speaking of christmas, ethan and i had the great privilege of going to scotland for christmas to visit with my extended family. we were able to spend quality time with my grandparents, who are in their late eighties. also we spent christmas itself with my uncle russell, auntie elaine and cousins fiona and james. it was so nice to catch up and for ethan to be able to meet them. i really enjoyed chatting with auntie elaine. its great to be reacquainted with my scottish roots. we also took a wee adventure up to the windswept island of shetland to spend time with my auntie heather, uncle jeremy and my six cousins, sarah, evelyn, joshua, benjamin, rachel and paul. the cousins did a great job of entertaining ethan and i. we had a lovely time. ethan enjoyed being able to finally see where his wife comes from and seeing my childhood haunts and such. it was also great to meet up with childhood friends especially liz and her lovely new husband malcom and jennifer. we had a great break and ate lots of lovely british delicacies which i sorely miss, including fish and chips! we were so thankful we had the opportunity to go!
since coming back, we've mainly been working hard and getting ready for this baby to arrive. ethan is continuing to work part-time at princess bride video as a wedding video editor, which he is very good at. he works valet most weekends until the wee hours of the morning, which neither of us think is ideal, but we wait until something else comes along. also he's keeping busy with free-lance videography. so if you need anything filmed, let him know! i was working at starbucks until about two weeks ago and now i'm on maternity leave for twelve weeks. we are also the caretakers of our building, here in uptown minneapolis. the summer is a busy time with lots of people moving in and out.
we just moved at the beginning of may into a roomy two bedroom apartment that feels to us like a real home. a place for family and to spend time with people we love. we love it and feel so incredibly blessed to be here. its so roomy we don't quite know what to do with ourselves! we'll post some pictures soon.
on march 11th, we celebrated out two year anniversary in style at a lovely bed & breakfast in stillwater, minnesota. we are certain we love each other even more now than the day we said our vows. its been quite a journey and we look forward to the next stage.
as far as the dear little unborn one. we decided not to find out the gender at our ultrasound so we're waiting rather impatiently now to find out. everything has gone pretty smoothly through the pregnancy other than extended morning sickness, till about five and a half months! food has been a struggle the whole time to be honest, i'll be delighted to be able to eat anything i want again. our due date was the 13th of may, so we're just waiting now, sweet-talking the baby every day that it really should come out because of all the wonderful things we can do with it and show it!
we still attend church in uptown, where we've been now for four years! wow that's a long time! it seems to be a year of change there, so we will see where that takes us. that's really all thats going on with us. now for what is next!
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