The Calladines

J&Jo

2012-01-22T18:05:00.001Z

Lovely, lovely weekend, full of walks, discussion, food and wedding talk - brilliant!!

Breakfast with the Kellys 7-1-12

2012-01-07T23:01:00.000Z

New Years Day!

2012-01-01T15:21:00.002Z

Calling in on Mormor and Granfar on the way back from London for hot BrunsvigerKrans and tea!!!

New Year with the Hack Macs

2011-12-31T16:59:00.000Z

Had an excellent time bringing in the New Year with the MacInnes' and friends in London ... talking late into 2012!!

Scarlett Christening 30-12-11

2011-12-30T15:00:00.000Z

Scarlett's Christening

Scarlett's christening in TunbridgeWells was Friday afternoon. We travelled down Thursday via Joyanne, Mark & Arianya to have lunch with them, then going on to have a meal with the Calladine wider family.

Amy holding Arianya

It was great to see everyone and to catch up with those we had not seen in a while.

Meeting Scarlett

2011-12-27T13:49:00.002Z

Boxing Day 2011, with Mal's Mum, brother Tim and his wife Sarah AND with gorgeous little Scarlett who we met for the first time!

Christmas 2011

2011-12-25T20:22:00.005Z

Christmas Eve with Mormor, Granfar, Signe and Odd

Out for a walk Christmas Day

Review of 2011!!

2011-12-23T11:49:00.006Z

Clicking on the image seems to make it clearer and larger, or right clicking and selecting 'open in a new tab' can make it larger still!

2011 Review (part A), 2011 Review (part B)

Harris Family over

2011-12-11T18:04:00.001Z

We had a fabulous weekend with the lovely Harris family. Trying to find each other in the crowds of Bath Christmas market was challenging but so much fun!!

Santa Seannah

2011-12-10T11:53:00.000Z

Seannah did a Santa walk to raise money for friends to travel and work in an orphanage in Vietnam. She did amazingly, getting up at 7am on a Saturday(!) to walk the 16 miles from Bristol to Bath and came away with a pretty impressive blister.

Inge & John (Chriscelle's Mum & Dad) 45th Wedding Anniversary

2011-11-30T23:30:00.001Z

It was fabulous to get together to celebrate Mum & Dad... all 20 of us, and especially meeting Arianya - Joyanne & Mark's 2 week old baby.

Amy is 15!!

2011-11-03T23:08:00.001Z

Well, November 3rd and our gorgeous middle girl turned 15! Lots of fun with her friends round on the 5th with scavenger hunt, pizza, fireworks (compliments of local display) and movie....

Half Term - End of October

2011-10-31T14:35:00.003Z

We went down to London at the end of half term, to catch up with our good friends the Kirbys, then onto see Joyanne who at 38 weeks pregnancy broke her leg!! It was good to see a glimpse of Mark too!
Then caught up with the recently engaged J and Jo before driving on to Kent to see Brenda.
(Yes we still love fitting as much into half term as we can!!)

27th Sept to 3rd Oct Mal and Chriscelle in Norway

2011-10-04T19:43:00.003+01:00

Mal and I went to Norway to do a parenting seminar. It started with a couple of days in Hjelmeland, in a spa hotel looking out over the fjord - which was just amazing.

We then traveled back into Stavanger and stayed with Thomas and Mari. The parenting seminar ran from Friday to Saturday, and Mal spoke at church Sunday morning and evening.

End of holiday fun!

2011-08-29T22:44:00.006+01:00

Bank Holiday Monday and the last night of our family holiday (having got back from Cornwall and the day before returning to work).

We went with Mum and Dad to an outdoor performance of the Taming of the Shrew!

Holiday in Cornwall - end of August

2011-08-28T22:48:00.052+01:00

We had a fabulous holiday in Cornwall. The weather was...not hot, but on the whole fairly sunny!

