Excited.

I think this is what I would have done if I was at Westminster Abbey yesterday! This is how excited I was.

This will definitely make you smile big. :)

Beautiful Princess.

I LOVED the Royal Wedding yesterday. I woke up at 6:30am so excited for the day ahead. Quickly got up and got ready and then watched every minute of the whole thing from 8:00am until well into the afternoon.
I love every minute of it. All the hymns, I loved. The sermon that the Bishop of London preached, I loved. He was so kind and smiled and spoke to William and Kate, I should really say the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge now! Her dress was beautiful. She looked absolutely beautiful, like a Princess really. I thought her hair was very simply and classy. I thought her sister looked lovely too. My goodness, those Princes looked very handsome in their uniforms. I decided I will either have to marry a Prince or someone in uniform. (I am totally kidding, but let a girl dream alright?)

I had so much fun watching it. Everytime I saw a Royal family member I would scream..yeah I screamed A LOT! I found the whole thing so excited and I am so happy that I took time to watch it. I don't care how sad people think I am, I will love telling this story to my kids one day!!

Just in case you have been hiding in a cave all weekend and didn't manage to see ANY footage from yesterday, I will leave you with the highlights from the day.

Hope you are all having as great a weekend as I am!

Royal Wedding.

I am SO excited for the Royal Wedding tomorrow. I have the weekend off work (don't worry, I didn't ask it off just for the wedding. It just conveniently worked out great for me!) I will be getting up at the crack of dawn to make sure I don't miss out on any of the action. And also because I am making some decorations/baking for a little birthday celebration this weekend, you will hear more about that.

Below is a little photo of a postcard (I like to call it my ivitation to the wedding!) Not the best photo, but you can still see how ridiculously good-looking these kids are. Ah. SO EXCITED!!

 

I will leave you laughing at how excited I am. I know that I am sad...I might even watch the DVD I have on ALL the previous Royal Weddings just to make sure I am excited as I can possibly be. In the UK it is going to be broadcast on TV all day, but I think you can also watch it online. I don't think it will be hard to watch it wherever you are. Soooo you better be checking in to see the Royals looking beautiful. I am pretty sure that I will be crying. I love my Royal Family.

Enjoy the WEDDING!





The little one.

The little one was home for 2 weeks. It was so good having him home. And the best part is that I don't even have to miss him yet because he is home for the weekend again tomorrow. I made a point of taking some photos of us together.

Sometimes he was being pretty difficult.

Sometimes he was being pretty funny.

Sometimes he was being pretty sweet.



Sometimes he was being pretty werid.

But whatever faces he was pulling, it sure was great having him home. Can't wait to get him home again this weekend for his birthday. How is it that my baby brother is turning 18? This scares me a lot.

The ultimate sacrifice.

I always get very emotional when I think about what our Lord did for us. This weekend I will be thinking about the sacrifice that  our Lord Jesus made for us, and our Father in heaven who sent His one and only Son to save us. This is much more important to me than the Easter eggs that will be eaten. As much as I love chocolate I love my Lord more.

Praying that you all have a blessed weekend. I'll be praising the Lord.

Here is a little video that will get you emotional. I cry every time I watch it.

Lifted up.

I don't think I shared about my very encouraging moment a few weeks ago. I was doing some shopping in Perth and I could here this music playing. So I started to walk in the direction it was coming from. I walked down a very creepy alleyway (even in daylight!) and there it was. The little shining light. There was a choir from one of the Churches singing worship songs. I am so moved by worship music. I wanted to join in with them, dancing and singing. I kinda did actually. It was definitely a wee gift from God. He knows what we need and exactly when we need it. It was beautiful. I was moved to tears. So I am going to post a little video of the song they were singing. Enjoy. I hope this encourages you as much as it encouraged me. Just imagine you are wandering around the shops and you hear this.

On a roll.

I am totally on a roll with posts! But this is what I always do. Post, no post...post post. Anyway, back to it. This is just quick. I had a fun day out shopping with the ma today. I a little bit of money money from some relatives for my birrrrthday so I had an excuse to spend it. I am on major, major save just now. More on that soon. I managed to find some super duper bargains for summer. We have been fortunate enough to have lots of sunshiney days of late and I am so enjoying it.

The sun was shining today, I was smiling. I wore sunglasses! I like this alot.

Ok. I am going to share a little music with you. Have you heard of Adele? Say yes, even if you haven't. Of course you have. She is great. I totally wore out her first album, like to the point where I couldn't listen to it for ages because I was like "blah blah blah..I know all the words, neeext!" So you can imagine how excited I was when her 2nd album came out. Ah. I love it. She has an amazing voice, such a beautiful tone to her voice. Listen to her. Now.

I will leave you singing along to Miss Adele. Enjoy.

p.s. I am back to work tomorrow. Mixed feelings about this. It will be nice to see everyone. But when my alarm goes off at 5:55am tomorrow morning I will not be thinking about how nice it will be to see anyone.

Was I really there?

