Perth, Australia

We went to Western Australia for Charlie's mid term break last week.  We flew in to Perth and stayed the night there and went to visit my cousin Pat who is living there before heading to Margaret River where we stayed for the remainder of our trip.  It was so nice to see family on this side of the world. I always loved Pat growing up and haven't seen him for many years. It was also the first time I got to meet Pat's wife Barbara and son Cooper.  Cooper is just a few months older then Charlie so it was great to have them meet!  Their house is absolutely gorgeous, they built it themselves. As in my cousin and his father and brother in law actually built the entire house.  So impressive!  It was a great visit.

4 years!

Justin and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary on October 9th.  We decided to have a day of fun together, and it was seriously the best.  We went to a new water park here called Adventure Cove.  Many people asked if Charlie came along, but nope we went just the two of us! We were one of the couples there of our age that weren't with younger children, it was mostly filled with teenagers.  I seriously haven't laughed that hard in such a long time.  There was one ride which was absolutely crazy and so fast that I couldn't make any more noise I was laughing so hard during it. Such a fun date!

After the water park we headed to a couples massage at a very fancy spa, we had our own private suite where we could get ready at after.  We then went to our favorite restaurant Oso, where we have celebrated so many big events at together. It was the perfect place to end the day. My sister said our day summed us up perfectly as a couple, silly and romantic.  

I hope we are laughing this hard together for the rest of our lives! I love you dear, to the moon and back! x

Bali (again)

I had posted about our trip to Bali already a few months ago, but I just uploaded our camera pictures so had a few more pics to share! Enjoy. :)

Birthday Week

Laura and sweet baby Orla were in town over my birthday.  On my actual birthday, Laura's husband and Justin's very good friend Daire flew in from Dubai as a surprise to us girls. It made for such a fun ending to her trip here.  Thankfully the weather was pretty nice for most of their stay, we enjoyed some great nights out and shared plenty of laughs together.  It was so good to see them, it was especially good to meet Orla for the first time. She is such a good little girl, I swear people with girls have it so much easier!

Unfortunately, I didn't take that many pictures.  Laura had a camera with her a lot of the time so I left it to her to snap away. Here are the few I did take.

Carnival Rides

Last week my girlfriend Laura and her daughter Orla were in town from Dubai and we decided to take a water taxi down the river and ended up at Marina Bay Sands.  There was a small carnival going on with little rides for kids. Charlie was so excited to ride the horses and go through a bounce house obstacle course. 

I have a video of Charlie, he had his mouth wide open like he couldn't believe it.  It was so precious, for some reason I am having issues uploading videos on here though so I can't post it. But, you could see on his face how cool he thought it was.  He still talks about the horses daily.

Flying Cars!

A few weeks ago we decided to take Charlie on the cable cars over to Sentosa.  He currently loves watching the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which also happens to be one of Justin's all time favorite movies.  Charlie loves dancing and clapping his hands to all the music, but most of all he loves the flying car.  When we took him to the cable cars he thought it was the coolest thing that we were on our very own flying car just like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.  Once we got over to Sentosa we took Charlie down the Luge, he got to wear his own helmet and help Daddy steer all the way down.   Needless to say it was a very eventful day that we still talk about all the time. Justin and I are both getting a lot of value out of Charlie being old enough to enjoy these activities with us.

Oh and don't be alarmed by Charlie's face.  He had a few accidents and run ins with friends and unfortunately had three bruises at once on his face.  Two black eyes and a bump and bruise on his forehead.