The Cornells

Where we've been, what we're doing, and photos of the lot!

Giant Sandpit


Giant Sandpit
Originally uploaded by Beebop Alula

Been to the beach just about everyday - even when the weather's been
rubbish! Abigail loves playing with the sand, but like all kids she
can't grasp the need for wet sand to make sand castles.
In this photo she's swimming the turtle and fish moulds in a bucket of
water and thinks it brilliant! I'm lying cooking here trying
struggling to see my phone screen in the sun so apologies for typos.
We leave tomorrow night so it's that time where everyone drops the SPF
to some stupid number and goes for the final burn. Seriously us Brits
are so stupid!

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View from my sunbed...


View from my sunbed...
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...at 6pm on a Monday evening! Yep them's my feet.
It's all good. Abigail loves the pool nearly as much as we love the
weather.
This has been the first day at the pool because we've always headed to
the beach until now. Hotel's spot on, - proper family hotel smack bang
in the middle of Maguluf. They don't let people book unless they have
a child with them which is a really good idea considering some of the
hen and stag type hotels we've seen..and heard!
Tra for now.

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Abigail's 2nd Birthday

I know every parent says it, but I seriously can't believe Aboo is 2 already (6th June)!
As expected she was completely spoiled rotten and showered with gifts on her Birthday. We got up early so she could open our presents, then my parents called in with their's before heading off to France for two weeks in their Mobile Home. Actually the first time it's been properly used - apart from our Seahouses trip of course!
In typical Abigail unpredictable fashion she then decided to make her usual afternoon kip a longer than usual one - on her Birthday of all days. When she eventually got up, I fitted her new child seat to my bike (present from my parents with a helmet) so we could quickly test ride it before heading up to Jen's parents for tea. She was again showered with gifts (sand and water table was the biggy of them), and then insisted on blowing the Birthday cake candles out a good half dozen times!
Dave, Michelle and Elise came to ours and stayed that night so it was SingStar a plenty.

On Sunday we headed to Whitehouse Farm (Photos here). Deliberately waited until the Sunday as it was when they were having one of their open days when you can groom/handle the animals and sit on the various farm machinery. Abigail lapped it up and thought she was great sitting on the huge Tractors etc. (She screams like a banshee at the noise when they're started up like!).

Went to meet Jen's parents for lunch after that and did the usual "make a pig of yourself on a Sunday" thing with Delaval Ice Cream etc!

I think after watching Peppa, George, Mammy Pig and Daddy Pig all go through their on screen Birthdays, Abigail actually knew what was going on for hers this year and what all the fuss was about!

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More May Photos


We took Abigail to Saltwell Park on the last weekend of May. It was a roasting day and we wanted somewhere to just doss in the sun where she could run around.
Don't think I realised how big the place is. If you're willing to keep away from the kids play area it seems there always a quiet corner of the park to relax in. Also has a pets corner but I think birds bore Abigail to be honest!
Photo's Here.

May

I haven't been here since April, so I might as well try and cover May in one post...!

May was the start of what are going to be a very busy few months for us. All in a good way of course but I can't believe how much stuff is planned.
The beginning of the month started with Sam and Alan's wedding at the Holiday Inn. When I say wedding it certainly wasn't a run of the mill one; They'd got married a few weeks earlier in Vegas, in true Vegas style. The ceremony was streamed on the t'interwebs and it was quite bizarre being able to see it. This photo is just after the ceremony finished and they all waved to the camera.
Anyhoo, getting back to the home leg of their doo; it started with drinks at the Holiday Inn, then speeches, and then onto a formal blessing. Then came the food, Elvis tribute act, Poker Table and Wheel of Fortune! Yep it was bizarre, but it was also really, really good.
It was also the first time we'd been back to a doo at the Holiday Inn since our wedding there nearly 4 years ago. It was in the same room, but that's about where the similarities between the two end! Flickr photo set of their wedding is here.

Also went to see Girls Aloud last month at the Arena with Jen. Missed them the last twice they've been due to us having holidays booked.
I wasn't really sure what to expect to be honest after the recently dissapointing show by the Pussy Cat Dolls (photos on my Facebook somewhere). Girls Aloud though turned out to be really good.
The stage, songs, performance, atmosphere were all way better than PCD. Ours seats were dead centre and really close to the front so we had a cracking view of the show. Again the set is on flickr here

Next came the weekend at Haggerston Castle.
Altogether there was me, Jen, Abigail + Lee & Emma + Maddy, Sarah, Jess + Simon & Kirstine + Maff, Kelly & Anna + Jimmy & Family (sorry I'm rubbish with names). We had 3 caravans and it was a proper fun 4 days.
The whole idea was a cheap caravan holiday somewhere and given the Haven Park's are all basically the same anyway we thought it made sense just to go to Haggerston.
Kids all had a great time and the parents all lapped it up too. Within a day of being there you completely forgot that you were only like an hour from home. Yep photos here again.

Had a quiet week during the middle of the month, which wasn't a bad thing seeing as I was on call anyway. Then came Jen's 29th Birthday on the 22nd May (only 1 year away from the big '3' '0'!), which was also a bank holiday weekend. We were both at work on the 22nd so again it was a quiet one, then we went for an Indian's with Lee and Emma on the Saturday.

I think that's about everything worth mentioning here for the Month of May.

The house extension is still on-going. We've now had the plans back for the new kitchen which is quite exciting, although it'll be even better when the plans turn into reality!

June is looking like quite a good month but I'm not even going to commit to saying I'll post here again soon because I'm pretty useless with updates! JUNE: Take That (Jen), Abigail's Birthday, Boy Zone (Jen) and finally a week in Magaluff / Palma Nova which Jen booked last night after work - wahoo!