Autumn feels like it has arrived. And although I was back in a jumper dress, leggings, long socks and boots yesterday, I have a couple of summer posts left to share. 

So if it's dreary where you are, hopefully this post will cheer you up! 

Oh and I am not quite ready to put all my flip flops in the loft just yet. My sister got married on the 10th October 2 years ago and it was almost the hottest day of the year!

Here is the last part of our New Jersey Summer Adventure when we stayed with my brother and sister in law.  

1 week, 2 birthdays and this was the last couple of days. Celebrating my little brother's 28th on the boardwalk, a chance visit to a New Jersey thrift store (I'll save my purchases for #SundayPropShop) and soaking up those simple moments at home together.  

We are now counting down to Christmas Eve when they land at Heathrow!  

You can read Part 1 here and Part 2 - my birthday here. 

We came home to the most beautiful sunset. What a welcome home!

It was a big week in the Heath house last week. 

2 boys, 2 new uniforms and 2 pairs of sparkly new shoes. How have my boys got such large feet for such tiny boys?!

I wanted to make their first lunches special – for Sammy a big school Bento box (as he is used to having Bento style lunches at pre school – you see lots of his lunches here) and for Ollie a fishy adventure in a packed lunch!

Ollie is attending the same pre school that Sammy has just graduated from. They each have a label with their name on and a symbol to help them recognise it. Ollie is an octopus! So now he is known as "Jolly Ollie Octopus" – how lovely!

There were no tears from either of them, just beaming smiles and empty lunch boxes at pick up time.

It's great to see so many parents embracing the principle of Bento. I am a huge fan and have been bleating on about the great ways that with a little time, effort and creativity on your part, you can go a long way to expanding their taste buds, get their 5 portions of fruit and veg into them in potentially one sitting, and make lunch more fun.

Great Little Trading Company are big fans of the Bento principle too and wrote this very lovely post promoting healthy eating with hint and tips referencing this Bento Babies feature on my blog.

It's a great way to stop you getting bored of making the same old ham sandwiches every day!

Featured in the big boy school Bento Babies box: 

• Flatbread with ham and chorizo slices
• Babybel cheese
• Fromage frais raspberry pouch
• Fresh strawberries
• Mini cocktail sausages
• Cheese fish crackers
• Dried orange fruit buttons
• Cranberries and raisins

In a smaller boy's first day at pre school Fishy Adventure Bento Babies box: 

• Flatbread with tuna (for the beach!)
• Babybel cheese hiding under mini pop tarts
• Mini cocktail sausages
• Strawberries and orange fruit buttons
• Lots of fish crackers in the sea! 

You can see I used almost identical ingredients but presented them slightly differently. 

I am thrilled to see so many Bento ideas being shared on Facebook and Twitter so please do link up your ideas – tweet them to me using #BentoBabies and I will pin them to the Pinterest board.

Great Little Trading Company are offering lovely Bento Babies fans 15% off any order over £50 with the code GOLDFISH in honour of the fishy adventure lunch idea!

This post was kindly sponsored by Great Little Trading Company,

Winner of the Best Children's Retailer 2013 at the UK's Mail Order Industry Awards

(for the sixth year running!)

We recently celebrated our 8th anniversary. I say celebrated because it's a real achievement to get to 8 years, in fact every year is a testament to your survival as a couple and love for each other.

Marriage is hard work. Not laborious work (well maybe sometimes) but sometimes it's hard to work through the difficult times, the highs and lows of being together for a lifetime.

You can read the anniversary post here complete with a video from our wedding, if you fancy a nose!

We had a big white wedding. A marquee wedding, which was something I had dreamt of since I watched the film Father of the Bride.

There is really not much I would change if we got to do it all over again. I'd still want to get married at the school chapel as we met at sixth form, and I'd still want the marquee on the school cricket pitch behind.

I might change the weather to a sunny day!

I loved that we had a live band, I loved that we had a cheese buffet as the evening meal and I love that we had the same guests all the way through.

From the 5 little flower girls dressed in the poofiest sugar plum fairy powder pink dresses to the central dance floor with all the tables around to the sticks of rock on the tables, hats pinned to ribbons on the marquee walls and the sofa area where the 3 Grannies (who are no longer with us) chatted together so proudly – there is not much I would change if we had our time again.

But then I hadn't discovered Pinterest or wedding blogs back then.

Sometimes I think, would I go for a complete mis-match of colours, go rustic and wild with a real English country garden theme, but I always come back to pink. Though maybe with a hint of gold.

So here is my fantasy wedding blog wedding! I'll save dresses for another time ;)

You can find all these wonderful sources of inspiration on my Perfect Wedding Pin Board.

Richard and I were best friends before we got together as a couple and that's what makes it work. Even when the forces of nature are pulling us apart we always come back to each other.

We are about to embark on a venture together, a mini empire that could grow into a family business for our sons to join one day. We both know our strengths and I hope that this is the start of an incredible adventure which may take us to far away places.

As soon as I can share more, I will.

I just know that sometimes in life you just have to go for it. And you need someone by your side.

If you are lucky enough to find that one person, who will stand by your side, you never want to let them go.

Every Wednesday I support The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation, a charity that help terminally ill people stand beside that one and say I do. Please help in any way you can. You can donate here or share this post and raise awareness for an incredible charity. 

So what would you change about your wedding or are you planning yours now? Where do you look for inspiration?!

And if pink is not your thing then check out last week's post and the colour palette for the Bristol bride and groom lucky enough to be being helped to have their dream day. 

I'll leave you with this video which might just be my perfect wedding...