Well, this summer has gone by so fast! This is going to be a long enough post anyway so here are some of our highlights from summer!

Obviously 2 birthdays was the most important things that happened over summer! 2 trips to Center Parcs with friends for the pools and Cake lots of cake!

  • Jessica’s Birthday
  • Jessica’s Cake (made by Emily)
  • Pool time @Center Parcs
  • More Pool fun @Center Parcs
  • Longleat trips for the adventure park and splash zone
  • Emily’s virtual birthday card for Thomas!

The Best Family bits

Stourhead (or course we love the place lol)
  • My Favourite Stourhead View
  • Emily Adding to the communal picture in the activity part of the house
  • Sensory stop to tighten her shoes again.
  • Kid’s favourite place within Stourhead in the bushes

Time with our favourite boys our time with them also came to an end as Cheeky went to a riding school.

  • Cheeky “Helping” Jessica Pooh pick the field
  • The beautiful Arabis and Murphy
  • Jess Grooming Arabis
  • Beautiful Little Cheeky
  • Emily Pampering Murphy while his mum cleans his stable
  • Jessica riding Cheeky

Then Jessica went off with Grandad for a month.

  • Jessica’s adventures up to Scotland, Granddad Len chasing a cockerel
  • Views from the drive to Scotland
  • More views
  • Pirates ahoy
  • Salam Grandad Len’s cat
  • More views
  • Caught on Camera. Grandad Lens two black cats Salam and Sophie

Then we went to a pet shop (I know big mistake) and came back with 2 sets of new pets ????

  • New Tank set up for Duncan
  • Duncan’s New fighter fish
  • Fish ahoy!
  • released at last

First set of New pets (fish this time)

  • New Tank for Kaiyo and her new tank friends
  • Kaiyo happy in her new home
  • our new boys two Reeves to give Kaiyo some company.

2 reeves Turtles to keep Kaiyo company called Hideyoshi and Oda warlords who helped unite Japan.

Then was Bristol!
  • The sign for the Bristol Balloon festival
  • Nana and Tom trying to keep dry
  • Emily keeping dry after pinching Granny’s brelly
  • Too wet and windy to lift off so instead a light show
  • A snapshot of the ferris wheel against the darkening sky
  • the amazing light show
  • Lighting up the sky with the balloon burners was stunning
  • topped off by fireworks
  • Emily Watching the display
  • Thomas recording the show

The balloon festival was as ever amazing! Actually even more so than normal, due to the weather they weren’t allowed to set off.

Therefore instead they put on an open burner display that was so much more amazing than the balloons. I love the balloons too but wow seriously just wow. This display really made standing in the rain all day well worth it.

Longleat Dinosaurs……
  • Kid’s loved it in the barn walking through the dinosaur displays
  • it was really well done highly recommend it

Life stuff…..

a weekend for two booked…..

more rock Finding and Hiding…….

Emily’s find!

origami fun…….

  • Jessica’s Origami
  • more Origami

Everything else!

We got up to so much it would go on forever to fit it all in but here is more highlights.

  • Train rides
  • obviously home ed work
  • New lights
  • Family meal out
  • Cupboard renovation from this
  • to this…..
  • To this…….
  • finally to this!
  • New rabbit Summer Cage
  • As you can see it was a hit!
  • sensory pots for Emily
  • More Home ed!
  • including a brought curriculum
  • Sneak peak

Our meal out was at the Old Fire Station in Warminster and I highly recommend it amazing place. the Staff were so friendly, beautiful pizzas and great place to unwind (especially as this meal came because of Duncan’s need to play with power tools in the cupboard renovation left us kitchenless lol.

All in all a great summer.

If you are interested in any of the places we visited here is a list with their websites

For more posts about our Home ed lives check here.

More on our Turtles here.