We were staying in Mousehole (south of Penzance) giving us the oppotunity to explore the very bottom of the UK!! We went to Lands End on Chriscelles Birthday and had a Mal birthday day at Praa sands (body boarding pictures)

The house we stayed in had a lot of character and was just 100m from the harbour. Mousehole itself had lots of little art galleries and coffee shops...perfect!!
We left feeling there was a whole lot more we
would like to explore next time!!

Jaedan is 13!!

2011-08-19T07:30:00.005+01:00

We had a brilliant day celebrating Jaedan ...(despite a bit of rain) Three teens!!!!

Soul Survivor 9th-13th August

2011-08-14T10:41:00.010+01:00

Mal, Pete and Simon just back! They were "men behaving Dadly" @ soul survivor with the kids! (Chriscelle, Caroline and Sue staying home to work although Chriscelle joined them for last 2 days!)

Our now legal 16 year old!! - Legally Blond 29th July

2011-07-29T23:49:00.003+01:00

To celebrate Seannah's 16th we (and Seannah's friend Karis) went to see Legally Blond at Bristol Hippodrome. It was madly stupid and a lot of fun!!

Date Break

2011-07-27T22:54:00.003+01:00

Mal and I had an amazing date break (our joint birthday gift from Brenda- Mal's mum). We went to Bowood House Hotel which had a fantastic spa. Absolutely fab time. Here's my gorgeous hubby sitting by the canal in Devizes..

Seannah & JJ

2011-07-26T22:17:00.002+01:00

Seannah & JJ, a photo by Calladines on Flickr.

..just as they were about to cycle the 14.6 miles from Wick to Chippenham with Mal

Amy in Edale 18th - 24th July

2011-07-25T21:37:00.008+01:00

For the last week of term Amy went to Edale for activities week. She had a brilliant time and came back shattered!!

In the canoe..
...two minutes later!

Amy says..
"It was amazing! When I have the chance to go again I will. The best bits were: hanging out with all my friends, weasling, highropes, archery...it was all amazing!"

GPS weekend 2nd -3rd July

2011-07-04T20:30:00.006+01:00

Well we managed to sleep 16 (including us) saturday night, (we're aiming for 18 next time)!! Brilliant weekend

Seannahs GCSE's

2011-07-01T21:16:00.003+01:00

Here she is studying hard for her exams with some help from Amy and Jaedan... Seannah had her last exam on the 28th June.

Actually she's been brilliant at getting on with revising! She gets her results end of Aug.

Seannah is 16!!!

2011-06-25T21:34:00.002+01:00

Chriscelle finishes her burns course

2011-06-15T21:13:00.003+01:00

Wooohooo!!
14th June was the handing in date of our last assignment. I have such an amazingly patient husband who painstakingly went through the whole thing checking my spelling and grammer. This course has been hard work but I feel like I've learnt alot from it. However... It's great to have finished!! And I passed!
As a result of the course, the leaflet I wrote on "pressure garment for children" is now being printed. It will be the first leaflet written just for children produced by our trust!

Mum turns 70!

2011-05-20T20:53:00.004+01:00

And for her birthday she asked us to build her a pond!
Here it is under construction.

Easter

2011-04-24T20:39:00.003+01:00

Easter egg hunting with cousins.

Tea with Granma

2011-04-17T20:32:00.002+01:00

Sushi to celebrate

2011-03-20T20:01:00.003Z

We decided to introduce Amy and Jaedan to sushi - they LOVED it!!

Mal returns

2011-03-18T19:52:00.003Z

It was so good to have Mal back. This is what he fitted in his suitcase!!!

Bradley

2011-03-08T19:21:00.013Z

On the 17th Feb we got the devastating news that Bradley had died, very suddenly, of a heart attack the day before. Mal flew out to support and help Roeman. He returned the 8th March. These are photos of Brad when they were with us at Christmas

Seannah our star!!

