This week's smiles....week 314

Wahoooo Spring is here so what's not to smile about?  I think this has to be my favourite season by far.  I'm surrounded by sprouting garden flowers and every field round about appears to be full of little lambs and new life.

We had a ride out in the motor home at the weekend and there really did seem to be new lambs everywhere I looked....and of course from the front seat in a motor home you can see over the hedges so I could see so many more than from a car.....I love the Motor home life.

I have a few pics to share with you but none of the lambs sorry.

Tuesday was a fun filled day spent with my hubby and little Theo.  I really love this photo because they were deep in conversation about what they were making and it was all the more special because the K'nex they were playing with belonged to Theo's daddy, Mark and I have very happy memories of him playing with it too.

Lexi and Sam came for an hour after school on Wednesday while their mummy was at their parents evening....the Lego is always something they all love playing with and some of that was mine when I was little....it very long lasting isn't it?  :-) 

These little violets are just outside my sewing room door and they make me smile every time I look at them.  As a child I always picked a few of the first primroses and violets for my Nan so these hold very special memories for me.

Last week I included a pic of the very first tulip in the garden but now they are opening our everywhere and there are red, yellow and cream ones too....just gorgeous.

This is a tree we planted in our back garden just a couple of years ago and I couldn't resist snapping this pic yesterday when I noticed it was all coming out into bloom....just look at that blue sky behind it!!!  There wasn't a cloud in the sky.

There you go.  Maybe you can see why I love Spring?  I hope I've made you smile too.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles....week 266

Another week has passed and although there have been a few worrying times I've lots to smile about so here goes....

We had a family gathering last weekend and these four were happy to pose for Nanny Annie to snap a photo....they are all growing up so quickly and you wouldn't think butter would melt in their mouths would you?

They had a whale of a time playing together....just look at all the toys but I'm pleased to say they are well trained kids and they put them all away before they left to go home.

Shell, Brent and the twinnies are away having a skiing holiday.....that is between one after the other of them going down with a nasty sickness bug and then to top it all little Sam fell from a button ski lift and had to be stretchered off the slopes with a suspected broken leg......thankfully x rays proved his leg wasn't broken but it's badly battered and bruised .....I think they will all be glad to get back home now.

Where our daughter Amy lives they have 4 acres of fields either side of them and one of the local farmers has put a few sheep and lambs in the one field.  The children are really enjoying 'living on a real farm now Nanny' as they tell me and I'm really enjoying getting the photos of the little Spring lambs each day.  The farmer was more than happy for the children and their Labrador to go for walks in the field but it you check out the photos you will see what their dog, Poppy thought of the lambs....she's not very brave when confronted by a lamb wanting to play with her as you can see.....I guess the lamb just thought she was a funny looking sheep being the same colour.

That's all my smiles for today.  Please leave me a little hello message to let me you you've called in and if at all possible then link up to your own smiles for the week.
Hugs,
Annie x