Mr and Mrs Sweedman's Christmas

Adam and I enjoyed our first Christmas together as man and wife. We had fun. We baked. We got into the Christmas spirit.

Adam baked a cheesecake (with only a little help).

We had pancakes in the morning.

Our little festive Christmas tree.

We unwrapped gifts.

We decorated.


We baked and decorated some more.


Oh, what fun!

We also celebrated with a homemade Christmas Mexican Fiesta




I missed all the family we didn't get to see this Christmas. But I was so very happy to share the holiday with Adam as my husband. He was sweet and considerate and even did all the dishes after all the cooking and baking! What more can I ask for?

That Christmas Spirit

Adam and I are preparing for our first Christmas together as husband and wife.

First there was Adam's Christmas work party. Where we got all spruced up (but forgot to take a photo of ourselves in our finery!) and started the first of our Christmas baubles collection. There were a lot of decorations spread out on the tables and as we were leaving we realised they were free for the taking. We started loading my "too small" bag with them. Then our pockets, hands, my shawl and anything else that could serve as a vessel! Another couple also collecting a few trinkets were laughing at us and, after finding out we were newlyweds in need of decorations, they too began loading us up. Adam and I stumbled to the train station loaded with gold and glitter. Luckily they are plastic and very bouncy- a few stray baubles went bouncing down the road on they way.

there was some gingerbread making...

Adam and I are also very proud of our first Christmas decoration purchased together. Our lovely Angel with fibre optic wings! She now proudly resides on the top of our tree.


And a whole lot more baking. I am so proud to have finally made some cupcakes that do not look like volcanoes! These will be decorated for Christmas lunch tomorrow with some rellies (they are chocolate and cinnamon..yum!)
While Mum was down for a week she helped me get a tree (from an interesting Christmas tree farm!) and decorate it. I will show some photos later.

I will be back after Christmas with a full update of our fisrt Christmas together. Much love and peace to you all for a wonderful Christmas.

Crazy Weather

Outside:: The past two days we have been having crazy weather. Hailstones, strong winds, flash flooding, thunder and lightning, very, very, very frightening.




Inside:: We received a beautiful bunch of flowers from a friend as a belated wedding gift. A little bit of sunshine inside, reminding us that it is indeed summer time ( and would you believe that this photo was taken on the same day as the top ones? See I told you, crazy weather!)

The wedding: The rest

I seem to have lost a bit of my blogging mojo lately!
So here are the rest of the wedding photos from the "photoshoots" and the reception. Enjoy.





Can you tell I am getting tired?
and my favourite...



Let the party begin!

We had a beautiful wedding, we had an awesome party and we felt very blessed with all our family and friends, from near and far, around us to celebrate our union. I may pop a few more photos on here ( we love so many of our photos!) but for now we are recuperating from the wedding- still! We are enjoying being married and still have to catch ourselves when we go to say 'my fiance or girlfriend.' But how fun it is to say "this is my husband Adam!"