My little secret

It's not a secret anymore after I posted it on instagram but I loooove christmas so much (i'd have my tree up now if Toby let me) that I start to watch christmas movies in November. Not everyday but maybe one a week. I actually think I like the lead up to Christmas then the day itself. Just all the hype and excitement and catching up with all sorts of people its so lovely! My sister said it was too early but i'll wait for the carols and for the tree (and our fairy lights as well I guess)

so Sunday nights christmas was "It's a wonderful Life" with James Stewart and Donna Reed it's a real feel good movie and a nice one to start the season off with

The clip below is my favourite part of the movie

What's your favourite Christmas movie? I have quite a few

A trip to the park

Have I told you that my sister has a sweet little family? Last week they all came over for dinner (mum and my little sister too) since i'd got home later then I thought we set off for a walk to my local park while Toby was finishing off dinner. This is how we walked there

Isn't Blair precious! the girls (and us) swung on the swings and explored the equipment, Blair even braved going down the slippery dip alone. Nothing scares that kid.

Look at her little toes....

and Millie's face <3 sheer concentration. And this is how we walked home (my shoulders got a rest)

They make me want one of my own (Not yet though) I'm happy to just share these guys at the moment.

Exhausted

It's Sunday afternoon and I've just woken up from a much needed afternoon nap! This weekend has been go go go! It started with a quick trip to Olive tree markets to buy gifts for the weekends events (and some jam for myself) then I was straight off to a baby shower where I smelled nappies filled with different flavours of chocolate. I then went to a 40th at a Beer festival and it was crazy hot so I didn't last long, then time to get ready for Jen and Mark's engagement, so off to newcastle we went for a sneaky bbq beforehand then the party began.

The very happy couple :)

it was such a wonderful night, catching up with the best of friends and some old friends that we hadn't seen in quite some time

This morning we woke up early with blurry heads and headed home before bookclub and a christening. It was the busiest weekend I can remember, and i'm honestly pooped out! 

Did anyone else have a super busy weekend? we are busy now right up to xmas luckily not this busy though. I think i'll be in bed early tonight.

Wedding Wednesday

I have been engaged for 1 month now and still have no plans (which I'm ok with) I would like to start planning our engagement party though. I'm thinking it will now be in February as the months are disappearing (how is it November already?) Anyway todays wedding post is about Dessert tables, not necessarily your typical sweets buffet (which I also love) but a dessert table. Toby mentioned this to me quite some time ago as he doesn't see the value in paying a whole lot of money for a cake! (and he doesn't overlly like wedding cake). But instead buying say, 5-10 of your favourite cakes from a bakery, cake shop or patisserie. I thought it was a different idea but when I started to research on pinterest, they seem to be quite popular. Here's a few I like (some have wedding cakes on them but you get the gist)

Image Links 1,  2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7

Do you think it's wrong to not have a traditional wedding cake?

Cooking with Jamie

I thought I would share a super easy but extra tasty dinner with you this week. I've cooked it twice now and both times it's been a success. Over the holidays I decided it was time to start cooking from my ever growing cookbook collection, as most things I cook are from magazines (or packets...eeek) It is from Jamie Oliver's book "Cook With Jamie" and it is:

Roasted Chicken breast with creamy butternut Squash (pumpkin in Australia) and chilli's

Ingredients per chicken breast:

 half a fresh red chilli de-seeded and sliced

leaves of a few sprigs of Oregano

salt

pepper

a quarter of butternut pumpkin thinly sliced

a small amount of double cream 

nutmeg

method:

toss together red chilli and oregano over chicken breast

place chicken breast in an over proof container on foil

place pumpkin around the edge of the chicken 

carefully pour double cream on pumpkin without getting the chicken

sprinkle with nutmeg, salt and pepper and drizzle with olive oil

Jamie says to cook on 200 degrees Celsius for 25-35 minutes but my oven is old and takes at least 50. Maybe fan-forced would be quicker

Enjoy it really is tasty and Easy!

Wedding Wednesday

For today's wedding post I thought I would share a whole heap of images I have found via pinterest. I'm really like the idea of giving my bridesmaids a theme colour and letting them pick their own dress. I think all these girl below look fantastic. Who knows though by the time I actually get around to asking them I'll probably have another idea. 

Image links 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

What do you think of different bridesmaid styles?

10 Years

Happy Anniversary Toby

Life has been so much better with you in it.

I love you so much! 

xoxoxo