Thursday, 14 January 2016

He got me again!

Before Lewis and I moved home the sneaky surprised me by getting down on one knee and asking me to spend the rest of my life with him. Of course I said yes!

The charmer proposed with a beautiful Sheila Fleet ring next to the Bow River in Canmore and I haven't quite been able to realise he has actually asked! Although the ring is absolutely stunning he wanted to take me engagement ring shopping for a traditional engagement ring when we returned home.

Several trips to the Glasgow Argyl Arcade jewellery stores and we decided on a ring style that we liked and then sent it off to be designed.

However unknown to me the ring was made and delivered to the man himself several weeks later giving him the opportunity to pounce once again!

We were having a lovely long-weekend in Glencoe on the shores of Loch Etive and Lewis was doing his usual photography hoopla with ISO and shutter speed (they may be the same thing but I cannot seem to retain this information everytime he tries to explain) and then he pulled out his bargain $10 film camera we bought in a thrift store in Revelstoke.

"Let's test out the timer" he announces while balancing the camera on the rock, "look out across the water and I will run at you!"

Being very well trained, off I totter down to the shore and look off into the distance while he fiddles with the vintage camera settings.

"READY?!?" he shouts from behind the boulder.

...... yet nothing happens.

And so I turn around and there he is, proposing with our beautiful ring that we designed and picked together - well done charmer, you got me again!

'Click'

We still have to finish the spool and have it developed but fingers crossed it worked!

Monday, 11 January 2016

Time flies

Wow - the last post was in June 2015! How time flies when you are changing jobs, hosting lovely guests and planning to move back home.

As much as we have loved living in Canmore, Alberta, we realised that Scotland is certainly our home and in October we made the return trip back home. To put it simply - it was CRAZY!

Foolishly we thought that when we got back things would be relatively straight forward and simple - oh how silly we are! It has been wonderful spending so much time with family particularly for Christmas and New Years however house hunting, job searching and general hoopla has been somewhat testing.

We have now moved into a house in a little Stirlingshire village and while Lewis is taking on his family business, I am establishing Pilates classes in the Stirlingshire area for pregnant and postnatal women which I am very excited about!

Watch this space!!
A photo to prove the sun does shine in Scotland!