The story of the proposal and the ring. Strap yourself in! It’s a long one! For our third anniversary last year, Marty and I discussed getting engaged in 2025. At first I told him that I was happy for him to just pick a ring and I could have a surprise, so I circled a…
Continue reading →Another birthday wrapped up for us – it’s that time of the year! Darby turned 11 at the start of December and we had a little party with some family and friends to help him celebrate. In the week before his birthday, he found out that he had been successful at being elected Events Captain…
Continue reading →I’ll make this one short and sweet. My baby, who towers over me, turned 15 at the end of November and we are just so incredibly proud of the man he is becoming. He is sensitive, funny, kind, helpful and such a great big brother to his three siblings. We feel so blessed to have…
Continue reading →We got up on Sunday morning and packed up all our gear. It was honestly hard to leave the AirBNB as we were feeling very at home there! We jumped in a maxi Uber and headed to K&K’s place to drop off all our gear, and see Aunty Kate finally!! We then headed to a…
Continue reading →At the start of the year, my nephew Nathan told us that he would be launching his video game at PAX Aus this year, so naturally the kids were super keen to head down for it, and since 2024 was the first year in a LONG time I hadn’t visited my beloved Melbourne, I was…
Continue reading →Oh yeah, that’s right, I have a blog! It has been over four months since my last post, unless you count all the posts I have written in my head and all the posts I have intended to publish! But I guess you can’t count those, so I’m here now, sitting at a table at…
Continue reading →Well, as close to a “Yes Day” that my kids will ever see! Our lovely friends Ally and Chris nominated us to have a “Day at The Ekka on the ABC” and we won! I have never taken the kids to the Ekka, knowing it would cost a small fortune to actually do all the…
Continue reading →I was aware that the Saturday we were leaving was the first day of school holidays for NSW, and driving north out of Sydney, I was absolutely convinced that the traffic was going to start building up very early. The alarm went off at 6am and after admiring the sunrise (it was stunning!) we got…
Continue reading →We weren’t in any great rush to leave on Thursday morning, so we took our time packing up after saying goodbye to everyone at Felix and Erica’s house. We got away around 10am (I think??) after packing the car to the absolute MAX, and headed towards the Blue Mountains to catch up with Kelly! We…
Continue reading →On the Tuesday, we all headed to the Borenore Caves just outside of Orange for a morning of exploring. It was cold but we kept warm with all the walking and scrambling and caving! There were so many little areas to go and discover, and the kids had a great time exploring. It was such…
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