I married the man of my dreams!

I just wanted to share some of the photos from my wedding :)

I am so in love with my husband and I can't wait until the day that we get to live together :)

I married the man of my dreams on the 2nd July 2011 and we were fortunate enough to be surrounded and supported by my loving family. We hope to have another ceremony when we move to Sweden so that our Swedish relatives can celebrate with us.

We were even more lucky to be able to have BOTH of our gorgeous little daughters with us. They are soo cute together, they're only a month apart in age and although one speaks Swedish and the other speaks English, they still seem to love each other like best friends and it is very heartwarming to see.

Oh yes! I'm also in my third trimester now!! :) I'm currently 29 weeks pregnant and was 28 weeks in the photo below :) I can't wait to meet our beautiful little baby!




Me and my new hubby at the BBQ at my place after:



My hubby and his daughter Alva:



My little girl, Jasmine:



Jas and my mum:



There are many more photos but I think I've reached my limit for this post :)

Thanks for reading!
Romi

Jasmine's Birthday

Happy Birthday my dear sweet 3 year old!

This is the birthday cake that my mum and I made (the photo doesn't do it justice, I swear!). The turrets are made from mini ice-cream cones and decorated with the tips dipped in icing and rolled in hundreds and thousands. I made little flags from cardstock and toothpicks to top them off. The cake itself was a sponge cake and I made a butter cream icing.

Mum actually managed to get it so smooth on the surfaces, I was so impressed! Except for the decorative swirls on the round cake and the edge of the square cake, those are hard to see but they're like little rosettes. The windows are made from waver biscuits and they're outlined with a glittering icing gel and then mum put little sugar flowers along the bottom edge.

The cupcakes were sponge with pink buttercream icing and decorated with sugar unicorns and princesses and sprinkles. It was very fun to make!



Those cups in the background were the 'lolly bags' for kids to take home. We also gave them a tube of bubbles and a pack of crayons with a colouring book and I think they liked it :)

And her pretty new dress (and dollhouse in the background):



For activities we played hopscotch with hula hoops, bubble blowing, colouring in their books, musical statues (I can't believe I actually sung and did dancing with the kids! how embarrassing, lol), pass the parcel, drawing with chalk on the concrete and playing with the dollhouse.

For food we made fairy bread (cut into animal shapes), jelly cups with fruit, tiny teddies, biscuits with hundreds and thousands on them, crackers and cheese, popcorn, sausage rolls, party pies,
cocktail frankfurts, and pizza! Drink was water or a fruit punch.



The kids that came were all so wonderful and so were their parents, so I am very grateful to them all for helping to make the party go so well and Jas was lucky to be given so many lovely presents!

Finished invites!

Just a quick pic to share of the finished invites - sorry about the poor camera quality, I had to use my mobile phone. I did a few of each colour, now let's just hope that someone shows up!

Butterfly shorts and invites

I just wanted to share a few crafty (simple) projects that I've done.


Jasmine's birthday is in 2 weeks and for her party, I've made these invitations - I've printed them out on paper and plan on cutting it out and sticking it to some pretty cardstock (maybe pink polka dots or something) as the background:





I also made these shorts for Jasmine to wear to kindi. The ribbon is just for show, they're actually just an elastic waist - easy to pull up and down on her toilet trips. They're made from my butterfly seersucker (which is also for sale at $15 per meter if you'd like some).

It's a GIRL!

I have some big news! I'm now 20 weeks pregnant, woohoo! The killer morning sickness has passed and I'm feeling the most lovely little kicks and movements. When my fiance was here, we went to have a 3d scan and find out the gender but our cheeky little bub sat with their butt against the placenta and had their legs crossed with the cord between them, so we weren't able to tell.. however I just had my morphology scan and....

... it's a GIRL!

Here's a mobile pic of her in profile from my 20 week scan:



I think our daughters are even more excited than we are! Alva and Jasmine have both been practicing taking care of their baby dolls and keep talking about their 'little sister'. I can't even begin to imagine what a house full of girls will be like - poor Dan! haha. At least now I get to pull out the bags of unused baby clothes from when Jasmine was born and pick out my favourites!

Check out the cute little hand:



So much else has been going on!

First, I got given a notice to leave from my ex-landlord. She wanted to raise my rent from $315 pw to $375 pw and I just couldn't afford to pay that on my own so I applied for a few places on my own and when that failed, I tried with my fiance's details as well but that didn't work because he lives in Sweden. Eventually, my mum signed on to my lease with me... and we were approved! My mum works and lives up in Mackay (or there about) but comes down every second weekend to visit and get things done in Brisbane. Unpacking has been exhausting but we're getting there!

My wonderful fiance came and visited me for Easter! He spent 5 days here and that took 6 days of travel (3 on the way here and 3 to get back home) which I will be forever grateful for! I hadn't seen him since Christmas and I can't begin to describe how hard it is, especially because he's working extra weekends and our phone calls have been sparse. It'll be better now that I finally have a working home phone though :)

What else.. ah! Well, I can't say too much about it here, but I'm going through a court case (still) to hopefully allow us to move to Sweden before the baby is born! Fingers crossed for us please?

All of these changes have given me a new lease on life. It's still hard and sometimes I still struggle - it's terrible being separated from the man that you love - but we're doing pretty well. I have a great routine for Jasmine and I've even started doing things that I love again, like sewing! I just need to unpack my camera and I'll start sharing some photos.

Anyway, that's about it for now, thanks for reading!

~Romi

My Ultrasound

Here are some goodies to share from my 13 week ultrasound (which turned out to be 13w5d! almost a week ahead!). Our baby is now due 22nd September :)




It looks like my lil one is blowing bubbles but it's actually just part of the umbilical cord.


And here's a little video (with commentary from the technician):






And the heartbeat:

Blog Makeover

I'm in the process of giving my blog a new little makeover! Any suggestions? What do you think? :)