Deck the Halls

More festiveness (especially now that I've located my camera charger!). I'll let the photos speak for themselves...

Unfortunately our tree couldn't handle the weight

Luckily it can also hang! It's Georg Jensen (Danish designer) so Hubby gave it to me and we plan on making it a family heirloom...his idea - SO DAMN SWEET!

Something for the fluffy member of the family.

From a Christmas market in New York

My ornament to Hubby - our 'odd' tree topper

On Friday we'll be celebrating Hubby's Christmas and hopefully dancing around the Christmas tree (provided that doesn't bring on SiL's labour!). As much as I've had issues with his family this year I'm still really looking forward to it. We had a pre-Christmas dinner at my Mum's tonight because for the first time ever my little sister won't be here for Christmas (she's visiting with her Boy's family over East). I thought I'd be ok with that but this dinner made me realise I'm going to miss her. We get on so much better now that we don't live together. I can finally believe what people used to say when I was younger that when she finally grew up we'd get on a lot better, hurrah for that prediction coming true.

In non-related to Christmas news I got a pay rise and a bonus HURRAH! It still isn't much but it's more about knowing how much they not only appreciate my hard work but acknowledge it. I want to (or rather should) put the bonus into savings (aka Goal Bubba) but I have promised Hubby a trip over east next year and I think a visit to Quay might be on the cards. I still can't get that guava egg from Master Chef out of my mind!

We have also gained my other family dog as he's become to neurotic and THE DESTROYER at Mum's boyfriend's brand new house. He's our little Christmas project and luckily Loki loves having him around because by the sounds of things he may be becoming a permanent fixture. They're so funny together so Hubby and I don't mind in the slightest but I'm scared of what he'll do when he's left all alone! Mum's got him on prozac though so fingers crossed! The downstairs door already has gouge marks from when he first lived here with Mum.

Mid play-fight our puppy is looking at the camera (Loki), Riley is the more blurry one.

Only 2 more days of work and then a mini-break YAY!

Birthdays & Babies

So Sunday night was my little sister's pre-birthday at Bonsai. It was so yummy (like always) and the cake tasted divine only Mum and I finished our huge slices it was gorgeous chocolate mousse (my favourite).

Monday was the real deal and our Dad who was up from down south came over and we had pavlova (Hubby's specialty) pizzas and garlic bread. Very, very yummy. We gave her another present (I should say re-gifted) gorgeous crystal martini glasses (I thought she'd realise they were a re-gift but she didn't HURRAH) along with some cash to put towards her laptop.
We also had a mini Christmas with Dad and he gave the boys shirts and we got 2 black elephants (the typical Thailand thing) and an awesome Temari ball.

Click on the picture to learn more about them

It's great the people are still remembering our wedding request and giving us Christmas decorations. It'll just make every Christmas that little bit more special!

Sunday night was also the night we sat down and discussed babies seriously. All that went out the window last night when I did some serious calculations and realised that we could only really try in March (and even then had to be careful) so that we avoid Hubby's exams and Mum's Antarctica trip. She keeps threatening us with death if we have a baby while she's away. I know she's probably as eager as me for us to have a child, if there is a baby or toddler at any event we're at I immediately know where to find her!

Poor Hubby got me being all grr and moody yesterday upon finding that out but today has been fantastic. He got his exams results and even scored a high distinction in one unit (GENIUS!) and he got an interview with a performance management company which is what he's really passionate about. I'm hoping that it all goes well because it would be perfect for him!

In other news our sister-in-law was in the hospital early this week and we all expected our niece to arrive 5 weeks early. She's gone back home now but I still think there will be another place at the Christmas table this year. Her first baby was 3 weeks early and tiny so hopefully the little girl decides to stay in there for a bit longer so she can grow up a bit and put on some more weight!

Tonight I'm off to book club, tomorrow night is the only night I get to relax with Hubby. Friday night we have a birthday party and Saturday I'm taking my best boyfriend and Hubby off to U2. Best boys night ever I think!

Another Sunday Post

I always find myself posting on a Sunday. I guess as the day winds down I feel like putting fingers to keys and purging my soul.

Not a lot happened this sunny Father's Day. We had a breakfast with my father-in-law which was great because the SiL (wife of Hubby's brother) wasn't there and I felt like I could just relax. Next weekend will be full on dealing with them because it's our nephew's second birthday but that'll be fine. I'll just drink coffee and take lots of photos and enjoy the day! We got him 2 books and a plastic golf set so hopefully he enjoys all of that. It's hard buying for little kids, especially when they're no longer babies but they're not really 'kids' yet either.

We've been having lots more baby talks because we decided that we'd aim for a November/December 2011 baby. But knowing what babies are like re: arrivals that could be thrown way out of kilter. It's still nice to realise just how close my life-long dream is though. We're not sharing this with anyone though. We went out to a fantastic dinner last night (any Perth people check out Hippo Creek in Subi!) and one of my best uni friends asked if our baby plans had changed. I hope I kept a good poker face when I said 'No!'. I realise everyone is going to think it was an accident and some people will be openly upset about it but I also know that will change when they've had time for it all to sink in. The Hubby and I just really want him to have some time with our first born and figure that the break between finishing uni and starting a new job would be perfect.

I'd be less inclined to do it then if I knew he was the kind of guy who would want to go out and do all the partying the new graduates want to do. But we're both old fuddy-duddies and I know he would hate doing that. Plus he's sort of a mature age student (even if he's under 30) and those graduates would just be too young for him. Although in saying all of that I would still be fine if he went out a couple of nights for after work drinks. After all it's best to get the baby sitting started early especially while the grandparents still view it as a novelty ha-ha.

On a completely non-related baby note I've finally organised time with my little sister to go and get her tattoo. I'm going to get another one on my right foot with a phrase out of one of our wedding readings. It should be fun to share that with her although my Mum got a bit angry when I told her. At least her tattoo won't be visible except when she's wearing a bikini so Mum won't have it in her face constantly.

I'm also considering getting a rib piece with a line of script from our wedding and then things around it that were significant to that day: buttons, owl and pussy-cat, orchids, roses, danish and australian flags etc... But that tattoo will definitely have to wait until I have enough cash. Because we want to have a baby end of next year that's what the savings are going towards. It's funny how easy it is to talk myself out of a pair of shoes now when I think about what I'm saving towards...although not as easy to talk myself out of buying awesome mobiles off etsy! I love that website but it will be the death of my bank account.

Hope everyone has a fantastic week ahead, I'm not looking forward to the mass amounts of job applications I will have on my phone and email tomorrow but them's the breaks :)