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So… Summer…. Hero’s 2nd birthday party time! I’m thanking my stars that I had to change the date of Hero’s 2nd birthday party to August instead of keeping it at the start of July. The rain is pelting down here and poor Hero hasn’t even been out to get his “bum bounce” of the day…
![40TH TIME’S A CHARM [BRACELET]](https://keep-up-with-the-jones-family.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Scarlett005.jpg)
I generally dislike my own birthday. Besides the fear of the Happy Birthday song [it makes me cry and I don’t know where to look when people sing it to me] I awaited my 40th year with dread. Older, wrinklier, and feeling like my life was pretty much done opportunity wise. However, so far,…
![OUR LITTLE SMASHER [BABY HERO’S CAKE SMASH]](https://keep-up-with-the-jones-family.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/smasherface.jpg)
He met the two midway. The traits of his blond big brothers; Jensen [reserved] and Lyoto [destructive] collided in late July as we finally took Baby Hero out to the wildflower meadows to smash his first birthday cake. Inquisitive yet unsure, he needed a little encouragement to sink his little fingers into the squishy chocolate…
Summer babies mean Summer birthday parties – and as I finished packing the red, white and blue decorations into the back of my parents’ car, I smiled. Suddenly, each one of those sticky, sweaty days, waddling like a penguin with a medicine ball between its flippers as I tried to bear the humidity of my…
This lazy Summer photo has absolutely nothing in common with the post I’m writing, but I love it. In truth, I’m sat in my Primark cotton pyjamas, crunched over the body of an 11 month old baby who has drifted sweetly to dreamland, as I mentally try to organise the rest of my week and…
Due to all of the goings on in our family, we decided to celebrate my birthday over this weekend instead. My boys [the Cook Bros.] baked me the most glittery, chocolate heart covered, delicious birthday cake ever and presented me with sweet flowers and a card. They were highly secret about everything for as long…