catching up

I haven't blogged in a while and said too much about us. I  have showed pictures from our living room and pictures from when Mom and Dad visited, but not much chatting about us.

I have been a little under the weather with this pregnancy and will hopefully start feeling better in a few weeks. I don't expect to feel wonderful and  100% all the time, but I have not experienced morning sickness before, so this is hard on me. I stay so busy with the girls and Rob, I think I just need to start slowing down even more. I have already started showing, which makes a few friends think I might be having twins...but we will see in a few weeks at my first OB appointment. 

The girls are busy with end of school year activities and looking forward to a few months off from school.  Meghan is reading small books and is getting more comfortable with starting new books.  Jenna is learning "sight words" and enjoying doing dot-to-dot!   

We enjoyed a small Medieval Fayre on Mother's day in a small town named Snailwell. The girls both practiced shooting bows from a cross bow and we enjoyed watching some horses and sword fighting.   The girls also enjoyed some Candy Floss (cotton candy) and ice cream.

I was going to include a few pictures in this post but my iphoto was thinking too long yesterday and I'm too lazy today to try it again!

Show us Where You live Friday

This picture is looking at my living room from my husband's chair.

My husband's chair and corner.  (we hide our xbox toys behind this chair).

This picture is looking in the living room from the front entry way.

This is the view from the dining room. (the British like to put doors up in every entry way).

I love reading and checking out Kelly's Korner's blog and last week my kitchen was way too messy to show off to the world.  I'm showing off my living room to show how much stuff you can put in a small English house. I'm a neighbor of Angie's (Lingar Lowdown) but I don't live in a converted barn.  If I did, I would have much more room.  I live in an average size British house and I have American size furniture!

Hope you enjoyed seeing my tiny living room!!!

More Windsor pictures

Windsor Castle

We took Mom and Dad to Windsor Castle last Wednesday and it was another beautiful day!  (as I type this I'm missing some warm sunny weather.  Mom and Dad must have brought the sunshine with them and took it back today;)

We all really enjoyed Windsor Castle and I worked our trip out so the queen wasn't there. When she is there you can not visit the staterooms and that would take away from the whole experience.  We couldn't take pictures inside the staterooms or St. George's chapel and I wish we could have....they were both awesome to see.  The most interesting part was in the chapel and I learned there was a large vault under the chapel with the remains of many many royalty. There were stones all over the chapel in memory of.....and large above ground vaults too!  Very cool to see.

I will have an additional post with more pictures from this trip....too many to choose from;)

Bury St. Edmunds

This post should be before London....we went to Bury on Sunday with everyone.  It was a beautiful sunny day and we enjoyed all the beautiful flowers and sights. We ate at a really good Tapas restaurant and then had coffee from Starbucks. (this post should be done a week ago, but time got away and I was pretty busy).   

We picked the perfect time to show off the gardens in Bury.  We walked in the Abbey gardens and in the Cathedral.   Weather was perfect and we stopped off for ice cream too!

London

Tower Bridge

Prince Charles and the boys live here.

Big Ben and the House of Parliament

We took everyone to London on Monday.  We started out right on time and when we arrived at the tube (train) station the car park was full.  We drove about 2 minutes down the road to Theydon Bois and found the last parking spot!!!  Rob and I joked through out the day that the car would be clamped or gone when we return, but it was right where we left it!!  The tube/train ride in was fun and we actually didn't get lost. We went straight to the hotel Tracy was going to stay at to drop off her bags then we found a nice place to eat lunch, Garfunkel's .  I won't forget to mention....it was a typical rainy London day but that didn't stop us from the bus tour.  We rode the Original Sight Seeing bus and boat tour and saw all of London.  We also saw some protesters around the House of India and then at Parliament. They were protesting about some things happening in Sri Lanka.  We had a very long and exhausting day but it was fun too.  

Cambridge

We took Mom, Dad and Tracy to Cambridge Saturday. It was a beautiful sunny day and we went on the perfect day to see graduates walking around!  Each of the 32 colleges that make up Cambridge University graduate at different times.  Kings college is the largest of the schools and Trinity College is the most well known, 20 some of the noble prize winners graduated from Trinity.  Cool fact.....Prince Charles' body guard received a higher grade in final exams than he did!!!   We went punting on the Cam and saw the backs of the colleges and enjoyed a relaxing boat ride.  We ate lunch  outside at Don Pascal's and watched people at the market.   We also enjoyed looking in the shops and the girls found a Build a Bear in the Mall!!  Rob and I told the girls they could get an outfit each for their bears/stuffed animals. It's been a while since they have been in a build a bear store....they were like deer in headlights looking at all the clothes!!!   It didn't take the girls long to pick out an outfit and I'm sure they will remember the store is there.