This week's smiles....week 27

What a gloriously sunny week we have had....if but a little too hot at times.  We had lots joining in this last week to share their happy posts so thank you to everyone for making the effort.

My featured blog this week for me just had to be Sam's funny over at Hettiecraft.  I think it really appealed to the midwife in me and certainly made me giggle.  I don't know where you find your funnies each week Sam but thank you for linking them up here to give us a giggle.

My week has been full of smiles.  I had three fun day's with the twins on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before the school summer holidays stared for Shell.  I will of course see them during the 6 weeks holidays but I know Shell will want to make the best of every day with them....and who could blame her?  To top our Wednesday off Amy brought her 3 little munchkins to join their cousins for a BBQ tea at ours.  She brought with her their bouncy castle for them all to play on together and I spent the evening watching them all playing very happily together.  It's so special to see them all interacting and they all cause so many smiles so I have made you all a collage to share.....and I dare you to click on it to have a good look and not be smiling when you've finished.  :-)

I hope you have enjoyed sharing my smiles and feel able to snap a few of the things that have made you happy this week to share with others.  Smiling is like a tonic and it really does make the world a better place to live.

Hugs,

Annie x

Learning to share...

We have had a couple of very special Dutch friends here for a few days staying with us [you know the sort?...you meet them on holiday in France in 2000 and say if you are ever over in England then pop and see us....and they did!....and we have had at least one holiday a year together ever since :-)].  Good friends are a blessing and these are the sort that even though we only meet up once a year its as though we have never been apart.  We love them to bits.

We usually meet up on common ground in that we usually have a week together in a cottage in France but the last few years we have met them for a holiday in cottages in England.  Of course, this year has been pretty hectic with work and family developments and when they rang us just over a week ago asking if they could come here to stay we jumped at the chance.  It had been 3 years since they had seen our family so we had new family members for them to meet  :-)

Saturday night we had an evening of fun and laughter.  Sadly our son and his girlfriend are over in Fuerteventura at the mo on holiday so they missed to join in the fun [of course I'm sure they were having plenty of fun there too  :-) ].  We had a warm, dry evening [if a little cloudy] and a BBQ in the garden.  Our little granddaughters, of course, were here with their Mummy [plus bump] and eldest daughter M [plus twin bump] and her gorgeous other half  B joined us too.  It was a very special evening....I felt 6foot tall with pride  :-)

I thought you might like to see a few snaps of our little girls learning to share  :-)

'Which button do I press to get this thing started?'

'That's it.  Now hold on tight L'

'My turn to drive P.  Give Nanny a wave'.

'Now P don't get too clever!'




Happy happy memories  :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)