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the wedding day.....

It’s been awhile since my last post, I have been a little busy… So the wedding has come and gone and my honeymoon is coming to an end. I’m loving married life, although its not feeling all that different. The wedding was a fantastic day, it just went way to fast. We had a lot of family come from all over the place and we hadn’t seen them or our friends since moving to the dessert but it felt like I didn’t get a chance to talk to anyone! The morning of the wedding I felt really relaxed and I’m so glad that I got to really enjoy doing all that fun girl stuff with my girlfriends without feeling stressed about anything. There were a few things that I could have blown up about.

1. My hair wasn’t really what I wanted, but was easily fixed when I got home.
2. My make-up was good but she really didn’t do the best job at highlighting my features and when you are paying good money I kind of expected something that I couldn’t do at home. But once again that was easily fixed when I got home.
3. Then…. This is kind of funny… the exact same thing happened to my sister when she got married and I remember mum running around trying to fix it before my sister saw. My flowers had gross fern all through them. I had given the florist an exact photo of what I wanted and THEY DID NOT HAVE ANY FERN IN THEM! So my wonderful bridesmaids cut and pulled the fern out. The flowers looked so much better!

The ceremony was everything I had dreamed it would be. I knew it would be tough not just for me but also for my dad to get down the isle. As I was standing waiting to walk in it all hit me…. I AM GETTING MARRIED RIGHT NOW! I pulled myself together and walked in with dad on my arm. I walked down the isle to ‘Jessica’s Theme’ from ‘The Man From Snowy River’. A special song for a couple of reasons, Dad and I used to spend our Sundays watching this movie (dad can quote every word). The other reason is, well, because my name is Jessica. I don’t remember anything that the pastor so I am very happy that there is a video I can watch. I felt as if I wasn’t really there, it was although my body was there but like I was just watching. I remember looking around the church and thinking about what a great job mum had done with the flowers and how great the bridesmaids looked. Then it came time for the vowels, which we had written ourselves. I got through them a lot better then I though. There were a few tears but I finished them without too much difficulty. Then I was Mrs Stewart!

The rest of the day is kind of a blur, everything just seamed so rushed, I just wanted to stay there all night and hang out with my friends.

Then we were off on out honeymoon… and that’s another story.

What a change of scenery...

How things have changed over the last couple of months. I used to often spend my weekends enjoying the bright lights of Sydney, i am so lucky to have been able to live in one of the most beautiful city's in the world. I now spend my weekends looking at the dry desert, which i sometimes feel i might be taking for granted, just like i took living in Sydney for granted. It really is amazing out here, but i need to remind myself of that. Ben and i went for a little drive yesterday afternoon and while driving through this dry country realised just how amazing it is here. I really need to just enjoy what i have and not dwell on what i don't have because one day i will be living in the city again and will look back on my time here and think about how lucky i was to have been able to experience the desert.

My artistic side...

So some of you may not know that i enjoy to paint.

Because there are no shops out here and i couldn't just go buy Ben a birthday present and also because we are getting married soon and all our money is going towards that i decided to make Ben something, and here it is.... Love Birds!

birthday boy...

Today is Bens birthday, he is now 27 years old. We wish all our friends were here to help us celabrate, if we were back home we would have you all over for some good food.

PS. we're also getting married in 3 weeks! yay

Friends...

I have the greatest friends in the whole world!

I have been really happy here in the desert but last weekend was a hard one. I really just wanted to get out of here. Ben and I both had things that we had to do for church and were on duty on Saturday night and it just felt like I couldn’t escape. I was tired and just wanted to do something 'normal' like go to the movies, go shopping with the girls or just sit in borders with Marissa like old times. There had been a lot of tears and a few moments were I wanted to leave and then my girls called me! The timing was perfect and I got to talk to them all! It was so lovely to hear their voices. Although it made me miss them even more (and a lot more tears when I hung up the phone) it was nice to know they were thinking of me. Distance can be so hard sometimes!

I hope i can grow old with you girls and maybe when we get older we will be more sun smart.
thank you so much girls for your phone call, I love you all and can’t wait to see you all again!
xxx

Love...

I came accross a new blog today that i really enjoyed, this picture really caught my eye, oh how i love, LOVE!

The blog is called 'A Summer Picnic Wedding'