Our first Christmas Eve

I went a little snap happy on Christmas Eve, but it was our first as husband and wife and I'm so glad I captured a few of the special moments.








We ate pancakes on our front deck, listened to the rain come down, spent about an hour in a very cool kid's store, did our supermarket shopping, moved some furniture around, ate corn chips and discussed a fun business idea with PC, finished painting our DIY chalkboard, returned to the front deck to eat cheese, watched thousands of bats fly over, lit candles and exchanged Christmas gifts, listened to Christmas carols, cooked Tom Yum, chilled out to Modern Family and baked some special red velvet Santa Hat cupcakes.

It really was the best Christmas Eve ever.

Last Friday night at Ikea

Have you discovered the joy of shopping at Ikea at night time? It has revolutionised our world. We parked in the closest non-disabled/parents carpark to the main entrance, we strolled leisurely through the top floor without the crowds and the screaming children, we got dinner for free AND we came home with lots of goodies.

A word of warning though - night time shopping at Ikea will diminish your bank account. Everything looks more pretty / useful / needed / stylish / functional when you don't have to peep at it from behind a crowd of people!

Milk Cafe

Three cheers for lazy Saturday mornings. Absolute bliss. We only roused ourselves out of the house with the promise of breakfast/brunch/lunch at our 'local' - Milk Cafe. This old-time style milk bar does delicious coconut milkshakes, serves a mean BLT and burgers and is so darn charming you almost expect the waiters to serve you on rollerblades.

Here's to Saturday morning dates, a good milkshake and hanging out with my husband!

We're back!

In case you missed it, we got married! And then had the time of our lives in glorious New Zealand. Now we are husband and wife, and that is the best thing ever.

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The Wedding Files: Two sleeps!

We're on holidays!

It's two sleeps until we get married!

We're off to lunch for Will to meet my NZ grandparents!

It's all happening!!

Friday night fiesta!

A sneaky photo steal from here. More photos to come.

We treated our families, bridal party, partners and MCs to a Mexican Fiesta at Smurf Haus on Friday night. It was a little thank you for all their love and support and kicked off 'Wedding Week' celebrations. There were pinatas and everything!

7 sleeps baby!

The Wedding Files: Behind the scenes

It's very late at night and I should be asleep, but who can sleep when they are getting married so soon?!

We've been working hard getting the final details of our wedding sorted. We've taken over our dining room table with lots of paper and fabric and string, and my bedroom and the spare room, (and my brother's room!!) are housing important items like my wedding dress and wedding shoes. It's all systems GO!

Here's a sneak peek behind the scenes - without giving too much away ;)

Left to right, top to bottom:
1. Confetti from our invitations, 2. Cheesy cauliflower I couldn't eat because the excited little butterflies in my stomach were doing aerobatics!
3. + 4. Edible blooms from Will, with a cute note attached.
5. Practicing my new name, 6. One of many trips to Bunnings.
7. Kitchen tea gifts! 8. Scouting photography locations.
9. The day I picked up my wedding dress, 10. Sushi at Chermside while running wedding errands.
11. The final countdown! 12. My TD&H future husband.

By the roadside

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The Wedding Files: Scouting out photo locations

Ah! So much happening, so little time to record it all!

Last weekend we went exploring. 'Finalise photography locations' was the next item on our shrinking to-do list, and it was a beautiful afternoon to get scouting. We've found some gorgeous (secret) spots and can't wait to get photos taken as husband and wife.

Will whipped out my iPhone and I twirled in the sunshine.

It was all fun and games until I got attacked by a bug. Will caught me part way through the classic Fraser-eye-lid-flutter...

Classy, right?