2011-02-18T18:56:00.007Z

Seannah did brilliantly as Sandy in the school production of Grease 16 - 18th Feb

January 2011 - Start of a new year

2011-01-31T22:29:00.013Z

We jumped into the new year with Roeman, Bradley, Bobby, Mum, Dad, Neil, Lynda, Esta, Milo, Kaspar and the five of us!!

Roeman,Brad and Bobby all left on the 4th Jan. Four days later on the 8th Mal flew to Uganda with Dave Keeper for 10 days.

Christmas

2010-12-25T20:05:00.002Z

Our Christmas review of the year!

2010-12-23T16:55:00.005Z

Click on the images to make them easier to read!!

Eating in style!!

2010-08-04T10:23:00.003+01:00

We made Ratatouille! (after watching the film!!)

Second Week of France!

2010-08-02T22:06:00.001+01:00


Angela's farm house where we are staying!


Having 'Pain au Chocolat' out side

Exploring the coastline (Ile de Re)

In Angouleme

2010-07-30T19:18:00.003+01:00

Excuse my (Chriscelle) slightly interesting pose...with the camera on timer I threw myself into the picture!!

We're in France!

2010-07-26T12:22:00.003+01:00

How amazing to find ourselves here! This is where we are staying - in a beautiful barn conversion. The weather is fantastic - perfect for spending nearly all our time in the pool!

.A huge THANK YOU to the Guillebaud Family for making us so welcome

Our Morello Cherry Tree

2010-07-12T22:54:00.001+01:00

This year we had a bumper crop of cherries!

Chriscelles Job

2010-06-30T22:35:00.002+01:00

This is a 5 min video about the Paediatric Burns Centre. See if you can spot me!!

Seannah is 15!!

2010-06-25T19:43:00.001+01:00

Seannah about to blow out her candles with Granma in the background

We've moved

2009-12-18T23:10:00.001Z

Three and a half years after moving back to the UK we now have our own home!!
Whoo hooooo!!

It's an old stone cottage in Keynsham (between Bristol and Bath).
The train station is 5 mins walk - so the children are now taking the train to school!! (which is a much quicker journey than from Shortwood)

Happy Christmas from the Calladines!

2008-12-22T09:10:00.000Z

Kids Club

2008-08-29T17:26:00.000+01:00

Kids Club was SO fun. We used the theme of Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoat.
So at the end of the week, having entertained 80+ kids each day - we were shattered...all ready to start the new school year!

So cool - in Poole

2008-08-27T14:50:00.000+01:00

It was great getting to see Pete, Caroline, Jess, Ciara and Aidan. They moved (from Sheffield) into their new house in Poole about 3 weeks previously but looked incredibly settled and at home. We got to explore their near by beaches and go on a sailing trip! Simon and Sue came for a day too. This really felt like the last fling of summer before heading back to Bristol to get ready for the kids club and the new term.

Summer time and the livin' is easy!

2008-08-20T14:33:00.000+01:00

Glapwell

2008-08-18T11:22:00.000+01:00

We than had a bit of time catching up with family. Jaedan had his real birthday. He got a remote controlled aeroplane which after a bit of 'flight practice' went quite a way!

Sumptuous Time Away!!

2008-08-15T11:04:00.000+01:00

For a birthday treat Mal and I had a fantastic time away at Dannah Farm. The hot tub looking over the fields was just amazing!

Summer Meanderings!

2008-08-12T10:43:00.000+01:00

We went to stay with Brenda for a few days.
Got to go on walks, play a bit of golf and then a fantastic trip to Hever Castle. Having just watched 'The Other Boelyn Girl' we were 'into' the history of it all.
With August being the month for birthday's (including Mal turning 40!!!) we had a special meal out for Mal's favourite - LobsterThermidor.

New Wine

2008-08-03T22:21:00.000+01:00

It was an interesting experience doing New Wine again on (wet) British soil! It made us both realise how much the children have grown- as they all very happily took themselves off to their groups. They all loved it (apart from leaky tents, thin sleeping bags and being camped next to the main road where lorries would exercise their horns at 3am!) High lights for us - meeting up with Simon Guillebaud, otherwise....ummm...we may give it a miss next year.

