London birthday suprise

Well it was my birthday last weekend and my wonderful sneaky husband organised a trip to London for just the two of us. It was the first time we had both stayed away from home since we got married 14 years ago and as pretty much everything we do involves our children in some way it was nice to get out and have a bit of 'grown up' time..that being not having to visit every toilet where we went and stop for food and drink every 5 seconds for the little and not so little ones :) . Their Aunt and grandad was kind enough to look after them and it was nice to see they were too busy to stop and talk to mum and dad when we rang to see how they were.

here are a few snaps i took of our time down there. Now we know the children are happy to be looked after  who knows where we could end up next :)

bank holiday fun

So what a fantastic weekend for weather this past weekend has been. hopefully you were all spending it with your loved ones but if not then kudos for those important workers out there who were keeping things ticking over while everyone else had time off and days out.

I myself spent the weekend in the garden with my family which means bbq a tipple here and there and children running around having tons of fun. my 5 year old daughter Milayna was thrilled watching the birds coming to the bird house where she had given them some food she loved it so much she asked me to get my camera out for it so i did and here are the results. before anyone says anything no i am not going to be moving into wildlife photography i really am in awe of those who venture into that line of photography i myself prefer portraiture though and shall be sticking to what i know best :)

also while i am here here is a few more family shots from over the weekend.