Rain rain go away (but stay)

As everyone may or may not know, we're are getting married..in 1 week.

we had it all planned. garden wedding at J's sister house in her garden in brisbane (about an hour from our home). this all sound perfect and everything was going to plan, until the rain set in.

it has been raining like crazy for the last week or so and the weather man is telling me its not going anywhere. we were thinking it could be okay, if its overcast, meh so what who cares, if it showers, we'll survive. that was until i got this picture.

this is the wedding venue..drowned.

i was beginning to slighty have a nervouse breakdown. other drama had been unfolding with dresses and hair and what have you and i was OVER IT! James and i were about to can the whole thing and elope. then my mother-in-law (to be) rang to see how everything was going. i wanted to crawl into a hole and die. to my utter suprise she was mega calm! she gave me reassurance that everything was going to be okay, we would move the wedding up to the coast (where we live). Have our wedding ceremony at the resort where i had my 21st birthday and find a BYO restaurant so all the aclohol we had purchased didnt go to waste. A huge weight off my mind, she was going to organise the rest of the details and make sure the restuarant was in our budget.

The restaruant was definitly in our (my dad's) budget. Its, BYO with NO corkage, NO charge to hire out the venue, NO charge for the waiters and NO charge to have our wedding cake taken and cut there.

This definitly is the best out come i could have hoped for and you wanna know the best part about it all..James and I had our first date at the restaurant!

Bugs and immunity

I love that sebby can crawl, I love watching him cruise past my door like he's on a mission (too destroy everything in his path) I do not love that he eats tiny gross bugs he finds hiding on the windowsill. Good immune system? I hope so.

Yummy in my tummy

Lately we've been cooking some delicious and cheap meals that I really do need to be sharing but every time I cook something the end result looks nothing more then crap but tastes a-mazing so I'm going to raid the Internet for restaurant quality looking dishes..cheat?
One of my faves was a dessert. I'm not a huge dessert eater but this is healthy and yum. My friend cooked it one night while we were over for dinner. It's sort of a crumble, here's the recipe.
2 cups frozen blueberries
1 large apple (skin removed & cut into thin strips)
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/4 cup oats
1/4 cup slivered almonds
Place blueberries on the bottom of the tray, line apple on top of blueberries,
mix dry ingredients together place on top, bake for 25 minutes

(It pretty much looks like this)

Have a ever mentioned how much I love Donna Hay? If you don't know who she is, I suggest you open your browser right now and find out, you will not be disappointed. Her recipe book 'no time to cook' is bloody fabulous. We cooked this dish a couple of nights ago and were blown away! Not just by the heat cos boy was it spicy, but all the flavours. By far my favorite meal at the moment. You can find it here.
So easy and cheap, most ingredients we already had in our pantry and cheap is definitely what we need in this house at the moment with the wedding less then 2 weeks away. 2012 has not been too kind to us, let's hope February brings smoother sailing seas!

Positivity

We have a lot going on in our little life. Some good, some bad but most things are up in the air, which i hate! there is nothing i can do about it and I'm learning to let go, what will be, will be. Worrying will only bring negativity because worrying will get me know where! (this is what im telling myself)

i am such a worry wart and this year i made a pact to myself to let go. let go of the worry and the things that are beyond my control, this is proving difficult but i am working on it.

My goal is to find joy in the simple things and spend more time alone or with Sebastian (or J) to live simply (and cheaply).

The way the most of the population is so money hungry is getting me down. I plan on making cheap meals and finding fun things to do without spending tonnes of money. this wedding has really put things in perspective for me money wise.

So i vow to sit home more often and bake and watch copious amounts of reality TV (oh the horror) and maybe finally getting around to enrolling in the rest of my degree!

but for now i post, an oldy but a goody

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

and a picture for the road of this little dork

sorry for the bad quality, my camera is M.I.A from the hens night, as soon as i get it back pictures and info will be up from the fab party!

