Birthday week!

Currently loving Birthday Week (yes, that's a real thing)! It was my birthday last Tuesday, but I'd been doing super fun things for the whole week surrounding it. It's just been a really lovely way of seeing friends & family (& a whole lotta food). 

It started with a trip to the children's zoo with my mum, brother & Adam

A pile of meerkats! Too cute.

 Adam inside a giraffe...

The the next day was tea at the Grand Hotel, followed a couple of days later with this b.e.a.uuutiful cake (one of two! Spoiled)

And then the aquarium

Jellies

Standing on sharks (sorta)!

And thennnn a lovely dinner date with Lyzz at Jamie's - totally yum! All the sorts of food your parents would make for you, but you wouldn't bother to make yourself (well, I probably wouldn't!)

Then the next day, it was time for Chilli Con Carnival!

Tequila, 5 types of chilli, pinatas, coronas, sombreros, marachai music & laughs :)  

And then to finish the week, we went to watch the Olympics in Hyde park! It was so much fun to watch Murray win gold along with a crowd of hundreds. Totally feels like a festival, but free & super fun! 

Oh, we also went to Cadbury world...

And had ice creams. 

Perfect.

A quick catch up.

So I now have a macbook! And am fully loving it like a child ♥ 

The other (slightly more major) news is that I have a job!(!!!)
Not just any job either, but Marketing Assistant at Tomas Lyte.

 

It's pretty awesome so far - I've been to a sample sale, lunches, drinks, and seen  pretty much how the whole business works, which has been really interesting! So much so, I feel that I could probably bore anyone who would let me to death with how trophies are made, how to gift wrap something properly and all about SEO & affiliate marketing...Laaavely.

Other things that I've been up to recently...

It was Bracey's birthday at the weekend! Which obviously meant:
Slough + Local Pub + Engagement parties + cocktails + shots + 90% of people vomming & lots of fun in the sun :) (not quite in that order though!)

(L-R) Sarah, Holly, Adam, Bracey, Liam, Fran & Megan.

Totally better than candy necklaces!

More or less how the evening went...classy ;)

Wish I'd taken a picture of the massive fry up I had the following morning. Deeelish. 

And The Boy's gone off on tour! Cheeky devil. 
The new band he's joined are pretty awesome & have supported people like Zebrahead & Less Than Jake & I'd seen the old lineup play a few times over the years spent in Southampton, so I knew they were pretty awesome :)

They're called Kids Can't Fly - check 'em out if you like happy, upbeat ska! (shameless promo, but I honestly would recommend them!)

It's generally been quite a lovely couple of weeks, just seeing friends & learning a mind-boggling amount at work! 

Therefore I'm off to hop into bed and watch the rest of Katie - my beautiful friends. Really makes me not only feel so grateful that I don't have any serious medical conditions, or have been the victim of any horrific attacks, but also really inspiring from an entrepreneurial point of view - here's a girl who's only...25(ish?) & she's set up a charity, made these programs and helping so many other people. What a winner <3

Nighty night xo

Birthday Plans

I know my birthday is still...over 4 months away, but nothing wrong with a little planning(!)♥

Swift

Just a swift picture of the day, while I'm thinking about it:

This is Bracey & myself, entitled "Jem, do this, it makes it look like we don't have necks"...

& this was Easter last year...obviously...Can you guess what Bracey was dressed as?

& a couple more, just because when I was looking through pictures of Bracey & I to put up here, I noticed just how many there are of us with face paints:

This was for no apparent reason, one night at home...

This was for my 20th birthday - I was a pink tiger & Bracey was a stained-glass window!

I can't wait 'till we live (practically) in the same city at the same time! ♥

xo