On Monday we celebrated my 22nd Birthday. Wow. Don't think I really thought about that one. That really crept up and bit me in the butt. Yikes. Right now, I love getting old. I love being a year older. I love being 22. In 10 or 20 years we will see if I am still so excited about getting older. I had a lovely day with the brother and mother. The day before my sister and I went for a picnic in the town we went to school. It was so fun and very chilled out. Just what we needed. We were reminiscing about old school days. It was lovely.

Lucy, Fin and I also went to the movies on Monday night. We went to see The Lincoln Lawyer. I enjoyed it. But I really want to read the book. But you should definitely go and see it. We enjoyed it.

So here is my little problem, something that I am upset about. I have no pictures of all this. I had a special day out with my sister. No photos. I had a lovely day with my brother and mum. No photos. Birthday cake. No photos. Presents and cards. No photos. So I think it is time to do something about this. I want to have photos of these special memories and not just take pretty photos of flowers. When I spent 4 months in Australia with my family I had so many photos. Photos of the different places we went, and my family. But not lots of photos with me and those places and my family. I basically have a flipbook of the Californian countryside from my first trip over there, but not many of all the amazing people that I met. So from now on I am going to always carry my camera with me. I am going to take it to work with me, when I go into town to do shopping, when I go for a walk, when I am watching a movie with my sister, when I am making dinner, when I am sewing something cute, when I am making people laugh, when people are making me laugh...I am going to have all these things in photos.

You should check out this lady. I know that I am always linking to her blog, but really you need to listen to this lady. She says it really well right here. Ok, so she is talking about getting in the photo with your kiddies but there is a little bit at the bottom where she is speaking to me!!

So I am going to leave you with a little photo of me and my peroxide blonde, curly hair! (so I got my hair done a few weeks ago, it was SO blonde when I left. She said to me "it looks so natural, just the natural sun-kissed look." I looked outside, it was pouring with rain. But really, I love it now that I am used to it.)

Are you having a HAM sandwich?

So here I go again. I get into a groove of posting lots, then I don't...then I do...then I don't! Ah. This has something to do with me leaving the house at 7am and not getting home til 9PM! I really don't like this, at all. But that pretty much sums up my week last week. All my days filled with hours like this. When I have weeks like this I eat really bad, like baaaad. I maybe manage to grab a bowl of cereal before I go to work, but usually it is a banana. Then sometimes while I am at work I manage to steal some toast with banana (my faaaave!) And seriously, that is about it. Until the end of my day when there are left over desserts and we all have a little bit and sit down and chill out together. It is my favourite part of the day at work. We get to enjoy each other's company. I do love the people I work with. Sometimes it is really hard, but aren't we all hard to love sometimes? So there is my big excuse for no posts. I think it is a pretty good one, right?

We have had some fun time rounds here lately though. The baby brother is home for 2 WHOLE WEEKS!! He arrived home on Friday, late. I saw him after work on Saturday. Honestly I nearly cried when I saw him. I miss that boy a lot. I got a big bear hug from him, and made the most of it because I knew that I wouldn't be seeing many of those for these 2 weeks! I have taken a few days off work so that I actually get to see him. I know these 2 weeks will go quickly, so I am trying to make the most of it. I am the emotional sister. I cry a lot. When I'm happy, sad, scared...you name the occasion and I'll be crying. We were all out to lunch one day having a lovely time. A lady was sat opposite us, on her own, having lunch. I started crying. Yup. Everyone thought this was hilarious, and embarassing. I obviously thought it was pretty sad though. Anywaaay.

So. The other day we were out to lunch and I just new that I was going to be disappointed. I just had this feeling that whatever I wanted was NOT going to be on the menu today. And sure enough, I still haven't had a lemon chicken, mango chutney and rocket toasted ciabatta. Boo. So I ordered a ham sandwich. Sounds quite ordinary, right? Well my mother thought this was SO exciting. "a haaam sandwich? Did you hear that, Fin?" "yeah, whatever" - Fin has no interest at all. So wanna know why this was soooo exciting? Because for nearly 12 years I didn't eat red meat. Wanna know why? Well...we grew up on a farm (THE BEST!) and for a while there was a butcher shop down there. This didn't bother me. Until it did. I was looking out my window one day, and there was a delivery lorry outside. Then I saw it. Something that would change my meals for 12 years. I saw a little piggy over someone's shoulder...dead...skinned....still looking like a pig...but dead. I can still picture it and might be off meat again soon if I keep on thinking about it! So off I took my little 8 year old self downstairs to tell mum that I was going to be a vegetarian. She was not happy. So we had a little discussion and came to a compromise. I was going to stop eating red meat and just eat white meat. This meant I would still be eating chicken, turkey and fish. Fine by me. Because chicken was (and still is) my favourite. And this is the way it stayed for all those years. THEN early last year I was over at some friends and we went to lunch with more friends from Church. On the menu was roast beef. And I was being too shy to say no and felt that it would be too rude to not eat anything. So...I had some beef. I was terrified that I would throw up or something. But it was gooooood. And that was that. I am a meat eating girl again. And really, I knew that I would one day. After all, the Lord did intend for us to eat all these lovely things. Everytime I have been to California I haven't been eating red meat, well until last year. I was trying all sorts of yummy things!

I am going to leave you with a wee photo.



Photo from Google images.

There could be worse things to be surrounded by all day, everyday! It truely is beautiful.