inspiration.

Have you heard about pintrest?

It's such an awesome site.  I have recently signed up and started my own inspirational pin boards http://pinterest.com/tmont/ for a few different things, but I have found it to be a godsend for things like new up-do's for Layla and Evie for school, art and craft projects, fashion and just for decor and house inspiration.  You can literally find anything you could need to satisfy your visual aesthetic appetite... have a look @ http://pinterest.com/about/

Sunday.

Hey there... I hope you had a lovely weekend.  Ours started off with an amazing 40th birthday party for a friend on Saturday and finished with a beautifully relaxing Sunday - here's what it looked like. x

Evie tai chi

Roses from Rosemary Meadows' garden (our babysitter)

omelet

berry and banana power smoothie

peeling broad beans from the garden

Papa preparing dinner - rabbit casserole

mending bits and bobs

family movies in the big bed

Darwin baby - yeah!

So my little family decided to treat me to some Mummy time with my beautiful sister Steph and her family in Darwin last week. Gosh I miss that place, Mark and I have discussed retiring there one day.

 I had a whole 4 days of just me time... no responsibilities no pressure, just pure bliss!  I had shopping time, Mindil market awesomeness, a trip to the day spa, wave pool, and dinner and a night out with my sis and her gorgeous friend, not to mention an overnight stay at some lovely accommodation.  It really was lovely - I even had a business class trip home booked, but due to the Qantas quandary, it will have to wait until next time :( I thought I'd share some little photos with you of my NT stay ( loving iPhone photos).  So many memories made and some really funny stories... ahhhhhhh!

Strapped in and ready for adventures

Dan and Olivia

Awwww pretty mumma and bubby

Aunty Tam Tam and the baby bird

mmmmmm Mindil market food

And were all like peas and carrots again

MELT = Mark+Evie+Layla+Tam

Whoa Mumma, what a crazy last few months!  It's been a long time between posts you guyses, and we have so much to catch up on so I'll add things bit by bit, and whenever i can over the next month to catch you up with our little family.  We have all missed each other recently, not to mention normalcy in our lives. heaps to tell stay tuned!

xo

Exactly 4 months of Craziness

Hi everyone. I've just worked out that it has been almost exactly 4 months since I last had a blog post - how sad!! So much has happened and we have had such an enormous and productive last 4 months, but without going to far into the obvious, I'll start where we are now and fill you in with the stuff I've missed as I go along... Here's what we got up to on the weekend!

Too much fairy floss can send you loco

Daddy's girl



I have finally figured out the new blogger system, so I should be back into blogging hopefully most days now... just sorting out the things I have been putting in the too hard basket during the uni semester, and I'll be set x

messages for Poppy...

"Poppy I wonder what you are doing"

Awwww little Layla is such a treasure - she decided to send a little message to her Poppy the other  day - up to heaven - via helium balloon!  I love that she still has so many memories and talkes about him to us often.  Evie never met her Poppy, but Layla has been educating her on all the fun stuff she  used to do with him.  The girls have decided that they would like to send more messages up to poppy-what a wonderful Poppy he was!

When Papas away... the girls will play!

Ingredients for a "Gals night":

3x Home-made pumpkin, leek and bacon soup
3x home-grown, freshly squeezed Orange juice
1x bubble-bath (supervised by Wilfred)
3x chuppa chups
1x Toy story 2, movie
3x new glitter, nail polish.  (chosen by the cherry blossoms)
2x kids magazines, (with stickers galore)!
1x hair crimper
1x hot rollers
1x curling iron
1x bottle of hair treatment
2x brand new winter pj's
1x pot of tea
1x beautiful warm fire
1x pretty bedtime book

Walah!   Mark has been working away a LOT lately - poor Mr.  He's really busy at the moment!  So us gals decided that we would go to Spotlight and buy some fabric for Mummy to make some buntings and hot water bottle covers (Layla and Evie have GIANT hot-water bottles to take to bed and cuddle over winter), and have a good ol' fashioned Girls night!  We scrubbed our house from tip to toe, ironed, organised and dusted, then bought ourselves a couple of little treats for our hard work!   Gosh I love my little family!  These little girls of mine are going to be heart-breakers and Mark is already drafting a "rules for dating my daughter" document... Ohhhhhhh my! xx