sunday dinner

 

every sunday night we have dinner with our friends from nz that moved to australia a few months ago. from one invite we have become firm friends and now it seems as though they are stuck with us!! we always look forward to our time with them, and last week we had a fabulous time with viv's ipad taking photos on the thermal mode. so cute, maddie was loving it!

 

 

jamie-lee has a birthday!

our gorgeous friend jamie-lee will be 30 next month, and as she's due to have her first baby not too long after, her lovely husband and family decided to throw her a surprise birthday party on saturday night.

 

 

waiting for the wind to change...

her mum never disappoints and as usual it was a fabulous night. perfect food, friends and atmosphere. doug and i had great time catching up with pip and steve and clowning around as per usual...

 

 

there was a quiz handed around with some questions to see who knew the most about jamie-lee and with 30 seconds to go (as in when they announced that they'd be going through the answers), i pulled out my sheet and started scribbling... only to pull first place and take home a bottle of bubbly! wooo! i bet no one counted on my impressive powers of recollection haha. steve on the other hand impressively knew absolutely nothing and won the same prize as me... grrr. good for a picture though!

was a great night and it was truly wonderful to see jamie-lee so surprised. happy 30th chick!

mingas with attitude

words cannot express how much this crazy girl means to me... she's the closest thing i have ever had to a sister and i love spending time with her. on our trip to qld, it was like not a day had passed since i last saw her, and we had a fabulous time together.

xxx

reunited

it has been a very long time since i last saw this girl. since october 2009 to be exact. and i have missed her like crazy. i can't even explain how much. my gorgeous sister in law (one of 4 - this one is my husbands sister) niques. we have been reunited and have started our craziness all over again, it's like it never ended. i read somewhere once that the best friends we have in life are those that we can go years without seeing (or sometimes even speaking to), then pick things up exactly where we left off. we are one of those. i have barely stopped laughing since i got here.

it's also really special because it's the first time she has met miss madeline and i can report that i am pretty sure that she's in love. they are having an absolute blast together and she is loving her first niece. i have a feeling that i'm not going to want to leave when our time here is up.

♥