My week in pictures....

Jude made magic reindeer food at school. Love his little story they had to write.

Jude sprinkling the food for the reindeer's outside.

The ham we cooked - very chuffed with my cherry and pineapple decor :)

Jude's favorite gift from Santa - the best part is that we don't have to pack it away every time. I even have fun with it.

Got a cute mat for outside - we needed one and it was on sale too. yay.

Jude was very stressed that we missed lunch time @12 noon, so he said he'll make us all lunch and when I came into the kitchen, this is what he had made for us. Is this cute or what!

We went to the Botanical gardens and we saw a mommy with its ducklings - so cute.

Beautiful rose gardens.

My Mr handsome in his new gear from Christmas.

We got to have a nice movie day at home and Jude got all comfty on his airbed. 

We went to tenpin bowling yesterday - was loads of fun. A nice pic of me and my sis and cuz. 

Hey - soooo here's a story about my phone - I love to take all my pics on my phone and we went away on holiday - aaaannnnddd.... I left my phone on the roof of the car aaaaannnnnd.... forgot it was there - of course it fell off and smashed and all - so that was broken :( Plus my hubby's phone was broken too and he was borrowing one - soooo, we decided to spoil ourselves for Christmas and got a Samsung Galaxy S3 each. We never normally buy the latest technology etc.. but they were having a great deal and my parents have the phone and rave about it all the time - and now I can see why - best phone I ever got.
Anyways enough about that, I'm so excited it's nearly Christmas - 2 more sleeps yay!!! I love that Jude is older and really getting into the Christmas spirit, makes it more magical.
Here are a few pics from these last few days....

My sister got her first tattoo this week - a music note that she's always wanted. 

Jude made this Christmas tree at school and I just love it so much!

We added some herbs to the kitchen.

Jude's granny made him a lovebox, which has a gift each day for the next 2 days leading up to Christmas. So cute.

Opening his first prezzy from the lovebox :)

Our new phones.

My cousin got a bunny - a mini flopsy - his name is Henry and he is sooo cute!!!!

I got my hair done today - got a fringe, I needed something different. Jude wanted to be in the pics too hehe.

My mom-in-law made us bunny chows today and it was sooo good!!!! My mouth was on fire but I enjoyed every bite.

Well HELLO, I am most certainly back :) My phone was MIA but no more! So here are a few pictures from these last 2 weeks. Enjoy...

2 weeks ago, my hubby took me out to dinner ;-) And my sister decided to make my hair a little bit fancy. So thought I'd take a pic to show you :)

I ordered the Salmon on lemon grass risotto with a pastry tower - and I will most certainly order this every day if I could. It was SO good!

Dessert was just as good - deep fried ice-cream with coconut, in a brandy basket with strawberries and cream on a raspberry coulis - heaven in my mouth! 

We bargained a free bench for our patio - my hubby's work was getting rid of it and we needed more seating outside - perfect :)

We also decided to spruce up our garden and added a trimming around our flower beds to frame the garden. It turned out great.

Sometimes, a big dinner does not make it's arrival when you're tired and been working all day - so toast and tin spaghetti does the trick - the plus side -we all love eating it :) Oh and don't forget coffee :)

One of our favourite drinks - iced coffee! So good on those hot days. It's also really big so we always share one:)

Jude's school was supporting Movember, so all the kids went to school with mustaches - my Mr handsome looks soooo cute!

It was my step-dads 40th and he just had a small gathering with coffee and cake (well, my mom organised it hehe) This was a yummy carrot cake.

He also got given 40 balloons (which say Merry Christmas on them hehe) 

Favorite part of Dec - the 1st, putting up the Christmas tree - Jude enjoyed decorating it, getting more into Christmas the older he gets :) Plus I was a teeny bit disappointed, because when we got this tree we were in a much smaller house, so now in this blessing of a house this tree looks a tad bit sad- BUT it was decorated with so much love, which make me appreciate it a whole lot more.

We're having Christmas at my house this year and we all got involved in making a bunting flag for our tent (yes, we're having a marque outside) It took 4 of us to make it hahaha, but it went real quick! 

Our finished product - we hang it up to see if it was long enough and no it wasn't :) So we're going to make more soon enough. When it's not 11pm @ night haha.