A Star in the Making

Our friends Amy and Matt have a blog called The Franck Files, and their latest post is, we think, pretty awesome.  I think their son Levi is definitely a star in the making!  Check it out here: http://franckfiles.blogspot.com/2010/11/levi-goes-to-hollywood.html

If I knew more about the technicalities of blogging, I would post the video, but I don’t know how, so you’ll just have to go to Franck Files directly :)

Camping and Salisbury

This weekend we went camping at Green Hill Farm in Wiltshire, with our friends Tom and Becca, to celebrate Sam’s birthday weekend (his actual birthday is Monday).  The weather wasn’t the greatest – cold, wet, windy – but we still had a great time.  In the field next to our site, there were lots of cows and donkeys; the donkeys are really friendly and come right up to the fence to let you pet them!

The showers were a BIG improvement on last year; they’ve been completely re-done so don’t have the resident spiders anymore, and the water temperature is a constant warm instead of alternating between scalding and freezing.

Sam acted as head-chef, cooking breakfast on his new camping stove:

Chef Sam

On Saturday we went into Salisbury, which was nearby, and spent the day there.  We had a quick visit of Salisbury cathedral, which was really beautiful, and had a coffee in their cafe – it was gorgeous because it had a glass ceiling and you could look up and see a lot of the great architecture of the cathedral.

Salisbury

Salisbury Cathedral

Lara's "Deluxe Hot Chocolate" from the cathedral cafe

Swan-tastic

In other news, Baby has been kicking away!  Lara is getting really big and is starting to feel a bit uncomfortable… camping while 6-months pregnant was interesting :)   We can’t believe we are only three months away from meeting our daughter!

Lots of people have been buying her some great presents, but recently Amy, Matt and Levi sent over a bunch of great clothes from Old Navy!  Here is Lara’s favorite (modeled by Sam’s bear):

the pink tutu

Lara’s mom put her in a blue tutu when she was little, so it’s fun to carry on the tutu tradition!