Engagement Photo Shoot

Every girl has something thats really important to her when it comes to planning their wedding whether this might be their wedding cake, dress or venue... well for me it was the photographs.

We were originally using a family friend but for a short while we thought this wasn't going to be possible and had to start looking elsewhere. We were struggling to find a photographer that we both liked the style of. Fortunately for us an opportunity came up to have a friend of a friend do an engagement shoot for us which was a great way of getting us thinking about what we wanted. It didn't go quite to plan but we got some lovely photos from it and decided to use this shoot for our evening invitations for our wedding.

Our wedding date on the umbrella 

Our rings

House move... finally

I can't believe the wait is over... 12 long weeks have been and gone and now, finally, the day is coming closer. We FINALLY have a move date... This Tuesday!! YAY! Can't express how excited I am to get into our new home. 

This has been a really stressful ride. We were supposed to be in 5 weeks ago when we completed our sale... which means for the last 5 weeks we have been 'homeless' and staying at my parents house. I love them to pieces, I couldn't thank them enough and they have been great... BUT I didn't realise how difficult it would be coming back home. I suppose it doesn't make it easy with the fact there are now 6 adults living here and 1 small child. Especially, when the rest of the family are not used to having small people around them constantly. Now though, all that stress is finally coming to an end and a new stress will begin haha. 

As I've mentioned in previous posts I am a planner and this means I am in my element. I have spent this morning re-organising my pintrest boards as I have too many ideas and have had to section them into individual rooms. I also have my lists all ready for the move to make sure it goes to plan and I don't miss something out. I can't wait to start writing about our new home and the changes that will occur in the next few months +.

One proud Mumma

This is a little late really.... but since Easter isn't until tomorrow I suppose it's still worth posting. 

My gorgeous little buddha and I went to a Easter morning at his nursery last Saturday. It was great! They brought in little lambs that have been brought up around young children so they got to go in a pen one by one to stroke them... Clearly the highlight of Alexs day. 

Alex with the lambikins

It's funny because for such an outgoing child who spends quite a bit of time at nursery he was really shy. I had trouble getting him to have an easter cupcake and juice! Weird!! We ended up chilling in the book corner choosing a book to buy and having a read. He ended up choosing a super hero colouring book - go figure. Luckily this did the trick and he wanted to start playing with me... we went to do an easter egg hunt - I think this is my favourite thing to do at easter and the buddha loves it too. 

My favourite part of the day however was watching him write his name for the first time. Can't even say how proud I was - well I did a little squeak and the nursery teachers looked at me as if to say 'he does this all the time here'. You see, my little Alex hates sitting down and learning with us... we have to do numbers by counting how many 'nee noors' or diggers we pass on the way home and we might be lucky enough to hear him do shapes and letters when watching a educational kids program on the TV. We do try to sit with him... but will he do it, nope! If we do educational things it's through play, he  just loves joking with us and just won't take it seriously. I don't mind too much as we know he's not behind and nursery have no concerns. In fact they just put it down to his outgoing and playful personality and tell us not to worry as he's where he should be for his age. So when we made an Easter card for Mummy, as she was at work, I was amazed when he wrote his own name with no help. We wrote the normal things inside (I helped with that bit) and then said to him.... 'here you are mate, write your name' and he did! He just picked up the pencil and wrote it. I mean, it's barely legible and the pencil was rubbish but the movement of his hands were clearly writing his name and he wasn't copying anything! I couldn't have been prouder!!

Sunday we had a proper family walk... lovely