Our Day by Design

Today is our 3rd wedding anniversary. I know I say the same every year but this last year really has flown by. We had a busy 2012 watching Holden grow, and a couple of weddings and holidays. So far the start of 2013 has involved Holden turning 1, my return to work, selling our flat, and moving temporarily to my parents house. We have lots to look forward in our fourth year of marriage including our new house being completed in the summer and taking Holden to Florida at the end of November.   (Image by Craig & Eva Sanders ) We are having a quiet evening tonight then we will celebrate properly in a few weeks by enjoying a tasting menu meal at Martin Wishart , which was our Christmas present from my parents.

Holden's 13th monthly photo, taken on the 1st of every month.   Holden turned 13 months over three weeks ago. We've spent the start of March moving out of our flat which is why this post is so late. February was another busy month. Holden had three birthday parties to attend for his NCT friends, then we got him his first pair of shoes, in a tiny 2 1/2. Me & Holden went to Bath with my parents for a few days to visit family, and we also had to start thinking about moving by getting quotes for removal and storage of our furniture. We spent the last week of my maternity leave meeting a friend for coffee, another for lunch, visiting a gorgeous new baby then having lunch with Graham's gran. In preparation for me returning to work and Holden going to nursery, he had three trial sessions and was brilliant at each of them. He started properly on the 26th and so far he's really enjoying it, he loves all the toys and the other kids and he's been eating and sleeping...

Better late than never I wanted to do a quick recap of last year, just like I did for both 2010 & 2011 . If nothing else it reminds me of all the events I haven't written about yet! We had a fantastic 2012 with the arrival of our gorgeous son Holden. It's also been a busy year including Holden's first big trip!   January My niece Willow was born in Australia! I started my maternity leave . February Holden was born.     March Holden: One Month We celebrated my first Mothers Day. April Holden: Two Months We celebrated our 2nd Anniversary & Holden's 1st Easter. May Holden: Three Months My blog turned 3. June Holden: Four Months It was Grahams birthday on his first Fathers Day. I had a night away at Lucy's hen do, which started with laser quest! July Holden: Five Months My sister and family arrived for 6 weeks and we enjoyed lots of time together including a trip to the zoo. I was a Bridesmaid at Lucy...

Today is my first day back at work after my maternity leave. I am back part time, for three days a week, so I still get to spend a couple of days with Holden. I always intended to take the full year off but I ended up having 13 months in total, including all of my accrued holidays, so it was a bit of a shock to the system having to set an alarm to get up this morning. I had to go and wake Holden up but I managed to get us both ready, drop Holden off with my dad and get to work on time. Hopefully I can manage the same tomorrow and Wednesday when Holden will be going to nursery. So far I'm getting used to all the systems again and I'm pretty sure that very soon its going to feel like I've never been away.

Holden's twelfth monthly photo, taken on the 1st of every month.     Holden turned twelve months old on the 1st of February. It's hard to believe my little boy is 1 already, its been such a fast year with so much happening, but we made it! January was fairly quiet and Graham spent the first week in Denmark with his work. Our flat was put up for sale on the 9th and sold within 3 weeks which meant we only had to do 3 open viewings but it was definitely a lot quicker than we expected. We need to move out by the 8th of March so as our new house wont be ready until July, we are moving in with my parents for a few months. Holden loves his grandad so I think he will love it and it will also be a lot easier when my dad is looking after him one day a week. Otherwise we went to a 1st birthday party, had a couple of trips to the soft play centre, some lunches with friends and lots of planning for Holden's birthday party. Then we got to celebrate Holden's 1st Birthday. He w...

Holden's eleventh monthly photo, taken on the 1st of every month.   Holden turned eleven months old on New Year's Day. December was of course a busy month with all of the Christmas preparations, a few lunches, my 31st birthday, a trip to a city farm, seeing Reindeer in Edinburgh, putting the decorations up, the toddler group Christmas party, lunch with all of our friends and their kids and also a birthday party for Holden to attend. We also managed to have a Christmas night with friends while Graham's parents babysat. Then we got to celebrate Holden's 1st Christmas. Graham's parents came to see Holden open some of his presents in the morning then we spent the rest of the day at my parents' house with my aunt, uncle and cousin. Everyone was completely spoiled and I don't think Holden will need much for his birthday. We skyped with my sister Ashleigh and her family in Australia once we were all together then again at midnight when they were waking up t...

Holden's tenth monthly photo, taken on the 1st of every month. Holden turned ten months old almost three weeks ago so this post is a little late! November was another busy month with lots of lunches with friends, visits to soft play, toddler group each week, a trip to the swimming pool and Holden also had two birthday parties to attend. It was also my dads 60th so we had a family party at my parents house. We managed to fit in a trip to the cinema while my parents had Holden however that evening we all came down with a sickness bug which was wasn't very nice, especially when Holden got it too. Thankfully it didn't last long and we were able to have a early Christmas night with friends while my parents kept Holden overnight. This was followed by a lovely day out in Glasgow where I met friends and we had our annual secret santa swap, while Holden had a day with daddy. The day we took these photos we also had a meet with our NCT group. ...