Byebye holidays

After a marvelous honeymoon adventure in New Zealand, we enjoyed our summer holiday at home in Smurf Haus. We spent a lot of time sleeping, eating and lounging around, with the odd burst of energy to hang out with some of our favourite people.
Being married and on holidays? Bliss.

- smurf haus sketch on our new blackboard -
- byebye christmas tree / car selfies / pot plants -
- brunch at peter's / new years with friends / flat tyres -
- supermarket sunflowers / thank you cards / more dahlia love -
- dinner and movie with kate / the double rainbow -
- yellow love / billy buttons from the wedding -

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!