Present Day

Thank you to EVERYONE who has celebrated my birthday with me :)
I feel so spoilt and so loved!
Can't wait to see what this year brings :)
Luce xx

Beautiful work Noni!

Even Izzy matches! (Thanks Collis' Family!)

Our First Crop

Over the past few months Brendan has been working tirelessly on the garden (with a little help from my Mum!). Well, yesterday we enjoyed our first crop!

Some sort of fancy lettuce and some of my FAVOURITE Pak Choy! Yummo!

And here's the dinner - Stirfied chicken & vegies! Yum! Yep I do try to get a bit Mastercheffy with the rice occasionally - Bren is my #1 customer and always enjoys it when I spend a little time plating up! It really is worth the extra minute it takes me!

And I added a little of what I hoped was Basil from our vegie patch...

Mum found the wheelbarrow up in the back of our yard and filled it with the leftovers from her herb garden - it looks great and tastes great too!

Christmas Eve 2010

Just a few happy snaps from our Jacques Christmas Eve Dinner (Which is really now our Jacques/Upton/McLaughlin/Broome/Andrews Christmas Dinner!)

Each year we have a different theme and this year was Asian BBQ. The decorations were just so PRETTY! The hydrangeas were from Mumma C's garden (Thanky ou SO much!). Whacked into a few old Dolmio jars from garage and Voila!

These King Proteas look absolutely stunning, the pink is just beautiful. ($5 each from Coles!)

Crushed pistachios for the Pav, again I just love that delicious pinky purple and green! The tablecloth is from Target.

Fortune cookies for our Asian BBQ theme

Loads of beautiful tealight candles and wine glasses to reflect the candlelight

And of course some pink Chinese lanterns for the hedges ($1.50 each from the Asian supermarket) Baby Girl looking SO gorgeous in her Christmas Dress by Noni. And she's sitting! Clever girl.

Everyone working hard in the kitchen!Here's the family minus Noni taking the photo. Even our senile little pup Karma has come to celebrate Izzy's first Christmas!

And the new puppy Bruiser...what a cutie!

A bit of chalk is always fun
Snuggly little girl and the boys just chillin'

I just love this combination of blue and white and pink.

All the different chairs from inside look so great out here!

But Izzy really stole the show!

McLaughlin Wedding

A huge congratulations to Mr & Mrs McLaughlin!

My gorgeous big sis Emma and her new hubby Jarrod celebrated their wedding in a fabulous penthouse apartment on Cabarita Beach, northern NSW.

Very proud Dad :)

Loads of laughs

Great big smooch!

The day was just as they had hoped...beautiful, sophisticated yet relaxed, a whole lot of fun and very much them! The location, views, music, food and of course drinks were all fabulous!!!

Em did the flowers herself! Very clever :)

And her boquet...

And the couple don't scrub up too bad either!

Ashlee (Thanks for the photos - hope you don't mind me stealing them!) with my baby girl Izzy and me!

Dancing with Daddy (She's a party girl!)

The little one at the end of the night...asleep in her Daddy's arms!