2005 - 2007 UK Filers *Only*

[Candace 2]

Hey you guys

[elmcitymaven 9,711]

Yay! Candace and Leney are here!

Wow, I'm having major flashbacks to 2007 right now, complaining about when my I-130 was going to be processed.

[*julez* 124]

So great to see both Leney and Candace! I miss all our old friends.

Do pop in to see us more!!

Leney - How is the babe?? Getting big, I suspect!!

[~*Maria*~ 1]

Hey Leney! ltns

[*julez* 124]

Maria - I miss your Bevis and Butthead avatar!

[Leney 0]

So great to see both Leney and Candace! I miss all our old friends.

Do pop in to see us more!!

Leney - How is the babe?? Getting big, I suspect!!

He just turned 1 last week He's running around like a mad man, but has been walking for the last 5 months. He's saying "mumum" and "da" and "ta" and his new word is "car" hehe It's crazy how fast they grow!

Here's a picture from their Christening in October. My digital camera battery charger is dead, so when I get the pictures back from my mother I'll have to post more recent ones of the gang.

I hope you're all doing well! The last year and a half have been pretty nuts with so much going on here. Hubby finally passed his driving test, and killed our first van lol So we had to get another. Perhaps I shouldn't have pushed him into getting his license! He has a good job and took up hunting/fishing/archery and we try to get out into the mountains as much as possible which works nicely with our 4 little guys. He's decided he doesn't feel the need to ever go back to Scotland, which sorta makes me a bit sad, since we lived there and I did love it - it was just too expensive I never thought I'd be the one to be more homesick than him hehe He does miss the food though, so I'm constantly being asked to find places to get the goodies he's craving and trying to bribe Amish butchers into getting him the proper cut of bacon (which hasn't gone so well yet and ended with "bacon" that tasted like pork chops). It's sad how things like finding a Terry's Chocolate Orange in the back corner of a CVS can make his day!

[fozzie 41]

...finding a Terry's Chocolate Orange in the back corner of a CVS can make his day!

That would make my day too.

[~*Maria*~ 1]

Maria - I miss your Bevis and Butthead avatar!

Here you go *julez*

[~*Maria*~ 1]

So great to see both Leney and Candace! I miss all our old friends.

Do pop in to see us more!!

Leney - How is the babe?? Getting big, I suspect!!

He just turned 1 last week He's running around like a mad man, but has been walking for the last 5 months. He's saying "mumum" and "da" and "ta" and his new word is "car" hehe It's crazy how fast they grow!

Here's a picture from their Christening in October. My digital camera battery charger is dead, so when I get the pictures back from my mother I'll have to post more recent ones of the gang.

I hope you're all doing well! The last year and a half have been pretty nuts with so much going on here. Hubby finally passed his driving test, and killed our first van lol So we had to get another. Perhaps I shouldn't have pushed him into getting his license! He has a good job and took up hunting/fishing/archery and we try to get out into the mountains as much as possible which works nicely with our 4 little guys. He's decided he doesn't feel the need to ever go back to Scotland, which sorta makes me a bit sad, since we lived there and I did love it - it was just too expensive I never thought I'd be the one to be more homesick than him hehe He does miss the food though, so I'm constantly being asked to find places to get the goodies he's craving and trying to bribe Amish butchers into getting him the proper cut of bacon (which hasn't gone so well yet and ended with "bacon" that tasted like pork chops). It's sad how things like finding a Terry's Chocolate Orange in the back corner of a CVS can make his day!

Leney they look adoreable in their kilts Like wee miniature scotsmen

[*julez* 124]

Maria - I miss your Bevis and Butthead avatar!

Here you go *julez*

Rock on, Maria!! Thanks!!

[*julez* 124]

Leney - your boys are absolutely gorgeous! So adorable in their kilts! I can't believe the baby is a year already! Time certainly does fly.

So when Oath says never about Scotland, does he mean never as in not living there again, or never as in never even visiting again? The latter would be too sad for words.

The food issue is so common. My husband would give anything for a regular supply of Walker's Smokey Bacon crisps and Kitkat Chunky! And pork pies! We've been lucky since we've visited twice since Griff moved here and plan to again in July. Its just enough of a food fix to keep him going til next visit.

[elmcitymaven 9,711]

Leney -- I can't believe your baby is one now! Jeez, that seems almost impossible. Your boys are scrumptious -- LOVE the kilts!

I get the same "you're not dragging me back there" thing from my husband, and sometimes it seems I'm the one more homesick for the UK in this household. Bruce had to go back in January of last year to defend his thesis (in fact he had to go to Dundee) and his verdict was that he had no interest in ever going back. Ever. It is rather depressing sometimes, but his mum came out to visit us for Christmas and she just came to meet up with me while I was at a conference in Amsterdam, so at least we still have that connection going.

Anyway, great to see you here!

[~*Maria*~ 1]

I need Malteesers, the whoppers over here ain't nowhere near as good. Oh and proper scottish shortie.

[elmcitymaven 9,711]

I am baking a loaf of proper white bread this morning! Cannot abide by the cake-bread cr@p they sell here any longer.

[*julez* 124]

Are you going to try the no knead bread recipe that we discussed maven? I'm trying it this weekend. Can't wait!!

Edited March 17, 2009 by *julez*