Last week was half term. We had some amazing weather, which we  thoroughly enjoyed! The sun was shining and it was quite hot, I'm not a huge fan of really hot weather so finding some shade seemed like a good idea to me! We went for a lovely picnic to a fairly local park with plenty of shade but also lots of sunshine, too! The kids enjoyed playing in the sun (they were smothered in sun screen) whilst I sat in the sun and watched!


We packed egg and ham sandwiches, mini sausages, scotch eggs sausage rolls, cakes, cookies and some fruit etc! We spent a couple of hours at the park eating and playing and just chatting, enjoying the weather before walking along the river to get a well needed ice cream!
(My memory card has literally just broke on me, and I can't retrieve the photos NOOOOO!!! - along with many others - so I'll have to just post the photos I took on my phone. I'm trying to figure it out. WHY didn't I back them up straight away?!)








We're hoping to get out for an after school picnic sometime this week, we'll see how the weather goes though! Not long until the summer holidays, who's excited?! We are!!

How have you been enjoying the weather lately? 

Sarah xXx

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The other day, the boys had a dentist appointment in town - Impressions/molds, xrays and photos of there teeth ready for braces in a couple of months. They did SO well. Whilst we were in town, we decided to visit castle park, which is a huge Roman castle with a massive play area which has recently just been re-done and it's 'EPIC' (Charlie's words!)
 Castle park is always beautiful but during the Spring time, the flowers are all in bloom and they're so pretty! They also smell AMAZING! (So glad I took a hayfever tablet before we left)

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It's finally Spring and we have been making the most of the beautiful weather we have been blessed with the last few days. We decided to go for a lovely walk and to the park after school one evening. The weather was mild and sunny, perfect for a trip to the park.




We got to the park and the boys noticed there friends were all playing football and scooting on the skate ramp with there scooters! So no photos of the boys unfortunately, I didn't want embarrass them infront of there pals.  The boys are 11 and 13 but I still stayed within a distance I could still keep my eye on them! Ellie and I had a little walk around the edge of the field (and I got a quick jog in because I am determind to loose more weight!) and played frisbee whilst the boys had a kick about with there friends.



We finished up on the play park, Ellie loves the swings, she could seriously spend hours on the swings, bless her. There were quite a few people at the park which was lovely to see so many people out enjoying the gorgeous weather.

The kids break up for Easter this week and we're hoping to have more sunny days so we can get outside more!
We hope you've been able to enjoy the lovely weather, too!

Sarah xXx

Baker Ross sent us some really lovely Spring themed art and craft kits for us to try out! We adore arts and crafts and being creative! Ellie was super excited to get stuck into these!


We first coloured in the creative flower wreaths.


Each pack contains 6 assorted spring/floral designs, each wreath comes with a piece of ribbon to hang the wreath and the wreachs are approx 18.cm in size. They are printed on good quality card, you can use fine tip fibre pens or markers to colour these lovely wreaths in.

Ellie choose the daffodil and tulip pattern to colour in first! She was all "It's almost Spring and these are perfect for Spring time" She is SO excited for Spring, as am I. We coloured the wreaths in together (because I am a big kid and I love to colour, haha)


"My favourite flowers are tulips... RED Tuplips" Ellie told me. "I'm colouring these in so carefully! I can't wait to hang them up when they're finished" She really enjoyed colouring these in, as did I. There is a hole already cut into the wreaths ready for the ribbon to be threaded through and then the wreaths can be hung.

These were great fun to colour in and they make a lovely decoration for this time of year!
Priced at just £2.60 for a pack of six, they are so worth the money!


Next up we decided to make the peacock crinkle decorations!
Before we had even opened the packet Ellie told me "I CAN NOT WAIT FOR THESE! They're SO pretty" in a rather excited voice, haha.


Each pack contains four foam assorted peacocks in different colours, along with foam self adhesive shapes/stickers, some sequins, wiggle eyes, the peacock templates and some tissue paper. The peacock size is around 12.5cm. You will also need glue or foam dots (which is not included) We used a glue stick just fine though.


Ellie looked at the instructions and said "Do I fold the tissue paper like a fan?" I told her that yes that's right. So that's what we did, we folded the tissue paper as you would a fan. Backwards and forwards until we got to the end. And then we folded our "Fan" like tissue paper in half, we fanned it out and glue the folded halves together "This looks like a peacocks wings" Ellie declared. We then added the peacock template. The peacock template is self adhesive.

I threaded the ribbon through the hole.
Ellie then added the face, beak and eyes which are also self adhesive.



We decorated the peacock and wings together. Using the self adhesive foam stickers for the wins and the sequins for the body of the peacock. We used our glue to glue the sequins onto the peacock.
"WOW these are just beautiful" Ellie told me.


They are now hanging proudly on our kitchen window handles along with the suncatchers that Baker Ross also kindly sent us!

Baker Ross have such a wine range of Spring arts and crafts to choose from! They're all very reasonably priced and always great quality. I really can not recommend there products enough.
You can also follow Baker Ross on Pinterest for more inspiration and information.

What's your little ones favourite Spring art and craft activity? Or what do you like most about Spring time?

Sarah xXx

We were sent a sample of these products for the purpose of this review. All opinions are my own, honest, personal opinions. I was not paid for this post.

It's finally half term and it's more than welcome in our house! Having a break from the school routine does everyone the world of good! While the weather was nice we decided to take a trip to the park, it was a gorgeous day, the sun was shinning and it was 7 degrees which is quite shocking considering the day before it was snowing! Having a crisp sunny day reminded us of spring... Which isn't very far away at all and we can not wait.




Charlie took his scooter to the park as there is a ramp there which scooters can be used on! Harry took his bike and Ellie decided she was going to walk with me. The boys also took a football, too! They love playing football and while the weather was nice, they decided to make the most of it.
We had a go on the play area, by 'we' I mean the kids... Although I may or may not have had a go on the swings (Such a good leg workout, haha). We also had a walk around the edge of the woods and the kids had a go on some of the fitness trail equipment, I decided to give that a miss though, haha. And of course, the boys had a good kick around with the football, hehe.
It was quite mild in the sunshine, Harry even got too hot wearing his jacket whilst running around! Spring isn't very far away.. YAY!








We had a really lovely time at the park before heading home for lunch! We are hoping to make another trip to the park and perhaps venture in the woods this week! We hope you're enjoying half term so far, too!

Sarah xXx