Me and Mine | May ’17

May has been a bit of a whirlwind month, with birthday celebrations and travelling to Budapest with my Mum. (You can see all our snaps over on my business blog here) But it has been full of fun and sun! I feel like I say every month has been busy, this year has flew by in a flash but it has, so far, been one of my favourite starts to a year in so so long!

I had all the visions of romantic close up pictures in the dunes at Camber Sands after Harvey’s birthday meal but alas, we ended up rolling around in the sand and had WAY too much fun!! We did manage to get a couple of pictures before though just before the sun went down so they will have to do!

We made a little vow to each other when we were there that we would visit much more often this year as we tend to steer away from Camber during the Summer months. It gets super busy during the day but late afternoon/evening strolls are so ideal for us. So bring on picnic dinners, sunset watching and a million more photos over the next few months!

A few things we have been enjoying this month

– Dinner outside
– The smell of suncream!
– Lego batman on the Wii
– Harry Potter!
– Seeing friends

We are super excited for another fun packed month. Trips to London, I have loads of work on with lots of weddings i’m shooting at and we are praying for lots more SUN!

I hope you all have a marvellous June.

Do go check out the other wonderful co hosts and have a nosey at their photos too. Lucy, Alex, Katie, Fritha, Jenny and Lucy.

Birthday treats

What’s a birthday without pizza and a trip to the beach?! Nothing, thats what.

We had the best evening on Saturday, after someone congratulating me on coming out with my 3 children on my own (weird.) I felt incredibly lucky to be able to do these things with them.

After scoffing our faces with so much cheese we indulged in a toffee sundae that quite frankly nearly tipped me over the edge. Note to self, when you’re absolutely stuffed from pizza its probably not wise to then eat an entire ice cream extravaganza.

Camber doesn’t get featured on my blog enough. This year I have vowed to make more of an effort to visit this beautiful space. Its big skies and vast views make for the most perfect backdrop and climbing up into the dunes is obviously just the most fun any child (and adult) could have. We didn’t watch the sunset like we said we would do but instead spent the evening rolling in the sand, jumping from dune to dune and screaming at the top of our lungs.

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Me and Mine June ’16

I am fully aware I have exhausted all outlet for holiday snaps but just let me have this one more post, okay?! 😉

We couldn’t resist having our June family photos from our holibobs from the beginning of the month. I again, had visioned them to be like this at all and I had hoped for some on the beach more, but alas I really do love a sunset so a sunset it shall be!

The bonus about going away with family is they can take your pictures for you without having to use the remote and a tripod! Thank you Harri for taking our me and mine photos for June!

You can have a look at some of my other posts about our time away here , here and here!

Char x

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Chasing the sunset | Kos ’16

One thing about being on holiday that always instantly makes you relax more is knowing that it really doesn’t matter what time you eat, go to bed or get up! There are no strict timings, it doesn’t matter if you miss breakfast, it doesn’t matter if the kids are still dancing the night away at 10pm. There is something really quite special about the way you feel whilst away. If only I could have that chilled out manner whilst getting the kids out of the door in time for school 😉

One of the things I really wanted to do whilst in Greece was watch the sunset. Unfortunately the coast line we were on in Kos the sun set behind the mountains rather than over the beach but that didn’t take away the wow effect and it was still so so beautiful. The sun set at around 8.15 which was when we were right in the middle of eating our dinner so one evening we had had a late lunch and decided to take a stroll around the hotel and out onto the beach and chase the sunset before we ate. And boy, was I glad we did! No photographer can deny the fact that that golden light is one of the most perfect times to photograph people in. The crispness of it just makes my heart happy.

I hope you enjoy these as much as I adored taking them. Elsie is by far the easiest out of the 3 of them to photograph at the minute so I went slightly over board with hers as she is always so willing!

Char x

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