Robertson Family Reunion

In keeping with the yearly Robertson family tradition, we all descended on the Green Hotel in Kinross last weekend. With the entire family being able to make it this time, there were 26 of us in total! I hope we didn't ruin a romantic Valentine's weekend for other hotel guests...

Friday evening involved catching up over a pub dinner.

Saturday was filled with fun activities, unfortunately most of which were not very pregnancy friendly! The choices were either an 8 mile walk around Loch Leven, working out at the gym with the men folk or taking part in an hour long Curling lesson. I was quite up for the curling, but my dad informed me that I was absolutely not to attempt walking round on the ice for an hour, as my balance would be off. (I suppose he would know best!)

So I opted to be the official photographer for the day.

The red team won this round

After the curling, most people were keen on going to see Scotland lose the rugby. I then went for a relaxing swim with mum, where were swam 2 lengths in total, followed by a 30 minute blether. That's the kind of exercise I enjoy at the moment!

The evening entertainment was a big three course dinner, followed by several quizzes, and then some traditional wink murder.

Alex is killed off by his loving mother

On Sunday after a hearty breakfast, we went to the hottest church in the world, and then had a final cup of tea with cake before heading off in our separate directions.

Clan photo

All being well, next year there will be 27 of us!

More cake

I have been commissioned to make a cake for a colleague's mother-in-law/sister-in-law's joint 90th & 60th birthday party. We were chatting on night shift a couple of weeks ago about Christmas, and I mentioned Colin had bought me a book on cake decorating. After a bit of cake chat I somehow offered to make the cake for the birthday do.

However, I have been feeling a little nervous this week, as I've only ever made cakes for close friends and family before, who I suppose wouldn't be too upset if I got it wrong. So I have felt the pressure has been on a bit to make a successful job!!!

She said that she wanted a "classy" cake, but left the design to me. So I eventually copied a Charles Rennie Mackintosh design from the internet onto a plaque and painted on a wee birthday message. The black piping looks ok from a distance, however on closer inspection, it's a bit wobbly due to my shaky hands (Nerves perhaps? Or should a blame it on the pregnancy?!)

Classy cake

All this cake decorating is exhausting, clearly I'm not the only one who's feeling it...

Everybody needs a baby for a pillow

Mini holiday

One great thing about being pregnant is being FORCED to relax. We went away to Cameron House hotel on Loch Lomond last week, for a short two night break - and despite trying to go out and get some exercise, I found myself breathless and exhausted after a short walk. Therefore we were forced to go back to the hotel and enjoy the amazing facilities!

Cameron House (I'm informed) is regularly used by footballers and VIP's like that. Despite this, we were surprised at how nice the room and breakfast was for the price we paid!

The room was beautiful and really comfortable. In reality it did have a straight bed, I think that the stitching-together of the photo Colin took has gone a bit off!

The hotel kindly provided extra pillows at my request, as I'm having trouble getting comfortable at night at the moment. Colin however took this as a challenge to use all of the pillows at once...

On the Wednesday morning we attempted our walk around the section of Loch where our hotel was situated. I didn't realise how beautiful Loch Lomond is, as last time we were there, it poured with rain and we were being eaten alive by midges. With constantly running for cover, we were perhaps too distracted to notice the lovely Loch!

Jeni and bump by the water

A small shower caused a beautiful full rainbow over the water - amazing!

We would highly recommend Cameron house, but also recommend avoiding the alcohol while you're there - £9.15 for a white wine spritzer and £6 for a bottle of beer are definitely footballer prices!!