Wedding Ceremony

We have booked our ceremony transport, stylist, celebrant and our photographer. We are really excited and glad that we are really all under way

We are planning to head up to the gold coast in Dec to meet with everyone to make sure everything runs smoothly and we can go through exactly what we envision for our wedding day. It also means Ben and I get a week holiday for our anniversary at the same time! thanks dad for baby sitting =) 

Our Celebrant Candy is just lovely to talk to. I can't wait to meet her and am so glad she is going to be our Celebrant, she's really going to make sure we are looked after =)

Ben wanted a white Jaguar for our wedding transport, it looks really nice and even better with the nice white wedding ribbon hehe. Clare and I will arrive at the ceremony in it and Ben and I will taken back to our reception.. It will look fabulous in the photos. Hire company is Kenz Classic

Beautiful Beach Weddings is styling our wedding, they have some amazing work and take the stress out of our day by styling the wedding, even helping with guests, playing music and helping with the over all running's of the wedding and they take it all away at the end. We have a vision for our ceremony and they can for fill that with all there hire decorations. I can't wait to meet with them in December to finalize all the ceremony decor. I also purchased my diy save the dates from them and they look great, you'll have to wait for a later post with pics =P

Our photographer is probably the most important to us as we would really love to capture our day and all it's special moments. We originally didn't think about video but we are now doing that also. Him and his wife do the photography and his brother the video. He's such a lovely man that's really taken the time to find out about us so he can capture us in the best way. He's helped creating a package to suit us and is also more then happy to help with any other wedding preparation on his end as we are so far away. I originally found him from my celebrants website so they have recommended each other so it's worked out well =)

I never realised how much organising goes into a wedding, especially a destination one. But I'm just so excited to meet with everyone and I've also have booked my hair stylist and makeup artists and will have a trial in Dec on our anniversary so I will have nice hair and makeup to go to a nice romantic dinner =) 

Anyways I'll update some more in next post.

Fiona xx

Wedding Low Down & Accommodation

So now we've picked a day to get married we have pretty much decided how we'd like the whole thing to go. We want a private destination wedding with mainly family and a few friends. The ceremony will be on the beach on the gold coast and the reception so to speak at the accommodation we are staying at. It will be an 11am ceremony followed by a catered lunch.

Clare is going to be my maid of honour and John is going to be best man and there partners are coming too. 

We have booked accommodation at Acqua Amalfi Manson it is absolutely gorgeous, so the 6 of us will stay there for a week and this is also where we are having our catered lunch after the wedding ceremony.

I'll post some pics but heaps more when you click the link.

 
I am so excited. Dad and Hilda are having the kids at different accommodation at Ashmore Palms Holiday Village so that it gives Ben and I some privacy and it is better suited the kids as there are so many cool things for them to do. They have lots there including;

• 2 swimming lagoons
• Playground
• Full size tennis court
• Barbecue areas
• Garden walkways
• Bird aviaries

and that is only some features. Max will have so much fun and Jayden will have heaps of space to run a muck!

Well I'll update you on more wedding stuff in another another post =)

 Fiona xx

Facebook, Friends & Drama

With out going into it to much. It just dawned on me that people I care and respect and thought cared and respected me just don't. I got sick of it so deleted my facebook as I hate the lack of privacy. couple months ago I deleted all my friends, photos and everything off it and only today have decided to start accepting people again but it is a fresh start for me and I am not having any one that doesn't care about me, it is purely for a few close friends and family that I wish to keep in contact with. 

I have recently made the decision I am not wasting my time anymore and have slowly started eliminating those people from my life. I am so happy with my life and care about Ben and the kids, they are my number one and I won't let others make me un happy which in turn effects my family.

Fiona xx

Where's my babies gone!

The kids have grown up sooo much. Max is talking to me like a little adult and has horrible attitude at the best of times but its the cute little things he does that I can't help but smile. His latest thing at the moment is "are you so proud of me mum, I'm proud of you" its just adorable. and only a couple of days ago I sent him to his room for being naughty, he stopped crying and I could hear what I thought was him playing but later that night when I put him to bed, as I walked into the room he said "do you like it mum, its clean, are you proud of me" I asked him when he cleaned it and he said "in naughty time" it makes you melt.

