Wednesday, May 27, 2009

A photo...

Wow... life is hurtling along at a crazily wonderful break-neck pace! I love love love it, but I'm so tired! And it means that I don't have a huge amount of time to blog about everything... maybe soon... Here's a photo of us at my very first football game on Sunday - I had a spectacular time!!!

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Guess what!!!

Today I'm going to the footy for the first time ever! :)

Yesterday, it was Alastair's mum's birthday, and we went with her and her husband to see the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra at Angel Place. It was so good! Then we went and found Haigh's Chocolate Shop... and well... yeah. :) I am totally in love with their Peppermint Truffle Bars! It was also lovely to catch up with Bek afterwards in the QVB... and she agreed to be one of my bridesmaids! 

Alright... I'm off. I'll post properly again soon. xo

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Last Sunday we went on a picnic...

On Sunday we went for a picnic with some of the people from Alastair's church... in honour of Mick and Clare's youngest daughter Ingrid's first birthday. I love Alastair's church family, and there are lots of babies and toddlers to cuddle! It was a lovely day, and here are a few pictures...

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Kerryn with her daughter Emily, and me with Donna and Dave's son Hamish. He's absolutely adorable, and I love him to bits. :)



Me with Hamish... he usually smiles.... 



Alastair and I with Hamish and his sister Mairead. Gorgeous kids. I stay with them if I need to stay in Wollongong overnight, and they've become like extra family. :)



Across the duckpond...


Just thought you might like to know...

...that getting nothing done drives me CRAZY!

Today, I have done a lot of trying to keep people happy, and it's been really hard work. Everything is a bit overwhelming today... 

That's all.

Oh, one more thing actually - and on a happier note: I have an appetite and I've gained weight! It's so awesome to feel hungry... I today realised that I haven't felt like this for years! Last year when going through some stress and health difficulties, I went down to 59kg, and have been hovering around the 61kg til now... but this morning I weighed myself, and was 63kg - even before breakfast! I am just loving being hungry.... am so thankful to God.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

The latest...

I'm so tired... I promise I will post an update soon.

But for now, this will have to do: Alastair's blog

xoxo

Saturday, May 16, 2009

*smiles*

It's a lovely windy day, and I am enormously blessed.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Oopsy!

Oh dear... I just got home from Alastair's place, and tucked into three-quarters of a block of Cadbury Peppermint Chocolate......

...my mouth stings. :(

On another note, we had a lovely lovely evening with a "more experienced" couple from Alastair's church - they're coming up for 50 years of marriage! Fae and Kevin are like grandparents to Alastair... just gorgeous... so sweet and encouraging. I was blessed by spending time with them tonight. :)

A week to catch up on...

Sorry it's been a while since I updated... there's been so much going on, and I haven't had time before now to actually sit down and post. As it is, I don't have very long, but I will do my best! :) Cos I really do love blogging... sometimes words just don't come though. We'll see.

Last week (the week before Mother's Day) Alastair and I didn't see each other much. I drove down on Monday morning (since I had a free morning) because he was sick, and consequently home from work. Awww. :) I could only stay for an hour or so, because I had students after lunch, but it was good - I was able to look after him and get him some breakfast. And his headache went away too. :) 

We didn't visit during the week, because Alastair's church had a nightly one hour silent prayer thing going on, which was from 8-9pm. I wasn't allowed to go, because apparently I'd have been a distraction. :P Which is cool, I can handle that. :) But since Friday was the last night of it, I went down and met Alastair at the church when it finished, to surprise him. :) Then we went back to his house with a couple of his friends and talked for a while. 

On Saturday, our Big Weekend started. Alastair did a 30km bike ride, then came up at about 10.30am... then we went for a picnic to the beautiful Macarthur Park, so that Alastair could meet Mrs. Bieman (my adopted grandmother) and Kate, another dear friend. It was just a glorious day, and we had a great time. Late in the afternoon, Alastair took me down to Wollongong, and we had dinner at Kerryn and Smorrie's place... it was so lovely. Their kids, Ben and Emily, are adorable, and we had a ball hanging out with all of them. Then Alastair drove me down to Donna's house... she's now my adopted big sister - I stay with her if I need to when I go down to Wollongong. :) It's so lovely and comfortable at Donna's... I feel so welcome, and she just makes me feel at home... her kids, Mairead and Hamish are also adorable, and they wake me up early in the morning to play with soft toys in Mairead's bed. :) I am soooo blessed by Alastair's friends - they've really welcomed me and made me feel so loved. Hamish is just starting to talk, and he calls me Darla. :P

Anyhow, back on track! Alastair picked me up just after 7am on Mother's Day (I was ready!), and we drove up here for breakfast with my family... then on to Manly for lunch with my grandparents on my mum's side, and her brother and his family. It was really nice watching Alastair get on so well with them all. We had Yum Cha for lunch (which isn't my favourite!), and afterwards, Megs, Alastair and I took my little cousins, Grace and Luci, to the new Cold Rock ice creamery... oh! It was so much fun doing that with the little girls... :) I have loved seeing Alastair relating to all these little people too.... he's so good at it. :)

Anyhow, side-tracked with gorgeously cute kids again! :P Um... during the afternoon we went to Warringah Mall and wandered around there.... looking in jewellery shops.... :) and then we drove to Crows Nest to have dinner with Alastair's mum and her husband, Ashley and Carly (one of his brothers and his girlfriend). They're all lovely people, and I got on well with them - I think. :P I did with his mum, anyway. :) We had Mexican for dinner... and it was very very yummy. We got home quite late... and were very tired.

This week, Alastair has been sick - I think he's run down from all the late nights and busy-ness... poor boy. But he's getting better now. Yesterday after I taught in the morning, I went into the city to be moral support for a friend at a doctor's appointment. Then we went shopping and it was nice. :) I went down to Wollongong after that, and Alastair cooked dinner for us and his Dad and Tim. (Tim boards with Alastair and his dad). Then we watched a movie together, and I drove home.......

Tonight, I'm going down again, but I won't stay late cos I'm really tired. Fae and Keven - an older couple from Alastair's church - have asked us over for dinner, which is really sweet. They're lovely people, and I'm really looking forward to getting to know them better.

Today, I have so many things I have to do - my list is a mile long! But that's okay... it'll happen. 

I love falling in love. It makes me happy. :)

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Flowers... and other thoughts...

It's a week today since Alastair brought me flowers for the first time ever, and they're still going strong. When I sit quietly at the computer on my own late at night, their scent drifts over to me and I start to smile as I think about the wonderful man God has brought into my life. 

The last few days have held a lot for us... love, pain, joy, stress, tears... but through it all, we are getting to know each other's hearts... and I just love what I see of his.

We're becoming one in heart.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Love is in the air...

Just a few pictures you might like a squiz at... apparently a picture paints a thousand words. Which is good, because at the moment, I don't have enough words to express how I feel. These four will have to do: I am in love

These are selfies we took up at the Mount Keira lookout today... a bit gross and wind-blown, but they give you a bit of an idea... :)