We’ve been on our travels this week, having a road trip around the country. Most of this week has been spent travelling around Scotland where we’ve experienced all kinds of weather – beautiful Spring sunshine, cold winds and snowstorms, rain and hail. There have been moments when the weather changes quite abruptly – one minute we’re driving through a snowstorm and then two miles further down the road, it’s back to sunshine and not a trace of snow anywhere to be seen. It’s certainly made for some interesting journeys!
Out and About:
The main reason we were up in Scotland this week was to celebrate the wedding of two friends of ours. It was one of the loveliest weddings I have ever been to – just overflowing with joy and love and the girls had a wonderful time too. There was a ceilidh in the evening and we managed to find a quiet space on the dancefloor out of the way of the other dancers as the girls were so keen to join in the fun. Jessica managed quite a good attempt at a Gay Gordons too.
We also managed to catch up with one of my best friends – Gillian, who is godmother to both Jessica and Sophie. It was such a blessing to be able to attend the morning service at her church especially as there are so many people there who have prayed for Jessica since the start of her heart journey and it did make me feel quite emotional to be able to attend a service there with her and give thanks for how well she has done on her journey so far. Afterwards, we headed to a soft play centre where the girls had a wonderful time although Jessica gave us quite a fright at one point as despite us standing by the entrance to the toddler soft play area, we suddenly realized that she was no longer inside. Thankfully it was just a couple of minutes before Gillian spotted her in the big kids area but it felt longer and I am sure a few more grey hairs have been added to my head as a result!
After the wedding, we headed north to Inverness where we visited Urquhart Castle and Loch Ness before travelling to Aberdeen (where we ticked off the 100th gold postbox in our gold postbox challenge) and then south again to Dundee where we explored the Discovery, Captain Scott’s ship for his first Antarctic expedition.
Fun at home:
No fun at home this week as we haven’t been there!
Time for me:
Not a lot of me time this week but it’s been wonderful to enjoy so much quality family time instead.
On the blog:
I had a guest post about life as a heart mummy featured on Welcome to My Circus – thank you Lysa for sharing my post on your blog.
My happiest moment:
The four of us making up our own steps and dancing together during our friends’ wedding reception.
Next week I would like to:
Tick off a few more gold postboxes and enjoy some more family time together.
What a wonderful week Louise, full of adventures! Sounds like you’ve all had a great time, and even got to tick off more post boxes 🙂 I’ll check out the guest post asap. Have a fabulous Easter lovely lady, enjoy your coffee if you’re having one!!! #wotw
Thanks Reneé – that coffee on Easter Sunday was bliss! Hope you had a lovely Easter 🙂
awww lovely week and always fabulous photos. The weather really does need to get it’s act together doesn’t it? Happy Easter and enjoy the rest of your time together xx #wordoftheweek
Thanks Sarah – hope you had a lovely Easter too 🙂
I love Scotland and road trips. We did one when little T was over a year old. Drove all the way from Cornwall, saw bits of England, and then headed up to Scotland to stay at a small village near Loch Awe! #wotw.
Wow Cornwall to Scotland is quite a drive! Lovely to get to see different parts of the country, isn’t it? 🙂
What a fantastic week you’ve had….You’ve certainly done a bit of traveling!
The weather has had a bit of everything this week hasn’t it…
Thanks Kim – it certainly was very mixed! 🙂
Sounds like you’ve had a fabulous week, all together. Much to enjoy and celebrate, and lots of lovely photos, too. Thanks for sharing with #WotW and hope you enjoy the rest of your travels x
Thanks Jocelyn – we certainly did but is good to be back home now 🙂
What an amazing week! And what a fantastic idea visiting the postboxes, I have just had a look at all the photos of all the gold postboxes you have visited and it’s amazing to see how Jessica grows! Amazing.
Thanks Jenni – it is lovely to look back over them all and see how Jessica has grown up since we first started 🙂
Sounds like you have been having a fantastic time hon! Oh my word I’m sure they must have been the longest minutes of your life.Kiddies sure know how to make your heart literally stop.xx
Thank you – those couple of minutes certainly did feel very long, so glad we found her so quickly!
Your week sounds absolutely lovely and packed full! And I can’t believe you even found snow! Love the photos of your travels. I hope you get to enjoy even more family time next week
xx
Thanks Tracey – was lovely to have family time 🙂
Sounds like you have been on a great adventure 🙂 Scotland truly is a beautiful place.
It certainly is and we enjoyed our road trip around Scotland 🙂
What a fab week! The wedding looked lovely and I love that picture of you and Jessica dancing. Losing a little one in the play area is the easiest thing in the world to do and I bet it’s happened to everyone – they are just so quick. I love your gold post boxes challenge. Have a lovely weekend x
Thank you – we had a lovely weekend and hope you did too 🙂
Wow looks like a great week. Scotland looks beautiful, great pictures x
Thank you, we enjoyed our trip around Scotland 🙂
Aw sounds like a lovely week, I love a good wedding, and glad you have had such lovely family times together too 🙂 xx
Thanks Caroline – it was lovely to have some quality family time together 🙂
Sounds like an amazing trip and I love the photos! Weddings – especially those of good friends – are just so special aren’t they? I love sharing in people’s big day and witnessing something so wonderful! I’d love to visit Loch Ness, in fact lots of Scotland – I’m not sure how I’ve never made it but hopefully we will one day!
Thanks Yvette – Scotland is a beautiful place to visit, would definitely recommend 🙂
Wow you’ve been so busy!! Looks like great fun, and you’ve done so much. Some lovely photo’s. Jess x #happydays
Thank you Jess 🙂
Ah weddings are so lovely aren’t they, glad your week was fab but arghhh snow, I am hoping for great weather very soon x
Thank you – this week has been quite nice so far! 🙂
I love a good ceilidh and Scottish weddings are the best! (Hubby’s Scottish, so we’ve been to a few). Glad you had such a wonderful time in Scotland – it’s such a beautiful country!
Have a great week. 🙂
Thanks Shannon – Scotland is very beautiful and we enjoyed our trip there 🙂
Hi Louise, it sounds as if you’ve had a busy but fun week. I have never been to Scotland, but I can imagine the scenery is quite stunning. Traveling around with little ones can be quite exhausting, it must have been quite scarey losing Jessica, even if it was only for a moment!
Thanks Debbie – it was scary but thankfully short-lived!
Oh what a fab week- and of course there would be snow in Scotland haha! Love that a gold post box was included in the trip!! Thank you for linking up each week, love your posts. #HappyDaysLinky
Thanks Katy – always lovely to link up 🙂
It sounds like you have had a fantastic week making lots of memories. I wound love to travel around like that, I think you are very brave to do it with two young children. Running off to find out more about the gold post box challenge x
Thank you Jane, we enjoyed it 🙂
Ah who doesn’t love a good wedding! sounds like you have had a lovely and busy week! Lovely photos too x #HappyDaysLinky
Thank you – it was a lovely week 🙂
Oh I do love and wedding and your friends’ wedding sounds absolutely perfect. You can tell the girls were clearly enjoying themselves.
Oh this time of year is so odd for weather, isn’t it? It won’t make up it’s mind here at the moment. Jumper on, jumper off, jumper on, jumper off!!
Thanks for joining our #HappyDaysLinky
Jenna at Tinyfootsteps xx
Thanks Jenna – they were having a wonderful time. Lovely to link up again 🙂