During the break from school we went with some of my family to Harewood House, which is a Stately Home and grounds with some great facilities like an adventure playground, bird garden, cafe, gift shops, house and gardens. Check out those views! You gotta love Yorkshire! Isabelle is still enjoying her christmas present digital camera and loved taking pictures of the birds! Here is a Kookabura:

This is a picture of a Stanley Crane, Isabelle was particularly taken with this breed!

Valentines Meal

For Valentines Day, Lee and I decided to cook for each other in the interests of saving money for the new car!! Lee is excellent at cooking main meals whereas I am much better at desserts, must be my sweet tooth!! We had a lovely meal and then met up with some friends. A lovely Valentines Day had by all!! New York Style Cheesecake drizzled with cream and chocolate sauce, courtesy of Alex!

Steamed Cod with butter sauce and ratatouille, courtesy of Lee!! Looks great, but it tasted even better!!

3D Movies?!?!

Lee really enjoys going to the movies and we are more than happy to go along with him. Bolt came out and we were really excited to go see it as a family, and even more excited that it was coming out in 3D in some cinemas! Isabelle had had a really good week at school and had recieved an award for being enthusiastic so we decided that we would treat ourselves. Here we are looking better then the Blues Brothers!!

Snow Day!

We have had some surprisingly good snow in Yorkshire over the past few weeks! We couldn't wait till the next day to make a snow man, so we had dinner after Lee got home from work and then went onto the stray to build a snow man for Family Home Evening! Isabelle lasted about 15 minutes before her feet were cold but we managed to get this photo first!

Can you see the resemblance?

Our Little Poser!!

Isabelle has always loved having her picture taken, probably due to the fact that Grandad Purser has taken photos of her since she was hours old!! She is really turning into a little model!! She has some lovely outfits at the moment, so here are a few, of the hundreds, of posing shots of Isabelle! This is Isabelle ready to go to church.
This is Isabelle modelling her 'casual weekend' look!

This is madam with one of her school friends. They are doing their version of Beauty and the Beast! Gorgeous!!

We went to a friend's wedding in January and at the reception they had these fantastic bay windows which Isabelle loved playing in!!

I look forward to the years ahead of us filled with many more outfits and many, many more photos I imagine!!

Happy New Year from the Grays!

We have had a lovely christmas with our family and wanted to wish all of our friends and family the very best for 2009!! We are certainly wishing for good things this year as 2008 has been eventful for good and bad reasons! We are thankful for all of you and your support!! Love you lots!!

Isabelle's new camera!

For Christmas, Grandma and Grandad Purser got Isabelle a gorgeous PINK digital camera! She is actually very good and amazes us at her ability to take, view and delete pictures. She has taken some cute pictures so far, here are a selection from our trainee photographer: