at the airport car park….the bus driver saw us unpacking the car and stopped right by us to let us on…..and told us to take our time, not to worry and make sure we had everything…..

on the plane…the flight attendants were amazing. we got upgraded into premium and had a vast load of leg space (well in airline terms!) and they were very cool about our little traveller.

So we are here.

Who knows what time it is????…Poppy doesn’t have a clue, poor kid.

Most bizarre thing…….sitting here with the TV on in the corner and Coronation Street coming on…

Wha?

or carry ons……

this is it, this is what we are permitted to take on board for Poppy. Yep, thats right, nappies and wipes….oh, and milk..but being as she isnt bottle fed we don’t even have that. I think they will be okay with a few jars of baby food but one of us has to try it before they let us on the plane. Oy Oy Oy…..

But have to say I would rather them be more vigilent than not right? At present our flight is still going ahead but we have yet to find out the estimated time of take off. Other flights are leaving about 2-3 hours late. So we are in for along wait.

and…once we have gone through check in, all we will have with us is passports, tickets, money..oh and Poppy’s nappies and wipes and that is IT…all in clear plastic bags……no mobile phones..aggghhh…

Bizarre..this world we live in.

So spare a thought and a prayer for us tomorrow ‘cos we need it…and so does our baggage. Our laptop, cameras, car keys, ipod, and everything else will be taking its chances in the hold and we all know how careful the baggage handlers are!!!

more from us soon……….

just a couple of my much older layouts, as i am far from my scrapping stuff and just using the stuff saved on the laptop. we are t minus 2.5 days till we travel. just sitting pretty…lots o’ love to you buds.

oooooohhh.really old one… and this…my little lad..a bit of a time ago 🙂

is there something i should know!!

for those 80’s chicks amongst us, a bit of Duran Duran….ahhh do you remember…..

*sit back and remember those oh so nasty perms and all those pastel colours*

Don’t know where that came from….i was just thinking of a title and that came into my head.

So, layouts, i have finished a good few last night. Caught up with some challenges from 2peas. Here is one i really like…

I like to do layouts about the very ordinary things of life. There will always be stacks of photos around of us, the people that make up this family but the its and bits of life get forgotten. Anyway in 5 years time I probably won’t have the same things taking up space in my house. Although you never know!

So..more news, and this won’t be news to some. We are at t-minus 7 days (tomorrow) that Ben, Poppy and me fly to Vancouver, BC. OMGoodness, there, I said it.

We are going for one week exactly and we are going primarily to check it out because we are seriously thinking about going to live there for a while. It is somewhere we intended to go about 5 years ago and it didnt happen and now it just seems back on the cards and we are going to ‘test’ the water, so to speak.

I have mixed feeling about it, to be honest. I am really excited to go but am equally a bit blue that I am will be leaving my two little baby buds at home with their grandparents. This is mainly because of the expense. The joys of being married to a teacher means that just as you get your free time, so the holiday companies plant their prices right up there in the ‘HOW MUCH?” category.

But they are going to be fine (my mantra) and they will have a blast with my mum and dad (more of my mantra) and it will be great and good and lovely. *repeat*

So we have fixed up a couple of meetings and we are hopefully going to go to Whistler for a little look. And of course I am going to be looking into some scrapbook stores….oh..yes…i have my list, i have my yahoo maps printed off and i have lots of space in my suitcase….

So….yeah…that is what we will be doing next week. Sometimes I feel like I am in a bit of a dream. we have wanted to do this for so long and now it seems to be happening. Hard to take it in.

Maybe that is what its like…you know, when your dreams suddenly become scarily real…and i say scary because i mean that I am, at times, terrified…

that it might not be all i had hoped…

that letting your hope rise often means it can get shot down..

But i guess there is risk involved. But that’s life right? We have to take risks or we stand still, motionless, afraid to move, paralysed by fear.

And you know what? that’s not going to me 🙂

Thanks Hebe for the craft lesson with this one. Those letters look awesome. Mmmm..yes..black dots not supposed to be there, had a bit of falling out with the scanner….

and this one i did about a week ago because I was feeling like I hadnt done many of the baby and so this pic was one i took by accident almost. She is so NOT tiny any more. Those really tiny days are gone for good. *sigh*

Got a couple more that i am planning to finish up tonight.

We went to the National Railway Museum today. Don’t laugh…we have an obsessed train spotter little boy…good day, i think everyone else in the North east was there too. But i am determined not to waffle on about trains……i would like you to come back to my blog again 🙂

So just for you Mum, thought this might take you back…