Counting down...

To a holiday at least!! Yay for short weeks. Boo for occupations that don't "sleep" so to speak. The newspaper must go on! (Apparently!)

At least I have real time off in the new year. Quite looking forward to it - firstly the getting away and secondly the finally managing to get fully settled into the house. We are slowly but surely getting there!

Anyway, most exciting thing for us recently has been the getting of the official wedding pictures. Some favorites:

Jen's hand is the other hand - I can tell by her engagement ring!

The Jo Po stand back and make sure everything blends...

Veil adjustment outside of the church...

Really cool via the parent's room shot!

Kiss! (Hehe)

Skinner posing for the camera...

Awww....

My favourite wee man :)

Okay...to be honest I have A LOT of favourites! So we shall call this one of two...

Ps...our photographer - Tony Stewart Photoshots (He is AWESOME)

Tired

Hmm...work is not busy but feels busy. What up with that???

We had our team lunch yesterday at Yellow Cross in Sol Square. Food was VERY good. Service was REALLY lacking. Seriously, the girl who was waiting on us had NO CLUE. She dropped some food off our Mediterranean platter and didn't bother to replace it! I would definately go back there...but only if she wasn't serving!

We also exchanged Secret Santa presents which was quite fun. I got a pair of pink baby booties. Haha...and NO, they are NOT for anything in particular. Still, it was funny. But no children, not for like 10 years or so. Hahaha.

So...married life two weeks in. (Well, two weeks and three days...) It's actually really nice. Just the waking up together and all that. Which is not to say that I don't like my own space but it is nice. And it's nice to be able to do nice things for each other - even if it's just packing lunches for work! Or ironing shirts! Or baking. (Mmm...baking!) We're both quite busy people but now it feels like we just have that little bit more time on our hands. It's nice.

I really, really loved our wedding day. It was just so relaxed and laid back. Timing-wise everything worked perfectly. I did have the few moments of "family annoyance" especially when the photographer was being held up! But I moved past that. It was just a really awesome day and a LOT of fun. I guess you don't often get to throw a big party just for yourself! It was really special.

Hopefully will start to sort out the photos this week. Tony has them all ready for us to look at and pick out the ones we want - which is good! I'm really looking forward to seeing them :)

Rings and Things

Ahhh Valentines day. I never put much stock in it. Basically because I've never been attached on Valentines. But I am now! Lol.

MEL AND LOUIS ARE GETTING MARRIED!!!! After four years (or is it 5?) of relationship somewhat bliss they are finally tying the knot. In november nonetheless!!! I'm so excited! They're the first people REALLY close to me to get engaged. They stopped by last night there was much screaming.

No sign of the ring yet because it's being resized. But that's okay. Hopefully they'll have it on the weekend.

Speaking of rings...look what my darling, dearest most wonderful boy got me for Valentines!!!
Isn't it gorgeous!! I also have to take it away to be resized as it's a tad too big. But it's so pretty and sparkly!!
See look at the pretty sparkles!!! (Ignore the horrible dryness of my hands please...) And it came attached to balloons. He basically came over EXTREMELY early in the morning, left it sitting in front of my door and then went home.
Three red balloons! It was actually quite exciting. I've never had treatment like that before! And we went out to tea last night at a HIGHLY expensive place. ($90 even with one of the mains deducted...)

Anyway it was all very nice as we haven't been on a "date" in ages. And I got to eat venison - which I LOVE and the atmosphere is nice and you feel very classy in a place like that with an entre, nice mains, dessert and wine.

Well...have dropped the ring off to be resized now. Will take approx a week (crazy eh!!!) but all good. Also, they couldn't make it small enough for my ring finger so will just have to be satisfied with middle. Damn you small hands!!!