2017.. what a year!

I decided in March last year to take a little blogging break because I had lots going on in my at home family life. My life was completely turned upside down when my grandad was diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer. In April, just 3 weeks after the diagnosis he passed away. I've spoken before on here about what a close family we are and how much my grandparents mean to me and losing my granddad came as a huge blow and something which took me a long time to come to terms with.

In one of the last posts I wrote in Feb last year, I mentioned that Adam and I had put the offer in for our first home. Everything moved really quickly as we weren't in a chain and just 10 weeks after first seeing the house we had the keys! As the house needed a little bit of work doing to it (only cosmetic stuff to begin with - new fitted wardrobes, painting, new carpets etc) and we had to give 4 weeks notice on our rented property, we had a 4 week gap between getting the keys which meant we were able to get everything we wanted done and on 16th May we moved in!


The Summer of 2017 brought hen parties and weddings as both my cousin and one of my oldest friends got married. We had a little jaunt to Cardiff to see the Doctor Who experience before it moved and I completed the pretty muddy.

Quite possibly the most exciting thing to happen in the summer actually happened on the morning of my cousins wedding when after 12 months of trying we finally saw the words PREGNANT on a clear blue test! I can't even tell you our excitement!

Ok so I can't lie.. as years go 2016 has got to be up there at the top! In fact.. looking back at the photos I couldn't quite remember all the epic times this year has held! I think we could pretty much sum up this year as the year of the hen nights.. weddings and holidays! Prepare yourselves.. this post is going to be pretty photo heavy.. sit back.. grab a brew and enjoy..



Its weird.. this seems like such a longtime ago now! I almost forgot that we did this but in January we went back to the Harry Potter Studio tour where we got engaged. I brought Adam the tickets for Christmas last year as I thought it would be nice for us to go back and for him to enjoy the tour without him being nervous about the ring in his pocket. We had such a lovely time and it will always be a special place. It was great to go back as we got to see Hogwarts in the snow and also the Hogwarts express which wasn't there the last time we went.



Another Christmas present.. this time from Adams mum and dad... we went to Manchester to see the Strictly come dancing tour. As someone who has watched the show since it began it was amazing to see it in real life. Especially as we has amazing seats where the dancers actually came right in front of us.

April was the month of the hen do's - well 2 of them. The 2 photos on the top are from my 1950s hen party up in Sheffield where we had Cocktail making and a Salsa lesson and the one in the bottom is from a night out I had at a local hotel who hosted a charity wedding night where we went with the girls I work with. Both epic nights.



In May we jetted off for an all expenses paid 5* holiday to Mexico which Adam had worked very hard to win at work! I was unbelievably proud of him that he did this and we had an amazing week. We went snorkelling in the ocean, had many a party and spent the week by the most amazing beach! Defiantly what we needed pre wedding!








Another amazing month with amazing adventures! In September we went on our Honeymoon adventure. As we had done the whole 5 * holiday in May we decided that we wanted to do something different for our honeymoon so we booked 2 InterRail passes and off to Europe we went! 14 days of London, Paris, Venice, Florence, Pisa and Rome! It was the most brilliant adventure and we have so many beautiful memories.