Our 3rd Wedding Anniversary!

Hi y'all!
Wednesday last week marked our 3rd Wedding Anniversary! Boy has that time flown!

Happy Anniversary Willy!!
So, as per our little tradition, we headed into the city for lunch and a little shop around.
We caught the train in, which is always fun for Jaimeson (he's train OBSESSED!)

 

This is his "I can see the train coming!" face.
This year we had lunch at Nick's Bar and Grill at King St Wharf, cos our usual fave "I'm Angus" was being renovated. They're both in the Entertainment Book, so it's awesome value!

Did I mention I love Ribs?
And Onion Rings? YUMMO!

Will loves Ribs more, apparently! Look at the size of that rack!!
Then we went to ride the Monorail from the Aquarium stop, all the way around the Loop to the city centre.

Did you know the Monorail is shutting?? I had only heard rumours, but I asked the station attendant and it shuts on June 30! How sad is that?! It's always been a fun thing to ride, with a nice view above the city streets, and now it's getting taken away. I am sad!

We might make another special trip to the city before the end of June just to ride the Mono again, cos Jai really loved it.
We had a wonderful day out in the city, and we were especially stuffed after lunch!

So, Happy 3rd Anniversary Willy! What a fun and busy 3 years it's been! I Love You!
:) C

Happy 2nd Anniversary Willy!

Two years ago today I walked down the aisle, said "I do" and lived Happily Ever After with my Willy! Happy 2nd Anniversary Baby {smooch!} I love you {hearts rising from head!}


:) C

Its a big week..

Hi y'all!
Yep, its a big week this week. Guess who's birthday it is tomorrow {questioning look}?..... Not to blow my own horn or anything, but.... MINE! And it's a big one. 3-0. OMG. Today is my last day in my 20's! {sobbing!} LOL! Nah, it'll be ok. Really, it will. It will, wont it?
Do you want a quick recap of some moments of my 20s?
Here goes!
I graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science (Microbiology). And started work in Pathology where I met Willy.I went to Disneyland 3 times and Disneyworld once!I went on this ridiculous Rollercoaster at Knott's Berry Farm, 3 times. I LOVE adrenaline!
I went to NZ and did the Canyon Swing and Paragliding off the top of Bob's Peak in Queenstown. (yes, those pics are me!)
I went to Hawaii twice, once with just Willy and once with Mum, Dad, Alicia, Xander, my Godparents and Willy!I visited Japan (loved it!)
Will and I got engaged on the top of Mt Fuji in Japan!
Then we got married :)And honeymooned in America. We went to LA, Vegas (been there 3 times), NY (been twice), Washington DC, Grand Canyon (been twice) and Disneyland (of course!)
Then I fell pregnant. Look at that tummy (and fat face!) When we were married I was 28 and I never thought that I'd have a baby by 30!I gave birth to the gorgeous little man, Jaimeson! A very uncomplicated labour and birth, just gas, no epidural. Hooray!
Wow! I guess I did do a lot in my 20s! I am so grateful for a supportive, loving husband and gorgeous son, my fantastic loving and caring family and my humourous and fun friends! I am very blessed! I guess turning 30 wont be so bad after all, if it's even a part as much fun as my 20s were, then it will be alright!
:) C

Harking back 19 Months....

Hi y'all!
Sometimes when I am not feeling too inspired to Scrap our holiday pics, or when the Mojo isn't flowing, I turn to our Wedding pics to scrap. They are such beautiful pics (don't ask me who our photographer is cos I will NOT recommend her, just enjoy the pics for the beauty that they are and lets never mention the photographer again... it's long and painful story....) The pics always make me smile at the memory of our gorgeous Wedding Day! I have pulled out from my stash all the Wedding-ish type papers and embellishments and have them all in one place like a "kit", so its kinda easy to do wedding pages. I just pick up my kit and go!
My how time has flown, and how much has happened in the 19 months since our Wedding! It was a beautiful day & I wouldn't have changed a thing about the day. (Except the personality & post-wedding dealings of our photographer...)
How sweet is that big Martha Stewart Doily edge punch! Love it!
:) C

1st Anniversary :)

