The Day After…

So, yesterday, we had a few friends and family over to my parent’s house for a little barbeque.

Quite surprisingly, two of our friends said that they had already read the blog post that I had written earlier yesterday morning whilst waiting for my dad to pick me up and not only that, but one had even signed up to Twitter to read my tweets throughout the day…! The only problem, was that my mobile phone gets absolutely no mobile phone reception at my parent's house (thanks Orange!), so it put an instant stop to that, so I couldn’t send any Twitter updates, or even send SMS (text) messages to Twitter that way either! Doh! (Sorry Phil!)

Anyway, the day itself went really well – It wasn’t long before people started to appear, the food cooking and the beers flowing. The weather had been a bit pants in the morning whilst we were setting tables and chairs out, but gradually throughout the day, the clouds turned from dark grey to white fluffy clouds and the sun shone through. There was a bit a bit of a wind throughout the day, which probably helped to mask the heat from the sun, as I did manage to get burnt!

We hired a bouncy castle for the day, for the kids of course, but Jack even made an appearance on there – one of the girls was holding him and bouncing on it and he really seemed to like it… and then threw his lunch up later! Maybe too much physical movement after having food! Doh! The kids of all ages seemed to enjoy themselves – I went on there a couple of times, and was attacked by a load of the kids and wrestled to the floor. Nightmare.

I managed to take about 250 photos on my camera throughout the day, and we’re going to go through them before uploading to Jack’s website (If you have any, however many or however good, send me an email and we’ll talk about how the best way to get the photos from you and onto the web too.)

Claire and I would like to thank everybody for coming, as well as say a big thank you for the gifts that we really weren’t expecting; so thank you very much indeed.

Jack has been a bit out of routine the last few days, as we’ve been over to my parents a bit in the last few days trying to get organised and everything, and he really did manage to get upset at times. It wasn’t necessarily anything that anyone was doing particularly at the time, he just didn’t sleep when he normally did, or didn’t have as much food, etc etc. So, if you were one of them, don’t take it personally!