Blogging again!

So I decided it's time to start writing to my blog again! Lots has happened since I last wrote, but the most important change is that Melissa has finished her chemo! Hurray for that! We had a massive end of the treatment fundraiser party and raised over £1400  for Leukaemia and Lymphoma research.

Balloon release at the fundraiser "Melissa's Miracle Mile". We raised over 1400 pounds!

After Melissa's immunity started to recover, we have been allowed to travel again, and our first trip was to the States to go see my Husbands family. It was during the Halloween so Melissa went trick and treating as a Minnie Mouse. :) Arodable!

 I was also able to go to New York with my best friend Minna, that was absolutely fabulous!

We also had a fantastic Christmas and the absolute highlight was when Melissa got to meet the Queen of England and also Duchess of Cambridge, "Princess" Catherine.
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In January Melissa and I were off to Finland for a month, we had such a lovely time skiing, skating, sledding, snowboarding and all the other winter activities starting with the letter "s"! :) Melissa's favourite thing was going to the Naantali Spa and swimming in the outside pool when it was snowing. We also made some pretty cool memories visiting the Moomin family in the Moomin World in Naantali.
Melissa's Nanna took her on a trip to Stockholm, the Capital of Sweden, that was pretty neat! The cruise boat was so big that Melissa didn't even realise she was on a boat. Visiting Helsinki, the capital of Finland was awesome too, Helsinki is the Design capital of the world this year and there is just a huge amount of cool stuff to see and do! The highlight of our Helsinki trip was sledding (or bum sliding) down the stairs of the Helsinki Cathedral.

Back in home, England, we have been just happy doing our everyday things like any other family. Melissa really enjoys going to the pre school and she will start primary school in the fall. She got into the school we super duper wanted, it's called Denver Primary School. She will start in September, how exciting! But before that us girls are going to have a very busy Summer travelling the world, first on our list....... Disney World Florida!! It's Melissa's Make a Wish Trip and we are going very soon! Melissa can't wait to go on her "Princess Holiday". It will be F A N T A S T I C!! :D