a favourite

noo! not a favourite child {i mean really?! who does that?!}, i mean a favourite flower.

not sure if i really have a favourite flower. oh, hang on i do love lillies {even though my mam tells me my house smells like cat piss when there’s a huge vase full of lillies sat there looking absolutely gorgeous by the window}. oh, but i do love a good a good tulip, too. but what about a vase full {as in fit to burst!} of just the simple, bright yellow flowers? {not sure what they’re called…and yes, still working on that ‘becoming a gardener this year’ thing…}. oh, i can’t decide.

i just love, love having fresh flowers around the house. simple as.

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lowri aka frog

^^ frog…just because ^^

{consider me shot once she sees i have put this picture on here!}

i honestly don’t know where to start with this post…so i’m just going to waffle, if that’s ok?!

so, the above pictured missing-member-of-jackson-5, is my gorgeous little sister, Lowri. not only my little sister but also my best friend. we shared a bedroom {oooh! the arguments were quite something at times…} up until i left and moved in with paul when i was 18. we also had THE best sing off parties with our brother. honestly, our rendition of ‘love can build a bridge’ done by cher, neneh cherry, chrissie hynde {that was me…} and eric clapton? we soo had it down to a t!…let’s just not mention our version of ‘man in the mirror’…our poor parents!

last summer low and her family moved in next door to us. like, RIGHT next door. i love it, she loves it, our kids love it, paul & elf kinda love it…we help each other out with childcare etc. and get to sit in the garden sipping a glass of wine gossiping while the kids run around. awesome. low has had her highs and her devastating low’s. but lowri? it didn’t stop her. she picked herself up and got on with life. 2 healthy and gorgeous babies soon followed…and continue to eat all of our fabs from the freezer {owen} and eye up my shoes, bags and clothes {ella}.

this weekend is low’s hen do {part 2}. a weekend in london, seeing rihanna on saturday night {eeeek!}. we have been discussing what to wear since christmas…and still have no idea. maybe we should ask ella. she’d know what to wear straight away. and what accessories go with what. i think i may have driven a few of my work colleagues crazy going on about this weekend. but, i honestly can’t wait. a bit of sight-seeing and a hell of a lot of dancing!

to give my gorgeous little sister just the best time. everrrr.

london…let’s be having you!

i may not sleep thursday night i’m that excited.

ps – that’s not her real hair. obvs.

pps – low, if you’re reading this. stop with the nightmares about the wedding ok?…how many times do i have to tell you the hairdresser isn’t going to turn up stoned and off his face, ok? xx

a weekend

a weekend of exploring the forests with your mates…and hunting for some crows! you love your lie-ins on the weekend robbie…but, cariad, you were up, washed, dressed and sorting out your packed lunch at 8.15am!  {more of this new robb, please!}

a weekend where i cooked a frittata {this recipe – LOVE her blog!} for lunch for my sister and i and we got to discuss those last minute wedding plans. {2 weeks on friday…eeeeek!}

a weekend of catching up with your best pal sat on the side of the road, playing with stones.  {what weekends are for, right?!}

his t-shirt says ”actually it is all about me”.  nuff.  said.

a weekend where there was a first proper footie match for alfie. i screamed & squealed. you made me very proud, bach, very proud. {and the moves you pulled when your team scored? THE BEST!} // a weekend of running and splashing into the pool! {whilst the adults sipped those ice cold cidre’s!}

yeah…well done weekend…we all played well *raises arms and claps hands*

SILENT SUNDAY

scream if you wanna go faster!

one more sleep ’til paul comes home DOO DAH! DOO DAH!

one more sleep ’til paul comes home DOO DAH DOO DAH DEEEYYY!

i jumped on my bed like robb is in the above pic this morning. one more sleep! one more sleep ’til i can sleep soundly throughout the night instead of waking every hour thinking ‘THERE’S SOMEONE DOWNSTAIRS!…YEP! I CAN HER THEM…THEM? OMG, HOW MANY OF THEM ARE THERE?!’…{i’m not the only one like this, am i?!}…and to have paul back too obvs!

these pics were taken last weekend at Greenwoods forest park. it’s a great day out…when you finally get the kids out of the go-kart track. HOURS, i tell you!  the roaster coaster* was my fave bit. they both held their arms in the air the whole time round…even if alf did look like he was bricking it in one of the pics the camera on the ride took!

after a busy {i typed busty then…make of that what you will…!} week, a few diolch’s: wine, for getting us all together in the sunny evenings around a fire, also thanks for the sun for coming out; steph, for the giggles over sausages and donuts #iwannagobacktocollege; robb’s collage homework, for reminding me just how much i loved making these at school {…and now}; alfie, for the giggles we had at his hospital appointment yesterday…trying to talk seriously with a doctor with the giggles…so hard! ebay, for all the hen do goodies. one more week til rihanna!

here’s to a weekend of sipping a few stella cidre’s in the garden with paul when he gets home and lazy afternoon’s on the beach. but first we have to go shout and screeeam deliriously cheer on alf’s footie team tonight, followed by a swift half** with the rest of the team and their parents at the pub afterwards…it’d be a shame to waste this sunshine!

have a sunny one, you lot! x

*what robb called them when he was younger and it’s stuck!

**also known as a pint of guinness and a packet of bacon fries…

not brave enough for bare legs yet…

nope, not me. if i was to go bare legged, my sister would be chasing me with her many cans of fake tan.

^^ …cos i is cool, yes?! ^^

nah, not really, i just liked the way the playing-with-the-editing-thing-a-me-jig turned out. i mean, i proper squealed down the phone yesterday {luckily the person on the other end knows me well!} when a wasp got a little too close for comfort. so not cool. i killed 3 of them afterwards though…with one can of wasp killer. go me. there was one in the ladies loo…saved me an embarassing moment there! imagine that story in the company’s safety bulletin, not too mention the photos!

aanyway, i’m wearing white shirt {new look}, these white sunglasses {next}, brown shorts {fashion union}, nobbly tights and leopard pumps. {i had to spell check leopard then…hate it when that happens}.

there’s something in my ice cream…

you know when you have those moments, where you see what’s about to happen and it all seems in slow motion and before you know it…it’s too late. you do?! good, because you’re about to read mine. we were walking through the crocodile’s maze at Greenwood forest park with ice creams. alf was enjoying his smartie push up ice cream {you know the one’s?} and robb had a bubblegum flavoured one. anyway, paul and i are walking behind them and we see alf spit something out into his hand, take a good look at it, shrug his shoulders because he’s not sure what it is …{and this is where the slow motion bit comes in}… and then throw it away. “noooo!” i scream…it’s too late. ”alf, open your mouth”. yup, i thought so. two teeth missing where there was only one missing a few seconds earlier. ”alf, your second tooth has come out and you’ve thrown it away!”…alf stuffs his tongue between the gap in his teeth ”o ie! i thought it was just something in my ice cream!”.

we looked for it but no joy. how we expected to find it in a grassy-shrubbery-loose-your-tooth-for-good-in-here type of place, i don’t know. soo typical of alf! he wants to leave a note for the fairy explaining what happened to see if he will still get a penny…he’s also going to tell her how he heard her coming in through his window and going under his pillow the first time she called! my heart hurts from all the cuteness!

while i’m on the subject of losing teeth, check out this bad ass bikini here and a cool monster tooth pillow here…but as always i have left it too late to do anything this cool for alf…or for robb actually {he’s still losing the odd tooth, too}! xx