The third and final wedding of the year was Sarah and Russell's. Really great wedding, we couldn't have had a better time. The kids loved it, we loved it, the weather was perfect, the sea was warm (ish) and the people were superb. The wedding was in Southwold in Suffolk - an almost too perfect town on the shores of the North sea. Beautiful.

Nice one, Sarah and Russell and congratulations.

Cara's class

carafirstdayschool
Originally uploaded by Lenny&Meriel

Cara started school last week and this is one half of her class. These guys and the other half of the class are taking it in turns to do morning s and afternoons at school - they're breaking them in gently until they start full time after half term.

Aerobatics

With the Battle of Britain air display coming over we got a preview of the Blades (a four man aerobatic display team) doing their thing right over and around the house. They came so close at times that we all admitted feeling a little scared. At one point we had one of the planes heading vertically downwards directly towards the garden where we were standing, shortly before pulling out of the dive at very low level.

Gulp.

A couple of days after that we took the kids out of school to spend their lunch hour watching the red arrows, always value for money (but of course it is free):

Back to school

Jonah is already back at school and Cara is about to begin in reception next Monday.

I can't remember Jonah being this excited about his uniform. Cara just had to try on all of the different combinations. "Vive la difference", I guess:

Jersey

So we all went to Jersey for two days. The weather was overcast (it's been all like that lately) and Lenny was ill at the beginning, but there was plenty to do and everyone had a great time. We got back really late on Wednesday - it's nice to be home.

West Show

Great West Show this year. We went down with the kids (who wanted nothing more than to eat chocolate and candy floss). Cara went on loads of the rides including the really fast adult ride (she went with Meriel) and loved them all. We were there for hours, although it felt like about an hour and a half. And of course there were cakes:

Dan & Lizzie

The second of the three weddings went off really well, too. This time it was Dan and Lizzie, getting married in North Yorkshire. We set this up more like a holiday and it panned out really really well. Weather was fantastic and everyone was very happy indeed.

Hoorah!

Catherine & Shaun

A late update to a summer of weddings (we've been to two of the three now).Catherine and Shaun had a lovely wedding put together with an awful lot of love from their parents and Friends.
We all had a very good time and it even felt like a holiday, which we don't tend to get much of (although living in Guernsey isn't too bad really).

Camping out

Jonah in the tent
Originally uploaded by Lenny&Meriel

Meriel put a tent up in the garden and it was decided that Jonah would sleep the night in it. He's very excited and has set himself up in there very nicely indeed.

Cara painting her pony

A really successful present from Cameron and Freya was this paint-your-own pony. she painted it all, adorned it with stickers and was still combing its hair several days later - which is an indicator that it was very popular indeed: