365 recap!

another recap of the 365 project; i've missed another few days but am persevering!

1. early mornings
2. garden party beers
3. finally putting a ring on it
4. family photo
5. under the lights

Flickr

my photo was featured on the flickr blog today! pretty chuffed by that.

mt martha weekend

the last week has been unbearably hot - 6 days of weather above 30. our house has next to no insulation so whatever it is outside, it's pretty much the same inside which means no sleep and grumps. 

so this weekend pete, harriet, alex and i all escaped down to my parent's house in mount martha. i have never seen the beach so perfect and i couldn't help taking my phone into the water to take some photos. i'm pretty sure everybody was waiting for me to drop it but it survived. 

finishing up the day with champagne and oysters in the shed was not a bad finish to a pretty super day.

*update: while i was careful enough not to drop my iphone in the water at the beach - the next day i knocked it off my desk and smashed the screen. useless.

BOO.

have you ever seen a prettier cat? i love this little guy.

(edited this with the new vsco film 3 editing software which i treated myself to.)

tramways hotel

pete and i had dinner with mum and dad at the tramways hotel in north fitzroy on sunday night. it's a great pub - tasty burgers and it's beautifully fitted out. we did a bit of wedding brainstorming and took a wander over to edinburgh gardens to scout some locations.

kyneton

pete and i took a drive yesterday out to kyneton in the macedon ranges. it's such a cute town - great food, old bluestones, a couple of markets. it seems like the kind of town where you could relocate from melbourne and not miss out on too many of the things that make city life great. they've even got a music festival coming up! we stopped off at hanging rock winery on the way home to restock our dwindling supplies. i'm trying to drink less beer so our wine rack is looking pretty empty at the moment...

365 Project

i've been tackling the 365 project again - and doing a bit better than last time. i have slipped up a few days, but i think i'm allowed a couple! these are some of my favourites from the last month or so, the rest are all up on my flickr page.

1. the view at domaine chandon vineyard in the yarra valley
2. inspecting a possible wedding ceremony location
3. fitzroy dusk
4. giving our record player a workout
5. summer william

Jim's 30th

Peter's older brother Jim who is living with us at the moment turned 30 a few weeks ago. he had three parties - one for each decade! we celebrated the first at killarney, the second at the great northern and the third at the bowls club in brunswick.

weekend

peter and i spent the weekend at his parent's regular camping spot in killarney, just outside of port fairy. we had a family birthday dinner for james, i did handstands with the kids and we had our first (and probably last) beach swim for the summer.

our new addition

meet boo radley.

usa - october 2012

peter and i took an amazing road trip through the states last october. i wanted to post everything but instead i'll do a highlights reel as i'm getting pretty behind with posting everything else that has happened since then! we drove from new orleans to new york, traveling through the states of mississippi, tennessee, kentucky, north carolina, virginia, pennsylvania and DC. it was easily the best thing i've ever done and what made it even better was getting engaged along the way...

if you'd like to see the rest of the trip photos (be warned, there's a lot), then they are all up on my flickr page.