New Wheels

Dawn collecting our new Vehicle

So the Ford Escape that Dawn had owned started to get a little unreliable, for no reason it would just cut out for a couple of seconds and die.  Annoyingly it was an intermediate fault that only occurred every couple of weeks but normally at the wrong time (as you were attempting to pull out etc).  So it was time for a change of vehicle.

Our new car is a Dodge Journey and we now have the facility to have seven passengers (although when the seats are up there's not much boot, trunk space).  It fits our needs perfectly so now when people visit we can all go out in one car.

Butter Wouldn't Melt

Suprising as it may seem sometimes the girls don't get along.  In fact a lot of the time we are expected to referee their arguements.  One of the parents tools we sometimes use is to send them to their room and not let them out to play..... They don't like this much.

Here's a video Dawn received when we were on our way home from the shops one day, it made us smile.

A new family member

Reese as he was a few days after we got him

So a while back just after we got back from Disney we took a drive to Petsmart in Dednham Springs.  While we were there the local dog rescue centre had puppies for adoption.  There were a bunch of dogs all named after chocolate bars, after much deliberation, (and promises from the girls to walk and clean up after him) Dawn decided that the one we would adopt was Reese.  So we now have a new family member.

Reese loves going for a drive (normally to petsmart)

Sometimes he needs a little help to get over things

Loving a long walk in the grass

 He loves being the centre of attention and enjoys going in the car.  He also loves to play with Tyler (although he can be a little rough at times). But his favourite thing is to go for a walk around the pond near our house.

Tyler walking Reese around Petsmart (his fav shop)

Oh and one more thing, he seems to like watching England play football (soccer), no idea where he gets it from .....

Florida Holiday - The rest

We did so much in Florida the whole blog would be taken over if we even tried to mention half of it.  So I've put together some pictures of a few of the highlights of the magical trip.

The famous Epcot Golf Ball

Grandad, Martin and the kids enjoying one of the water rides

Tyler dong his best to remove Excalibur from the stone to be crowned king

Unfortunately we saw our fair share of rain during the holiday

Watching the Blues Brothers perform at Universal Studios

Tyler meets his hero he watches every morning

Mickey and Pluto made special time to meet Nan and Grandad

Hannah getting Alice in Wonderlands autograph

Dawn, Nan and the kids at Universal Studios (Hogwarts in the background)

As you can see we had an amazing fun time, not all the things that we did are covered it was so much fun.  As you can see from the video below at the end of the day it was a little tiring.