Christmas 2010

It's been one of the best years of my life.

2010 was the year we got married, got our first place and found out we're having our first kid.

We also spent our first Christmas together as a married couple.

Christmas Eve, we had a dinner at Aunty Mimi's place, where we had a grand time with the usual Christmas fare (clam chowder soup and roast beef!!), as well as playing with the two cutie kids.


Then we headed for Midnight Mass at our Church. Will probably one of our last midnight Masses for a few years as Christian (yes that's the lil' one's name!) comes along next May!

Following that, we headed to the MSC Christmas party and ate and ate till 4am and almost exploded. Gosh, stretch marks, pls stay hidden!

When we got home, it was time to open each other's presents.

My dear husband had wrapped his camera in a shoe box - loaded of picutres of clues as to where to find my presents!

So at 5 something in the morning, I was hunting and digging in living room, bedrooms, bomb shelter, you get the idea. And I was grandly rewarded for my efforts. Thanks for ALL the presents dear, I loved them!



We slept a few more hours and then headed to Aunty Lillian's place for Christmas Lunch! More eating! And the kids went crazy with Ewan, as they suddenly decided he was Satay and they 'barbequed' him on the grill, chopped him up and served him to the rest of us. Yummy!




After that we headed over to the club to pick up the 4.5kg Turkey for our Christmas dinner with my Mom's side of the family. It was cool cos my grandma and aunts were coming over to our new place for the first time, and they really liked it. We also opened the rest of our presents and I'm really glad we got something for everyone - just made the whole season of giving feel so nice and warm.















































Boxing day came and after chilling and lazing around in the afternoon, we went for Evening Mass and then to Shireen's place for some INCREDIBLE Indian food. Goodness, I think I had never tasted such awesome Nasi Bryani, Butter Chicken and Naan in my life. To top it off there was also Lasagna and Mudpie.



The food was great, but most of all, it was the joy and love shared among family and friends that makes Christmas what it is.


The best way to celebrate the birth of our Lord. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Bliss!

Wooden Wedding Signage

Home Inspiration

Birds Nest Ring Pillow

Now most jewellery shops would throw in a free ring pillow when you purchase a pair of wedding bands.

They would look something like this.















Pretty little things they are.

But when I saw this in a bridal magazine, I absolutely fell in love with it.

Birds Nest Ring Pillows!

The rustic colours and details are just so beautiful.

I'm totally going to make myself one!

Inspiration Board

Been thinking about the wedding colours and came up with the above inspiration board. I absolutely love the richness of the two colours!

I especially love the olive green dress on the right. It's going to be the colour of my bridesmaid's dresses.

Speaking of which, went shopping with Grace recently and narrowed down the choices of dresses for the girls. Will go show them to Cheryl and Shireen soon.

Aside from that, pretty much confirmed my own wedding dresses and got our rings as well.

Also got an eye on a pretty good tailor for Ewan's suits. Yay!

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I was flipping through some quotes on marriage that Cheryl gave me for Christmas, and this one stood out:

'I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance. A church filled with family and friends. I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for. He said one that would make me his wife.'

Heh. Better not get carried away with all the non-necessities. =p

Lots to do

It's been an eventful and quite overwhelming few months... Wedding preparations!

1. Bought a place in Fernvale near Jalan Kayu (yums) ... hopefully we can move in before the wedding.

2. Booked a hotel for the Wedding dinner.

3. Booked the Church for the Wedding Mass and lunch reception. Got to design invites, Mass booklets, and look for a caterer soon. Blessed with wonderful friends and relatives who have agreed to help with the decor - heheh, my grandad used to own a bridal boutique, so I've got aunts who are well adept at wedding decor :)

4. Got a photographer for the actual day, and Ben is taking our pre-wedding shots. He's super talented and got awesome ideas. Can't wait!

5. Need to look for our outfits. Daunting task, but should be fun... just got to keep telling myself not to do things last minute. Also got to get dresses for my beautiful bridesmaids Shireen, Cheryl and Grace. :)

6. Rings - need to shop for them soon.

7. Lots lots more!

On a side note, I've been addicted to all these wedding websites and magazines that have got DIY projects and cute decoration ideas. HAVE to try my hand with some of them BEFORE the wedding is over.

Anyway, the date is set for the 31st of July :)

Two Masses!

We went for two Masses last Sunday!

It was Ewan's Rite of Election before his Baptism this Easter - held at St Anthony's Church in Woodlands, and we didn't know that there was Mass as well so we went for the 11 am Mass before.

Here's a pic of the elects from SFX, together with Archie!

Looking forward to their baptism :)