Back in the USA!

We are in the USA safe and sound! We are in DC until Friday, then we head to Erie, PA to visit Bryon's family. After that we head to Shelby, where we will be staying with my folks for the next 5 weeks! We would love to get together with all of our friends and family, so please contact me and we can set something up. We don't have the internet here so my posts will be minimal the next week or so. Then I will pick it back up. Have a good rest of the week everyone!

Lavender fields

This is where we were last weekend...

see the article below for more info on this beautiful place
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1296863/Dawn-breaks-business-blooming-Somerset-Lavender-Farm.html

Stonehenge, Bath, Salisbury.. Day one

Stonehenge. We visited Stonehenge on July 3rd, only missing Summer Solstice by 12 days! That would have been something wild to witness.

My new favorite picture of Molly. This was taken at Stonehenge and she is holding the audio guide which she pretended was a phone and carried around the whole time talking to Grandpa. Funny thing was that since it is an audio guide, she would push the buttons and it actually talked back!

Bryon, Molly and Gram at Stonehenge

Woodhenge

Molly taking on Woodhenge

Bryon and Molly at Avebury. Avebury is a World Heritage site along with Stonehenge. The city of Avebury was built inside of these stones. Very cool!

Having a picnic lunch at Avebury

These white horses were all over the hills as we headed down to Stonehenge. We were able to get out and hike up to one and see it up close.

Let's go fly a kite

One day after work, we packed up the car and headed to a nearby lake to fly a kite. This was Molly's first time helping with the actual kite flying and she did a really great job!

Getting ready for the big launch. After watching daddy for an hour or so, she is finally able to give it a try herself.

Success! Way to go little girl!

Daniel and I onlooking

It is getting dark now, time to head home.

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One day after work, we packed up the car and headed to a nearby lake to fly a kite. This was Molly's first time helping with the actual kite flying and she did a really great job! Getting ready for the big launch. After watching daddy for an hour or so, she is finally able to give it a try herself Success! Way to go little girl! Daniel and I onlooking It is getting dark now, time to head home.

Why I love England

One incredible thing about living in England is this.. these views, the stillness and natural beauty all around us. This little footpath is right behind our village. It takes you through wheat fields, tree canopies like the one here, horse pastures, fields of wildflowers and much more. One Sunday afternoon, we went on a walk which turned into a 3 hour hike through the woods. Beauty like this is addictive.

Big sister moments

Molly and Daniel moments. They have taken to each other so well. I am so thankful for my sweet babies that God has so graciously given me.

Strawberries a bloomin!

Molly and I decided to try our hand at gardening this year. Unfortunately, our landlords wouldn't let us dig in the lawn so we found these grow bags and grew our fruit and vegetables without the lawn! We planted 9 strawberry plants, two tomato and one bell pepper plant and lots of romaine lettuce. We also planted seedlings in March and saw them bloom beautifully these past couple of months. These are the pictures from our first ripe strawberry.

Privacy Settings

Hey to all of my blog friends and family,

I have decided to make my blog closed to the public and only let people I know have access. So, if you want to continue to follow our families blog please email me at haleymushrush@hotmail.com. I will keep it open to the public for another week or two before marking it private. Thanks everyone.

Baking projects

Having my mother-in-law here has been great. I know very few people would actually like their mother-in-law staying in their house for 6 weeks, but I am blessed to have a fantastic one and we have had a blast. She has helped me with my knitting, housework, taking care of the kids, and so much more. One thing we have been doing together quite often is from scratch baking. I have always been intimidated with the whole concept of kneading dough and working with yeast (aside from dropping it in my bread machine).
Below are some of my newest creations. It is very fulfilling knowing that what you are putting in your families mouths are fresh and without chemicals and preservatives. So stay tuned for more of my baking projects in the future.

I forgot to take an end picture of these but they are homemade cinnamon rolls, Bryon's favorite treat.

These I made for afternoon tea. They are homemade jam sandwhich biscuits (or cookies is what we would call them).

Homemade whole wheat rolls

Cadbury World

Welcome to Cadbury World!

Making our way through the factory, they gave us tons of candy and had several neat craft areas for kids. This one had you decorate the tables in melted chocolate. Here is my decoration :)

I thought this was cool. It lists all of the types of Cadbury candy that have been made and what years they were made.

This is how Molly went through the factory. On dad's shoulders.

The last part of the factory took us through something called "Essence" which basically was a make your own chocolate treat shop. Molly had melted chocolate and cereal. I had chocolate and gummie bears, Gram had chocolate and shortbread, Bryon had chocolate and marshmallows.
Time to go! My mouth is sufficiently covered in chocolate. I won't sleep a wink tonight! yahooooo!!!