Hi y'all!
Its been a quiet week of posting for me, cos it's been a super busy week for everything else! So many appointments and visits and then our good friends Samira and Alex's Wedding on Friday too. Their ceremony was at 10:30am and the reception went through til midnight so it was a very long day and I pretty much slept most of yesterday away after all the dancing at the wedding! I danced so much I thought Peabody might fall out at one stage!
So here are some pics from our 1st Anniversary last weekend. Firstly, we started out at Bondi Junction Westfield for a shop around. We didn't get each other presents, but I wanted to buy a "Woodland" type toy for Peabody, and I found out its kinda hard! I didn't want an owl cos I have fabric to make one but owls are pretty much all that's out there at the moment! Oh there were a few rabbits but Mum bought Peabody a rabbit already and I didn't want an Easter themed rabbit anyway (you know, the gaudy coloured ones... ew!) Where are all the deers and hedgehogs and squirrels?? So anyway, in DJ's Will spotted this Kangaroo and Joey by Bebe, I guess an Aussie Woodland needs a Kangaroo right? After looking around more and deciding there wasn't any other worthy Woodland creatures we bought the Roo and I asked Will to name them so he called them Lewis (the Roo) and Hamilton (The Joey- it's actually on an elastic cord so it comes out of the pouch but can't get lost!!) Recognise the names? Yes, in this first pic Lewis and Hamilton are watching their namesake Lewis Hamilton the British F1 driver, work his magic on the track! {giggles}
For dinner on our Anniversary night we went to Nick's Bar and Grill at King St Wharf in the city, courtesy of my family.. thank you family {hugs!} It's in the Entertainment Book (which I highly recommend if you like going out to dinner and saving money!) so we went extravagant and ordered the Surf and Turf platter for 2. Wow, it was pretty amazing! It had Salt & Pepper squid, scallops, fried fish and prawns, ribs, chorizo sausage and steak as well as a Greek Salad hidden in the middle of it all. It was YUM! And I loved the "shared plate" part of it too cos it meant we didn't sit there with our heads down in our food, not talking for the duration of the meal! It was a Sunday night too so it wasn't too busy at the restaurant which was nice also!
We stayed the night at the Sheraton On the Park which was the same hotel we stayed at for our Wedding night. Because I am totally shameless I wrote it was our Anniversary in the booking notes and pointed out that we had also stayed our Wedding night there, so they upgraded us from a city-view room to a park-view room for free... {shameless!} And then, half way through the evening they delivered us a bottle of Red Wine as a complimentary gift from the hotel. How lovely was that?! We've saved it for when Peabody is born {smiles}. How exciting! This stay we got to enjoy a little bit more of the hotel facilities and we swam in their cool pool which is on the top floor of the hotel. I've never swum around high rise buildings before! It was really cool! But the main reason we stayed there again (apart from wanting to get away from a house full of people for our anniversary) was for the delicious Buffet Breakfast... oooohhh YUM! And again it did not disappoint! I somehow managed to wedge in (around Peabody) 2.5 plates of food, though I did pay for it later in uncomfortableness, it was a little too much! I ate pancakes with fresh honeycomb I chipped off the comb {yum!}, bacon and eggs, stewed prunes, a mini breakfast pastry, fruit, yoghurt, I got an omelette from the chef this time too! You tell them what you want and they make it fresh for you... YUM!! Oh so totally worth it for deliciousness :)
So that was our Anniversary, thanks for visiting with us!
:) C

Wedding Pages

Hi y'all!
So I said I had been working on some Wedding pages using our professional pics, and here they are! It is so much fun to get out my big stash of Wedding page supplies and get working. I didn't realise I had so much love/wedding related scrapbooking stuff! And seeing as Valentine's Day only comes once a year its a good chance for me to use it all up for these Wedding pages! Hooray {clapping hands!}
I have been holding on to some "special" papers for Wedding pages, including this sweet one with the curly edge (I took the pic on a red carpet, so the red edge isn't actually part of the paper) and the clear polka-dot paper of the second page. The Japanese floral paper on this first page is a left-over scrap from our Wedding Invites, it's cool to get to use it on a Wedding layout!
I love this clear acetate "paper" of the second layout and I used it with one of my fave pics from our photo shoot. I don't mean to be up myself, but I remember Felicity saying there isn't a single good solo shot of her from their Wedding day and she really wished she had a good professional pic of her and when I saw this one I was so happy! I love that you can see my red shoes peeking out from under my dress and my beautiful bouquet beside me. I look so happy too! Which, of course I was, and still am, a year later {love you Willy!} The paper doilies are certainly coming in handy for Wedding pages too, lucky I have an industrial sized stash of them. LOL! Those MM Wedding rub-ons I have had for YEARS and I'm so happy to have them out of my stash! The whole panel is nearly finished now, hooray!!
And for the final page I wanted to pick up on some of the smaller details that made the day such a beautiful event, the gorgeous flowers, my red shoes, the Candy Bar, and our cool "Present" cake! Can you see I used a piece of the same ribbon and a tiny pearl buckle that I used on our Wedding invites on this page :) {sweet!} And I just love the pic of the Candy Bar, it makes me sooooo hungry to eat all that sugar, I wish I could! {sigh} All the red and white lollies look so awesome in those gorgeous jars! I love that people still comment on the Candy Bar Bonbonierres a year later, it was a fantastic thing to do!
Hope you like the pages! There will be more to come cos I've got lots of beautiful pics to scrap!
:) C

Happy Anniversary Willy!

