This weekend we bundled up in warm clothes and went into town to visit the Christmas market.

It takes up the whole Prom, 2 rows of lovely little sheds, covered in fairy lights and tinsel. It sells bratwurst, Peruvian and Nepalese knitted hats that look like animals (I really wanted the giraffe one!), sweets and Russian dolls as well as bizare meat – springbok burger anyone?!

When the market comes to town that’s when I really start feeling festive, it coincides with the switch on of the Christmas lights and begins our countdown to the holidays.

Ez enjoyed himself whatever the following photo may suggest! I think he was just a bit bored of being stuck in the buggy. This was his first trip out since he caught ‘the pox’ and became contagious and I was so glad to be out, breathing fresh air and getting some exercise.

Annie and I spent some time hidden in between the rows of sheds playing tag and blowing raspberries at Daddy. There were so many people that I was glad of some space.

I love how colourful the market is, you can’t help but smile wandering around, even if you have no money to spend ( I can attest to this!).

Jon bought a Bratwurst, every year he says he will, never does and then regrets it afterwards. I’m glad he treated himself, so was Annie, because she ate loads of it – poor Daddy!

We went back into town on Sunday, the weather was much nicer and I realised I’d not taken any photos of the things on sale so we set off to rectify this.

Then we let Annie to try on a variety of different hats, her favourite was the giraffe one too, she has good taste that girl.

After all that excitement there was just time for some refreshments before heading home for a gorgeous roast pork dinner – a perfect weekend in my book.

What did you get up to this weekend?

Linking up with Point + Shoot over at sunny + scout

We are very lucky that every weekend for us is an extended weekend as Jon has Fridays off, courtesy of the extended week system. This means we get to fit lots into our family time together and this weekend went a bit like this…

Puddle jumping in the park (Incidentally I love my new iPhone 5, the camera is beyond fantastic.)

Home for dry trousers and socks and to introduce Annie to the wonders of the ‘hot chocolate and marshmallows’. A delicacy I had only discovered myself 2 months ago. It was a big hit which I wasn’t really expecting, hot choc is normally too sweet for Annie but I made sure I added extra milk and put it in her Dad’s expresso cup Annie sized mug.

Writing practice as Annie is desperate to start school. She keeps asking to learn to write so we got her a wipe clean book to help her learn, she loves it.

More walking practice for our little Padawan.

On Saturday Ez  was hanging out of his walker backwards like he does and I realised I have never taken a photo of this and it won’t be too long before he stops doing it all together, so I rectified that situation!

Annie spent a lot of time wearing filthy oven gloves, ‘collecting important things’

I also realised I’d never photographed the way Ez chews Mr Dinosaur so after his nap I sorted that out too. Check me out, preserving memories left, right and centre ;-)

On Sunday we headed over to the park with Annie’s scooter. Because the skate park was almost empty we asked Annie if she fancied riding around it. She loved it and it probably deserves a blog post all of it’s own, she was a superstar.

The rest of Sunday was spent doing Sunday type things, drinking coffee (me and Jon), watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (Annie and Ez Bear), eating delicious stew (all of us), photo editing (me), having a bit of a whinge (Annie!) and general relaxing (everyone).

I love our extended weekends, what was the highlight of your weekend?

Playing along with sunny + scout’s point + shoot

For ages now I’ve wanted to do a Day in the Life photo project or join in with the 10 on 10 project (where you take 10 photos on the 10th of the month). But I either forget or it’s not convenient to take the big camera out and about so it alway falls by the wayside.

Since the camera is so much better on the iPhone 5 I decided that I no longer had an excuse and so yesterday I did my own Day in the Life project. All the photos were taken with my iPhone and edited using vsco cam.

I’m really happy with it as a glimpse at how a typical Wednesday works in our house. Yes there were hours where I forgot to take photos (most of the afternoon for example) but those times can pretty much be summed up by the photos either side of the gap.

So here it is, a day in the life of Em.Head down stairs with Ez Bear to start on breakfast and getting Annie’s bag ready for nursery.

Wrestle Annie into her jacket and bag and try to herd her out the door!

Push them to nursery, half way there let Annie out of the buggy to walk and collect leaves and sticks (I will then transport these home and put them in the ‘stick bucket’ by the front door.) Please ignore the open bag of Mini Cheddars I hadn’t had time for breakfast.

Stop to admire the lovely autumnal leaves outside nursery before the long walk home again.

Let Ez play and roll about the place while I do the housework.

Remember I was supposed to collect Jon’s prescription so dash out to the Drs and chemist. As I’m loading Ez into the car remember I wanted to grab some sourdough bread so head back into the supermarket and buy that too.

Sit down to check Facebook.

Edit the photos I took on Tuesday while Ez naps.

Drive out to pick up Annie from nursery.

Finally work out what Annie had been pointing at the whole drive home, a seed pod on the sunroof, take a photo of it at her request.

Put on Annie’s songs before Chloe, Summer & Monty arrive to play.

Give Ez some peas to snack on while I cook dinner.

Remember the masses of laundry in the tumble dryer, haul it inside and start folding it – yuck!

Put the kiddos to bed with Jonny’s help.

Curl up in front of the fire…

…and start watching season 4 of Fringe on BluRay before heading to bed.

And there you have it, that’s pretty much what Wednesday looks like round here, of course every day is different but it’s nice to have a snapshot of our life as it stands right now.

What would appear in your Day of the Life of you project today?