Emily W. Photography

I now have a website!!

www.emilywphotography.com

I am very excited about it, now I have one place to share all my work and  projects.

Hello

Just in case anyone pops by my blog still, I now have another blog Emily W.

My new blog is really for my photography projects but you can see want we have been up to and say Hi.

xxx

Hey, Friends!

If you fancy knowing more about me I have been interviewed by the lovely Stephaine Cadwell for a weekly feature on her blog called Hey, Mama.

I am very excited to be this week’s "Mama"

You can read the interview HERE.

The boys

Hello little blog, wow it has been a long time.

Wanted to up-date my blog but to honest it has been soo long I am not sure where to start.

Easter? that was great,

Our family holiday? even better,

The Royal wedding party? lots of fun.

There is just too much good stuff to write about. Instead I will just give a little update on the boys, more for me so that it is written down somewhere and I can remember in years to come.

The boys are as gorgeous as ever and are really growing up fast. Harry constantly tells me he is a big boy and needs to eat lots of food and banana’s so he can grow bigger. Ollie is shooting up and really leaving babyhood at an alarming rate, but he still does have the cutest chubby hands and feet.

Harry is developing an amazing imagination, playing little made up games in the garden, talking to his cars or on the play mobile phone. I think his favourite game at the moment is pretending to be a dog (I think we will have to get him a pet soon!) when he is being a dog we have to call him Charlie. He tries to get Ollie to pretend to be dogs with him, but Ollie is not very good at being a dog yet and needs more practice.

Harry is questioning everything and wants to know everything, as you can guess this is both good and bad. Last night he would not stop talking when Luke was reading the bed time story showing us all the animals in the book asking questions about where they live etc. Then he said to us ‘do you know crocodiles lay eggs and their babies hatch out of them, like birds do’. Little things like that really fascinate him.

As I said Ollie is growing up so fast, I think that is to do with having an older brother to copy. He loves to follow Harry about and copy him and most of the time they play really well together. In fact I have often seen Ollie let his big brother have something they are fighting over with a little ‘here you go Harry’ and a smile. There is some definite hero worshipping going on. Ollie constantly surprises me with how much he knows and how quickly he learns new things he already knows all the numbers from 1 to 10 but gets them a bit mixed up, but knows 10 is the last number so always finishes on 10 and looks very pleased with himself. Ollie has always been our feisty son and although he is gentle and sweet 90% of the time he does have a temper and is prone to strongly react to something he doesn’t like/he wants. Getting into the car seat is normally the cause of the ‘melt downs’ in his life, he just hates being strapped in.Then he does give the best hugs, really squeezing you and lots of kisses. Ollie still likes to be held a lot especially when I am cooking, so he can see what is going on and often telling me what to do next.

I love both of them to bits and wouldn’t have them any other way.

Car Crazy

Harry loves cars, playing with them, watching them, drawing them, talking about them and quite often he will take a toy car to bed with him.

He knows all the makes of cars and which of our friends drive them, his favourite being a blue VW Touareg the same as his friend Will’s parents drive. There have been many evenings after bath time where we have had tears as we can’t find it and even occasions were Luke has had to go out with a torch to look on the back sit of my car for “Will’s car”.

So this morning I made this little boy very happy by taking him to Mercedes World.

We spent ages watching the test cars racing around on the track and wondering around looking at all the different models, Harry loved it all. Ollie also had a great time as everything his big brother does he does too, so cars feature allot in his life.

Happy Valentines!!

 

We love Valentines!

Yesterday Luke and I went on our Valentines date night. Dinner and then the cinema, it was such a good night. Maybe it was soo good because we have not been out just the two of us for ages or maybe it was the great company (well, it is Valentines!) We watched The kings Speech, which is brilliant and yes I know I am a bit behind and am sure one of the last people to watch it but if you haven’t you must, you will love it too.





We have decorated the house a little bit this year, using Martha Stewarts wax paper hearts, they look really pretty when the sun shines in the windows.

I saw this great idea for a Valentines tree but ran out of time this year, we will have to make one next year.

The boys have made Luke cards this year, with a little help from me, some cool heart sunglasses and this awesome Photo booth app. We have made many different photo booth style strips and turned them into a big collage card, with lots of glitter and tiny hearts. This app is now my new favourite thing, I am thinking of printing photo strips on to card and using them as invitations to parties this year.

On Valentines day Luke will be going to work early so we will be exchanging cards and gifts in the evening together plus I am going to cook him a special dinner, with his favourite chocolate cherry brownies for dessert.

 

I hope you have a wonderful Valentines

xxx

Happy Birthday Woody

It rained and we didn’t have much to do.

Harry announced that it was Woody's Birthday today and that was our afternoon filled.

We baked a sponge cake, decorated it, made cards and wrapped some of Harry's cars in used drawing paper as presents.

Woody was 3 today!