Friday, May 28, 2010

Part Two: A visit with the Oliver-siblings

After a whirlwind trip to London, which was, though busy, really lovely, Sam, my brother in law, very, very kindly picked us up from London and drove us to Cheltenham where my sister, Melissa, lives with Raf's cousins Freya (3) and Rory (13 months). Here are a few pics form Sunday afternoon...

Freya takes Rafi in hand.


Rory and Rafi playing.

Raf enjoys a bath with his cousins. Freya likes to give her cousin kisses and hugs :)



Our next real phase, though, was our trip to see Richard's brother (Christian) and sister (Stephanie) and their families. Between them they have 4 children and yet we'd only met one! So we had a lot of catching up to do. We drove to Derby - a couple of hours away - and got to see Christian and Alice's new house. More important we got to meet Gabriel and Rafe. Rafe is only 2 months older than Rafi and he's already walking!

After lunch we walked up to the local primary school to meet Joshua, Stephanie's son, who we were also meeting for the first time. We met Steph there and after we walked back to the house Rhiea, Raf's oldest cousin, met us there after she finished school.

Here are some of the pics.





All the cousins.


Rich, Christian and Steph... all the cousins sans Rafe.



4 comments:

  1. lovely pics, honey. I enjoy hearing about your trip, keep it coming xxx

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  2. Lovely photos! Especially the b&w one, makes my garden look much less scruffy lol! It was a really great day, I only wish we all got to do it more often. Hope you've all recovered from the journey back xx

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  3. How wonderful! Love the bath picture! :-)

    What a fabulous trip.

    xo
    Jen

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  4. I have more, Lou!!

    Alice, I just ordered some in black and white for some frames.. I'll send one along if it comes out well! Hope we get to see you over here soon!

    Thanks, Jen. it really was. So great to see you last week... I still have Sage's present! x

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