First day of school 2012

Today Dylan started his first day back at school. He started in second class today! He's grown so much since last year! We had go buy a whole new uniform this year since he's grown so much!

Here's my little boy this morning....

I'm so proud of him! He promises to work hard and do his best! I know he will be tried so hard at his reading last year that he skipped four levels! He has lots of friends and he really enjoys school (most days) so good luck Dylan for your next year in school. We love you xx

Tall ships festival 2012

On Sunday we had the tall ships visit Dublin. I was working so we couldn't go in until the Sunday. We parked far away and walked for about twenty minutes. We saw the ships, we had some lunch and had cakes and coffee on our way home. The kids had a lovely day! So did Mom and Dad.

I have to say I think Waterford did it better last year!! Not just because it's where I'm from, but i think they held a better festival there!

Here's our kiddies enjoying the day...

 

 

 

 

Wordless Wednesday

First proper pigtails....

Family update 13/08/12

So much has been happening around these parts! We have secured a lovely new family home close by to where we live currently, it is a lovely bright family home. The painters are just finished painting the whole house, and the front door and windows are varnished, and all that awaits is for us to move in and make this house our home. 
So the family news recently...

Dylan got his new glasses.....

So did Dad! Derek's glasses were well overdue a change, he had no choice but to buy new ones when his old ones snapped in the centre! We had to get him new lenses too, which are very expensive as his prescription is so strong... I love his new glasses, I'm glad he treated himself to a nice designer pair. This is the picture he sent me on his phone to show me how they looked!

 

 

I had my wedding rings re-dipped and cleaned, I'm really happy with how they came out...

 

We spent some time at the park before I went to work on Friday. I love that we can do this now!

 

 

  

We've been doing this a lot lately, this was the  kiddies last week...

 

We had some mommy and Dylan time last week, when I took Dylan to the new spiderman movie which was quite good!!

 

 

 

I had some mommy and Lauren time in Starbucks, and some shopping with just the two of us...

 

We took the kids to Dunlaoghaire for dinner on Friday night, and then afterwards Derek took Dylan to look at the boats while Lauren napped... the weather was amazing...

 

 

I really love this photo of my boys together!

 

The kids got all packed and ready to spend a week with their grandparents in Waterford, so we can get packed and organised. We have so much to do!

We got this picture from my mom of our lil princess enjoying time with her granddad, it's a bit blurry but it makes me smile!

On Sunday night Derek and I finally got a date night to celebrate our anniversary (nearly a month lare) We didn't do anything fancy, we went to dinner at TGI Fridays and then we went to see a movie. It was really nice to have some time together on our own.  It may not have been out of this world fancy, but I had the best company I could wish for.... So I wouldn't have asked for anything more!

So it's been very busy. I'm really looking forward to moving to our new home where we can finally move in all of our own things again. The house is a townhouse and I think it is really lovely. It will suit us really well. I can't wait to get decorating, I have to remind myself that is won't happen all at once and I have to do things bit by bit....