Wow, a whole year is behind us already. Hasn't time completely flown?? It has been the most wonderful year though, THANK YOU WILLY!! xoxoxo {love}I cannot believe how much we've done in a year! We Honeymooned in awesome America, including my favourite places New York and Disneyland and explored some new places together, like Washington and LA. We went on a fantastic family holiday to Hawaii, we moved house and now we're having a baby?! WOW! Not sure I could have packed more life-changing things into this year. Oh, I guess I could have changed jobs. Does changing from Pathology to Motherhood count??As you read this Will and I will be basking in the delicious luxury of The Sheraton on the Park for our First Anniversary, where we also spent our Wedding night. At least this time we will have some time to enjoy all the facilities! And of course, Monday morning we will be stuffing ourselves at the DELICIOUS buffet breakfast! YUM! That is the thing Will and I are looking forward to most {drool!} It was included in our room rate last time and this time, but if you were just to visit the hotel and pay just for breakfast it is something like $46 each! That is how awesome the breakfast is. Can't wait! {clapping hands!} Did I mention can't wait {happy dancing!}
So now that we FINALLY have our wedding pics (Still not up for telling that long story, soon maybe) I hope that you're enjoying these shares!
:) C

Mr Mojo is back!

Hello Mr Mojo! It's nice that you have returned so soon! Hooray! I did a page yesterday and another one today, so yay to having some creativity back {cheering!}
I realised I hadn't posted this last page I did at Yvette's! I only 1/2 finished it at her house, but I had (reluctantly, cos Mr Mojo wasn't with me) finished it the week we returned but it's been just sitting on top of my album, not even put in there yet! See, I need Mr Mojo for everything!
These sweet cupcakes were something I had been wanting to make ever since I bought the mini-corinthian stick biscuits! I wanted to scrap this pic cos they look so delicious! LOL! I love the pink heart doily Yvette gave me while I was staying in Canberra, I think Mum gave them to her. I have seen bits of them poking out from under Yvette's delicious layers on LO's on her blog recently! I sewed around the edge of mine as I was sewing the paper layers down. I hadn't sewed on a LO for a while, but Yvette inspired me!
Then yesterday I got back to my desk and made this page too! Yay for feeling inspired! I guess cos it was a nice relaxing weekend :) I love relaxing weekends!
These pics are from my Frocks and Fascinator's High Tea for my Bridal Shower back in Feb. I love the pics my friend Dennis took for us! My family are super fantastic when it comes to baking so I had the best "spread" of lemon slice, Lumberjack cake, mini cupcakes, cupcake pops, chocolate crackles, Raspberry coconut loaf etc etc! They were all soooo delicious! I had fun gathering some tea party related scrapping stuff like the gold cake stand and coffee pot rub-ons I got in my last 2peas order, plus the AC "sugar coated goodness" sticker from 2peas too! YUM! Love cupcake related scrapping supplies {LOL}. I hope Mr Mojo stays around for a while yet!
Happy Monday!
:) C
P.S. I just realised the best thing about these 2 pages is their background paper is OLD!! I mean WAY OLD!! Some of the earliest ones in my stash. Hooray!

