a visit and an american apparel giveaway announcement

i am now 32 weeks and 3 days. my midwife appointments have upgraded from monthly to fortnightly and in not too long will become weekly. we are getting ready for this baby - emotionally and spiritually.

the other day we had a visit with beautiful jodi and her gorgeous family. we all shared croissants with delicious tasmanian homemade jam from their recent trip. i stole some time to talk to jodi about birth and labour. she is a serious inspiration. her story of the birthing of poet (baby number two for her and daniel) is one of the most beautiful i've read. she inspires women to trust their bodies and flow with the rhythm of birth. she is passionate about birth and i can't thank her enough for the empowerment she has inspired in me.

poet sat right on top of the belly - the perfect seat, and we had a little chat. i felt for a moment that rush of excitement to hold my own baby. to hold what is mine and tim's and God's.

we have a giveaway winner to announce. remember these lovely shoes?

they are going to the beautiful...

georgi! send an email to keshycc@gmail.com with your address and i'll send them on through. 

dinner with timmy

tonight we ate dinner. this might not sound like something notable - to eat dinner - but for us tonight it was because we literally had nothing to cook. we could've had mi goreng or cereal. but it wasn't that kind of night, the air was warm and the breeze was gentle. also, tim's first bowl of cereal only made him more ravenous.

we decided that the universe was telling us that we must go out. our bank account was telling us that we needed to compromise.

our compromise was not even a legitimate compromise. we went to our favourite place to eat within a 10 minute drive from our house. it definitely is one of our top three places to eat within an hour drive of our house. the food is properly good. like really good.

you can eat in or takeaway at the blue swimmer. taking away was our compromise. taking away meant cheaper dinner and the best view ever. we sat on a bench looking over the place where timmy proposed to me years earlier, while the sky changed colours over the beach. that's pretty special.

i had fish and chips (not any fish and chips, fresh amazing fish - beer battered, and the chips were perfect with the exact amount of rock salt that makes you lick your lips a bit too much but not need to skull water every two seconds). timmy had an incredible steak sandwich with all kinds of yummy things on it - including beetroot, which makes every kind of sandwich extra delicious.

i have been feeling under the weather today (as you may has seen via instagram [check me out - keshcoulson is my name]). i have a flippin' annoying cold and i'm sure my fried food dinner did wonders for my health.

dates with timmy are my favourite.

watch this space. i have some ridiculously good giveaways coming your way in the next couple of days. ohhhh yeeaaaaahhh.

dinner with the coulsons

the coulsons are a unique family.

timmy's birth order is smack bang in between two sets of non-identical twin girls. (what are the odds hey, two sets of twin girls)

his family goes like this. boy, twin girls, boy, twin girls. i figure this makes him pretty well balanced.

twins run in both of our families. my sister has twins, i have twin cousins, there are twins in my grandparents family too. i would be pretty excited if we got a set. twins are awesome.

last night timmy and i travelled up the coast to have a special dinner to celebrate one of the older twins marriage (adam and alisa, the newlyweds, are the second photo down, whoowhoo).

we had dinner at a place i have been dying to eat at forevvvvver, rojo rocket. we had a delicious meal of amazing mexican. lemon, lime and bitters was the drink of the night. ohh yeaahhh.

in other news. this morning while i was getting ready for church my hair straightener blew up in my hand. we heard a big tttzzzzzaaaapp, saw sparks fly and i dropped that sucker straight on the floor. i came out unscathed. the electricity in the whole of upstairs did not. lucky timmy worked some magic on the power box and all is well again.

robertson with a videooooo

yesterday we went up to visit one of our favourite little towns. it's called robertson.

robertson has two of our favourite things in it - an amazing bakery with the best meat pies ever. annnnd the best most reasonably priced vintage store you ever imagine owned by an incredibly lovely lady named  ali.

timmy documented our day in video and pictures.

i guess you can call this a vlog? i'm not a fan of that word, it's a bit gross.

enjoy :)

the awesome song used in the video is called Go Outside by The Cults. you can buy it on iTunes, here.

2nd anniversary dinner

we ate food. it was so yum. tim is oh yeah.

our anniversary is on the 29th of december. this makes going away a little hard. everything is expensive and booked out super early and extra busy and so forth. lucky we live in a place people go on holidays to.

we also live near a beautiful little town called berry that has an awesome restaurant called the hungry duck. we only go there for special occasions cause it doesn't fit in our 'frequent eats' price range (pies fit in this price range). 

we ate six courses. yes. six.

zucchini flowers

pork buns

kingfish

spring rolls

pork cutlet

chilli chocolate tart

i went crazy and even had a cranberry and lime organic soft drink.

tim documented every dish on his iphone. we didn't look so strange standing over our dishes with our phones in hand when the girl sharing a table with us (jacinta stapleton of neighbours fame) started doing the same thing.

Yellow Days

Tim makes the best eggs I’ve ever eaten. We like our eggs exactly the same way- easy over, nice and runny. It’s been a bit of a tradition of ours to have a cooked breakfast on Saturday mornings. We had a BBQ at our old house and Tim would work his magic on that for me, in this house we’re back to a fry pan. The eggs this week turned out awesome just as usual. So delicious. I really love having brekky together, morning is such a beautiful time of day. Sit me down with some delicious food and my favourite person in the world and I’m a happy girl.

Egg yoke has not been the only yellow in my life this week. Pieces of furniture in our house are in the process of being turned a very full on yellow. I had a burst of decorating energy and painted a mirror and a stool. The mirror needs toning down (I’m thinking potato stamping).

When I was a kid I painted my whole room yellow, I’m pretty sure I was the only person in my family who liked it. I’ve shied away from colour a bit lately. I think it’s time to embrace it again.