Getting Ready.....

Hi all sorry I have been so long getting back to blogging...But I ask who gets married at the end of the financial year????But I am nearly on top of the book work and back to share more photos.

Bruce has 4 children The eldest 2 boys and the youngest 2 girls, below is Bruce's 2 boys Scott(with glasses and Gordon, also 2 of my boys Robbie and William.



The boys all got ready over at Chloe's place they had her running around after them.

 When that was all done she come over to home to be with the girls.

When I saw this photo of Bruce I had a laugh but he assured me he didn't drink the whole bottle on his own.

Below is Family photo once we were all ready...David wasn't able to make it down so it isn't a proper family pic without him in it. As you can see the two youngest boys were in the wedding party, as was Cassie.

We even had our own beautician on hand as Madori is a make up artist and helped the girls out with their make up.

Some last minute touch ups.

Time to go..

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First William walked out followed by Bruce's daughter Emma....

The girls looked so pretty in there dresses, blue for Emma, and pink for Cassie.

As you can see the new stairs were well used for our wedding procession.

Cassie was next.

Followed by Robbie and my self. Robbie asked to walk me down the isle, doesn't he look so grown up and handsome.

The Children joined us at the front, Bruce's on his side and my gang on my side.

It was lovely to have the children a part of the ceremony.

and I had to show you a photo of Grace, we are hoping she will be walking by September when we do it all again for Chloe and  Damien...won't she make the cutest flower girl.

I hope you enjoyed a trip down the isle with me.....

Blessinngs

Mandy

Our Backyard Wedding .....

Hi all and thank you all for your well wishes.

But I know you want to see pictures, well I have lots, hahaha

I hope I won't bore you all too much with the next few umm lots posts about our wedding, but I loved every minute of the preparations towards it. We spent Thursday and Friday getting all the little bits done which was fun. On Friday the house was full of flowers, I made our bouquets and all the flowers around the place were put causally into vases.

I used gerbras(hmmm is this the right spelling it looks wrong) as they were all I could get at this time off year (cheap). The pink ones were lovely and I also used pink lilies in my bouquet and lots of flowers from the garden.

Cassie decorated all the straws with peoples names and little words all on them, now they looked cute. I think it's all the little things like this that make people now you care.

Then we filled up the water jug with fresh water and slices of lemon. I picked this up in Brisbane when we went down looking for Chloe's wedding dress and new it would be perfect for the wedding.

This was all put together on the side board with glasses and wine glasses that I have been collecting for months...52 wine glasses so if you need to lend any you know who to call..

Time to move onto the teabags...Emma spent hours cutting out the hearts and gluing them to the teabags..

Cups and saucers were then all washed up and put out with milk jugs and sugar bowls. All starting to come together....

Below the girls are hard at work..

With the veranda I set up all the round tables and chairs. Lots of flowers out here as well and table clothes to finish it all off.

I used balloons as decorations as well as banners that we made. Then all the furniture was moved into the boys room so we had one big open room.

Now the house is finished lets do the yard.

 Now this was the boys job....Cleaning up and setting out chairs..

I used paper lanterns and more banners out in the garden..

 Looks much better all cleaned up and decorated.

as I said earlier I so enjoyed getting every thing ready and looking pretty for our big day..

I  hope you enjoyed seeing a little bit of our preparations...There isn't a lot of photos as I was so busy getting every thing ready I forgot to take many.

I will show more later in the week of what I have though.

Blessings to all

Mandy

We are Married

Saturday was bright and  sunny a perfect day for a perfect wedding.

I will share all about the day when I get home.



Blessings to all

Mandy

It's Raining!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am way past PANIC o yeh

I am a little on the FREAKY side...

Every one is telling me

But in my mind I was thinking of a garden wedding like this...

Now I'm seeing more of this

So now I'm having to go out a buy a pair of these...



There is still time for the rain to stop......PLEASE...

Hello...

Hi All...

Thanks so much for all your lovely comments on my last post. I would love to answer you all back but I am having problems with my email address here on my blog argghhh....It won't let me send any emails back to you...I'll work it out soon I hope.

I wanted to share this great photo my daughter took of the farm where they are growing there herbs. We have coriander and parsley growing at the moment. It smells so nice when they are over there working as the coriander reminds me of Vietnam.

On Saturday night we had a bush dance at the local hall, our 2 Japanese students loved it as it was there first bush dance. You can see them in the photo above, also William he loves to get down and do a little heal and toe action hahah...

Enjoy your week.

Blessings

Mandy

A Wedding....

Yes there is a reason why I have been busy painting madly around the house........ I'm getting ready for a wedding at the end of the month..

Whose wedding your wondering....

Mine

Now there's something I never thought I would be doing again getting married..But sometimes life and love takes you by surprise.

The new stairs are for a reason as Bruce and I are getting married in this part of the garden. Now the house is all finished we will be working outside to get every thing ship shape.

 I will tell you a little more about Bruce in another post, I'll let you digest this post first..

Blessings

Mandy

Before and After....

 I finally have some photos of my new look family room.

That's right the painting is finished (insert happy dance) the last of the renos is over....

Lets have a look at the journey shall we, come along and have a look with me.

Remember this room before was bedrooms and entry way(below)

Now it is one nice big open living room.

We knocked down a lot of walls and had a support beam put in. Even before we painted it looked so good.

But now it is amazing.

What a change, so bright and airy. I have also moved the table and sitting area around. It is all working much better with the table closer to the kitchen.

Below you can see how this was once a bedroom.

Looking more like a family room with the lounge and a few plates on the wall.

Ta DA

I know, have I mentioned that I am loving the white, and don't the plates look so much better against the white walls.

Even this dinner set that has been here for years looks better.

Have you noticed I am using a turquoise colour in here, I have been collecting bits and pieces in this colour waiting for when I painted.

So what do you think?

I have to admit at first the white was very well WHITE, but once I got my plates on the walls and colour around with the cushion's and throws it made it much more MANDY.

But not every thing is white, I still love my blue kitchen. I have given it a freshen up with new white trims though, I will show you that latter.

Have a great day.

Mandy