Leaving Primary School

2008-07-26T14:02:00.000+01:00

Amy went to the Year 6 disco on the Saturday (19th) before her very last week of primary school!
Around 45 extremely excitable 11 year olds!

On the 24th they had a leaving service in the church. Part of it included a play the children had created where they all played the parts of different teachers and the significant adults in their last year of school. The only person 'impersonated' who was not a member of staff...was Mal!!, mainly for the fantastic assemblies he does there and the 'Elvis Amen'

25th July was her very last day. Out of her two best friends Eleanor (the one in the middle) is going to a secondary school in Kingswood where as both Alice (on the right) and Amy are going to St Marys with Seannah. Strange to think we only have one at primary now!

Jaedans Party

2008-07-24T22:51:00.000+01:00

Jaedan tends to
miss out on having a birthday party with school friends with his birthday being in the middle of August.
So this year we decided to bring it forward!! Well just the party anyway. With the Indiana Jones theme we did a treasure hunt, 'toad-in-the-hole' meal and a chocolate fondue followed by a water slide - to wash of all the chocolate!!!

July Birthdays

2008-07-23T21:53:00.000+01:00

Celebrating Phil's birthday on the 6th.

and Granma's birthday when she came up to see us on the 23rd

Troy Story

2008-07-13T13:54:00.000+01:00

With Amy drawing near to the end of her time in Pucklechurch Primary one of the things she was most excited about was performing in a school play. 'Troy Story' set in ancient Greece was the story of Helen of Troy and the Trojan Horse. Amy was the chorus leader and Jaedan one of the chorus. It was really well done, and they both loved being part of it.

Helen and Ben's Wedding

2008-06-29T23:41:00.000+01:00

Seannah's Godmother Helen and Ben got married on the 28th June. It was a fantastic day and also fun to catch up with old college friends as well as Seannah making new ones!
This is Helen with Seannah 13 years ago!

In the meanwhile Amy and Jaedan went to Legoland with Granma for the day, got thoroughly wet on the rides and had a generally brilliant time.

Seannah's a teenager!!

2008-06-26T07:47:00.000+01:00

Seannah turned 13 on the 25th June! She had a party, the Saturday before, with her friends where we made "Bodacious Burgers" and then on her actual birthday we went for Pimms and Croquet on the lawn at Wick.
She really is amazing and we can't quite believe it was 13 years ago she was born. We love you Seannah!

Revel

2008-06-22T03:51:00.000+01:00

Seannah and Amy (as part of guides) joined the parade at the Pucklechurch Revel. It's a real community event with a fair ground atmosphere.

C(h)oral of the Ocean

2008-06-19T04:35:00.000+01:00

As part of Revel week, the school put on a show called C(h)oral of the Ocean. Amy was one of the main characters playing a long suffering wife going on holiday with an extremely accident prone husband. She played it brilliantly (we're so biased!). Jaedan made a brief appearance too as a 'beachy' holiday maker.

Weekend in Wales

2008-05-31T04:38:00.000+01:00

We went away, to the same Retreat Bunk House that we went to last year, with the ChurchNext guys. It was a time to review whats been going on and what needs to be going on!....and of course to eat lots of good food and play football with a mountain backdrop!!

New Neighbours!

2008-05-05T12:03:00.000+01:00

Phil, Mags, Skye and Joseph moved in two doors down after the Ark (the house they shared with Neil and Natalie) had been sold.
In fact the house they have moved into is on the market too, but has been for ages!! It'll be great when we all get permanent housing sorted!!

Hockey Tournament

2008-04-27T02:45:00.000+01:00

Amy played for her School in a Hockey Tournament at the Youth Sports event. They all had fun and got the Fair Play award, as well as a medal each for taking part!

