Our week in photos

These last few weeks have been a little crazy. We've been quite busy with work and home life. We're going on a short trip to Paris in a couple of weeks and we've been getting organised for that. It will be our first family holiday abroad which is pretty exciting! Here are a few photos from the past week. 

February

February has been a quiet month on the blog. It's gone really quickly and a lot has happened in a short space of time. We have bought our wedding rings, booked a candy cart for the wedding and are in the process of sleep training Mia again! (More on that in another post!) 

Here's a few pictures of our February. 

Bracknell Lookout Discovery Centre

So today we ventured out to the Lookout  Discovery Centre in Bracknell. After hearing good things and it being recommended we thought we would try it. Our usual family outings usually consist of the farm, park or swimming so it was great to go somewhere a bit different. The discovery centre is basically a science centre for children, all the activities are interactive and they have great areas for the under 5's. They had water play, building blocks, ride ons and colouring. They also had all the science exhibitions like a mini hot air balloon, light display, building a bridge and more. Mia absolutely loved it! At first I thought she would get bored as a lot of the displays qhereor older children but she loved it all! We spent a good 3 hours and Mia would of happily stayed for a lot longer! 

I would definitely recommend the lookout discovery centre to other families looking for a day out thats a little bit different! 

Half term fun

Wedding update

This blog has been a little neglected recently. Mostly due to my hectic life at the moment! Work, wedding planning and looking after a two year old are taking up all my time! 

This is a little update regarding the plans for the wedding. 

We have booked all the vendors, DJ, caterers, mobile bar etc. We have decided on all the decorations and have started to collect materials together to create the look we want. 

Most importantly I have found my dress! One shop, 3rd dress I tried on and that was it! I was deliberating between 2 and I will share a photo of the dress I decided not to go for. 

I love this dress a lot! It's very princess but it's very unusual with the detail around the top and the scoop neck. It suited me and I loved it, however it was heavier than the dress I have chosen and in summer I think keeping cool is important and not having too much weight to the dress  

My dress is actually quite different to this one and when I eventually share photographs of the wedding you will see why, but until then you will just have to wait! 

My bridesmaids are in different pastel shades of the same dress. 

This is the dress, this photo doesn't do it justice at all! Bad lighting and iphone equals disastrous photography! 

The colours I am going for are these minus the coral/orange shade

This is an example of bridesmaids in a similar kind of pastel look

I think it looks really pretty for a summer wedding and this way I can ensure each girl is in a colour that suits her. 

Resolutions update

I have been pretty good so far with a few of my resolutions but not so great at others. 

I have tried to not do too much during the week. Mia has 2 organised activities every week at the moment, gymnastics and ballet and 2 that we go to as much as possible but I try not to put too much pressure on myself to take her if I'm feeling tired or just need a morning off! 

We have also been pretty good with the saving pennies. Although we haven't saved much we have saved something even if it is a tiny amount! Haha!

My be healthier goal is a work in progress. I joined the gym yesterday and will start on Monday and I'm going to do the Special K diet for 2 weeks because a) I love Special K anyway and b) although I know it's not a long term diet it will hopefully give me that kick start I need to motivate myself to carry this on long term. 

So far the only resolution which I haven't really progressed with is to spend more time as a couple. Hopefully we can arrange dinner out or something next month. 

15 things kids born in the 80's will remember!

1. Gel pens, first it started with standard colours and then it evolved into glitter pens and smelly gel pens! It was imperative to have them all to be cool!

2. Tamagotchi - everyone had one, schools banned them and we loved them!

3. Yoyo - tricks like cats cradle, around the world and walk the dog, if you could do those you were super cool! 

4. Furby - 'I'm hungry' so annoying haha!

5. 'Who loves orange soda'

6. Pokemon 'gotta catch 'em all!'

7. 'Under the apple tree, my boyfriend said to me, kiss me, hug me, tell me that you love me, one, two three' this endless song in which you would eventually end up in the splits! 

8. You used to sit down as a family at 6pm to watch the Simpsons on sky one. There was no such thing as catch up tv and if you wanted to record something you had to use a VCR! 

9. Scrunchies were so cool!

10. Schott jackets and bomber/puffer jackets were the way forward! 

11. Bootleg shoes, pedal pushers, strap tops, big hoop earrings, Kickers, caps (especially ones with NYC on) adidas tracksuit bottoms, Baby G watches! 

12. Reebok classics were the trainers to

own and if you turned up to school in hi-tec you were automatically ridiculed!  

13. Sports days were actually competitive! There was a winner and there was a loser! There was none of this 'everyone gets a medal for taking part!' 

14. PSone was the most amazing gaming machine you had ever owned! Tomb raider, FIFA, Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot! 

15. Mobile phones did nothing bar text and call and your first one was massive! Like a brick! Then came the Nokia 3310 which everyone cool had to own and swap the cover constantly, the more covers you owned the cooler you were!