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We actually did it. 🥹🇬🇧✈️🇺🇸

We are packing up our life in the UK and going to be moving our family to America…

And now we can finally reveal where. 👀

📍 TAMPA, FLORIDA 🇺🇸

We're starting from scratch — finding a home, choosing schools, building careers and figuring out American life as a British family.

Day one of our biggest adventure yet. 🥹

Follow along because this is only the beginning… 🇺🇸❤️

And now we can finally tell you where… 🥹🇺🇸

📍 TAMPA, FLORIDA.

After years of dreaming, months of waiting and a final few weeks we will never forget…

We made it. ❤️

Four passports. Four suitcases. One completely new chapter.

There is SO much ahead of us — finding our home, choosing schools, building careers, navigating American life and somehow turning this place into our place.

Right now, we're taking it one day at a time and soaking in the fact that this is actually real. 🥹

Our American chapter starts here. 🇬🇧✈️🇺🇸

And this really is only the beginning…

Follow along for the next chapter. ❤️

We waited YEARS for this moment… 🇺🇸

And just 4 days after our visas approved, we were on a plane. ✈️🥹

This journey felt different.

Same family. Same suitcases. Same country we've visited so many times before…

But this time, we landed knowing that America isn't just somewhere we visit anymore.

It's part of our future.
It's going to be our new HOME 🇺🇸❤️

And the first place we needed to be...

📍 TAMPA, FLORIDA 🌴☀️

We're here.
We've got one week to start planning our new future...
And we've got A LOT to figure out… 👀

This is only the beginning.

The American Dream | Part 3 🇬🇧✈️🇺🇸

Some moments don’t need many words. 🥹🇺🇸

After years of dreaming, months of waiting, and a final few weeks that tested us more than we ever expected…

Four passports came home.

And inside them was the answer we’d been waiting for. ✈️🇺🇸

The end of one chapter.

The beginning of something HUGE.

And this story is only just getting started… 🇬🇧✈️🇺🇸

The American Dream | Part 2

And let’s just say… we didn’t waste much time. 👀✈️

POV: You enter the US Green Card Lottery thinking “imagine if we actually won…” 🇺🇸

Then one day you find out you DID. 😭

After months of paperwork, waiting, uncertainty and keeping the biggest secret of our lives…

We finally heard the words:

“Congratulations, you’re approved.” 🥹🇺🇸

And just like that, our family's entire future changed.

This is Part 1 of our American Dream… and things moved VERY quickly from here. 👀✈️

Follow to see what happened next. 🇬🇧✈️🇺🇸

Some moments don’t need many words. 🥹🇺🇸

After years of dreaming, months of waiting, and a final few weeks that tested us more than we ever expected…

Four passports came home.

And inside them was the answer we’d been waiting for. ✈️

The end of one chapter.

The beginning of something HUGE.

And this story is only just getting started… 🇬🇧✈️🇺🇸

The American Dream | Part 2

And let's just say… we didn't waste much time. 👀✈️

We can FINALLY tell you… 🇺🇸😭

WE GOT APPROVED FOR OUR GREEN CARDS!! 🥹🇺🇸

What started with entering the DV lottery turned into years & months of waiting, uncertainty, paperwork, interviews, setbacks and a whole lot of keeping something VERY big to ourselves…

There were so many moments when we genuinely didn't know if this day would ever come.

But it did. ❤️

On 23rd September, we walked into the US Embassy as a family of four… and walked out hearing the words we'd waited so long for:

“Congratulations, you’re approved.” 🇺🇸😭

I've wanted to share this for SO long, but until everything was official, this chapter needed to stay ours.

Now I can finally say it…

Our American Dream is actually happening. 🇺🇸✨

And trust me… this is only the beginning. 👀

The American Dream 🇺🇸 | Part 1

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Well… this weekend escalated quickly 😂👀

From absolute CHAOS, packing, stuff everywhere and wondering how on earth we were going to get everything done…

To tonight.

Packed. Calm. Ready. 🤍

It’s funny how some completely ordinary-looking weekends can actually be the start of something pretty huge.

Tomorrow is a big day....💫

And I have a feeling the next few days might be ones we remember forever... 👀🤍

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It’s funny how life can look completely normal on the outside… while behind the scenes, everything is changing. 👀

We’ve been sitting on something pretty big for a while now.

There have been so many times I’ve wanted to share more, but some things are better kept quiet while they’re still being written. 🤍

What I can say is…

🏡 Our house is now officially on the market.

And no, that’s not the whole story.

There’s a reason things have been a little different lately, a reason we’ve been making some pretty big decisions… and a reason I’ve been quietly filming moments that I haven’t been able to post yet.

For now, life carries on as normal.

But maybe not for much longer… 👀

A pretty big change could be coming.

And when I can finally tell you why, I think everything will make a lot more sense. 🤍

6am on a Sunday… because apparently we don't do slow Sundays around here 😂⚽️

A very quick attempt at making myself look slightly more human before leaving at 8am for football.

And I'm REALLY getting into this fresh-face era lately 🤍

✨ Medicube collagen gel — absolute game changer and one I genuinely won't be without now (thank you to the friend who recommended it )

✨ Collagen eye cream
✨ Collagen under-eye concealer
✨ Charlotte Tilbury Flawless Filter — I NEVER wear foundation but this ... 👌🏼
✨ Beauty & Brows powder just to fill the gaps
✨ Wild Refill lip balm — OMG. New must-have. My lips feel ridiculously smooth, plump and juicy 🤌
✨ No mascara
✨ No lashes

And the hair?

Overnight curls still hanging on for dear life… quick brush, hat and GO. 😂

Although apparently choosing WHICH hat required more thought than the entire makeup routine.

Ready by 8am. ⚽️

Not such a slow Sunday…

It's a Soccer Sunday. 🤍⚽️

Anyone else spend their Sundays standing on the side of a football pitch? 😂

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