Sunday Snapshot

The weekend was all about these two beautiful people...

and why was it about these two beautiful people?

Because Em and Pete were getting MARRIED!!!!

Em looked beautiful, she stayed looking beautiful even with gale force winds BLASTING us during the beach-side ceremony, all through the photos and the entire reception (that was moved inside to protect everyone from the wind but the only place for the bridal table was on the balcony in the wind).

Wolf managed to get himself and the three boys all scrubbed up and at the ceremony with plenty of time to spare.  We almost forgot to take a family photo but remembered just in time for me to rush off to the official photos and Wolf to take the kids to eat before going to the babysitters.

That's why the boys shirts are untucked, Dragon's tie is rather dishevelled, and the boys have all but given up on cooperating.

They did pause for long enough for Wolf to take this photo a little earlier.

The wedding party had a great time.  I happen to think myself and my fellow bridesmaids were looking particularly good...

and I got to catch up with some wonderful friends...

Left to right: Jen, Lan, Em, Me, Ni.

Now, stay focused here, Em is actually the newcomer to this group, we've only know her since we were 9.  Jen and Lan have been best friends since forever, I've been hanging around since about then too.  Lan, Ni and I started grade one together and Em joined us in grade four.  We all knew Jen already but she came to our school in grade eight.  Fast forward a little while... first year out of school Ni left for a year in Japan, she came back and both her and Em left for uni down south, third year out of school and I got married and left town, came back the next year, eventually Em came back too, Lan and Jen never left and Ni occasionally comes to visit us... y'know, when something important happens... like sweet Em gets married!!!

Hopefully there will be more photos of the rest of our weekend soon... maybe.

My Ni

This is my Ni* ...

I know, she's just a bit stunning isn't she?

It was for this chicky that I dragged myself away from my babies for the weekend. We've been friends since grade 1, I know far too many stories about her to even start telling (and she's in law so I'm just not that brave) and she knows just as many about me yet we are still friends. Or perhaps that's why we're still friends, it's just too dangerous to not be...

These two were my partners in crime for the weekend. Lan (right) flew down with me, stayed at C & A's with me, hiked all over Brisbane city in heels with me, just shared the whole weekend with me. Em (left) was in the wedding and joined us after the reception for a very late night yapping and 8 hours of shopping the next day and the (delayed) flight home.

I've sure got some stunning friends!

*Ni, pronounced "nigh" as in "the end is..."

THE WEDDING

I finally have some photos to show from the weekends wedding!!! I was using mums camera so I didnt have them until today. And the one that I particularly wanted (one of the good ones of the family) didnt fit on my USB stick and I didnt think to check that it was there when I decided my cold groceries in the car probably needed to get home to the fridge and rushed out with whatever was on the stick withough checking. So here we are... The fancied up McTavish Clan!

We had these two spunky little kids running around with us all day. They looked remarkably like Lion and Dragon except they were clean and all dressed up!Lion decided just as we were leaving the house that he needed a wedding hat! Where he got that idea I have no idea but luckily Wolf had his grandad's (Lion's great-grandad) hat that happened to fit Lion. Doesn't he look so adorable???Dragon was a little pleased with the way he was lookin'. We actually borrowed a better fitting vest for Dragon in the end, it looked so much nicer than the little one pulling tight across his pudge.

And now on to the ones that the day was actually all about...

Aunty J (she's a real Aunty now YAY) looked so beautiful and her dad was very proud, I dont think he stopped smiling all day!

And here we are, what the day was all for... Mr and Mrs. I think they look pretty happy with themeselves.Uncle R is my little Bro and I have to say, he scrubbed up better than I have seen for anything else, and that is saying something because he did it without his mummy or Aunty J to make sure he looked okay before he went out. He had a white vest and tie with a black suit and shirt, Lion didn't like his suit, "I don't like it because you are supposed to have the white on the inside and the black on the outside". Obviously Uncle R didnt do as well as I thought getting dressed on his own, if you ask Lion he got his clothes on back to front.

This is just the start of the photos, I'll have more when I can get some time to edit and eventually I will have all the professional shots (handy to be friends with the photographer) and can have some real fun.

A sneak peek...

It's nearly here!!!! Uncle R and Aunty J's wedding. It seems like forever since they got engaged, actually when I think about it, it has been forever for Dragon. At their engagement dinner I was rather pregnant with a little Dragon baby and Lion wore the suit that Dragon will wear to the wedding. So tonight we had a bit of a fitting for the boys suits. Lion's was picked up earlier in the week from an op-shop for $25!!! I added a pair of dress shoes from Target marked down to $20 and here is the result...

Not bad hey??? He did think that he was top stuff!!

Although, for $25 the suit doesnt come perfect, there are a few minor things to fix... like the clasp at the waist of the pants!!!

Dragon was mighty pleased with himself too...

The skivvy will be a little warm so we are borrowing a friends dress shirt to go with it instead but he is in hospital at the moment so we are still to pick that up (please pray for him, he's better but needs IV antibiotics for almost another week, that's a long time for a 2 year old in hospital). I am quite worried about borrowing a white shirt, my children arent know for their cleanliness!!! The vest is a little small but if I dont let him eat this week he'll be fine:)

And Wolf tried on his new suit too, I happen to think they looked quite spiffy together!!!

just a side note... Lion told me tonight "mum, your face looks spiffy" I thought that was one of the sweetest things he could say!

And my dress isnt fit for public viewing yet. I found it for $35 at a clearance store, for that price, to find a dress I loved (wolf doesn't but we have different criteria) with only one size left a size too big I figured I could find a way to make it fit (or possibly my wonderful nanna could when she gets here on wednesday???) I am so proud of the way we will look for what we have paid!!! I was getting ready to spend heaps getting us all beautiful for this wedding but Dragon is free, everything ours or borrowed, Lion $45, Wolf (he's the expensive one, I let him buy a new suit that is actually fashionable so we wont mention his cost) and Mummy McT $65. I had to buy a new bra and it nearly doubled my costs but I have borrowed shoes which I thought I would need to buy. I have been wearing maternity bras since falling pregnant with Lion since I fed lion till after I was pregnant with Dragon and then there didnt seem much point shelling out for new bras when Dragon stopped feeding when I plan on being pregnant before I would get enough use to make it worth the money but sometimes you just gotta get one to fit the occasion. Had I bought a dress that Wolf liked I would have had to buy some of those Dr Rey underwear that keeps everything from moving! My criteria were: nothing slinky, I dont want to think about every morsel I put in my mouth. Raised waist, It's my favourite Italian resturant for the reception (wolf proposed over takeaway from here) I have to have room to fit in my whole meal. Straps, I have BOYS nearly 4 and nearly 2 years old, I NEED STRAPS! And bonus points for something that doesnt show up the dirty hand prints I will get on me from those boys, it's purple. So for now that is all you have to go on! Oh, I will tell you that i did feel a little "child of the 80's" when the two front runners were a balloon skirt and a rah-rah skirt!!!! It's the balloon skirt that won.

Beach Wedding

Here's a lovely photo of the boys taken at a beach wedding we went to recently. They were all dressed up, the sand was cool, the water blue so I thought a picture of Lion and Dragon sitting on the sand together would be nice. As I was getting the shot set up Lion lost interest and wandered away. "Lion jump down there and give dragon a nice big hug."




Granddad saw it coming and I was lucky enough to have captured this action shot before Dragon's snout was firmly planted in the sand. -Wolf McT