20th of June = 22 years old and 19 weeks - 1 day

Today is Hugh's 22nd birthday. I think he got the things he was hoping for and that he's had a good day. We've just got back from having dinner at Frankie and Benny's (most enjoyable) and I have a lot more photos to go through but thought I'd put this one up for now.

Happy Birthday Hugh!

Love you :)

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As we started taking photos of Claire on the 20th of each month, today was also the day to take her next photo. Tomorrow she will be 19 weeks pregnant and a week on Friday she goes for her 20 week scan where she's hoping to find out the sex of the baby :)

Claire's hoping that you'll be able to see she does have a bump now. It's not that clear at this angle but is more noticeable when she does this ;)

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I know the blog is long overdue it's next post but life is quite busy at the moment. Norma eventually got here last Sunday (a story for another day) and although we thought we'd be having some quiet days this week, that hasn't happened. I promise to try and do some catch up posts during the week.

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I also apologise for not being up to date with everyone's blogs - I hope to get a chance to do some catching up soon and promise to leave some comments when I do :)

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Keeping busy :)

Started quilting today :)

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2 days to go till Norma arrives!

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3 Things

Yesterday I got an email from my sister in law, Liz, with a questionnaire to complete and forward on. I thought it was a fun one and have decided to do my answers here and if anyone else fancies playing along, I'd love to see your answers so please leave me a comment.

(Yellow iris in our garden)

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It's fun to learn new things about our friends, so here goes:

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Three names I go by:

Mum

Rhona

Mrs Stevenson

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Three places I've lived:

South Africa

Scotland

England

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Three places I've worked:

Dr Haskell's dental practice

Consolidated Frame Cotton Corporation

Gala Stationers

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Three things I love to watch:

Babies

Lightening storms

Greys Anatomy ;o)

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Three places I have been:

Chicago

New York

Switzerland

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Three things I love to eat:

Carrot cake

Chocolate

Prawns

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Three things I'm looking forward to this summer:

My sister, Norma, arriving on Saturday

Getting to read some of the books I've accumulated

Emily being on holiday

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Anyone else going to play along? Let me know :o)

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Tag books

I really didn't know if I'd keep the tag books up to date but, we're nearly half way through the year and, I'm still going strong. I love being able to look back at them and see what we've done so far this year. There have certainly been a few visitors and we're excited that our next visitor, Norma, arrives on Saturday! Only 4 days!!

Yesterday's photo for my tag book was this one of Simon (my brother in law), Hugh and Jon. Simon arrived yesterday afternoon to stay for a night before flying to Tenerife. Jon, Simon and I went to The Nizam for a curry and this photo was taken when we got back. The lighting is shocking (spotlights in the kitchen) but I still like the photo of the three guys together. I've got a photo of Simon with Helen and Jon with Hugh when Hugh and Helen were babies and it was one of my favourite photos from that time. I'll have to look it out and scan it in so I can post it. I can't believe our babies are now 22 (well nearly for Hugh, his birthday's on the 20th).

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Talking of babies ;o), Claire thinks she felt the baby move this morning. She said it was like a little popping sensation which only lasted a short while and then stopped again. She could well be right as she is now in her 18th week and it's around the time when you start to feel movement :o).

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As I've had a really slow start to the day, it's probably about time I got a move on and started playing catch up!

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Unless that's Norma just gone online on Skype, in which case I may wait a little while ;o)