A busy day for celebrations

Well, today is a busy day I am sure all around the world for lots of people, but for some of our friends it is an extra special day.

Dee and Andrew, Happy 2nd Wedding Anniversary. We hope that the year ahead is fun and laughter filled for you both.
Esther, happy Birthday. We hope you have enjoyed your birthday in Australia and that the sun shone for you.
Nicola, happy birthday to you too! Enjoy the half term break, hopefully you wil be able to squeeze in lots of Marc time!
Katy, a very happy birthday to you. We hope that Tony and the boys spoiled you today and that you ate lots of cake.
Derek, Snadra and Leon, welcome back to the U.K. We are looking forward to spending time with you over the next month or so.

And for me, well I am celebrating as it is my first proper day of Maternity leave as I finished school on Friday. It feels kind of strange as this is the 2 week Whitsun half term for me, I am sure it won't sink in until I would normally be back, but Jamie and I are so glad that this time has finally come and we await our bundle of joy to arrive... hopefully in 4 weeks time!

Happy First Birthday Soren

Wow, another first birthday.
We were thinking today how weird it must be to have a birthday that you don't remember, yet it is so significant! Maybe there is someone out there who actually remembers their first birthday, but for Jamie and I... we don't.
Anyway where am going with this? I suppose a first birthday is all about family and the family celebration of a new life, the reaching of a milestone and the developing of a mini personality in a mini body.

Well Soren, yesterday was the big One for you. We wish you many birthdays to come, lots of cakes to be guzzled, many boxes to be opened and wishes to be made.

Happy Birthday, wee man, keep up the walking, it won't be long until you are chasing a ball just like daddy and uncle Jamie! ( you may even be better!)

Happy Birthday Leon Isaac Brower

Wow, has it been a year already? Time seems to go by so quickly.

Lev, we wish you a very happy first birthday. We hope that you enjoyed playing with the boxes and wrapping paper, and that the birthday cake tasted great. We are looking forward to seeing how much you have grown when we see you in a couple of weeks.
We couldn't trust the Russian postal service, so you are going to have to come to collect your pressie from us.

Enjoy your birthday wee man!

Catching up and bit and pieces.

Life has seemed so busy over the past couple of weeks. We had my parents here for the weekend. My dad was officiating at a wedding and my mum was a glamorous bridesmaid. It was great to see my dad 'pastoring' again and a bit weird to see my mum as a bridesmaid in a traditional dress. She looked fab and did a great job looking after the Romanian bride, who was trying to get her head around the 'britishness' of the wedding!



For Jamie and I we have been busy. He had lots of school things on like parents evening, meetings and other stuff that has been engaging him. For me, I have had SATs. My class are exhausted and I am tired with swollen ankles! I went to the midwife wondering if my blood pressure was up as I wasn't feeling too great, but wow, it's nice and low with no problems. The baby's head is now in the right place ( pointing down) so we will wait and see. We are counting down but 6 weeks still seems so far away.

Next week we have breast feeding classes, we are not sure what to expect, but we will fill you in after the event!

Ezio

Saturday night gave me an opportunity to go back to Academy 3 to watch Ezio in action. I first heard of them in January when my colleague from work invited me along to hear them. He knows I play guitar so thought I would be interested in their music. This time though I took Gid (and Will) with me as I thought Gid would appreciate seeing how good these guys are (I'm teaching Gid how to play the guitar so this was an educational visit!).
Well, they played for around 1 and a half hours of just the two of them on acoustic guitars. They were sensational. The big dude (Booba) is just lightning quick when he's playing lead. When I looked around the amount of people standing with their mouths open in disbelief was amazing. You can't help but just stand and stare.

Well, if you want to hear a sample of their music then click here to check out their web page. I have to say they sound a hundred times better live that just listening to their CD. The only problem with all of this though is that they have a huge following in Germany (with the likes of David Hasselhoff!) but that shouldn't put you off!