Our last pre-baby visit to Minneapolis

A little more than a month ago, we went to visit Sam's family in Minneapolis. It was really fun! They never take enough pictures, so I always try to take a bunch when we're there. Here are some of them.

I love Sam's face in this one:

A bit of canoeing on the lake:

Some flowers from Grandmom's garden:

Her composting project:

We went on a walk around the lake, and there had been a lot of rain and flooding, so this bench was an island and Jerry climbed out to it:

Some friendly Minnesota teenagers took a picture of us when we stopped for a break on our walk:

Can you tell where I put the camera for this picture?

The main reason we went was to see Louise's art in her art show. It's inspired by our baby, and we get to have it to put in his room! Here we are seeing it displayed in the gallery:

She also wrote a poem to go with it, posted on the wall below to the right:

And of course a visit to Minneapolis in nice weather wouldn't be complete without a trip to Yogurt Lab:

We moved back to Cambridge

After trying out living in Arlington and deciding it wasn't for us, we moved back to Cambridge a month and a half ago. We love our new place and our new location, and we even have a tiny bedroom for the baby! Here's our very full moving truck:

Obviously I wasn't much help with the moving process, but my family came to help and we had a bunch of friends helping as well. It went very smoothly with so many helpers, and we were even able to get a bit set up that very day! It turns out that having the baby coming was a good motivation for getting things set up and unpacked much faster than we usually do in new apartments. We're very ready now!

I finished my turtle pincushion

It took me more than 6 months to finally make it, but I finished my turtle pincushion almost 2 months ago. This picture is the first pin I put in it! It looks like I got a haircut for some reason, but I didn't:

Still no baby - here's a post about Maine instead

I'm hanging around just waiting to go into labor, so I suppose this is as good of a time as any to update the blog! Here are some pictures of things we've done in the last couple of months.

Sam planned a surprise trip to Maine for our anniversary in July. We stayed in a cute bed and breakfast with delicious breakfast:

We went to visit our friend at his kayak rental business, where there was also this beautiful flowerpot with buoys:

We ate chocolate cookie dough ice cream in a sandwich between waffles (and yes, that's fudge in the box in the background):

We brought our lobster companion for the baby, who got a pinch:

And just generally enjoyed Maine:

On the way back, we stopped at our favorite, Wild Oats:

It was a great anniversary!

Hi Mom

My mom wanted a new blog post, so here you go. No baby yet!