'Tis the Season to be Jordy... and Jolly!! Already!!

Well well well, 

As you know...our family is one of tradition; and every 1st of December, we put up our most beautiful Christmas tree, whilst singing like crazy to Patsy Bisko and Mariah Carey. It is so much fun and brings so much joy into our home...and makes everyone wish for that Hippopotamus for Christmas which we never ever get?? :(

The problem in this traditional picture is...tomorrow is the 1st of December...and our Christmas tree is already up!!! Tradition was broken...but for a legitimate reason of course!

Little J, left us on Friday, to travel the streets of Pariiii (Paris), eat nutella with baguette and speak the language of love. ;) 

I don't know who i'm more jealous of....you my Nomi, with your Festivities in New York...or you dear Jordy, with your Festivities in Paris. 

It's time like these when i feel like Beth off "Little Women"...when all of her sisters are travelling, getting married, or having babies and accomplishing wonderful goals, and she stays at home with her Marrmee and Papa. I do love being at home, it is my favourite place...and the Mornington Peninsula is my favourite place in the world. I miss my sisters being with me though. 

Soon i'll be the one leaving you all behind though! then I'll have some exciting things to write about for you :)

Not that the Christmas Tree isn't exciting!!

Now i still hold true to my belief that our Christmas tree is the most beautiful of all....although the beading proved to be a challenge again without you my dear Nomi. Stephy wanted to weave, i wanted to drape...it just became confusing...BUT WE GOT THERE! haha

As Stevie Wonder would sing..."Isn't She Lovely!?"

Now there is more photos and a special movie just for Nomi viewing ;) to come...but i don't have access to them...because theyre on Sari and Dad's phone ...I'll try to figure out how to upload them  :)

Also...we have a new addition in our home...

Meet Jesso...the 2nd!! He's a life-size birthday card. Pretty impressive, yes i know. but still beatable!! Just you wait haha. 

He is very versatile...we can sit and watch TV with the family, he can sit at the dinner table, you can take him for walks...play basketball with him?? and even better...you can take him for a swim! because yes...hes even waterproof. haha 

He is so handy when you want to scare someone else...although i will admit even i get scared and creeped out sometimes when someone moves him into a strange place or i forget hes there haha

So there he is...the not one and only Jesso.

(get it? get it?? haha )

I havent spoken to you in a long time and I'm missing you as always.

Keep safe and always remember how loved you are!!

xxx

The Great Storm...and the Great Finish!

Hey Hey little Lady ;)


Well, when i say great storm, I don't mean it metaphorically. We were literally hit by a GREAT storm. We all thought it was going to be a Wizard of Oz storm, and the house was going to be lifted up and we would fly off to a wonderful land. The rain was so heavy, it sneakied on under the door and began to flood the house, and within any minute we could have been swimming around like mermaids! ...Have a look!!

Ishka's Bowl is floating!!

When i say the Great Finish, i'm talking about my Great Finish!! Yesterday I had my last exam...It was a horrible oral presentation in front of my lecturers and another student. 
But its over now! and I'm free to do what i want for 3 months! :D
And now is the time to tell you, Dylan, a friend and I have spontaneously decided to go to Cambodia, Vietnam and Borneo for a month in February!!  We got super cheap flights, and I am so excited to experience another country with different food, weather, sights and people. :)
We also celebrated the end of my second year uni, with an 'oh so exciting' game of spoons...a very violent game involving grabbing spoons off a table...if you miss out on grabbing a spoon you get a letter...which eventually spells an offending word. FAT. i was the FAT :( haha 
Jesso and I also watched an oh so long and extended version, but so much more exciting version of Lord of the Rings 2!


I miss you Nomi, and hearing from you makes me so happy. I can't wait for your work trip here next year so i can finally see you! But i hope even more you'll be able to visit before then. 


I went to the YSA ball in...oh so far away Heidleberg last week! Normally during an event like this, we would have you rallying up with bobbypins, hair irons, hair spray and makeup trying your bestest to turn a weed into a rose. Unfortunately i was the only one home, and thankgoodness; my friend came over and helped me get ready. 

"All Glammed up" This is for your eyes only my lovely sister ;)

The dance was fun and full of glitzy and glammy people...and even though I'm much to white to be a dancer...i managed to dance till my feet were sore. (don't worry i didnt take my shoes off!!) haha

I miss you and i love you, and i cant wait for you next blog post!!!! 

:D

xxxx

My Huckleberry Friend ♥

I'm sitting here in bed, and its 12.03 am. I can't sleep, my mind is running 1 million miles per hour. 

Huckleberry Friend:

" There are your good friends: people who love you. And then there are your huckleberry friends: people who've known you for years and have stuck by you and love you no matter what. "

Although oceans separate us, the stars glow when the sun shines and i can't cuddle you as i wish i could, you are and always will be my huckleberry friend and precious sister.


Remember when we used to laugh at the most ridiculous things, or dance like crazy people when you bought a new cd, or talk about nothing and everything together, or sing till our hearts content, or eat till our hearts content. remember watching multiple chick-flicks together...remember trying persistently to teach me how to do my hair...remember going on picnics to coolart, or out for breakfast or chippies in flinders. Remember when we all used to be young and have no worries in the world, driving to queensland singing to the spice girls. ...I miss those times.


