Day One Hundred and Twenty One

Today Bella got her school photos. I think God must have been telling me something when I named her the Italian word for beautiful ..

Day One Hundred and Twenty

Today is a bit of a cheat photo seeing as it is a photo of a photo, but today is a special day so I think it's ok. Today is the ten year anniversary of the day that Trevor asked me to be his girlfriend! Ten years is a really long time, and as someone joked "does this mean you're up for long service leave?!". We've been through a lot in the past decade .. houses, happiness, heartbreaks, births and deaths. I look at the young innocent faces in the photo and wonder if we'd do all again if we could see the future, and I know we would, in a heartbeat. We're both still here, together with our three beautiful girls, and that's all that matters.

Day One Hundred and Nineteen

THE BABY BUMP AT 21 WEEKS!! It has moved on from looking like I swallowed a rockmelon to looking like I've swallowed a basketball! And my symptoms have swiftly moved on from nausea and dizziness straight into heart burn, indigestion and leg cramps..
It's all worth it. 

Day One Hundred and Eighteen

This evening Trevor, the girls and I headed off to Costco to stock up on some necessary and not so necessary items. After groaning and whinging about having to get in the car on a tired  Friday afternoon, the girls perked up once we arrived. Trevor gathered the practical and healthy items such as meat and vegetables and I headed straight for the peanut butter, Swiss Miss and cream puffs! All the talk of food made us so hungry that we decided to buy a hot pizza and sit down to eat our dinner in-store. It was altogether actually not a bad shopping experience, and I'll be definitely taking Trevor back to push that massive trolley!

Day One Hundred and Seventeen

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TREVOR!! Today Trevor celebrated his 28th Birthday! The girls both made him beautiful paintings that they gave him along with his Marcs jumper (seen in photo) and belt that I had nicely wrapped in Buzz Lightyear paper. We had dinner at the Leagues Club with Trevor and I's parents and all of my siblings. Afterwards we sang Happy Birthday and had this delicious chocolate and mousse cake I clearly purchased! The sad thing about your partner being three years younger than you .. You'll always be old!

Day One Hundred and Sixteen

Today Bella and Jesse marched for their school in the local Queanbeyan Anzac Parade.It has been a long tradition for our family to march in the parade and the girls love being part of of the Anzac Service every year. 

I think it is important for children to learn about Australian History and Culture and to take part in events like these in the wider community. You can see Auntie Bree and Uncle Mark trying to take a photo in the background. Bella somehow seemed to understand the somberness of the occasion and refused to look up at us and smile as we cheered her on. 

Lest We Forget.

Day One Hundred and Fifteen

Due to the massive line ups at Sub-Way (caused by the construction site adjacent) our new post-swimming lunch venue has been moved to 'wok it up!' Luckily Jada loves it as much as Trevor and I do!