Our first Vegie Garden!

One thing I have been looking forward to do ever since I had Laela was to plant a vegie garden. The house we now live had the garden bed boxes already in place so all it needed was some serious weeding and then it would be ready to plant some vegies.

Now they were the before shots... here are the after...

We planted lettuce, beans. basil, capsicum and some tomatos!

And there is a picture of Laela who watched (slept) through the whole thing :)

Our baby girl arrived!

What a day / night / morning!! I never knew you could feel so many emotions in the space of 19 hours! Yes, that is right... 19 hour labour! Although it didn't really feel THAT long and I am sure women go into labour much longer than that! Nothing can really prepare you for childbirth. You can have all these expectations of what it will be like and then you just realise you have no idea! I didn't care how they got her out I just didn't want a C-Section! And they didn't need to give me one... phew!

Laela was born @ 9:12am on Friday, 18th September 2009 weighing 8.8 pound and 53cm long.

My Room

daddys first hold

Our fabulous midwife (Sharon Down) holding Laela


Mummy's hold after a nice shower

Her first car ride in her carseat

Being a Mum is the best thing! Very rewarding! There are some days that are harder than others but all in all it is pretty darn cool! x

Last Days of being pregnant

The time was getting closer to my due date and Jeremy and I still hadn't taken 'nice' pregnant photos of my belly... although by the time we took these photos I was about to pop and I was getting all chubby looking! I must say my bump did look a tad ridiculous!

Photo taken at the Hamilton Gardens

Photo taken at Long Bay, North Shore with sister Elise (Laela's Aunty!)

Finally! An update!!

Well.... a lot has happened since our 1 year anniversary.... I got pregnant! ha ha

I am due on 9th September '09 and we are both super excited! I was quite sick for the first 2 1/2 months but the worst is over!! I don't know how woman handle being sick the whole 9 months... I just wanted to die!! And that was only after 2 and a bit months of being sick! ha!

So now that I have started to feel a bit better we have started shopping for baby stuff! The other day we bought a cot.... we got it off good old trademe... it was a gift from my mumma and dad so we have been lucky...

Also, I was looking on good old trade me again and found ourselves a really good quality pram with a bassinet... so we bought that today for a super good price so I am 1 happy girl!

Isn't it so preeetty! ha! Now, all we need to know is if it is a boy or girl so we can start buying some seriously cute baby clothes!! :)

Our 1 YEAR wedding anniversary!!

What a romantic and beautiful evening!! Yesterday, Monday 17th november 08 Jeremy and I celebrated our 1 year wedding anniversary! To be completely honest I hadn't really thought much about it as leading up to it we were quite involved with our friend's wedding, work was mental and well... you know how it goes! So Jeremy and I decided that we would just go out to a nice restaurant for dinner and would go stay at a hotel this coming weekend... but no! Jeremy thought he would be super romantic and do this....

I got home from work ready to jump in the shower then head off to dinner, instead Jeremy raced to the door, blindfoled me and walked me to our bedroom door, I could hear our wedding song being played... he opened the door and asked me take the blindfold off... and this is what I saw....

Our bedrom had been completely transformed! It was absolutely beautiful and soo romantic! He told me that he knew I wanted to stay in a hotel the actual weekend of our anniversary but didn't because of the wedding being on that same weekend, so he brought the hotel to me! The room had roses, chocolates, candles, fairy lights, more roses, a tv (ready for a movie), towels, bubbly - everything we needed :)

We then left to go to a lovely indian restaraunt by the beach which was divine and made our way home to enjoy our bubbly and company!

It was a perfect anniversary! Perfect... just like our wedding day! Love you jeremy xoxo

Wedding Bells!!

Well, the day had finally come! Jessie Babe's Wedding Day! She looked absolutely stunning! The day was gorgeous and she was happy! A beauitful couple!!

Running Time!

Here you have it people! My first run in the morning for the year... or it could be my first run for the year... ha ha.

Last night we had dinner with the family and I anncounced that Jeremy and I are going to go for a run in the morning, there was silence while they all looked at each other and burst out laughing (as this wasn't the first time I have said that and not followed through.) "Yeah right!" they all said.

But I let them know that this time I was SERIOUS and I would proove them ALLLL wrong and I did!! I got my fat butt out of bed and off we went!

I felt quite refreshed afterwards, I might do it tomorrow morning too... will see how I am feeling!