november love

Disclaimer: I've been in the process of writing this post for about a month so it's all over the place, I guess it comes with being a new mum. Or I'm just really disorganised. Oh well, onward and upward!

My favourite time of the year has come and gone! The weather has started to warm up amidst rainy days, plans for christmas celebrations and gift giving are on my mind, and I've celebrated turning 25 years old as well as 9 years together with Adam (we started dating in 2001 & married last year).

I am so amazingly blessed to have such a wonderful husband and gorgeous little girl. Adam is such a great support and help to me, always loving and sweet and forgiving (yes, I do dumb stuff sometimes!) and supportive, that I could not imagine my life without him. And Nova is simply flourishing, smiling and giggling, cooing and blowing raspberries, and about to cut her second tooth already!

I loved the idea of having a list of things I'd like to do before my next birthday and was inspired by Elsie to do the same. Here's my list: 25 before 26 (work in progress).

Often I feel that if I don't have any pictures to post that I don't remember anything of importance to share here (or I just don't remember). I have definitely been taking photos though, some on my Diana Mini but most on my iPhone and posting them on instagram. If you're on there, please friend me! Username: owlette. Instagram is seriously the best photo app I've come across ever. I've been using it to take photos of Nova daily, I'm hoping I'll make it to 365!! I'm also posting them to my twitter and flickr accounts. Here's a few previews:

lomography

My sister gave me a Diana Mini as a belated baby shower gift. I finally got the first roll of film developed and was so excited to see how they turned out! They came out better than expected, I thought they might be horribly blurry or washed out but they are brightly coloured and I must say I love that it is a square photo!








I love being a stay-at-home-mum and get to enjoy spending time with our little girl, watching her grow and seeing each new sound and smile. It keeps me busy, I think I've become more efficient with my time (even though I do have my lazy days) but I do miss spending time with friends or going out to the movies. Tomorrow starts a class for new mothers at my local health centre. I'm not usually a social butterfly but I am definitely looking forward to spending time with some girls in the same stage of life as I am. I might make a friend?

one year anniversary

Hubby and I celebrated our one year anniversary a few weeks ago (March 14). We spent the weekend down the coast where we were married on the beach, stood on the same spot we took our vows at the same time we made them a year ago. It was lovely reminiscing as well as talking about our future together. We also filmed a short message for our baby to watch in the future, something we sort of started doing on our honeymoon last year. I know I can honestly say that I am more completely in love now than ever before, and that love continues to grow each and every day. Completely blessed.

lovely memories

I have finally uploaded some wedding photos to flickr for friends and family to see! I've had so many requests and thought it would just be easiest to make them available for the masses if they were online.

It was the loveliest day, it was supposed to rain but the weather was beautiful, warm and breezy till after the ceremony. Once we were safe inside the reception hall the rain started. My poor sister and cousin in-laws spent a good few hours curling my hair, sadly it didn't hold up against the humid coastal breeze which is why it looks limp in the photos. Mind you it was the last thing on my mind at the time, I was over the moon at the fact that I was getting married!