happy anniversary to us

Well, here I am blogging again and what better day to start than on our 5th wedding anniversary.. At least it means I have something to write about!!!

5 years ago today was the day we said "I do", it was a beautiful day!! 5 years on 2 units, 1 house (we don't own all these but have lived in 3 places since marriage!!!), a new church and of course 2 beautiful children later and we feel very blessed indeed!!!

We are off out to dinner tonight at the restaurant that is now open at the venue we got married, babysitters are booked (by my husband I might add!) and it's off for a yummy scrummy dinner to reminisce.

In other news my Mum and Jules arrive on Monday! Yay!

our 2nd wedding anniversary

It's hard to believe that it's been two years ago today since SP and I got married. In a sense a seems like yesterday but it also feels like we have been married for years. How quickly you get used to sharing your life, home, meals, bed and evenings with one person.

It's been 2 years of growing, learning, understanding and I am sure that will continue each year we are married. My hubby has been very lovely, he had a card for me this morning, he sent me flowers at work and we are off out for a lovely dinner tonight - I have no idea where yet but I will let you know, apparently we haven't been there before. I love my husband! note to self; buy husband a anniversary card asap!

How exciting!

Happy Anniversary to us!

happy 13th wedding anniversary to AB and Ruth

I just wanted to say Happy 13th Wedding Anniversary to AB and Ruth.

We love you guys heaps and think that you as a great example of what a godly husband and wife look like, you are individually great, great as a married couple and great parents to your beautiful kids.

We have watched you in your marriage and with your kids over the last 3 1/2 years and both SP and I have learnt a lot. I know many people have benefited from your ministry and friendship. You Guys Rock Socks ;)

Congratulation on 13 years of marriage, I pray you might have many more fantastice years together and I look forward to spending many years of hanging out with you all. May God grow you both in your understanding of each other and may your beautiful kids grow up to be men and women of God.

Slideshow from our Anniversary Weekend

the weekend

This weekend was just lovely, we went to the Hunter Valley from Friday to Monday. We arrived at this lovely Tuscany looking building and had the cutest little room with a great view - we even had Kangaroos come at the back of our room. We had a massage and spent the evening relaxing had dinner and a fab glass of red wine (it is the Hunter Valley) just chilling. Saturday we got up had a game of tennis - I am improving! and then at 10.30am we were 'all aboard' for a bus trip around 5 different vineyards to sample wine - it was really nice and we got to try some lovely wines. We had a pleasant lunch, tried some yummy cheeses, met some nice people and purchased a few super bottles of wine. If you ever come for dinner - you might get lucky ;)
Sunday 'our actual anniversary' we did our own trip around a few boutique vineyards we had heard about, this was fun to do by ourselves, I also took some pictures of the beautiful flowers it was so pretty - but we didn't take too many pictures of us ;(
Sunday night we went out for a meal at a place called Roberts - scrummy yummy food was had and the place was so quaint and cute inside and out. I had been there once before with a friend who was out from England, we happened to stumble on it - two English girls not really knowing there way around - we didn't do too badly. I have been wanting to take SP there for a while.
Yesterday we headed home after coffee and a muffin via SP's grandparents place, we thankfully missed any of the nasty Easter weekend traffic and we are now back to work, anniversary over - working on our second year of marriage ;)

I will post some pics up soon ;) Happy Tuesday.

almost a year

It is hard to believe that this Sunday will be our first wedding anniversary - WOW.

How time flies. A lot of people told me 'the first year is the hardest' - there has certainly been some hard moments and I am sure there will be plenty more to come but it has also been a great time of growing together and also of personal growth for each of us.

What I have noticed with marriage is that when it is hard - it is REALLY hard but when it is good - it is REALLY good. God has stretched me out of my comfort zone, forced me to learn to reconcile and work through issues rather than run away and ignore them, this is extremely tough for me but extremely beneficial.

I realize that God absolutely knew what he was doing when he brought SP into my life, God knows me better than I know myself and he knows SP better than SP knows himself, he knew my needs and he knew SP's needs and he brought us together to become one flesh - faults an all. Two sinful human beings under God's rule learning to put each other first - it isn't easy but I wouldn't have it any other way. We certainly don't have it all together - selfishness and self preservation raises it's ugly head a lot, we are still learning daily and I am sure will do so for the rest of our lives together.

I loved my life before I was married, I loved sleeping in my big bed by myself but now I miss SP when he is home late and feel weird being on my own in bed, it's amazing how quickly the two becoming one flesh becomes a reality. I thank God for SP and for our first year of marriage, I pray that God continues to grow us in the knowledge of himself and in the knowledge of each other. God is the one we are to be living for in ways that please him, my prayer is that we would continue to do that, yes we will fail but I pray we have perseverance to continue this path that God has ordained and brought about.

We are off to the Hunter Valley on Friday for the whole weekend, I can't wait. SP needs a break from work, we will be having a massage - visiting the vineyards in the area and then on Sunday - our anniversary day we are going out to this lovely restaurant for dinner - Yum, I can't wait. So today is like a Friday for me, off tomorrow and then a lovely long weekend - YEHA!!!

Happy Wednesday :)