Walking the Pack!

On one of our many dog walks, we had on this occasion invited Steph's dad, sister and brother, who have dogs as well. Between us all we were walking 5 dogs! Luckily all the dogs know each other and get on fine. We walked up Haughmond Hill in Shropshire. There are several routes to the top and we decided to take the longest route. We met many other walkers on the way and more dogs. Everyone just seemed to get on well, so it was a really lovely walk. When you get to the top, you are rewarded with a beautiful view. At the top we stopped for a picnic. We had some treats for the dogs and Steph's sister handed them out. It was quite funny as she is petite and was completely surrounded by 5 dogs in varying sizes from medium to large!

Spike entertained everyone by gathering sticks and small logs, where he tried to carry as many as he could.

Overall we walked for a good couple of hours which was just enough for the dogs.

Happy Anniversary!

A selection of photos from our wonderful day.

Today is our 2nd wedding anniversary and it has been a really good two years! We got married at All Saints Church and had our reception at the Albrighton Hall hotel. The wedding was quite a large one, but we both have fairly large families. The day before our wedding we had torrential rain and Shrewsbury flooded. It usually takes Steph 10-15 minutes to get to her dads house from ours in the car, but the night before took her about an hour as all the roads in were flooded. She had to risk it and ended up driving through a severely flooded road, but she made it.

The next day though, the rain had gone, luckily! But the roads were still flooded and made Steph and her dad 30 minutes late for the church, which made Andy a little nervous! They got a message through and Andy was able to relax a little.

The church service was wonderful, filled with our family and friends. During the signing of the register, the choir sang Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol, which was fantastic.

We were a little rushed when we arrived for the reception because we were behind with the timing a little, so were uber organised getting the photos done. The photographer asked Steph to climb on a tree trunk, she was up there like a shot, we didn't want to keep our guests waiting and wanted to get on with the party!

There were no real hitches except that the cake collapsed! The cake maker had iced the cake warm, and therefore it sunk. We weren't that bothered because if that's the only thing to go wrong, then we felt very lucky.

We had a fantastic DJ who got the party really going. Spike and Chewy were present at the reception, which the kids absolutely loved.

If we could do the day again, we wouldn't change a thing, it was a brilliant day made special by the people there.