Today

Taken with my iPhone

This morning Claire, Alice and I had a quick trip to Asda and on the way back stopped in to Sainsbury's so I could get a few bits. Alice had been asleep when we got there but woke when I took the shopping back to the car, so Claire and I decided to pop into Starbucks for a Gingerbread Latte and a free mince pie - the Starbucks special today :)  Unfortunately my point and shoot's battery went flat so I had to use my iPhone to get this shot and I'm so glad I did :)

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Lily Isabelle

Emily, Jon and I drove to Eastleigh today to meet Lily Isabelle for the first time. What a beautiful, contented little girl she is and today, although she is still recovering from her C Section, Michelle glowed with the joy of motherhood. I don't know if I've ever seen her so relaxed and serene before. She is plainly in love with her beautiful daughter and we can see and understand why :) 

I'm going to let the photos do the talking in this post (because my computer has been playing up and I'm getting frustrated with it tonight!). Suffice to say, we each got a chance to have some cuddles with this beautiful new addition to the family and are looking forward to lots more!

 Lily Isabelle

  My turn for a cuddle :)

 Grandpa's turn

 and Aunty Em's.

 Time for Mummy to have her back :)

And look at all that hair!! :)

And finally, I am up to date with my December album and will be posting the pages soon (once I've worked out how to photograph them as I'm doing a small double spread for each day. I think I need an easel or something similar to pop them up against. As soon as I've worked it out, they'll be on my blog. 

Hope you've had a good weekend.

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01 December :)

Taken at the County Mall this morning

Emily came down this morning in a very good mood - why? because it's the first of December and she'd opened the first door on her Advent calendar :)

I then had a text from Claire to tell me Alice was very happy to have a chocolate out of her Advent calendar this morning :) and Claire is now feeling festive. I'm told Craig is even talking about putting up their Christmas tree this weekend (but we won't tell Emily that one! Our tree goes up 12 days before Christmas but I know she'd love it to be earlier!).

This morning, Mum and I went Christmas shopping - ready for the long haul!  I don't have much left to do but did pick up a few more presents today, which can be ticked off my list :)  
Now I don't want to jinx things but I am feeling slightly more organised this year. I think perhaps it's knowing I have Alice three times a week and, therefore, need to be more organised.

Whatever it is, I'm hoping for a fairly stress free December and the chance to keep up with Journal Your Christmas/December Daily. I'm still not 100% how I'm doing this but think it'll be a combination of the two.

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Lily Isabelle

Earlier this morning we became grandparents again. Lily Isabelle was born to Jon's daughter Michelle and her husband Matthew and weighed in at 10lb 4oz.  Lily will be a little sister for Josh (9) and I just know he's going to be such a good big brother to her.  We're excited to get to see all the family and to meet Lily soon. 

At this stage I don't have any photos but you can bet as soon as I have, I'll post one here :)   *Photo now added :)

Huge congratulations to Michelle and Matthew. Well done, Michelle, we're really proud of you, time to now enjoy cuddles with your new daugher :)

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