The Big Hoot - Birmingham

So Sunday saw us take a drive down to Birmingham for a day out. None of us had ever been before, so that was an adventure in itself. The trusty Google search, located a reasonable priced car park near to the main attractions of the city centre, and off we headed.
A couple of hours later, after a couple of rest stops for the kids and some congestion on the M6 heading into Birmingham we made it to the car park.
I'd printed off the trail map for the Big Hoot and we proceded to walk around collecting as many as possible.
We found 3 before heading to Eastside City Park to have a picnic, luckily there was a covered area with benches as it has started to rain.

The boys then had a quick play in the fountains 

before we headed over to the Science Museum to collect some more owls. 

We then followed the route round to the children's hospital,

we then made our way to the Cathedral gardens still hunting as we walked

After spotting all those in the Cathederal Gardens we moved onto the Square outside the Museum and Art Gallery.

Inside the Art Gallery in gallery 16 they had a collection of 26 Little Hoot owls, which we all designed by different schools in the area.

We then made our way back to the car via New Street and the Bullring

In all we found 31 of the 89 Big Hoot owls and walked 5 miles in the process

5 favourites - May

5 favourites from May, you'll notice it's more than 5 photos, but they are linked so I'm including them! 

Callum celebrated his 6th birthday with presents, a trip to the cinema to see Big Hero 6 and a party a few days after with his friends 

Connor celebrated his 4th Birthday with presents, a trip to the cinema to see Penguins of Madagascar and a party with his friends the weekend before 

A trip to see the 3 Queens arrive on the River Mersey into Liverpool to celebrate Cunards 175th Anniversary

A trip to a new Museum (the World Museum, Liverpool), lots of new things for the boys to discover!

A glorious sunset from our house

5 Favourites - April

Playing a little catch up, here's my 5 favourite photos from April

Exploring Lymm Dam Nature Reserve and the Nye Channels and Scallops of the Sandstone

A family photo taken on Ayr Beach overlooking the Isle of Arran 

The boys altogether rock pooling on the beach off the holiday park 

The boys with a Caroline's daughter Ayla (who we met for the first time) on the tall ship outside Glasgow's Riverside Museum 

The boys on the last night of our holiday with some of the characters from Haven holidays, they loved all the singing and dancing with the characters and getting to meet them each night! 

Hello Monday catch up wk's 16th and 23rd June

Hello Monday 16th

Hello to a couple of play dates for eldest son with friends from school
Hello to an 88% score in the assignment I submitted
Hello to papercrafts at craft club
Hello to both sons attending a friends birthday party
Hello to eldest son attending 2 more birthday parties
Hello to my sister and brother-in-law visiting

Hello Monday 23rd
Hello to saying goodbye to my sister
Hello to eldest son's first sports day
Hello to football coaching at school
Hello to the Great British Tennis Weekend and swimming with a friend and her daughter

Sadly this week I also found out a friend from toddler group had passed away after falling down the stairs.
Really makes you think and appreciate what you have in life!

Hello Monday

Another week has past, another Monday is upon us

Hello to finally submitting the assignment I mentioned last week, just hope I don't have to wait too long for the result!
Hello to our routine toddler sessions with the youngest, I'm going to miss them in September when he starts nursery school!
Hello to starting work on the 5th book of 7 of my current module. Anyone know anything about COPD?
Hello to a quiet weekend celebrating Father's day with my boys!

Hello Monday

I'm back from my blog break, I haven't intentionally neglected the blog there are just so many other things to do, but it's a great place to record my thoughts and important things that are happening in our lives so I'm here planning on trying to keep it up to date!

Hello to starting the #100happydays project
Hello to getting back to routine after the half term holiday
Hello to a trip to the dentist for my final 2 fillings
Hello to hubby doing a week of nights
Hello to writing my next assignment
Hello to spending time with the family at the weekend
Hello to spending time with friends at a hen party
Hello to joining in with Rinda's Photography Scavenger Hunt


Do let me know if you're planning on taking part in the Photography Hunt or if you follow Hello Monday!

5th Sept

Little Man -
Lesson learnt- if you repeatedly hit Daddy on the head with a balloon, it will burst eventually and you will be extremely upset! You looked distraught and had a great looking pout, you did eventually cheer up once the waitress had given you another balloon!



Mr Bundle - 

Lesson learnt- I should always pack a spare vest when going out for the day!

My sister and her husband

 Me and my lovely Hubby