This week has been full of highs and lows.  

My heart is struggling this week.

Heartache for family, heartache for friends, heartache for the not knowing. Heartache for worrying about the future, about taking risks and making them a success. A heavy heart that feels like it is failing at all the "normal things" - cue 45 minutes of ironing while the boys took the longest shower in the world (complete with an entire basket of Lego Duplo) and I felt much better!

It doesn't matter if your loved ones are 1 or 100, the heartache of worrying about the ones you love is the same. 

What I know, is that family is everything. And if you get the chance to be even a minute nearer to the ones you love you should go for it.  

We travelled miles this week, both individually and together as a family. 

I had a sneak peek at a wedding venue with a beautiful bride I will be photographing next week and we finally got around to making Sammy's bedroom his again.

So this week has some exciting trips, a time to show support, be a wife, be a mother, be a good friend and cousin.  

I will miss a school assembly this week (queue more failure torture) but I know my boys, even though small, realise that Mama doesn't have a "normal" job. In fact, Sammy, in front of a best friend who had brought her little boy over for an after school play date and tea, said "You get a sticker for doing good blogging this week!" Just like I was a pupil in his reception class. 

I feel very thankful this week, for my home, my family and my work, that most of the time doesn't feel like work. 

Today we are off for a walk in the woods with a fellow blogger and her family. For an extra special post this week. 

I do hope you check back in and see it. Happy Sunday all. Take a minute to think of something you are thankful for and smile. 

When I joined and started this project with a group of snap happy bloggers back in January, I had imagined that September would be full of Autumn loveliness. Orange crispy leaves and snuggly jumpers. 

How wrong could I have been! But of course back then we had no idea that my in laws would have relocated from the home my husband grew up in to the sunny south coast. We spent the weekend with them and all the boys wanted to do was swim! 

And with such a beautiful pool it would be rude not to!  

We have already planned a new tradition of "Christmas Competition Races" and I shall be armed with a big blackboard on Boxing Day, when we celebrate Christmas with the Heath side, to record the scores!  

Widths, lengths, underwater, handstands - you name it it's going to be on the board! It's going to be ace. 

We spent a lot of the weekend pinching ourselves that we are so lucky to share their beautiful home and if last weekend is anything to go by, there is going to be an abundance of new magical memories made there. The boys nicknamed the hot tub the "witches cauldron" which is so appropriate as the next time we are back visiting is at Halloween!

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Make sure you head over to Chloe's blog Sorry about the Mess for a fabulous phone photo filled September trip to the big smoke.

It just shows that although, like Chloe, I usually use my DSLR for our family pics, that actually some good old fashioned film and your camera phone captures memories just as well! Fuzzy but fun! And that was September for us. It has passed in a blur making everything blurry with it!

I bought the underwater disposable camera on offer in Boots for £8 (£16 normal price on a buy one get one free deal)  and you can bet your life the other one is stored ready for Christmas! 

Linking up with #whatsthestory and #magicmoments

This week has felt decidedly Autumnal. Blackberry picking, a breezy walk on the beach, and in less than a fortnight, a sea which feels too ferocious to swim in.

Chilly evenings, cosy blankets, magazines stacked by the fire ready for quieter nights after a manic period, where work and home life have become one big blur. 

Everything I've photographed this week has been full of Autumn colours, without intention. 

This weekend we have brought the boys to my in laws new house for the first time. There has been lots of "Oh wows!" Not least when we all got in the hot tub together! A cup of tea in a hot tub at 4pm, on a sunny September day - does life get any better?!

Happy Sunday everyone. We have spent the day in pyjamas, watching a film under a blanket and having a family roast in the new kitchen.

I am treasuring these ordinary moments that to be honest, feel quite extraordinary lately.