In September we celebrated a big marriage milestone...well, small if you think of marriage eternally like we absolutely do, but still something to celebrate nonetheless.
Amazing Aunty Nae and her boys so kindly accepted to challenge to stay at our place for 6 days and look after the Heke offspring, so the 'hottest man ever' and I could jet off on a 5 night getaway.
What an amazing time we had.....as did the kids back at home!
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| My Friday duty bud |
How cool is it that I work at the same place that 3 of my kids go to school! I was able to quickly round them up for a hug and kiss before I gapped it to rush home and pack. I felt a bit bad that up until that morning they thought they were coming with us, but I eventually told them (when they couldn't ruin the surprise for Joe), that it was actually only him and I going, and they were going to be staying at home with the Leones. Huge 'yuss's' as soon as I divulged that info :)
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| Child-less at the airport a few minutes after I finally told him where we were going....we got all the way to the boarding gate without him having a clue where we were off to |
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| 10pm Kebabs |
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Super happy with the car but almost a marriage breakup over the carpark.
He was actually so super happy with the car, more excited than when I said 'we're going without the kids' and 'we're going to Melbourne' |
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| The view from our hotel room on the 36th floor |
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| All the trams are pretty cool, but the road rules in the city because of them are whack!!!! |
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| We made it just in the nick of time to do our September temple session |
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| I didn't get any pics of the outside of the church building, but it's one of those weird wards that are in the middle of the city in a random highrise |
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| We're so not shoppers so we didn't really make the most of Melbourne's famous shopping spots. The Chadstone Mall was so huge and fancy in one particular part that we felt really out of place |
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| My good ol' Grilled Burger. Love that place! |
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| I didn't buy any of these but was pretty excited by the sight of them all |
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| What I wouldn't give for a nice big bowl of this right now. And we bought it with no spoons when were were heading on a 2 hour drive so it was kind of wasted |
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| The outside of our hotel |
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| The extent of our shopping.....lots for us but probably a lame effort for everyone else |
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| Late one night we walked for about 20 minutes to find a Krispy Kreme....duh, trams are free, we didn't think about jumping on one till we were almost home. |
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| Tram to the Melbourne Star....a big ferris wheel thing |
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| View from inside one of the capsule, viewing deck thingys |
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| I think the whole rotation took about 40 minutes. It was quite cool, but mainly cause we didn't have to share our room thing. Would be kinda stink to be in there with 20 other people |
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| The afternoon before we left we stumbled upon Luna Park at St Kilda...a pretty iconic sight. |
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| Burgers again at the Grand Trailer Park I think this one was called. 100% burgered out after this, which has since well worn off! |
And there you have it. Melbourne has been well and truly ticked off my bucket list. Gosh it was good to get back to the kids and have the holidays to kick around with them before Term 4 started.....which was so crazy busy it was insane.
Sometimes I can't believe we've been married for 10 years and we have 4 children. It's raced by and been so so so good that sometimes I have to stop myself from worrying how long this can last....not as in, I wonder if our marriage will last because I never have any doubts about that, but 'what will tomorrow bring?' I feel like I'm living a dream life and everything's just how we want it. Can I stop time and keep things like this forever...except maybe the part how the kids do terrible behaviour at bedtime and keep very messy rooms!
How did I get so lucky to catch this man of mine. The one who will give me all and everything he has and still try to give more. The man stops what he's doing to listen to my (probably very boring) work stories told in extreme detail, the man who gets up early, works late, cooks, cleans, plays, drives, lifts, basically does everything I need and/or want....sometimes without even being asked!....My man!!!
Bring on the future 'hottest man ever'. Love from the 'hottest wife ever' (our phone caller IDs for eachother)
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