Today is Jordans Communion and Leighs 21st celebration. We had planned to go to Garrylough but when we woke up Kaylin had come down with a bug. She spent the whole day in bed and had a high temperature. We are flying out to Majorca tomorrow so we decided to get the doctor in to have a look just in case. Turns out she has a throat infection. So we have the antibiotics and we are still good to go. If it had been an ear infection , me and Kaylin would of had to get a flight out a few days later. Hope everybody had a great day in Garrylough. Will try to blog from Majorca (if theres any interweb access there).

We’re back from our few days in Disneyland Paris. The kids had a great time (so did mammy and daddy). Ava is a little young to fully enjoy it but she seemed to have a good time anyway. Below are some pictures of our adventures.

We had a great weekend in Wexford.

First port of call was Liz’s surprise birthday. Davey has been secretly planning this for a few months now. We arrived in wexford just in time to join the convoy from Declans to Liz’s. Around 15 cars descended on the house beeping horns and flashing lights. We could see Liz and the kids looking out the window wondering what the hell was going on. Liz was delighted with the surprise. Happy early Birthday Liz and well done davey on the great planning. See Daveys write up and photos here

We headed back to Rosslare to say goodbye to Uncle Jim who was heading back to Birmingham the next morning. It was good to catch up with him.

Day two was little Jamies Christening. This was another lovely family day. Here are a few pics I took ;

Leigh and Gary put on a great spread back at their house. Congrats to them both.

This is how poor Davey appeared that day;

Turns out he had a sports/kitchen related injury the night before. I’m sure he will give you all the details in his blog.

The weekend finished up with the girls having a runaround the caravan park in rosslare;

All in all, a great weekend. Back to work now in Dublin .

We have been granted permission for our extension. We still have to wait 4 weeks to see if anyone appeals the decision. Yippie.

On one of my trips to Wexford over the summer, I decided to bring Kaylin and Chloe to Moorfields, the country house Dad built and us Galvins grew up in. It was my first time to visit the house since we left it nearly THIRTY years ago. I passed by the house a few times over the years but never had the courage to go up to a strangers house and ask for a look around. But now with my two little girls I had the perfect excuse.

So up the long drive we went hand in hand. I had my speech ready for the lady explaining that I used to live there, but once I said my name she knew who I was and invited us in.

She brought us down the hall, past my old bedroom and the bathroom into the kitchen. Her husband was there. We had a great chat about the house,neighbours,etc. They were very nice. She said that while they were looking around Wexford for a house to buy, they rented a house in ….. Beechlawn. Coincidence,huh?

She then brought us out the back to see the garden. The girls loved running around the huge garden just like their Daddy did thirty years before.

It was wonderful to see the old place again and it brought back so many memories. I’m so glad I decided to make the spontaneous decision to visit.

The owners joked with me about buying it back some day. It is a nice idea.

Below are the pictures I took. I have a couple of video clips aswell that I will post in a later blog as youtube is not uploading them for me at the moment. By the way, for those wondering why Chloe is just wearing a overgrown t-shirt, the reason is I had the girls in Beechlawn beforehand and Chloe wet herself and because it was me looking after the girls that day I had no spare clothes of course. So while Dad was minding them, I nipped into the LIDL next door looking for clothes. I found baby swimming togs and a grown womens blouse hence her wonderful outfit.

Hi there

This is my first ever blog post. This seems to be the best way to share pictures and videos of the family with everybody.

I’ve decided to follow the great example of Davey, Annie and Eric and try my hand at this blogging lark.

I can’t guarantee that my blog will be as funny as Daveys, as poetic as Annies or as artistic as Erics but it will have lots of nice pictures.

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We got some new pics of the girls done last week so here they are.

Ava

Ava