Me on Monday *a sad post*

Hello everyone, I hope you've had an awesome past few weeks? "Welcome" if you're here from Sian's page. I've kind of been out of the loop a lil while. On the 2nd of October a very close family friend passed away...

This was the last group photo of us all together just a week before she died, we're aren't great fans of taking lots of face facing photos but honestly, since scrapbooking I have realised how important photo taking and making memories really is! Paris has been battling cancer for just over 18 months, a horrible disease which she has been so brave and courageous fighting!

Myself and Tracy tried to help her through the rubbish times by taking Paris places, making 'fun' and generally being there for her! Lolly & Cal think the world of her too, Lolly spending time having 'horror movie days'....I hate watching horrors! Cal always brought a smile with his witty comments and chocolate sharing! We've eaten so much food with her ..... during those steroid days...haha! We have some amazing memories! Watching her die was the most horrendous heart breaking moment we've been through in such a long time, so sad, words cannot describe that feeling but we promised to ALWAYS be there and we were! At only 21 years old I cannot even begin to imagine how her family feel.... but as ever, I will always be there!

The past few weeks have been very gloomy and we've used every excuse possible to smile!

Including randomly blowing bubbles....shopping sprees,

Lauren met up with Union J ..... again! {thankfully she didn't faint!} haha!

I packed my bright Disney Princess back pack to remind me of the good times... uni was somewhere I haven't been very regularly in the past few weeks... grief is an odd thing! Popping up when you least expect it, slapping you in the face! One thing this has shown us as a family, is the awesome people we are surrounded by. They may not be blood but they are our family and we love them so very much! THANK YOU! {You know who you are!}

Lolly & Cal looked gorgeous at the funeral! We all wore pink, Paris's favourite colour, she had a beautiful send off! Now she's shining bright up there, like the diamond she was!

Forever in our hearts xx

 

Week 29

This week has been AMAZING!!! We started the week with a special lil girls 16th Birthday!

Hidden in the giraffe t-shirt was a silver envelope containing a 'Zoo Keeper for the day pass'

Lolly was so excited....ALL DAY! After lots of pressies, birthday cake and a lovely meal out with her us & her BFF we headed to bed ready for an early start...

 

 We started the day meeting 17 day old Geoffrey! He was so adorable!

 

She got the funniest 'giraffe #selfie' ever!

It was FANTASTIC!

He wasn't camera shy! Lol!

We had laugh after laugh!

I will never ever forget this...

Then we met the funny looking Tapirs!

Lolly fed them too!

Then we met the beasts! Rumba & Rumbull, I mean these two Rhinos were HUGE! Mahoosive!

I knew they were Big but I wasn't prepared for this! They were quite squidgey too! I thought they'd be really rough and solid!! After meeting these Lolly had the mammoth task of cleaning the Rhino House...they certainly didn't do rabbit droppings! I obviously stood back and took lots of pictures. Hahahaha!

  Once Lolly had finished her keeper experience! Cal fed the goats...aswell as other animals too,we roamed the Zoo all day

 

 This was Cals favourite animal of the day! I would definitely visit again!

We ended the day at the park!

Please ignore the lack of nail varnish!

Keeping up with our animal themed week I bought these cute slippers too! lol

I hope you've had an awesome week?

This time next week it'll be Summer Break, not that I'm counting down the days in school but...4 more days to go! Yeh!