Hi guys. We've come away to send to Center Parcs for four nights and five days. So I
thought I would vlog our experience while we're here. We thought it'd be nice to break
from the routine over New Year's. So we have packed up a car, got all the kids and we've
just got the keys to our lodge. So I'll take you with us.
[music 00:05:21] We've just made it to our lodge. So I thought
I would quickly show you around before we mess it all up.
So you walk in and as you walk in we have the dining room. Jackson is drawing on the
famous Center Parcs chalk board. Then there's the kitchen here, all open, and there's little
living area with fireplace and then outside there's so many little animals. Look, the
kids are going crazy. There's a squirrel. Oh, you want some food I think. Oh my gosh,
look, he's so tame. And then there is... is that a morehen? And then over here there are
two... I don't think they're actually deer. Comment below if you know what this is, but
they're like cleaning each other. Then there's one bedroom in here with a huge window, two
single beds.
I want to see my bedroom.
Oh, where is your bedroom? My goodness, look at all that food.
Then there is a bathroom in here. Then another little room with two singles, and then the
master bedroom.
That's your bedroom.
And they've made little swans out the towels.
He's looking at Daddy and me.
Look at chubby he is.
No he's looking at the side.
He's like, you got to give me some food.
Climb on me [crosstalk 00:03:05] Hulk smash. [crosstalk 00:03:11] baby smash.
Good morning guys. It's our first full day at Center Parcs and we have a really busy
day planned. We're going to get on our bikes now. Here they are. We got one with a trailer
for little Jackson to sits in, then we've got a tandem for me and Caleb and then Fraser
for the first year has his own bike. So yeah, we're going to bike to the main center and
then we've got rock climbing booked at 9:00 AM and then after rock climbing, we're going
to go swimming. And then after swimming we're going to go to lunch. And then after that
we might do some biking. So it's a full on busy day. And it's also New Year's Eve.
So we're all ready. Who's in here. Who's in here! Hello! Jackson,
hey!
Look up there!
Oh, you like that on? Oh, there's your potty. Bye-bye!
[singing] Look! Jackson is like -
What the... [singing].
Let's go rock climbing!
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Woo-hoo! How was that?
Ready? Oh it's green! That's not a slide! Look!
Jackson is eating the garlic bread! Look how Caleb decorated his ice cream!
Oh I didn't know he had ice cream. [music 00:07:03]
This is our New Year's Eve party.
[singing]
Jackson's asleep already. So we've had an amazing busy first day and
we're just going to chill tonight even though it's New Year's Eve. I've got my New Year's
Eve party guys here and we've just lit the fire. So we're going to roast marshmallows
and we're going to kind of make smores. We've got marshmallows, chocolate and biscuits.
Not the exact ones, but it's going to be nice. But yeah, what a decade. I just put a post
on Instagram getting all emotional because 10 years ago we didn't even have these three
crazy boys. But anyway, there's no other way that we'd rather spend New Year's Eve hey?
And roasting marshmallows. [music 00:07:57]
Henry... Fights like this.
It's not quite worked out.
Hold still. There's a fire going on.
Oh look at the baby!
The baby is so cute.
It's so camouflaged, aren't they?
Yeah.
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Good morning guys! It is now Thursday and I feel like I've been a little bit rubbish
at blogging in the last day cause we've just been always such a nice chilled out time.
But today we're going to do something quite exciting. We're going to an activity called
Owl Babies where I think they'll read an Owl Baby story, and then you also get to meet
some as well. So we're going to go and do that and then we'll probably do swimming,
lunch and all the things that the boys love. But we just biked up here. I'm a little bit
out of breath. We've been so lucky with the weather as well. It's not rained once and
it's just been really clear and not even that cold. So yeah, we're off now.
[music 00:10:19]
And while she's happy with that. We're going to get the baby outside [inaudible 00:10:50]
going to be really close up. We're going to be feeding them and they're going to be loose
flying around so you can call them over to come and see you.
That's right, we're all good. [crosstalk 00:11:01] This is Percy. And this is Sarah. Okay.
Guys, call him over. He's very greedy. He's very, very sweet.
Which one is Percy?
That's Percy and this is Sarah. [crosstalk 00:11:14].
He got it!
They're really cute!
Cute, yeah. [crosstalk 00:11:42].
Ate my finger.
Percy! Percy!
Percy! Percy! [crosstalk 00:12:01].
Another one. [music 00:12:07]
We're going swimming! [music 00:00:12:19].
Right we're on the rapids now. [music 00:13:32]. So we're all done at swimming. So we've now
come for lunch and we've come for Italian food at Bella Italia.
[music 00:14:43].
All right guys. Relaxing? Where are you going?
[inaudible 00:00:15:05]. [music 00:15:35].
You did it! Now it's my turn!
Hi guys! We're home now and it's Friday night, but I didn't vlog too much today because we
were pretty much packing up our lodge to come home. And then we went swimming again. But
I was like, how much more swimming can I show you? And then we did bowling as well and made
our way back home. So I've got the hiccups so badly, but I have to do this outro right
now because the kids are in the bath and I feel once they're out of the b,ath, I'm going
to forget to do this outro. But I just want to say thank you so much for watching this
video. I hope you really enjoyed it. We have had the nicest time away. I just feel, when
we go on these little breaks, like Center Parcs, we just really disconnect. I actually
really chilled out and every night we were playing card games with the boys and board
games as well. They love playing go fish and we've also got
this game called Pictionary Air, which they really enjoyed and it's just actually getting
so much easier cause they're getting older. Obviously they're nine, six and three and
just things like swimming, getting changed after swimming. Little things like that were
just so much easier. And I've loved actually having the two older boys around because they're
kind of like another pair of hands. They will help me with Jackson if I remember, oh, we
put checks and cardigan on, or they'll naturally grab his hands and look after him. And it's
actually been such a help having them around and just so nice to see their little personalities
coming out. And... I can hear them.
They're growing up so much. So we've had a lovely Christmas break.
You can come in. Fresh out of the bath. Have you had a nice time away? What happened?
What did Caleb do when we started to come home?
Oh...
He cried because you didn't want to come.
Nah, because he needed to wee.
He didn't want... because he needed to wee [laughs]. He didn't want to come home. So
that's a sign of good holiday. But yeah. Anyway, thank you so much for watching. I hope you
enjoyed it and I'll see you in my next one.