Our Easter Weekend and meeting the new SIL

I have had a really good Easter weekend. On Friday, Sonia came down and stayed the night and on Saturday we did a mammoth shopping spree in Southampton - which has LOADS of gorgeous shops. Sonia spent the most money - she had been planning for a while to get loads of new clothes once the summer stuff had arrived. We saw a lot of gorgeous but very expensive clothes but we controlled ourselves a bit. I got a jumper from Kew (£50) and a few tops from Next. But my most expensive item was a skirt from Debenhams which was £90 to go with the Monsoon top I'd got from ebay for Lynsey's wedding. The plan is to re-sell the skirt on ebay after the wedding and recoup some of the money if I don't intend wearing it again.

On Easter Sunday, we all congregated round my Mum & Dad's for a family meal and we met my brother Phil's fiancee (Yanti) who is from Indonesia. Yanti seemed very nice and pleasant but had a few problems keeping up because we talk very quickly. They have set the date for the wedding for 10th June (3 days before our wedding anniversary).

My other brother, Paul, was also there with his girlfriend, Alice. Paul & Phil own a house together and Alice also lives there. And after the wedding when Phil & Yanti are married, Yanti will move in as well. (I don't envy Alice - sharing with my 2 brothers and an Indonesian girl)

I took lots of pictures of us all - mostly because Sonia wanted to see what Yanti looked like.

Firstly is Phil & Yanti

Next is (from left to right) Phil, Yanti, Paul and Alice

Then - Paul & Alice

Me & Pat

Pat and my Mum & Dad

On Monday, it all worked out really well. From my parents it's only an hour to our old house so Pat went over there to collect Edith the tortoise and catch up with some of his mates from his old job and I had time to take Paddy for a long ride. Now that the weather has improved, it was extremely enjoyable, riding across the open fields with the sun shining on us. Brilliant!!

I hope everyone also had a good Easter.

Sarah

xx