melbourne family

of course a trip to melbourne called for family lunch with all of doug's extended family. it has actually been years since we have seen some of them, so it was an amazing, loud catch up! i love his family and feel super lucky to have gained them when we married.



dougs cousin sala (the oldest of the paramore great-grandchildren) made a grab for alex the minute we arrived and put up a good fight to anyone that wanted to take him away... that is truly one of my favourite things about being part of a polynesian family, how much love they have for children - and especially the babies!

this is doug and his fave cousin matt. he was one of the groomsmen at our wedding. these two are hilarious together and i was so happy to sit back and hear them reminisce about this and that.

this is oliveta (named after dougs mum oliveta), she also was getting a good fill of our sweet babe

and this photo had everyone in fits of laughter. doug's cousins have all always joked with him about the fact that he's the only redhead in their generation... only now they've started to have babies with red hair themselves. so... for entertainment value they chucked all the red heads in one photo. 

and this gorgeous kid! he is the cutest! if you find photos of doug as a small child, he is pratically his twin, to the point where some of the cousins refer to him as mini doug. i just wanted to give him the biggest cuddle ever, but he was so shy!

and this. this kills me. this is the four year old page boy in our wedding photos. i can hardly deal with the fact that it's been almost  years since that day. he's named after matt (the fave cousin) and doug and is a great young man. we had a lot of laughs with him too.

it's days like these that make me wish we lived closer, but i know we are all exactly where we are meant to be. melbourne family, we love you! ♥