Lovely summer wedding

At the end of July my lovely friend Beth got married in a pub in Cheshire.  It was my favourite type of wedding - nothing pretentious just prettiness and a great family atmosphere.  It's how weddings should be.

It was such a great day that when we got back home I felt quite sad for a few days, I wonder if anyone else gets the wedding hangover as much as I do.  I just love being surrounded by family even if it's not my own and find it so strange when we go back to just the two of us I just have to get used to it again.  It's why I'm so flipping excited we're growing a family we are so ready for it!

20 week bump pic above - let's face it I'm pushing it out yearning for a bump to be showing!

June wedding

This weekend we went to a traditional big dress and church wedding.  I love weddings ever since we did the deed ourselves - I could happily be a wedding crasher.  We spent the day reminiscing about our very own big day, Mark even said he wants to do it all over again.  Me, I'm looking forward to starting a family and am actually very glad to have that period in my life behind me.

We have one more wedding to go to at the end of this month and I'm going to be a bridesmaid for the first time (well I was a flower girl when I was 3 not sure that counts...) but after that I'm free for wedding crashing any one want to come with me?

Recently

I've not been doing much recently, just counting down the days until scan day.  I'm sure there will be another countdown starting soon for the big "boy or girl" scan.  It's amazing how you know how many weeks gone you are I never used to even know what day of the week and yet now it's "11+2", "12+4" etc to the question how far are you gone (12+6 today for anyone wondering!)

I think I'm going to keep a bump diary, we've bought a scrap book to put all the pictures in it will be fun to see how much I've grown.  A few people have said I'm showing but under clothes I don't think you can tell, I've always had a bit of a belly I just don't think anyone's noticed before :) what do you think?

We've spent weekends plodding about we visited my parents a couple of weeks back and went around a nice garden and I also got to see some knitwear my Mum's working on - so cute it even inspired me to pick up the knitting needles again!

We've got some interesting things lined up soon so I should get my blogging hat back on!  This weekend the other half is off to a stag do (expect some plodding around the garden pics from me) then we're off to a wedding, thinking about a food/beer festival, going to sunny Menorca for a week and then I'm going to be bridesmaid for one of my best friends.  Let the busyness commence it only makes the countdowns go faster.

Hopefully the bridesmaid dress will be ok for me when I'm 20 weeks pregnant!

Lovely cottage garden near where I live

Nothing to see here...or is there?

Wedding Hangover

This weekend we got married and it was truly amazing.  For this week only we would do well out of opening a florist and cake shop :) Looking forward to going to St Ives on Friday!

Highs and Lows

This weekend was probably our lowest of the wedding planning due to some family politics but perhaps one of my personal highlights as we journeyed over to South Gloucestershire to deliver jugs to the lady who has grown  and will be arranging our flowers for the big day.

We also did a couple of our DIY tasks which always makes us feel great that we are putting our own stamp on the wedding.