Love you
xx

Just Hangin' ...AROUND MY NECK!!

My dearest friend Han got this for my birthday present. She said to me "Now you can take Nomi with you everywhere". 

So here you are again my beautiful sister, holding a flower.... close to my heart each day.

Thankyou hannee :)

You can't see it very well...but it's so cute!!! I love having a permanent reminder of you :)

I'm also wearing my promotional t-shirt ;)

and look! she grew me a kitten!! ...hahaha

Lions, Tigers and...bikes? Oh my!

I just got home from uni, after a stressful exam where I think i may have guessed every question, even after my multiple hours of study, and a lecture making me feel sick about the busy-ness of third year occupational therapy.
What better way to have a relax before more extreme study, then write to you my dear sister...so far away.


I don't know if you've heard the exciting news! BUT, my all time favorite (spelt the american way just for you ;)   ) Disney movie, The Lion King was finally released from the vault! If anyone doesn't know...Disney put their most precious movies in lockdown, and sets them free when the suspense just gets too much for people to handle!

Stephy and I (sorry if you read this kristen!!), went to see it the other night!...in 3D. Not my favourite original 2D. but thats ok! 
To explain my excitement would be like trying to explain something like the Krebs Cycle (sorry lots of uni references today) but yes, very difficult! 
I felt like skipping up the stairs to the movie and the insane smile on my face was lighting the dark cinema up! (OK. now i sound like your 'special' sister again! haha)
Stephy and I were feeling rebellious and didn't sit in our allocated seats, as we felt we needed to be perfectly comfortable; for the next 2 hours of our life would be a walk down memory lane, of the beloved Lion King.

I must admit I had tears pouring down my face in the opening scene...(yes they were even dripping down my top, I'm almost embarrassed to say)...you can imagine what the rest of the movie was like. OH dear. 
It is most definitely the best Disney movie ever made....with so many wonderful life lessons like:
- Hakuna Matata (it means "no worries" incase you forgot)
- True love :)

- Never trust your uncle if he's friends with Hyenas, and has a suspicious scar ...and is suspiciously named scar 
- When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. So we are all connected in the great Circle of Life 
- Baboons are insane...yet wise at the same time!
- It's very scary when you're parent yells "Simba!! (or insert other name) I'm very disappointed in you!...you deliberately disobeyed me!" :/ gllll

Pure Joy 

It was a wonderful night and a wonderful movie and if it's still out in the US of A i suggest you go and see it and remember the beauty of the amazing Disney animation and story line and songs :)
Oh and I think i may have told you this, but have you met Adult Simba's voice??

This is one of my favourite movie scenes of all time :)

You may also be thinking...why the Lions, Tigers and...bikes? oh my!
Well I know how much you love riding your bikes, and I know how much you and Richard can appreciate bikes. 
PREPARE TO BE AMAZED! Because I am about to blow your mind with this novelty bike!
Quick explanation: My friend went to stay with his family in Canada, and his Uncle is an avid bike rider! and he made this bike! and yes...he rides it! 

I want you to go to Canada to get one these bikes to ride around New York on! You'd be the talk of the town ;) PS. how beautiful are the sunflowers near this cute little house! ...in fact it's Austin's families house! Naomi i think we need to build a replica of this house :)

It's 100% safe :)

It's art advice time!

This is the only way I can get it to you! So this is my first piece it's a 3D mannequin torso that I painted and collaged. My theme is how the media portrays women negatively, the chess board is representing how we are chess pieces in the media, I'm not finished painting yet but I have marilyn munroe, amy whinehouse, brittany spears, myself, jess, steph and friends. Advice? and what I really want to know is should I write my quotes on the black background like a boarder, or across the whole back like a book? in thick, thin, block or slanty writing? and any ideas for a quick and effective piece for my second final? it's only year 11 so it doesn't really matter haha :)

etc etc ;)

You will never miss out on a Sunday dessert again...but please BACKOFF from mine!

Mum was all tears sitting next her Nomi at church...scriptures act as a great Gnome booster seat :D

Today i took you to uni, and you pretended not to be bored as i worked hard! The thing with my name on it, is a hand splint I made for a prac we had on hand therapy! :)

Now for the etc's :)

Ive never been a huge fan of cold weather, but my freezing days were made wonderful! as i got to walk past this huge beautiful Magnolia tree everyday which was in full bloom! I must have looked silly smiling away at it as i walked to uni by myself! haha

I should not post this on the internet haha...but i thought it might bring you a smile! Guess which sexy thumb/toe is mine!? hahah

This doesnt have anything to do with anything...except the new twilight comes out soon!!!! and we'll have to take Gnomie to watch it at the movies twice in a row (real you would be nice this time :( ) ...but yes, what more can i say? Rob Patty, baben' !! hahah

words can't explain the joy this picture brings me! AHAHAHAHA....if i ever have babies they're doomed to look like this i can promise you that! haha

VERY random blog post, but just letting you know i think of you and pray for you everyday. You are beautiful xxxx Hope this brings a smiley to your face