60 Years

In August we went out for dinner to celebrate my Nana & Papa's 60th wedding anniversary! They are my great-grandparents, and we were really excited and happy that they have reached this mile stone together.

We went out for tea in westbury and then home to mum and dad's place for some tea and cake.

I loved the cake that mum organised - it looked so nice!

Nana doesn't let me take photos of them very often, she usually lets me take one and then says 'that's enough' so i was happy that i was able to get so many that night, with everyone that was there..

Love my little photo bomber!

Nana and papa with their son, James, my grandad. (their other two sons have passed away).

It was nice that their grandson, Scott, was able to make it down to Tasmania to celebrate with us.

Me and Gavin with them... And Asha - he just can't resist :)

Mum and dad, Morgan, Chey, Jory and Asha with Nana and Papa. These photos crack me up! You won't get a nice family picture with everyone smiling nicely and looking at the camera with these guys! That's ok though - it's not who they are and this captures them so much better. It cracks me up that Asha is the one who stays looking at the camera and smiling! Such a poser, that boy :)

Everyone on that side of the family has the same sense of humour!

Our gift to them - it's a silver plate to represent 'silver', the 60th anniversary gift. It looks lovely in their house.

I love my nana and papa so much. I was so happy that we were able to celebrate 60 years of marriage with them. I love that they always have a good laugh together and look out for each other. 

Nana and papa told me when i was younger to find a man who makes me laugh, because although they may be good looking at 20, when they're 80 they are going to have grey hair and wrinkles, but they will still be able to make you laugh.. 

They always look after me (grandad says that they spoil me). But i am thankful to have such kind, loving people as my great-grandparents. I feel sad for Gavin, as he never got to spend any time with any grandparents of his, let alone great-grandparents, but i am happy because they love him too and look out for him and spoil him too. 

I love that they let me record our conversation around the table after we ate cake :) This is a precious video to me, and i am so happy that i have it. 

I love you Nana & Papa, thank you for being a great example of how to be happy in your marriage and for always making us laugh. I don't know what i would do without you.

inspiration {free printables!}

I have been playing around in photoshop lately, making some prints for our bedroom wall (i've done a bedroom make over and can't wait to share!) ...

I thought i might also have a play with some of my favourite quotes at the moment.. If you would like to have a free copy of them, just click on the picture to make them bigger, and then download or save to your computer. You can then print them as big as you like.

If you use them please leave some love here, and if you're pinning them please link them back to this post :)

Have a great day :)

Snowy Cradle Mountain

Back in July we had a couple of days off and decided to head to cradle mountain. We thought we would ask nana and papa if they wanted to come too.

Papa drove until the Mt. Roland lookout and then we stopped and i took over.


This is one of my favourite photos that i have ever taken... Nana & Papa at the Mt. Roland lookout.

Mt. Roland.

Then we headed up to Cradle Mountain. It was so beautiful all the way up, covered in snow everywhere. I wanted to be snapping photos the whole time, but i was the driver. When we got up the lady said it would be better to take the bus up because it was so slippery with all the ice and snow. We finally got a bus (they didn't have many running), and were so awestruck by the views. It is SO pretty up there, especially covered in snow!
Apparently this photo i took was in the newspaper last week, so if anyone still has a copy of the examiner i would love to see it, not sure what day it was.

Love this photo below :)

Because of all the snow it was super slippery to walk around, so Gavin and i headed around Dove Lake to the boat house, while nana and papa stayed at the front of the lake.

We made it to the boat house and weren't keen on going any further - it took ages trying to go slowly through the ice. Next time we need to take better shoes. It was so pretty everywhere though!

Love this photo as well :)

We caught the bus back and planned to check out the falls just down the road, but because we waited so long for the bus, it was too dark by the time we got there. We headed through Sheffield on the way home to check out all the murals as Gavin had never been there before. We went into a second hand shop and papa found a pin he has been searching for for years. It was from the regiment he was in during the war. I wish i grabbed a photo of him with it, but i forgot and it was pretty much dark.

We had such a fun day with nana and papa, it was such a mild day, not really cold at all and we didn't really need coats.. It was nice to spend some time with them and go somewhere new. I hope we can do some more trips soon. Love you guys. xx

21

I'm about 6 months late on this post, but back in january i turned 21!... 

It was only a few weeks before the wedding so i had a pretty quiet day. Gavin came over early in the morning (to the cottage) and made me breakfast in bed. Pancakes with strawberries & cream. And Milo. I love that he wrote 'love' in strawberries :) 

He gave me this cute locket.. which i am still needing to put a photo in! talk about slack.

We then drove up north to have dinner with my whole family... Mum & dad, the kids, grandad, nana and papa, alan and ruth and my aunty carmen and her kids. We went to restaurant red for tea, i didn't really enjoy my meal, but everyone else seemed to.

I was spoilt with lots of gorgeous gifts!

Then we went home for some cake :) it was very yummy.

Asha was so cute showing me all the things he can do on the iPad.

And my present from mum & dad - a new lens! Very exciting :D

I never expected that i would be getting married at 21... Life is definitely surprising.

21 goals is a bit too many to set for now, so 3 goals i am working towards while being 21 are;

- stop being lazy with photography and learn to shoot in manual mode properly

- learn to cook a wider variety of things

- be a loving wife




Happy 21st to me :)