My Summer 2013 | ♥

The Summer holidays have drawn to a close and I'm reflecting on my activities over the break. I've had 7 whole weeks off school and I've thoroughly enjoyed it. I've had a brilliant summer and for once I don't feel like I've wasted it in bed. I needed the time out from school and I feel so much happier than I did a few months ago. However, I also feel ready to go back to school as getting back into a routine doesn't seem like SUCH a bad thing.

Anyway, here's some photographs of just some of my fun shenanigans over the Summer... a little insight into my life, if you will. 

I missed the last week of School to go on holiday with my family. We went to Cala'n'Forcat in Menorca and it was such a lovely, relaxed, sunny holiday. It was fab. 

Here's me, my 11 year old brother, Josh, my 1 year old brother Reuben and my stepdad Ady smiling for the camera before an evening venture out. 

Here's me, my mum, Josh, and Reuben, posing next to a 'giant pineapple' at our holiday resort. Happy smiley faces all around (except awkward Reuben, of course)

This was the absolutely stunning view of the little cove next to our resort, it was literally a three minute walk. Unfortunately we couldn't swim in the water, due to masses of Jellyfish, but that didn't ruin the beautiful scenery.

My mum, Ady and Roo posing before a meal out. 

Me and my mum (also posing) before the meal. Isn't she beautiful?

 Holiday romance?! of course. The batman statue was mighty fine. 

All inclusive alcohol is not always a good thing. "Tonight I am sleeping on this banister." 

My holiday was well and truly fabulous.

After returning from one holiday, I was off on another a few days after. I went on a boating holiday on the Norfolk broads with my best friend Emily. It was such a chilled out holiday and a really slow pace of life and I'm really grateful I got the opportunity to experience a holiday like this.

Me and my VERY beautiful best friend Emily, chilling in the sunshine on the deck of the boat. happy happy happy times. We also went with another family and their kids as well as Emily's little sister and below is a picture of all us kids ;-)

My Grandma turned 70 this summer, so she obviously had a kick-ass (kinda) party to celebrate. She requested that everyone was to dress up in 1960's rock and roll gear, so we tried our best. 

My mum looked so glamorous on the night of the party, as you can see. I think our outfits were really good, we didn't look stupidly over the top, but you could tell we'd made that effort. Such fun! 

My brothers didn't "dress up" as such but they did all wear matching outfits which was adorable. Cuteness overload. 

Me looking slightly tipsy towards the end of the night posing with my boyfie,who coincidentally was also wearing an outfit that matched my brothers...

Group shot... we definitely pulled off the fancy dress. 

I also received two of my GCSE results as at my school we sat two GCSEs early (in year 10) I did really well and I'm really proud of myself, so of course celebrating was in order!!!

Me and Emily celebrated with a cheeky glass of champagne, and my mum and Ady took me out for a meal (world buffet...mmm) 

Celebrating with a mocktail at the world buffet. 

Mum bought me some lovely flowers, a well done card and of course my favourite chocolate to say well done, I am spoiled :-)

In January my Auntie got diagnosed with breast cancer and it's been a tough battle since, but recently she's been given the all clear. YAAAAAAAAAAY. We all took part in a Bra-B-Q where she burnt all her old bra's and we were required to bring one to burn with her, it was really fun and we all had a takeaway and it was so nice to all catch up. 

*kings of leon tune* OOOOOOOOH OUR BRAS ARE ON FIRE.

My beautiful, brave, inspirational auntie posing with her Bra-B-Q.

Bit of a rubbish picture, but me and my auntie all smiles later in the night. I had such a good time.

We also took a 5 day trip up to Yorkshire to visit family, but I didn't get many photos, other than this one of me and mum looking very disheartened as we had just left on a walk...and it began to rain. 

Also, I went to a baby's first birthday party... yes... I party hard... but anyway, I had this really cute picture taken with my baby cousin Ollie, isn't he just adorable?

Speaking of babies, I attended one of my mums bestest friends baby showers. Baby shower's are such fun events, I help plan my mums suprise one when she was pregnant with Reuben, it's just a chance for the mother to be to chill out with her friends and play silly games and chat for hours on end. Fun if you ask me...

Earlier in the summer, my younger cousin Alice had her prom, so I went to watch her arrival as her school (my old school) make a pretty big deal about it! 

Can you believe she's my younger cousin? She looks so much older than me. Also on this photo is my two other best friends, Jordan (left wearing denim shorts) and Ellie (right in the white dress) Alice looked like a princess and I was so happy for her. 

Finally, me and my friends had a get together at Emilys house two days before we went back to school, there was 14 of us in total and we ate chinese, played silly games, chat and drank and stayed up until stupid-o'clock in the morning. It was lots of fun and another great memory to add to all the amazing things I've done this summer. Here's a very smiley Me and Emily to end this very positive blog post.

Thanks for reading, and I hope all of your summer's were as fabulous as mine felt! 

m o l l i e ♥