Pre- Wedding Pages

Looking back through my archive of Scrapbooking Pages for this year I realised I hadn't posted these 2 pages from my High Tea Kitchen Tea! What an oversight. I guess in the excitement of Wedding lead-up, then Wedding, Honeymoon, my nephew Xander being born, learning how to live together and doing fun stuff as a married couple, it's been a busy few months and I've been scrapping and posting other pages! Anywho, here it is now :) One of my work friends Dennis took the pics for me and I just love them! I made the ribbon rose by punching a circle from cardstock, covering it with double sided tape (coming to think of it, I should have probably just punched a circle from double sided sticky paper to begin with!) and then I worked from the outside sticking, then folding the ribbon at almost a right angle and sticking, then if it needed some more tape I stuck that on top of the ribbon, close to the centre so it would be hidden. Once I got to the middle I snipped and stuck the pearl on for a flower centre! I was uber happy with how it turned out, seeing as I "winged it" and kinda made it up as I went along! It matches my hot pink heels really well! {smiles}.
This second page is from the same day and is Nenna giving Mummy giant smiles! She is such a sweet little thing! Dennis did a great job capturing the full-mouth-open-happy-eyes smile, I love this pic! This was the first day I really saw Nenna smile so big and really interact with Mummy. She is such a sweetie! I thought the pink lace paper really matched in with her sweet pink and white dress and pink headband! So cute!
I am home sick again today, my third day in a row! I tell you, when I get sick I don't like doing it by halves! I have tonsilitis and the Doctor thinks I may also have glandular fever, I'm waiting for the blood test results before I can take antibiotics cos apparently they interact with viral glandular fever and cause a rash. Who knew?! But if it's bacterial glandular fever than I can start taking them. I've gotta go back to the doctor today though, (third day in a row!) cos I forgot to get a doctor's certificate and work needs one. Don't you hate forgetting to ask for that?!! Grrrr!! On the plus side I have been able to sit calmly at my desk and make some cards these last few days, so AJ: I made more baby cards for the box, as requested!
:) C

Hi Y'all! I haven't disappeared!

Hello! Despite contrary belief, I am still here! It was a funny week last week, Will was sick off work Thurs, Fri and Sat which is the longest time he hasn't worked apart from our annual holidays. Can you believe it?! Well, for a boy who seems to do nothing but work and fish, being forced to stay indoors and recover from the flu has meant torture! Poor thing has been so bored, he texts me at work every 15 mins it seems. He even wanted to clean a bit yesterday just to get rid of the boredom! He has spent a lot of time on the internet and then when I get home he is attention starved so i haven't even gotten to check my emails for almost a week. Anywho.. I'm still here! And Will is recovering and has gone back to work today. Happy all round!
It's time for some more shares!! How about some Wedding related pages? Isn't Nenna just GORGEOUS in her Granny-made dress for Will and my Wedding! Mum, of course, whipped it up in one afternoon- she's amazing! I love how happy Sienna's eyes are, you can just see her glowing from inside. Such a cutie! I love in the left pic how she is so so interested in her little piggies poking out from under the skirt! It's like "Oh, what's that?!" LOL! I used another paper doily on this one, I found it hiding under a bunch of crap on my desk and was like "perfect!" {clapping hands together} and I got the chipboard scalloped dot edging off Yvette years ago... look Yvette, I used it!! YAY!! I even broke out the pretty black fozz felt flowers and photo corners from deep in my stash. I like using up old things, especially mixed up with new stuff so it looks cool! The paper is actually a Christmas paper but the writing is really tiny and in running writing so I don't think anyone will notice {wink!}
The second page is one of my faves of my Beautiful Bridesmaid's and me! Aren't my sisters so beautiful? :) I think so. It was so special for me to have them all as my bridesmaids, we had such a fun day too! And Mum was amazing again, to make all their dresses, they were so beautiful! Plus Mum made her own outfit too, she's a machine! "Beautiful Girls" by B.O.B. is one of the tracks on our Wedding video and it is so appropriate! LOL! {huffing and buffing nails on shoulder} No really, I couldn't imagine having anyone else support me for our special day, these girls are the best and we had so much fun!!
What are you up to this week? On holidays? We're so quiet at work, it's really nice and relaxing! Pity I can't take some of my scrapping stuff {wink!}
:) C

A Wedding Page :)

Hello! Happy Tuesday :) Will's not doing OT today so we're lounging at home watching Bear Grylls and I made waffles for breakfast using Betty and the Waffle Iron we got for our wedding. YUM!! Talking about our wedding... I've done a Wedding page. Hooray!! I bought this gorgeous lace edge cardstock in Las Vegas, isn't it so pretty?! I hardly ever use shaped papers, I mean I have a lot, but I keep them in a different place to my other patterned papers so I rarely use them. But this one was out in full view and I was inspired! I must remember to move my shaped papers so they stare me in the face every time I sit at my desk! I had fun collecting all the wedding themed items from around my stash, some old and some new (the heart shaped journal spot I got in Vegas too). Love it! Did you notice I changed my blog banner after our Honeymoon too? {wink} I can't help smiling when I see our wedding pics, they're such great memories of our special day!
:) C