April Holiday

2008-04-16T23:35:00.000+01:00

We had fantastic Easter break. One of the 'best bits'?....It would have to be all going to 'Go Ape' in Nottingham Forest. It was quite an adventure, getting harnessed up and swinging through trees!!

With long, long zip wires that left your heart in your mouth as you stepped off the platform! The kids absolutely loved it. It definitely challenged any fear
of heights and it was only afterwards we discovered our guide was a retired stunt man who had worked with Daniel
Radcliffe in the Harry Potter movies!!

15th Wedding Anniversary

2008-04-06T23:09:00.000+01:00

Well its fifteen years since Mal and I got hitched on April 3rd 1993. (Just in case you are wondering who those people are).
Mal was speaking at a conference in Stockholm in Sweden.
With it being in the Easter break I took the children up to Glapwell and flew out from Liverpool (despite nearly getting stuck in snow driving over the peaks to the airport!!)

We had a very romantic few days, with lots of walks around the city. One of many highlights was a day at the "central badet" - the central bath house with steam rooms and saunas and a fantastically ornate swimming pool.

March & Easter

2008-03-11T22:33:00.000Z

Easter is super early this year, the only year I can remember where Easter itself was not in the Easter Holidays - slightly weird.
We had fun with the chocolate bunnies Granma gave us....

Easter was celebrated with all Churchnexters with our traditional Matzos, Coffee, Egg and sugar (it really does grow on you and you love it after a couple of years!)

The kids (and Mums) were distracted by 'Chicken Run' while the eggs were being hidden outside!

February

2008-02-28T23:30:00.000Z

Well this is the month I (Chriscelle) have become self employed as an Independent Paediatric Occupational Therapist (try and say that in a hurry!!)
I received in January, confirmation that after the last 5 or so months of 'updating' I was successfully re-registered and 'ready-to-go'.
So I now work 1-2 days a week, mainly assessing and providing treatment ideas for kids with co-ordination or sensory processing difficulties.

At the end of Feb, for our half term we went up to Glapwell to: see everyone, sing Happy 38th Birthday to my brother Ian and to chop a huge pile of wood!!! (Mal just loves that axe).

A major provision this month. Mal was given a mac. It's made a massive difference and is a huge 'blessing' after his other one being stolen last year! The children are all making faces at the integral camera!
After half term Mal went straight on to Faro, with Phil to the ECPN conference www.ecpn.org

January

2008-01-30T15:12:00.000Z

January has seemed to disappear as the 'getting back to normal after Christmas' month. Mal, again, went to Norway
(which he LOVES) to connect with Halvor and others at the Lederdagen (Leaders Days) after Impuls (the 3000+ young adult conference).

Amy started going to her Drama club after school. Jaedan decided he wanted to learn a bit of Spanish, so started to go to a weekly, after school class as well.

December - Christmas

2007-12-24T16:33:00.000Z

Christmas at Wick Court

December

2007-12-05T16:24:00.000Z

Christmas is coming...
Christian and Oline's model of Wick Court

November

2007-11-04T02:53:00.000Z

..and Amy turned 11!

Celebrated with a few friends, a sleep over and most importantly....a Chocolate fountain..

oh yes....and at Amy's request a quick spot the difference...

October

2007-10-25T08:57:00.000+01:00

During the October half term we got to climb Win Hill ( the peak where Mal and I climbed on our very first date-talked about spending the rest of our lives together- and walked down!!)
It was amazing to take the kids there. And Mal got to exercise his chainsaw!

September

2007-09-03T08:46:00.000+01:00

The last few days of the summer holiday we got together
with family in Glapwell, another cake to celebrate becoming 40!!It was great to see everyone Amy got to feed her youngest cousin Kasper and we got to walk in the beautiful peaks.

August -Rock

2007-08-30T08:24:00.000+01:00

We had the most awesome time in Rock!
This was probably the last opportunity to stay in Pete's late grandparents house which is due to be knocked down for two other houses to be built.

