This week we had two big bags of firewood delivered for the winter.

 

Baxter took charge of the situation and log by log neatly stacked them in the garden shed.

 

What a pooch!

 

This weekend we had Malc and Amanda over for a visit.

 

It was great to see Malc and Amanda and when we dropped them back in Oxford we were lucky enough to be shown around the Oxford Botanic Gardens where Malc works.

 

 

In other news, Smudge is growing quickly and we have been able to see Smudge kicking mummy's tummy for the first time this week.

Not much to report.

Not much has been happening in our neck of the woods... Life seems to continue as normal. My tummy seem to grow by the day. This is me on the 22nd of September.

And this is my tummy today...

 Don got home today after a week of sailing off the South Coast. He was sitting the practical part of his Day Skipper course which he passed. This means he can skipper the boat when we are on our sailing holiday at the end of the month in Sicily.

We had a beautiful day today and when Don got home we went for a walk in the park. The park is slowly changing colour - although it doesn't show so much in these pictures.

Here are a few more pics from Baxter and my walks this week.

We have decided to pull out the veggie garden and add some topsoil to the soil and let it sit for the winter. We didn't have great success this year with it but we did get all these carrots.

Don has done a great job dog proofing the garden so we don't have to constantly watch Baxter and can leave him in the garden off the chain.

While we got a good harvest of tomatoes this year the weather turned pretty cold and the last of the fruit on the plants didn't ripen so I picked them all and made some Green Tomato Chutney... Hopefully it tastes good! And being a regular little house wife, I made a couple of banana cakes. One for home and one for the chaps at work... Yummo!

So I was 20 weeks pregnant on Friday and we are half way there. We have our 22 week scan on the 18th so will let you know how we get on. 

xoxo

A week in France.

We have just come back from a lovely week in a Villa near Carcassone in France. It was a wonderful week with lots of good friends, food and fun. Here are a few pics of the week.

 The pool and the house above it.

Pizza night.

One of the many amazing meals cooked for us. Yummo.

 Roast Chicken in the Pizza oven. Mmmmm.

Butterflies in the garden.

Before we went away we had our great friends Ben, Cat and Max to stay. It was so lovely to spend some time with them before they headed back to New Zealand for good. We are really going to miss them.

Don was away filming an adventure race in Morecambe Bay and the Lake District during some of the Biddingtons stay. Lots of early mornings but they make for great photos.

We got home on Sunday and had a very very excited dog to pick up. He had a few days with a dog sitter and a few days at the kennel. He's grown a bit.

As has Smudge in my belly. I'm finally starting to look pregnant instead of just fat!

That's all for now. Love from us all xo

Super 8 Wedding Video

Here's just the super8 footage edited together... cool!

Our Wedding Video

Here it is... !

It's been a long eight weeks...

But it's official. Baby Rutherford - or Smudge as I have taken to calling her - is due on the 25th of February 2010.

The longest eight weeks, of my life anyway, began on June the 24th with this...

 

You can imagine the excitement! I of course wanted to scream it from the rooftops but we decided that we would tell our family only and wait till we had our first scan.

Which happened a bit early at 8 weeks. This is what the Smudge looked like then...

 

And four weeks later see how much she has grown (I'm convinced its a girl while Don is sitting on the fence calling him he).

While its been a long 8 weeks its also been a really special time and today topped it off. It was amazing to see this little person swimming around in my tummy. We could see her brain, spine, arms, legs. It was incredible. 

So we are looking forward to the next 6 months, to see how my body changes and how the baby grows inside me. And then we get to meet her. What a wonderful miracle. 

We hope you are all well and happy and look forward to sharing our journey into parenthood with you.

Love Anna, Don, Baxter and Smudge.

Things have been growing...

Its been a quiet couple of weeks for Baxter and me. Don has been away working hard so we've just been taking it easy and not doing too much at all.

Our veggies have been busy growing though and we pulled the potatoes up the other day, our first carrot which was very yummy and I think our first tomato is nearly ready...

The other tomato's are looking pretty good too, as are the two plums and the chillies.

Baxter has been growing too. Although not too much as Don didn't seem to think he was much bigger when he got home. He is still very cute though!

On the 30th of July we had been married for 6 months. Man that went quickly... Don sent me these beautiful flowers. Very spoilt.

 

Finally here are a couple more photos from our honeymoon in Greece.