Jenna turns 2

This week Jenna had her second birthday and all the family came round to celebrate!

We all just love it so much when we get to spend time with the little kids we love. As you can see Jack is getting quite big now.

Jenna got some sweet pressies. Lots of books to enjoy with mummy.

A baby doll off aunty Jane. She was quite affectionate with the baby doll at first, but soon she did what any mother would do . . .

"Just eat up baby!"

She can have a grown up conversation like mummy now on her cool new mobile phone - yeah it's just a toy!

Jack loves it when people talk to him.

Opening presents, she took quite a while on each one, and once it was open she would stop and play for a while whilst we waited for her to get interested in opening another one.

"Look mum - I got shades!"

Jen knows quite a few funny songs now, and we had fun singing and dancing with her for quite a while- this is heads, shoulders knees and toes! Happy Birthday Jenna!

Seconds anyone?

There is a moment in ones life when one has to attempt to build a trifle. In the Young house at least you can be sure that "If you build it, they will come."

Mike was completely unphased by the task of making a trifle on his own, from scratch, blissfully unaware of the various pitfalls that many of us fall foul of the first time we make this tasty dish.

There was nothing sloppy or runny about this little baby. In fact it probably was about the weight of a child, it doesn't look so big but he packed it full of stuff. Good stuff.

So congratulations to you Mikey baby. The trifle was gone only moments later, but the legend of the trifle will linger for many years to come.

Mikey - "Don't leave me trifle. I love you . . ."

My first video

The video is my first attempt at posting a video. I decided to experiment with a pretty funny one in my opinion. This is post dinner time at the Youngs. We have just seen a pretty chinny picture of a local MP smiling and the video is what it induced.

Enjoy.

Micklefield Inferno

Dear all

It doesn't happen all the time, but some weekends you might find yourself asking - "what the heck...?". Last weekend was one of those.

The whole family visited Claire and Leon's for James' blessing. We all stayed over. Mike and I were in our old attic room. At 6am on Sunday morning we were woken up by two loud BANGs, which Mike thought were gun shots. Being Mike he pulled on his clothes, just as Claire came running to the bottom of the stairs screaming "Michelle - your car's on fire!!"

We got outside to find it wasn't our car, it was my sister Alices- check it out!


A psycho from the village had borken in and then torched the sucka. We started taking pictures but the car started rumbling so we went inside to await the firebrigade.


Luckily the engine didn't go, because it was really close to the house! Seems like the bangs we heard were the backs tires exploding!

The girls checked it out - what was missing? What had been burned?


They found this one remaining monopoly card - "Pay your insurance premium!". You got that one right!

The police caught the guy later that morning whilst we were at church. He'd punched out a taxi driver and done a few other naughty things around the village. They suspected it might be this particular dude, and went knocking on him. They found him lounging around drunk in his living room in the clothes that he had been described in. Genius.
Poor Alice. She had a pretty good laugh about it!

So what did you all do with your Bank Holiday weekend?