I turned 40 while we were there!! We had the most incredible day on a beach just down the coast, some of us walking over the dunes and the others sailing there in Pete's boat!

The other highlight was Banana boating for Jessica, Seannah, Amy and Jaedan and Mal trying to keep them all on at the back!

August

2007-08-20T23:55:00.000+01:00

Right at the start of August the Fordhams cane to stay, the children 'slept' in tents in the garden.
August is the month of Birthdays in our family, Neil and Natalie, Phil and Mags did an incredible 3 way Birthday bash for us with a cake each (just had to show them they were amazing)

The next day (which was Mals actual birthday) we traveled to France. staying just next to Concarneau. It was picturesque but the weather generally was awful. Mal's Mum and Derek joined us a few days later .
Jaedan turned 9 whilst we were there and we spent the day at a swimming pool/waterpark in Brest!
Travelling back on the ferry in Gale force winds was an experience! We managed to book a cabin on an offer they were doing which was just fantastic (horizontal was the only way to be!!)
We drove straight from the ferry to Rock in Cornwall to join the Harris family there.

July

2007-08-01T07:21:00.000+01:00

The most amazing news this month was hearing from the owner of Wick Court that he had become a Christian and was grabbed by the vision of what we wanted to do with the house and training centre. So he refused any other offers (including later, higher cash offers) until we could see what God would provide.

July

2007-07-31T23:20:00.000+01:00

Mal's Mum had her 70th Birthday this month so we joined her for a weekend down in Eastbourne to celebrate. It wasn't warm but we still did walks on the beach and some of us were mad enough to jump in the pool!

June

2007-06-30T17:00:00.000+01:00

June was Viking month!! We first had Thomas and Mari to stay with their gorgeous little one Tobias. The we had Christian and Oline (right) who are looking at coming to join us here in Bristol.
Seannah is now 12!!! She had a sleep over party in a tent in the garden.
Unfortunately with all the distraction we had an intruder who ran off with Mal's office life! (computer,pda mobile phone, computerbag/briefcase) as well as Mal's Mums handbag. Not a fun time.

May

2007-05-30T22:14:00.000+01:00

Phil and Mags Flew back from the States on FA Cup Final Day 19th May. It's so amazing to have them here!Also our Gorgeous friends Greg and Sophie got married.
Mal was doing a teaching weekend in Germany at the end of May so a couple of days later we flew out to join him and traveled with friends over the border to Austria. The weather was extreme!
It was right at the end of May and it was cool,bright and snowy!!!

(The locals were saying there was more snow this May than there was in the skiing season 4 months earlier!)
We also went on the longest 'summer' toboggan run in the world! (ironically not snow dependent) as well as EuroBungie!

April - Easter Holidays

2007-04-30T12:21:00.000+01:00

We had a busy Easter Break. Brenda came to stay with us and joined in our Easter Egg hunt!

We then went to see Simon and Sue at their holiday cottage in Burton Bradstock. Had a fantastic day on the beach getting stuck in the sand!

Then after taking Mal to the airport to fly to the States for 2 weeks, (This is Roeman's picture of him speaking at St Andrews

The rest of us headed up to Mormor and Granfar for the remaining 5 days of the holiday. We visited friends in Sheffield and went on a trip to White Post Farm having a go on GoKarts and making friends with the birds!! (Jaedan is the one with particularly tasty ears.)

When we got back we got some interesting news. A large property with training centre attached that Mal had seen advertised and had really got his attention was back on the market (having previously appeared sold). The day Mal flew in we went to see it, it was just amazing but just seemed an unreachable dream so we just prayed!!

March

2007-03-30T22:24:00.000+01:00

We headed down to London to help Joyanne (Chriscelle's sister) move into her new flat.
Mal and Jaedan got to go and join friends at a Sheffield Wednesday v QPR match Jaedans first footbal match. This is Mal running through the rules with Jaedan beforehand.

