My party was yesterday (Sunday) and I had the most marvelous time! It was tea party in the park at Cotton Tree, and I felt so blessed to have so many beautiful friends there to share the fun with! My only regret- not many photos. It is hard to take photo when you’re talking to lots of people. Even harder to get photos of yourself! Thankfully I have scavenged a few picture from people who have uploaded them to facebook!

Does anyone else have this problem?!

We’re graduating at different times for different reasons, but the point is that we’re not all at Uni anymore. Before our lives, though different, were all consumed by a common factor- Uni. Now we’re all in different places and we talk about different things. Every school holidays Katie comes back to the coast (her and Alex moved to Emerald to teach), and we all get together for a ‘uni night’. It’s always fun to talk and catch up and hang out with these people that for the last 3 years I have spent so much time with!!

The thing I noticed about Monday night (our most recent Uni night), was the different conversations that went round the table, and how the amount of conversations that included everyone was decreasing. Rachel and I could talk about puppies, Katie and Carmen about graduation… there were conversations about being married, getting engaged, engagement rings, churches, friends, girlfriends, children, houses… the list goes on.

I guess the thing I love is that even though we’re all at different places in life right now, we are still able to get together and talk for hours and hours. I hope that this never dies, as long, good friends are hard to find.

Talia is like…

A Light Bulb

• she is bright
• she lights up my world
• I can press her buttons
• she was given to me by an electrician

11:30pm

• she’s always late

Chai Tea

• she’s a little bit hippy
• she warms me up
• I feel relaxed around her
• she’s so in right now

A Celebrity

• everybody loves her
• she’s absolutely beautiful
• she has a great sense of fashion
• I’m proud to know her

Blackjack

• she’s exciting
• she encourages me to take risks
• she can be expensive
• she’s 21

So I really loved this speech because people laughed during it, and smiled a lot, and I’m sure lots of girls were jealous that they weren’t married to the most amazing man in the world, who would give a beautiful speech like this.

We spent a fair bit of time yesterday bonding sleeping on the bed together. Pepper is really little, and gets cold easily. She is also keeping mummy and daddy VERY AWAKE during the night. So I am at work now, but very tired!!

Rachel and Aaron bought Pepper’s brother- Shadow, as well! So they have fun playing together. It’s nice to have them part of the same family!!

Pepper loves the attention she is getting, and loves playing with Misty as well. Check out this video I made of her:

Thank you to everyone who came! It was made very special by the variety, and loyalty of the friends who shared it with me.

It was held in our newly (almost) finsihed place. Picture of the main room, with floor down and everything, here:

There is nothing quite like having friends to share your love and your time with. I would like to give a special things to Rachel, who gave quite a touching speach. Also a big thanks to Dad- who is always one of my biggest fans, and always manages to gush over me at exactly the right times (i.e: during speaches dedicated to me).

LUKE’s speach was very well thought out, and I am thinking that I will write it out (he gave me a copy of his notes- yes, he wrote notes!!), in a new post. I LOVE him SOOOO much.

In this one I talk about our car accident. If you want to view some photos then you can see them here.

Our bedroom is the only finished part of the house, so everything else is just scattered in the enourmous space we have (it’s taking a bit of getting use to!) Mum and Luke are painting the last wall of the lounge room today, and then there’s the floors to do- but it should be done by the end of the week!! Then we’re on our way to doing the main area- kitchen, study, living area, dinning area. Which is exciting!

We had some great friends, Rachel, Aaron, Pete and Jordan who helped us move yesterday. Thanks guys!! Rachel did some cleaning as well, which was a real blessing! Pete took some photos of the move, which you can view here.

Oh, and Luke had a little accident in our car… no one’s hurt, but if you could all pray (or do just whatever you do!) that it doesn’t cost us heaps and heaps, and that it gets fixed quickly, that would be great!! Thanks. xox.

And my mum showed me this awesome thing today: http://www.simplesavings.com.au Check it out!