Big weekend and fun with the Wallace’s

On Thursday, Mia, Vicky and Jon came to stay over for a couple of nights – so we took them to Thomasland in Tamworth.  It was pretty cold, but because it was a Friday, the place was empty – so we could use all facilities multiple times over 🙂  As can be seen above, Elliot rather enjoyed the Troublesome Trucks ride – we had to go on it over and over….

Typically, we had said how well behaved both Elliot and Oliver were being recently, and to prove the opposite, Oliver cried the whole way home from Thomaslnad – Jon particularly enjoyed that experience, and Elliot treated us to some whinging on etc over the entire time 🙂

In fairness to Elly, he did share his toys reasonably well given that Mia was there for 2 full days and three nights.  The only thing he was not up for sharing was his latest Mack (Cars toy).

It has now been two days since the Wallaces’ left, and Elliot is still nipping back into the spare room to see if Mia is there… 🙂

Rust family gathering

We all enjoyed a nice meal on Sunday with our little family group, Simon’s mum (and entourage) and the great grandparents, oh yes and Uncle Timmy.

Then  SImon’s cousins James and Rebecca Laing came around to say hello and catch-up.  It is a frightening reminder of how we are all growing up and aging – we definitely still see James and Rebecca as little kids, yet clearly they are grown adults in their mid twenties, who have settled in the Yorkshire / Lancashire areas, bought houses and all those grown up things.  Really great to see you guys, hope to keep in better touch over the months and years 🙂

We are considering getting a nice professional photo of the Rust generations – to see if we can line up in the next week or so…

Oh Saturday !

Saturday again – they seem to come around so quickly 🙂

We picked up daddy’s new Suit from Harvey Nichols this morning (nice Paul Smith one that we ordered last week) and nipped to Maplin to get an aerial connector for the car, and then came home to meet a stranger on the driveway – Uncle Tim was waiting for us.

We have also had the wall between our house and next door re-built this week, since Leanne had a little accident in reversing out of the drive earlier in the week, and knocked it down :-(.  Fortunately there was little damage all round in honesty.

We are heading to Halifax tomorrow for a family meal with the boys Great Grandparents as well and Grandma, Uncles Tim, Dan and Justin and Auntie Jenny.