Christmas!

Hey Merry Christmas!!! We had a great day! Spent it with Brad's family and it was lovely and hot! It was a bit strange for me having Christmas in the heat but it was lovely to spend it with family and the food and presents were all fantastic!
We are getting ready now for my parents arrival which will be Sunday night our time. And tonight (Saturday) I'm heading out with a few friends for my Australian hen night. I will take photos and post them up tomorrow if I can. We are also going to be throwing a New Years party in our house so we will hopefully have a good time and good pictures from that too!
So I'll take this chance to say Merry Christmas once agin and Happy New Year to everyone from Brad and I!

Hello. It's been a busy month so far. All the Christmas presents are bought and wrapped, and in the case of the Irish ones, in the post. All the Christmas cards are sent and our tree still has some baubles on it (there are some still out of the cat's reach).
Thanks to everyone who sent us a card and to the people who sent presents! We haven't opened any presents yet so Christmas morning will be all the more exciting.
We've also received some wedding cards, thanks everyone who sent one. But we would like to suggest that people hold off on any wedding gifts until we're back in Ireland. Saves you spending loads on postage to Australia and us posting it back to Ireland in a few weeks.
I went to my work Christmas party last week which was good. We also went and saw Twilight at the movies after a little bit of Christmas shopping.
Got my leprechaun hat (with attached beard) in the mail. Thanks loads Gemma! Gonna take it in to work to show all the gang in the office. I've been doing some long shifts at work with the lead up to Christmas and will be going right up to my 12 hour shift on Christmas Eve. The cat was obviously concerned that I might not have woken up this morning at 2am for work, so she took it upon herself to charge up and down the house doing her 'cat howling' at 1:40am. Just as well I've got the next 2 days off!

Oh Christmas tree

Hey so last week was quite busy for us. I met up with Marlene and Lindsey for dinner (which was great), Scott and Mel hung out with us on Thursday and stayed for fish and chips dinner, and I had a job interview on the Friday. We also went to Alana and Darren's wedding on the Saturday. It was lovely. All black and white theme. The wedding took place outside in the courtyard of a hotel in Bendigo and the reception was indoors at the same hotel. The food was nice and she had a fantastic cupcake wedding cake made by Brad's auntie Anne. I also managed to post off the Christmas cards and presents so I can rest now till next year!!
All this and a week of very early starting for me. Christmas time has brought some nice 3am starts along with it (that's arriving in work at 3am). The wedding was a great laugh and would have been even better if I'd been able to take advantage of the free alcohol. Summer has been in hiding and we've been getting plenty of storms here and also some colds, probably due to the crazy changes in weather every day. Aimee has had her sore throat and sniffy nose all week and now I can feel my throat tingling too, just in time for my days off. Off into the city tomorrow to pick up Aimee's wedding band, which we had specially made.
We also put up the Christmas tree and Tinky took to pruning it right away as well as stealing the bobbles off the branches. 'Twill be the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature will be stirring, except for the cat rolling a christmas bobble across the wooden floorboards.

News, news, news!

Hello all just me today, Brad is still in work. So Happy birthday again to Eadaoin and Leanne. I bet you both had great birthdays. I haven't got much news. The weather here has been terrible all this week thunderstorms and all! Brad and I haven't been out really, its been too wet. I met Marlene for lunch during the week it was great to see her and start to plan my hen night! Of course its only the Australia one as there will be an Irish one too. We also saw Helen (Brad's mam) and John who came to visit us yesterday. We had a nice lunch and did a bit of shopping (Helen bought a Nintendo DS and insisted it had to be pink!).
Okay so let me see what else.... we had dinner with Seamus and Jocelyn Ryan a couple of weeks ago and then the next day called over to their house to see Niamh who is just so funny and cute! We also called up to Narelle (Brad's sister) and Bruce's to see Nicholas for his birthday. So the wedding plans are continuing, we have organised my wedding band which is the hard one to sort out cause of the style of the engagement ring. And Brad has his suit and looks very handsome in it. I'm sure he'll make the perfect groom but then I am biased! Anyway there's no more news. I'm meeting up with Lindsey and Marlene this week so it should be fun. Bye!

Happy Halloween!

We had our Halloween party last night. Because Halloween is still widely unrecognized in Australia, it ended up being more a small get together but was a lot of fun none the less. The house was fully decked out for the event with bats and a carved pumpkin. I dressed as Obi wan from Star Wars clone wars and Aimee was a french Napoleonic officer. We had BBQ sausages and chicken along with salad, lots of nibbly things and a host of spooky Halloween themed songs playing through the night.

So it was a good time had by all anyway. And we had a chainsaw massacre and some very suspicious pies cooked by Mrs. Lovett! We are trying to convince Scott and Mel to have a party next year and we're even giving them our spider chandelier to get them started! We've put a few photos below so take a look!

Halloween countdown!

Hey just me today. I'm just letting you all know we have no news! Well except the fact that we are getting ready for our fancy dress Halloween party we are having on Friday night! It should be fun I hope to put some photos up on the blog the day after and I should be able to say if it was a success or not (I'm praying people turn up!). Other than that there is no news so I'll post something more interesting on Saturday! Bye

Barbeque time!

Hello all. So we haven't been up to much lately which is why we haven't left any messages. We were in the Victoria market in Melbourne city last Saturday which was great for me cause it reminded me of my time here last year. We didn't get much at the market but we did get some nice ham and cheese in one of the delis and Brad bought 6 doughnuts and ate 5 of them! This week we went to see Seamus play in the Celtic club (another old haunt!). It was great as we hadn't seen him play since last year and we met some of his friends and had a good night. I also got some free shoes this week (the benefit of working in a shoe store!). Yesterday Brad got out his BBQ (you can see his photo) and we had a lovely lunch made especially nice by the 27 degrees heat!

Last night we took a trip into the 3rd dimension to see Journey to the Center of the Earth in 3D at the cinemas. It was good and Aimee jumped when things flew at the screen and all the kids in the cinema screamed. Had the day off work today so we did the BBQ lunch again. Was still 30 degrees at 6pm today, so another perfect day for it. Also ordered our Halloween costumes. Hopefully should have those by the end of the week!