It’s always Autumn in England

Angela told me off today for not updating my blog for a while, so I am making an effort tonight.

We had major problems with our computer last week, and they don’t seem to have all gone away. We rebooted our harddrive, because everything was running slowly, but we then spent two days without any internet access because our internet would not connect. It said it was reading the wireless, but the internet would not open and emails would not send. Very frustrating.

Last weekend, Christian and Anja came to visit and we took them to Haworth and hiked the Bronte Waterfall with them. We did not take any new pictures, because it was raining and very cloudy.

I am very jealous that we are just about the only part of the country to not have had any snow. I am not quite sure why I feel that way though, because I would much rather it be summer than winter, and I don’t enjoy going out in the snow, but I do think it looks pretty!

I often visit ScrapGirls website and get most of my ideas for scrapbooking from this website. Every Monday at 12noon (ET) 5pmGMT they have have a cropping session. They Host of the Crop will suggest a theme, colour or other idea that you design your LO about. Today was to do a Lay Out using only photograph. I turned up 55 minutes late, but decided to give it a go ahead anyway! Here is what I came up with…in 30 minutes!

This is Andre Cole Gutierrez. My cousin Betsy, gave birth in December 2006, to this beutiful little boy after much difficulty in her pregnancy. I can’t wait to meet him!

Credits:
Ribbon, paper and tags by TracyB "Daddy’s Got The Blue’s"
Flower by Maria LaFrance "Easter Dress"
These can all be found on Digital Freebies website

This morning I got up and went to an indoor car boot sale which I had read about in the local newspaper yesterday. It was fairly good sized, though nothing compared to the one I used to go to in Northampton. I picked up the board game Mad Gab, a game Evan and I both like.

After getting home from that, the sun was shining and I suggested to Evan we go for a hike to the Bronte Waterfall. You can see his Blog and more pictures that he added: http://outside.blogsome.com/2007/01/14/bronte-waterfall/

It was a great hike and the best part was there were not any big hills to hike up, which is Evan’s favorite thing to do…take me on a ‘easy’ hike…that goes straight up the side of a mountain!
Here are a couple of my favorite pictures from today.

Top: Looking ahead to where the waterfall will appear
Middle: The scene you come to first, the waterfall is to the left
Bottom: This plaque is on a rock at the bottom of the waterfall - Psalm 104:24

Yesterday, the 9th January, was our 3rd wedding anniversary.  When I got home from work, I found these laying on my bed.

Evan had also booked a surprise dinner at a restaraunt in Skipton. It was lovely to go out and be spoiled and have a nice meal, when I thought we were going to stay in. We hadn’t really planned anything because we have just been so busy with moving, visiting America, Evan looking for a new job and me starting a new job.

I recently rediscovered Freecycle since moving up here. My sister, Angela reminded me of it a few weeks ago. I really did not think that I would get anything out of it, but the other day someone advertised a dining room table and chairs. I emailed them to ask if we could come and see it. I totally expected it to be an old, misused, grubby table. Instead, what did we find? A beautiful mahogany table that seats at least 8 people. The chairs are comfortable and covered in a lovely red & cream stripe. Here is a picture of that too!

Thirdly, the great thing about renting, instead of owning a house is that any time you need work done, someone else does it for you and also pays for it. So the gate on our back fence has been broken for a couple weeks and we kept meaning to mention it to our landlord, but it was not causing any problems, so we didn’t get around to it…then today, while writing this blog, I heard a hammering sound. I looked out the window to see the lovely man fixing our gate!

Since we changed Broadband providers to BT from NTL, we have not had our homepage up and running, but it is now back. Evan worked on it for a while last night and made a few minor changes. We are actually planning to get pictures back up on it, but it might take us a few days. Go HERE

In other news, Evan is still looking for a new job. You can visit Pond Creative and see what his business is all about, but in laymans terms, he can provide marketing and website consulting. He can design and maintain websites and also provide companies with a marketing plan in order to get new customers/doners/clients whatever your company is in to!

He has a couple people he will hopefully be working for, but we need a couple more for it to be full time, or we need him to get a part time job. He has applied for several that we are waiting to hear from.

For me, work is going well. I have my 90 day review in a few days and I can’t believe it has been that long.

In exciting news, my mom and brother are coming to visit at the end of Marc beginning of April. They have tickets and we are trying to plan a trip to Ireland with them. If you know of a good campsite we can camp at, or a good cottage we can hire, let me know. We will either fly or take a ferry to Dublin!