Today

This morning Claire had a midwife appointment at the local surgery. Their midwife is back from maternity leave and finally, for the last few weeks, Claire will get a chance to build a relationship with her. The first midwife she saw went off sick before her second appointment, she saw a locum for the next two visits and on her last visit she saw someone different again. Hopefully Mandy will see her through to the end of her pregnancy now. As always, the best part of the visit is hearing the baby's heart beat :o)

Outside the surgery. I love the bump shadow on the ground ;o)

I'm trying to get back to eating more healthily and today I made a pasta salad for lunch. Wholemeal pasta, tuna, boiled egg, tomato, cucumber, spring onion and red pepper - it was yummy and filling. After lunch I took Cloud out for a walk. It was sunny today, for what seems like the first time in ages and it was lovely to be outside. Our route tends to take us down a few paths and today I took my camera with me. I love the way some of the trees are starting to change colour and took some photos of them with the sky as a background. The garden of this house has been beautiful all summer. They put a lot of work into it and it's certainly paid off.

Lots of berries on the trees/bushes

It was rubbish day today so the wheelie bins were outside the houses

The rubbish truck

Just to prove Cloud was actually with me ;o)

Heading home

The side of our house

And finally, the last of our sunflowers

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And the hybrid layout

I knew I would do it :o). I wanted to put it in my scrapbook and making the hybrid layout was probably as quick to do as having to play around with the digital one and be, more or less, happy with the printed result. This way I'm happy with the end result!

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PS The photo is not doing the colours justice - it looks better/brighter in real life.

A layout and some photos

Claire has this week off work and this morning we went shopping - left home at 9am and didn't get home until just after 2pm. We didn't buy loads (though an outfit for Alice did slip into one bag!), Claire finished paying off her baby plan in Mothercare and we stopped for an early lunch at M&S as she was feeling a bit light headed. We chatted about the fact that there are only 10 weeks till her due date, how we can't wait to finally get to meet her and see what this little girl looks like. When we got home I decided to put some of it down in a layout - I chose to do a digital one because they are so much quicker but I have a feeling it might also be made into a paper one as I'm still not happy with printed out digital ones (though I did think I might try printing onto Bazzil card and see if I'm happier with that - I'll let you know!)

The journalling reads :

"It seems incredible that you are already 30 weeks pregnant, only 10 weeks until your due date!

We’re getting to the stage where we can’t wait to see what this little girl is going to look like. Will she be like you or will she be like Craig? What colour hair will she have - blonde, brown or red? Will her eyes be blue, green or brown? When will she arrive - will she be born near her due date, a bit before or will she be late like you, your brother and sister? How much will she weigh? So many questions but we’ll have to wait to find out the answers. One thing is for sure, no matter what she looks like, she is going to be loved by so many people. "

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The papers used in this are from Jessica Sprague - Walk in the Park, Flutter Flutter; Walk in the Park, Waddling Ducks and EP Life is Good Paper Pack 2, Solid - Pink.

The template was one from Cathy Zielske's Design Your Life 2010 class.

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This photo was taken one evening a couple of weeks ago when Jon and I went for an Indian meal at Nizam, our local Indian restaurant. It's in one of the Tudor buildings in East Grinstead's High Street - beautiful leaded windows to the front and inside low ceilings with dark beams. Jon and I first started going there when we came to the UK in 1991 and it's still one of our favourite restaurants and the food has never disappointed. We've also come to learn over the years that there is sometimes a "hot" chef on duty and when he's there the food is always that much spicier. When we came out after our meal, the sun was setting and there was a beautiful glow in the sky. And finally, looking at the Acer in our back garden, we can see that Autumn is on it's way as the leaves have started changing colour already. The mornings and evenings are also that much crisper and I don't tend to leave the back door open as late as I was during the summer. However, when the days are warm I much prefer to sit outside in Autumn and have my lunch than in the Summer when it's that much hotter. So I'm making the most of any warm weather we get. Won't be too long before I don't want to sit out at all! Funny thing is, this year I'm not minding that as much as I thought I would.

Mac

This evening Mac was having a mad few minutes and had us all in stitches. Emily suggested getting it on video so I grabbed my iPhone and this was the result. Hope you enjoy it :o) (Big thanks to Emily who edited the video and put it on to YouTube for me)