Old and newer news
Well, where to start!! My last post was in January... Since then we've had Liam join our family (February), I fisished my exams (March and May), graduated (June), had to get used to life at home, which I am now
really enjoying. What a blessing and what fun it is to be able to spend all this time with Liam and the other children and also have the time to do some of all the projects I want to.
Quentin is still enjoying work and has been called as a councellor to the branch president. A calling he found a bit daunting, but I know he'll do well. He always does his very best at everything, something I really admire about him.
Anyway, here are some pictures showing some highlights from January until now...
Me, looking ever so
slightly (!) tired just a few minutes before Liam was born. The midwife had just left and a couple of minutes after this picture was taken, I was yelling to Quentin: "GO GET HER THE HEAD IS COMING!"
Daddy with Liam just half an hour old.
Joshua is such a proud and loving older brother. I love seeing him in this new role. He is just so in love with Liam and is incredibly considerate, gentle and caring towards him. Also those first many weeks he was constantly in fits of laughter over the funny faces a newborn pulls and the jerky movements Liam would make with his hands. 
And of course we already knew what a great big sister Erin makes. For ages she's been dying for us to have a baby and she loved (and still loves) holding him. She didn't want him to get any bigger and the first time he was weighed and he hadn't put any weight on, she was thrilled:-)
She is a really big help and never complains about doing the boring jobs for me, like putting the nappies in the bin etc.
The exam project I was working on at the time (I actually brought my sketch books into hospital with me, I never had so much peace to work on a project as I did there while Liam slept:-)) culminated in a fashion show at Alsion ( a really nice concert hall right on the habour in Sønderborg)
Our starting point for the project had to be an incineration plant(!) and I ended up making everything out of recycled materials.
Getting my models ready for the photo shoot
Quentin had his paternity leave at the time and brought Liam over for me to feed him. He also finished building a wall in our house, seperating the Living room into two to make a fourth bedroom. What a super dad!
After my exam we had Liam's blessing. We had everyone over at our house after for a little lunch and we did take pictures, but for some reason none of them turned out very well, so in an attempt to stay in everyone's good books, I won't post them on here...
There was also time to play in the garden and find some frogs...
My graduation:
Welcome to our blog
Well, we've been in Sønderborg for a year now and time has really flown by!
We've bought a house in Augustenborg, which is a village 8 km from Sønderborg. It is also right near the water and is on the island of Als. We can't wait to move in on May the 15th.
Joshua will be starting preschool in Augustenborg when we move and for the first time he'll be going without his big sister to look out for him. He clings to her quite a bit, so we're happy that there's a little boy he knows from church starting at the same time. Hopefully he'll settle in well and make friends of his own quickly.
Erin will be starting school after the summer holidays and all the children starting this year, will be spending the summer at the school (in what's usually the after schoolclub -SFO) so that they have a bit of time to get used to each other and the school. It's very good timing for us as they start there in May, -right when we move anyway. It saves Erin a move or us driving her from Augustenborg to Dybbøl every morning.
The kids are growing so fast it seems at them moment and they are really looking forward to spending some time with nana and grandad this spring (we're looking forward to them brushing up on their English too...) and to going on holiday to mormor and morfar's on their own this summer.
Quentin is still enjoying working as a physio and still travels to Aabenraa every morning. He is also the branch mission leader and the nursery leader. The primary president loves him and thinks he is brilliant in that calling... He is incredibly creative in the way he teaches the children and they all love him and their lessons. He says he loves teaching a class where the students' vocabulary doesn't exceed his own:-)
I am the primary president and am still enjoying that very much. I have an amazing councillor who makes my calling a breeze and the children are (mostly) just lovely.
I am working night shifts at the old people's home, which I do enjoy, but I keep looking for other, more creative work and would love to do something else.
Apart from that, there's not much going on in our lives and we quite think it's plenty, really...
We are looking forward to you all coming to visit us in our new house when we've settled in.
2007
As you may know we moved to Sønderborg, Denmark earlier this year. February to be exact.
Quentin had just finished his MSC in physiotherapy in Southampton and with it being so hard to get jobs in England because of all the NHS cutbaks, he also applied to one here in Denmark. We'd always thought it would be fun to move here for a while and thought there'd be no better time than now while the children are still small. It was still a hard decision though and one which involved lots of praying.
We are so happy to be here though. We had originally said we'd "give it at least two years", but Quentin keeps extending that lol. I think that must mean he's happy here:-)
He's working hard at a private clinic and is doing really well there. I am so happy that he is able to do the job he has always wanted to do.
He also takes Danish classes twice a week in the evening and we are all impressed with how quickly he is learning. I'm sure it has a lot to do with his perseverance in speaking Danish even to people he knows speak English very well.
Apart from that he is the branch mission leader (okay, the meetings with the elders are in English for the moment being...)
The branch here is tiny (when we first walked into the sacrament meeting Erin thought it was Primary) and we were a bit worried about that, having always belonged to big wards. It is a very different experience and we have to give lots of talks etc, but we actually really love it. The branch is made up mainly of young families and a few elderly people. The children have made some great friends at church and so have we.
I have been working part-time as a home help, but stopped a couple of weeks ago. I would really like to do something creative and somehow utilise my education, but for the moment I am just enjoying being at home with the children and having the time to do the things I want to. I do start working as a substitute next week, but that means I can choose my own shifts and with the shift hours I still pick the children up between one and two. I am also the Primary president at church. We have about 12 children who come regularly and they are so good to each other. The older ones always play with and look out for the little ones, so being the Primary president is a pleasure.
Erin and Joshua go to the same preschool (børnehave) and love it. Joshua likes having his big sister with him and mainly play with all the "big girls". They also go to gymnastics, which seems to be something everyone does around this area, so we see all the children from preschool there every Monday night as well. They really enjoy that too. Erin chose an all pink and shiny gym outfit, which happened to be the same one half the girls had chosen too, so they all run around as chubby flashes of pink and think they're ballerinas. Joshua keeps telling me how fast he runs at gymnastics and loves going so much. They both think Mondays are the best because there's preschool, gymnastics and then Family Home Evening.
Quentin had his paternity leave at the time and brought Liam over for me to feed him. He also finished building a wall in our house, seperating the Living room into two to make a fourth bedroom. What a super dad!
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