Appreciate the finer things

Somethings been on my mind and i need to get it out of my head.
What is with people doing nice things for one another only to receive something in return?
What happened to the good old days when you did something nice just because you wanted too and expect nothing in return.
I've learnt not to expect anything but now that i have trained myself to think this way it seems the whole world has taken the opposite approach and want to bleed you dry..okay that might be a slight over exaggeration but you get my point.
I never expect people to do things for me and it makes it so much nicer when they do, but its gotten to the point where i would rather do everything myself then have it held over my head until i do something for them in return.
don't get me wrong I'm not a person who will never do something nice for someone but if I'm repaying the favour i want it to be on my terms and do something i see fit, not having copious amounts of pressure put on me to buy the perfect gift or send someone on an amazing holiday.
I want to go back to the traditional way of things and bake someone a cake, make them a card, watch their child so they can do some shopping or cook them dinner because isn't it the finer things in life we should be appreciating?

the great bleed of 2012

Sebby had his first bloody accident today. The fan got the better of his little fingers. he was a trooper and only cried for a minute. but THE BLOOD, who knew such a tiny finger would bleed so much. My mum and i attempted to band aid the wound but of course he just wanted to eat it, it was off in 5 seconds flat.

Today is an exciting day, my friend and her son from Gladstone are coming to stay for 2 nights.

Carter is only 5 months old, so I'm interested to see what its like having 4 adults and 2 babies living in this tiny 2 bedroom townhouse for 72 hours. hopefully there are no causalities.

The fourth adult is my mum, she's been living with us since just before christmas. It's been going well but mothers and daughters who haven't lived together since early teen years should not live together later in life. god give me strength. And thats all I shall say on that matter.

Everything seems up in the air at the moment and its driving me crazy because it is all out of my control. I am a control freak. waiting and being patient is hard for me, i need something to take my mind off it all and de-stress. As excited as i am about the wedding, when its all over life will return to normal (hopefully) and everything will be controllable once again.

A different shade of normalcy

Everything has returned to a semi normal state around here after the holidays. J is back at work and life will go on (tear). It was good to have him around all the time but now things will actually get done (like washing and baby bathing).

In wedding news it is 25 sleeps until the big day, its coming around pretty quick but I'm preeetttyyy excited, especially after having my first fitting yesterday and remembering why i chose the dress i did and attending my oldest friend Lil's wedding this past Friday which was such awesome fun!

She looked so beautiful and thank the lord that the baby in her belly decided to behave as there was NO VOMITING woohoo.

Sorry for all the wedding posts, but it appears to be overtaking my life at the moment so while we're on the subject...my hens night is this weekend! I'm pretty stoked that my future sister has arranged this for me and from what little details i know, its bound to be a fantastic night!

Happy Tuesday!

Love is in the air

It's 1 month exactly until J and I get married!
This wedding planning business is no where near as stressful as I imagined and I am stoked!
My oldest friend is getting married on Friday and I am so excited! She is the first of my friends to wed and I can't wait to see how beautiful she looks! She's currently pregnant also and has been feeling horrible and having trouble keeping food in her tum! So I'm praying (and I'm sure everyone else is) that she doesn't hurl everywhere on the day! Wouldn't that be a wedding to remember.
Another one of my pregnant friends found out yesterday that she is having a boy! YAY! Boys are the best :) but I can't help but think that somewhere in this group of friends I have, someone needs to have a girl that I can buy frilly things for! Boys are still great tho and they're beyond stoked.
Speaking of baby boys, mine is not so baby anymore. He turned 10 months yesterday, that's just 8 weeks of 1 years old! He's getting super hilarious, finding his loud squeal and crawling around everywhere, I really couldn't ask for a better guy.

2012

2012 is going to be saaawweeetttt!
3 weddings, one of my own.
3 of my besties having babies, one which I get to attend (woohoo)
Honey moon, hens night, seeing amazing bands (soundwave), Sebbs first birthday and I'm sure so much more that I don't even know is in the cards yet!
There will also be so many huge firsts for Sebb, including his first steps which I feel aren't too far away. He is one psycho daredevil child. He just started full on crawling and is already standing holding onto things and letting go, I think I'm going to have a heart attack one of these days! My little baby is growing up so fast.