THE boy

normally in my blogs i refer alot to the boys and i (referring to my sons),

but this post is about THE boy.

he has been away this week and i found myself thinking of all the little things he does.

note - this post may contain some cheeziness.

we just completed a marriage course that our church wants ALL the married couple to take.

and in one of the lessons for an activity we had to write down all the characteristics that we love about our partner, so i thought why not write down a list of all the things i just love about THE boy in general.

1 - His smile, i didn't realize how much i missed it until we did some facetiming the other night.

2 - He takes Makai to the toilet before he goes to bed, because my belly is getting in the way of getting him off the top bunk and the main reason because i've normally crashed out on the lounge.

3 - His eyes, this may be one of the reasons i wanted kids with him (i wanted them to have his eyes.)

4 - His integrity, diligence & ethics.

5 - His sense of humour, we are total opposites in every way but he makes me laugh and that's all that matters.

6 - Random Texts, how can any girl not love uplifting texts from their partners?

7 - He is super predictable that now i just laugh at the things he does.

8 - His memory, he can remember everything, no joke, i especially love it when he tells me about memories of when we were dating because my memory got lost somewhere when i fell pregnant with makai.

9 - Kisses on the forehead, they are even better when they are randomly distributed.

10 - He plays with our boys, nothing quite so special than seeing a father with their children.

Family Date 10.

so you know that goal i had in january to have a family date every month where we actually go out and do something, yeh we were doing awesome until that darn october month came around.

so we were back this month keeping the goal alive.

only skipping one month isn't the end of the world, right?!

in sydney we have been blessed with amazing spring weather.

it's total beach weather.

of course, we had to take advantage of the 36 degree saturday yesterday and we headed to one of joovy and my all time favourite beach, Manly (for total sentimental reasons).

we decided to get breakfast there and then have a dip in the beach or "sea" as makai likes to call it.

i LOVE going to cafes and getting breakfast, it's one of my all time favourite dates to do.

but being a mum with boys the mornings sometimes can be ridiculous to make it out of the house without pulling my hair out so we made it a brunch date instead of an early morning breakfast.

what i love most about going to breakfast with joovy is that he is my total opposite.

he hates tomato's, mushrooms anything green and i LOVE it.

where i'm not a massive bread eater and it's in his blood to live on bread - he's a total maori.

we are complete opposites but we "compliment eachother" as joovy likes to say.

kids are easily pleased makai loves pancakes and brax loves eggs - not just any eggs they have to be fried eggs.

The Boys + I

with finding out a couple months ago that we were expecting our third and final installation was a boy,

i thought a blog name change was due.

i'm always finding myself saying or writing in my posts "the boys and i" and i thought why not embrace the fact that i'm the only girl in the household and name my blog "The Boys + I"
it sums up my family pretty perfectly.

 

here's a couple of pics of the boys + i.

we went a little crazy testing out the tripod.

(no judgements on the make up-less face)

Mrs Ormsby

when you get engaged all you think about is planning the wedding.

then once that is all over life will just fall into place and live happily ever after, right ?!

WRONG.

i've learnt that life always have something different in store for us.

when jevan and i got married i thought of all the time i'll get to spend with him, we will have kids and spend all weekend doing amazing family dates with one another, we would be able to go on couple dates regularly, ya know things like that.

i can't lie this year has seen alot of change in our family and some have been tough.

some expected, some we did not see coming in a million years.

we moved out into our first family home, jevan started a full-time job after completing 3 years at uni, jevan then began his full-time chartered accounting course, i fell pregnant and had ridiculous morning sickness and jevan got a new calling at church which takes him away from the home alot.

sometimes i find it really really difficult to deal with what life hands out.

all i can say is my happily ever after mindset has been replaced by reality.

when i see families all going out on the weekends, when makai asks why can't daddy play with us today i have to say to myself "this will all be worth it in the end."

i don't want people to think that i'm complaining because i'm not, i just want people to know that it's ok to be overwhelmed by it all and it's ok to feel like it's all to hard.

i am like super hormonal right now, this baby have turned me into a crying machine - and if you know me very well you know that i hate crying in front of people.

so i have spent alot of time crying this past month and honestly sometimes i don't even know why.

life is just hard sometimes - all those women who can manage all this and not complain hi-5 to you guys, you need to tell me your secrets because sometimes it just consumes me and becomes all abit to much and you guessed it - i cry.

i guess the key is finding joy in the journey.

The Itch

30th May 2006, 

that was the day i "apparently" met my one.

he can remember the day vividly.

to this day i can remember other people, just not him.

but it was the day that we first said our hello's that would be around for a lifetime.

on the 11th July 2006 he finally asked me to be his girlfriend.

and yesterday marked the 7 years i have been with joovy.

so yep, we made it through the "7 year itch."

we had our doubters and boy have we proved them wrong.

we have been through some quite painful times but there has also been more then enough of the funny, crazy, memorable times along our journey.

i started dating him when he was a cleaner, married him when he was a warehouse worker, supported him as a student and now he is the sole provider as an auditor.

how crazy times change.

chris brown was in the highlight of his career when we started dating, pirates of the carribean 2 was the hit movie everyone had to see, dickies shirts and short shorts were the latest fashion and dresses were just making a come back to the run-way.

the only thing that has stayed the same is that havaiana's are still the ultimate footwear - summer and winter/all year round.

our relationship has been a roller coaster ride and who else better to be in the seat next to me then him.

he drives me crazy, he has given me 2 beautiful boys, he has provided a roof over my head, food for us to eat, clothes for us to wear, he provides the priesthood in our home and he provides the best companionship i could have ever dreamt about when i was a little girl.

With all the odds against us, we made it through the Seven Year Itch.

BOO-YA.