12th August Challenge

The idea behind this challenge is to carry your camera with you through the day and shoot 12 shots on the 12 day of every month....nice record at the end of 12 months...so here goes.

During school holidays the mornings start very slowly - first thing I do is check how my photos are doing in the daily contests

As we were up to London for the day I needed to get my dinner cooked before we left - making Mac and Cheese the kids FAVOURITE

Meggie starting her morning with a nice cup of fruit tea, she LOVES Blackcurrant & Apple

Like mother like son, Phil also started his day checking out his laptop :0)

An Nick Nick got stuck into some drum playing

All packed in the car at Sainsburys before leaving for London - needed to buy some flowers and gifts for the new mommy

Tom Tom set and off we go - 1 hour to our destination

Traffic was manic along the way - what else is new, but lots of lovely little pubs to see in the villages, this one is just outside Chessington

Finally our destination.....only 15 minutes added on to travel time by traffic - not bad at all :0)

And the whole reason for our trip, beautiful 1 week old Daniella Christina Clayton, Andrew's baby girl

Andrew is great with kids and spent time playing with all his godchildren outside in the garden while we cuddled with baby inside

Finally home....there was a meteor shower over Europe last night and unfortunately I don't have the right lenses to catch it, but the kids had fun painting with light before the show started

Another month captured - what I LOVE about this challenge is that, for me, it isn't really about the quality of the photos, but rather archiving a day of the month for future generations :0)