The weekend after (16th-18th Mar) we were in Wales! As part of getting to know friends here and reconnecting with guys that are moving to "these-ere-parts!" we had a great time away at a fantastic Bunkhouse just beyond Cardiff. About 30 of us in all stayed, talking playing games, going for walks and rather spectacular games of footy on the hill side! It was fantastic to have Neil and Natalie just fresh from moving to Bristol from New Zealand come as well!

February

2007-02-26T21:37:00.000Z

Valentines day - 14th Feb
was made up of lots of love and homemade chocolate cookies!!

Half Term (Feb 17th - 25th) included... Jaedan having his good friend Jem Crawley to stay,

Pancake Day,

Having Fun days out - SS Great Britain,

and walking in the peaks whilst staying with Mormor and Granfar for a few days.

January -Denmark & Norway (28th Jan -2nd Feb)

2007-02-02T20:53:00.000Z

From the 24th-28th Jan Mal and I were in Denmark - with Mal teaching the "Liv Mønstre" (Life Shapes) course. We met up with team from Bristol, Sheffield and the US. We stayed with the gorgeous Tingliff Family.It was snowy and cold but lots of fun. I (Chriscelle) got to see Anine and Michael (I've known Anine 30 years!!)It was fun to catch up.

We then flew onto Norway to the Leaders Conference. (28th -2nd Feb)It was fantastic to see Imi Kirken (Mal has been 6 times with out me!) Staying in the Hotel which was part of the conference centre was (as our children say) Lush!

The children meanwhile were having fun being looked after by Mormor and Granfar. We got back to Seannah and Amy's baking!

January :TOM w/e 12th-14th Jan

2007-01-14T21:55:00.000Z

We had a whirlwind time in Sheffield over the weekend. It felt amazing to see so many people we haven't seen for so long and being in the old St Toms for what must have been the first time for over 4 years! It was amazing to see how the stuff at 'Phily' had developed too.
It was really good to get time with Mike Breen and just felt a good connecting time all round!

2007-01-01T17:40:00.000Z

Hooray we've reached

..and slowly catching up with our blog!!
More to come!!!

Glapwell and Sheffield 28th Dec- 2nd Jan

2006-12-30T02:10:00.000Z

We had a wonderful time with family in Glapwell and friends in Sheffield. We stayed with the Harris family for a day and went to the City Museum, Western Park which was a lot of fun. Jaedan, Jess and Amy got to dress up as eskimos.
Seannah got to visit her friend Anna and then we headed back to Glapwell to see in the New Year!

Christmas - Tunbridge Wells 22nd-27th Dec

2006-12-25T12:29:00.000Z

We then drove up to Mal's Mum to spend Christmas with her. We got to go and see Happy Feet and did some fantastic walks with the children in their new wellington boots!

Christmas Eve we went to London to Chriscelle's sister Joyanne for a Danish Christmas meal and a treasure hunt in Richmond Park that she had planned.

Christmas morning and Seannah and Amy wore their very posh new dresses from Granma brought over from Germany

Christmas around the country!

2006-12-22T11:26:00.000Z

We set off on our Christmas Route the day after the kids had broken up from school, first heading to Southampton to catch up with the Banes Family.
It was fantastic to see them and have walks along the beach and back for Ginger wine taste tests!!
We also stopped by the 'christmas lights house' which was the closest competition we've seen to some of the American style decorations this side of the pond!

Daniel, Hannah, Seannah, Amy and Jaedan

Ruby Wedding Anniversary 25th Nov

2006-11-26T16:02:00.000Z

Chriscelle's Mum and Dad: Inge & John have been married for 40 years!! So the whole family got together for the weekend 24th - 26th Nov for the celebration. It was done true Danish style with all of us having written songs,poems etc about them - it was a fantastic meal together on
the day itself!

The second picture is of Mum and Dad singing a song they both sang together at their wedding!

We also met our new nephew Kaspar who was born just 12 days earlier on the 12th Nov. We're all smitten and made sure we all got a cuddle!!