So it's only 3 hours to go until 2015! Wow! Al and I have been talking so much about next year, we have so many plans and exciting things planned I could burst! But first a look back at our most amazing year ever... In totally random order (sorry about that!)
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'the grumpy angel' as he's affectionately known when he sleeps... decorated with the standard
scrapes and bruises of the summer 2014 |
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| helping in the office |
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| exploring with daddy |
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| outside all year come rain or shine |
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| watching him experience something new has to be my very favourite this in this world... |
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| Santa at our market stall |
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| dropping daddy at the train, fun for the 5 weeks of the market but the boy and I are sure glad we have him with us every day the rest of the year :) |
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| This years continental market, which was amazing, again. Busy, exhausting, long hours, hard work but we appreciated every second and met so so many awesome new people who are helping to promote a bit of positivity with our products :) |
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| Al and I left Ché Phoenix for the first time in october and stayed at a spa overnight - bliss |
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| one from the summer |
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| happy me :) |
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| the day we met the duke at St.Georges market |
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| wild and free spirited - trying to let him stay that way ;) |
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| spring time family wedding |
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| peeka boo |
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| one from last month :) |
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| summer time strawberries from our local farm stall :) |
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| how our year started - a trip to South Africa, he loved the ocean |
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| possibly the cutest pic of 2014? |
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| just too cool... |
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| my man and me, couldn't be happier than when I'm with him... and thats basically 24-7 ;) |
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| style icon |
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| my beautiful sister (in-law) who i just just couldn't imagine my life without, her and her hubby james have become our best friends, our never failing support and the most incredible auntie and uncle you could ever imagine. This year would have been very different without them... |
So thats a random mix of pictures from the last 12 months...
Looking back I'm really proud of what we have done, Ché Phoenix's 1st birthday was wonderful time for us as parents, we were able to look back and see that for the entire first year of his life we parented exactly how we believed we should, we didn't make any compromises, and that was an incredible feeling, its not often in life you do something exactly how you hope to... We felt so proud :) As he's approaching his second birthday i can say i still feel that pride when i look at him, he is so healthy, so happy and secure in himself, has close bonds with other wonderful people in his life and he is far far to smart, i tell you its incredible! this boy was telling us all the colours at 18 months "blue reea brow yeaow green black paa puuul" lol being his mummy has just been the most incredible privilege this year....
Our business is expanding and still fulfilling us creatively and challenging us to keep learning more, this year we took on a volunteer who ended up being to perfect we're employing her full time come the summer when she finishes uni! 2015 is going to be huge for itty bitty book co and i think we've learned enough this last year and a half to enable that to happen whilst not take over all our time... Delegating and letting go will be key focuses for us i think :)
The last week or so We have been talking more of our dream home, our land and it feels close, almost within reach... tonight we are going to do a online search for land and start putting feelers out... today we lacked about all the awesome alternative housing options people come up with - shipping containers etc and it got us all excited and buzzing... being self employed does cause some problems in the mortgage department but we know where theres a will theres a way and we are psyched to start looking into it properly... who knows, next new year we may be living on our own piece of earth! :)
a few extra points for you guys who've been following my blog for a while...
- i still maintain that its a load of crap how much kids cost lol
- Breast feeding does kick ass for getting back to pre baby shape but it does not work if relied on solely for nearly 2 years *but hey thats what new years resolutions are for lol*
- we still use SFT's sealed pot and have no idea whats in it! will open it next time we're off down south as i know theres euros it it
- my 101 list is very much incomplete but I'm not worried, if i replaced each thing i didn't do with something amazing that i did do it'd be one hell of a fun, varied and exciting list :)
Please excuse the typos and such I'm on my second Jameson and am not gonna proof read tonight, so signing off for 2014, what a year :) see you all in 2015!!!! Lots of love and wishes for happiness xxxx
