I'm getting married!!! :-)

Jem and Michael - sorry about the red eye

Yes, that is the surprise that I mentioned last post!!

Greg and I have decided to tie the knot and I am very excited about it. We got engaged when we were away at Tasmania for Greg's 40th Birthday, in 2007. I got pregnant when we were away too!!! I probably would have gotten married prior to having bubba Michael BUT I was so so very ill whilst i was pregnant, that just wasn't an option at all.

My sister got engaged and then married in that time too. After I had Michael I told Greg that I didn't want to get married anymore - Why? I don't know really - It just didn't *feel* right at the time - I don't know why - maybe baby hormones???.

However over the past couple of months my feelings had changed and for some reason I started to really feel that I wanted this to happen - and it is!!!

I am really happy and excited - I have never been married before.

Greg is a good guy. He is quirky and different, but then so am I. He is not perfect and sometimes says the wierdest or completely the wrong thing LOL but this is because of his chronic shyness - it takes over his mouth and what he says is not what he means or it comes out completely wrong or silly. Saying that, he is very clever - I'm sure if he had had some different opportunities and a different family environment who could have assisted him overcome his shyness then he would be a very different person - but sadly that didn't happen (well it didn't until I came along LOL). He is a great father to Michael and is very good with Jemma and Alex. He can make anything he sets his mind to - its amazing what he can do. He has grown so much since we got together....................he is a completely different person to what he was 4 years ago....... and I can't imagine spending my life without him now. In a lot of ways we compliment each other, which is great - we are a good team. He has wanted to get married but gave me the space to decide when I was ready - and now I am - very much so!!!

So, the planning has virtually been consuming me because I am trying to arrange this in 11 weeks!!! OMG - so much to be done!!!

I will update this week the details of the celebration and where I am at with all the planning. Of course, knowing me, I wanted to stick to a budget and I will talk about this too (and how it is blowing out eeeeek!!). This marriage stuff is VERY expensive - even when you are a tight bum like me hehehe.

Some other news - one of the other chickens is laying!!! YAY I'm not 100% sure which one but I think it is one of the layer hens I bought from Dural Produce store a while back. She has grown a very big comb over the past couple of weeks and it now is very red too - so my money is on her.

Here is a pic of her first egg (it is the small one in the middle):

The chicks are growing fast!!! They are looking a bit ugly now as they are growing their feathers. I can't tell which are roosters or hens but hopefully soon we will know (maybe by 6 weeks??). We are going to have to get the nursery together soon, so will post progress of this too.


Sorry I have been a bit offline lately. I hope to get it together now that a lot of the organising is done now xxxxxx


Michael and Jem (Michael looks like Devil child LOL)