Jayden well he's become quite the terror. He has 2 little teeth on the bottom and he started commando shuffling backwards then slowly crawling but within the last couple of weeks he's found his muscles and his feet and now climbs up on everything and furniture walks. He puts EVERYTHING in his mouth and loves playing with cords, if there's none out he manages to find them lol. He is just sooooo inquisitive, you can see him thinking to himself how he's going to get something. He laughs and smiles every time he's being naughty, you just can't get mad, he's a little suck! He has so many cute noises and thinks he can sing to the radio in the car but it just sounds like screaming to me lol. He is definitely keeping me on my toes, especially when daddy is gone. He is the biggest daddy's boy you'll ever come across, it's just adorable the 2 of them when Ben's home. Lucky for me he's starting child care on the 11th Oct so that should keep him busy and give me time to do the things I need to. It's going to be hard letting him go, I didnt put max in care until he was nearly 3 and that was hard enough lol. But I know it will be good for Jayden to get used to different environments and different people caring for him.

Anyways as usual I have taken sooo many photo's of the kids but there are just way to many to even pick a few favs.. If you wanna check out the latest they are on my website;

(http://fiona-catherine.weebly.com/gallery.html)

the latest photos are in the album 'My Boys' 

Fiona xx

I'M GETTING MARRIED!!!!

OMG!! where do I start.
Well dad was visiting from Indo and Ben was due to fly out again so we decided to stay someone for some time away from the kids which we hadn't had since Jayden being born. 

So on May 1st 2010 to be exact lol we stayed at Kudos Villas (www.kudosvillas.com.au/hepburn) which are absolutely gorgeous, we stayed at the diversion property.

Anyway he'd booked a massage for me and it was so nice just to relax especially soaking in that divine spa. We were sitting on the couch after my massage and we were just watching tv and talking. I had slightly mentioned awhile ago that I wanted to get married so I was saying I would much rather to buy a love couch like the one we were sitting on then have a ring on my finger haha just cos the couch is so expensive anyway the sneaky bugger put his hands in his pocket and said "a ring like this".
I was in shock. He then said will you marry me. I remember saying to him straight away "You shithead, how did you hide this from me" lol but of course I said "Yes"

The ring is gorgeous and is so sparkly, I love it, it's very me! I always have people commenting on how nice it is. I guess I'll share some pics with you tehehe.

It has a matching wedding band which is just stunning to!! but have to wait for that one until 

May 6th 2012

WE HAVE PICKED A DATE!!
Pretty much once I have covered all my catch up blogs it's going to be wedding post after wedding post until the wedding hehe I'm so excited!! I'll tell you all about it in another post.

Fiona xx

Update on the business adventure!

I'm so happy with some of the creations I have achieved. my website www.cuddleupkids.com.au is well and truly up and running. It has all the latest pics and prices. I'll post a little something =)

Fiona xx

6 Months!!! wowza!!

Ok so it's been six months from the last post I did and I tell you want.. SOOOO much has happened. The last I left off was that we just moved into a new house and Ben was on his journey to PNG for the second time. Well all that was fine, a few more riots and attacks, but something to be expected of that country. On a better note since then he has found a new job in Australia YAY!! so he left a week ago and guess what... he's home in a week, so yup that means a 2/2 week roster!! It's going to be so much better for the kids and me. He also has a lot better communication and I at least know he's safe in Aus. He also likes it a lot better, the company is more organised, pays better, closer, safer, etc so he's been a lot less stressed and a lot more happy which makes for a happier me hahaha.

Well aside from all that there's so much else that has gone on in the last 6 months. I have a list of things I want to put in separate blogs just so I don't clutter this post with to much. some of which includes;

• My business is going well, I enjoy doing it.
• Ben proposed.. so yes I'm engaged and have picked a wedding date =)
• The kids have grown up so much, especially Jayden with all his new milestones
• Facebook, friends and drama oh it never ends hahah

Have a lot to cover so better get writing

Fiona xx