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Sorry I have been rather consistantly MIA with the blogging recently. The addition of a newborn baby in my life has somewhat put a spanner in the works when it comes to getting anything done these days, apart from taking care of him and basic means of survival for me!

Christmas day was raher amazing! It was the first Christmas in our own home, we moved in here April 2016, and of course it was baby Rafe's first Christmas ever! All very exciting! Richard cooked Christmas dinner which was fabulous (I had the rather important tasks of vegetable preparation and gravy stirring I would just like to add...The vegetables and gravy were both delicious...) We were all spoilt with presents, Richard's family are all incredibly generous.
After a morning of present opening and Christmas lunch devouring Richard was rather insitent that we should go for a walk. This is not normal behaviour. I am usually the one who has to persuade him that walking is a fun activity. Plus it was cold and looked like it was about to rain, needless to say I was not exactly enthusiastic about the walking idea. But we packed up the pram and wrapped Rafe up against the cold and embarked to Hengistbury head. (Hengistbury head is a headland between Poole harbour and Hurst spit in the UK and is about a twenty minute car journey from where we live).

So it was freezing and blowing a gale and Richard was acting all shifty, he kept looking behind and suggesting we walk down muddy paths away from people. It was all very strange and I even asked him if he was okay after point blank refusing to go down muddy tracks with my Rafe's lovely new pram.
Eventually we came to a bench and he suggested we sit down (I was quite keen to go home by this point but showed willing because it was Christmas afterall) and then he pulled a little gift wrapped box out of his pocket and gave it to be. Now this was clearly a jewellery box and I was trying very hard to play things cool. Obviously I was hoping for a ring but I didn't want to yell YES!! at the top of my lungs in case it was a pair of earrings.
Turns out I didn't have to worry about concealing any disappointment because it was indeed an engagement ring (and the most beautiful engagement ring I have ever seen at that). and then he proposed to me...and I of course said yes, but refrained from yelling it at the top of my lungs.


So 2016 has probably been one of the best years ever and I am so grateful for everything amazing that has happened, I will be quite sad to say goodbye to it. But 2017 is a fresh start and I am determined to make it another fantastic year. I have so many things that I want to achieve next year, I think it will be twelve months of hard work but I'm very excited.

Jx

My beautiful ring! You will have to excuse the rather posey photograph but I have not had my nails done in months and I did not really want them in the picture...so I stuck my hand in a vase of Christmas inspired flowers that were the centerpiece on our dining table! Follow Follow Pinterest