the sealife center for that. other than that, not much is going on.

here are some photos from our recent engagement session with katie and her andy...(katie works with my andy. they are both the year 5 teachers. funny enough my andy's teaching assistand sandra is married to an 'andy' as well! *anyway* katie and her andy are getting married next july and we'll be doing their photos! fun stuff!! if you want to see more...CLICK HERE

can you believe? i have one wedding booked for this autumn. 1. 6 october... and we received a phone call today asking for our services for that same.exact.day! so here we are just starting out and i've had to turn away a client.

back from belfast

we got a new lense the first day we were in belfast! 50mm f/1.8 and its awesome. so most photos are with this new lense...atleast these first ones are so far!
noah is playing with a balloon here. he kept pulling it down into his face!

this was the first full day in belfast, one of the few gorgeous days there! the little girl is gracie who lives next door to my inlaws! she is 4 possibly 5 and is adorable! next is noah! no explanation needed....

and this is micah brooke! we were rolling on the floor with this one! how funny is that! those are gordons (andy's dad) very old glasses...hopefully from a long time ago! OMG =)

her are some photos from sharon and chris' wedding on the 10th. these are all straight from the camera, but i'll get more up soon. it seems that blogspot will only let me uploads a couple at a time and then it stops....

the last few days..

we've just been hanging around and not doing a whole lot. i'm not even sure i can recap everything for you!! but i'll try!

Monday we just ran a few odd jobs....

Tuesday, andy went back to school to pick up his bike.

Wednesday i went into town to return some stuff and do a bit of shopping.

Thursday afternoon we went into birmingham and walked about along the canals and went to the 'beach'!! micah loved it! (some of these beach photos to the right in the collage...some are with luke and some at the park)

Friday umm, i don't think we did much.

Saturday we went to stratford-upon-avon to scout out some places to do engagement photos...of which we didn't use any of them!! oh well. it was a good day though we were really tired!

Sunday i stayed home with the boys all day while andy was only home for breakfast and lunch. he went to the morning meeting came home and then left to malvern where he was speaking...he went by bike! its a good maybe 40 miles? he's done it before, but not in a long while!! he only had to cycle back to worcestor which is 9 miles and then our friends drove him home! so nice!

and then yesterday saw us back in stratford for the engagement photo session! it went really well, even if we had to bring the boys with us! oh well =) will post some photos when i get the chance.

we are away from tomorrow afternoon until the 21st. 2 weeks in belfast for some fun stuff! i will definetly try and write while we are away..so don't worry mimi. i will post some photos!


this is from our trip to london a few weeks ago. tried to share 1 ice cream cone with me, noah and micah...that was very hard to do!!!

more photos from birmingham city centre

first started this post here...enjoying out photos!

we found this too funny! what if andy or some of the guys showed up to church wearing this, their *new* suit??? ha ha..too funny and just *yuck* in my humble opinion!! and this is what lois and sophie thought of it!!
and this is the mailbox. the expensive shops are in here..harvey nichols for one. i was in there once and saw a skirt i really liked...£160. yep! not my kind of shop..