sam comes to stay!

dinner with the squad at grilld in hillarys the night after sam arrived

-not pictured: me, with a baby attached to my chest

on monday my friend sam from england arrived here in perth! we "met" via the internet just over two years ago when i purchased a set of prints (a family proclamation, the articles of faith and the living christ) from a random etsy store (lemons that are pink) which turned out to be her! after the prints were customised and sent, we kept emailing - and two years later, she finally decided to come on out to perth and visit me, whilst on a holiday in australia.

for those of you reading along with wide eyes right now, thinking this is a terrible idea, you're probably right. i'm not going to lie about that! sam booked right as i found out alexander would be joining us, he's less than a month old, not sleeping much at night, and sam and i had never actually met in real life. it could have been an absolute disaster. but it seems to be going well. we are having lots of laughs and the kids love her, so that's good so far! haha.

sam says her motivation for coming to perth was (aside from meeting me and my little fam) to cuddle a quokka. i don't know how cuddly they are, but i hear they enjoy a good selfie... so we will find out on monday next week when we go to rottnest for the day. believe it or not, it will the first time i've been there too, even after living in perth for my whole life!

so please imagine her joy when i took her to the margaret river chocolate factory today to show her the giant chocolate quokkas they sell. she was pretty excited about it!

welcome to perth sam! i can't wait to show you all the awesome things we have hidden away in this amazing state! ♥