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Is it just me - or does it seem like time seems to go doubly quicker as we approach the end of the year? Our life has been packed to the brim (or so it seems) over the last two months. The surprise birthday party for the sister's 18th birthday (at McDonald's no less - complete with party packs! heh) was a success, the holiday back to Brunei that we eagerly anticipated swished by in the blink of an eye and before we knew it, our first anniversary has come and gone!

I have hardly had time to sort through and stock-take this year, much less plan for the year ahead! Already, we've received two wedding invitations and at last count, we have 10 weddings that we've been verbally invited to!

A week before our take-off from Adelaide, the hubs and I decided to use a voucher for a bed and breakfast up in the hills that we'd won at a Breast Cancer Awareness Dinner earlier this year. It was a lovely little cottage by a lake and time seemed to stand still for a little while. Del busied himself with building a log fire in the old-fashioned as I dreamt of scenes from Anne of Green Gables and let my imagination run wild with images from the Enid Blyton books I used to read growing up. We made ourselves a hearty breakfast the morning and ended the weekend with going around the surrounding vineyards - sheer bliss I tell you. Weekends like that are precious and we're already planning for more of those next year!

We celebrated our first year anniversary with 200 other people at the annual OCF Convention...not your 'ideal romantic' picture, but hey..we were both doing what we loved and at the end of the day - isnt that what marriage is? Having someone to share life with..and doing things in tandem and getting such a buzz from it at the end of the day.

More thoughts to come before the year draws to a close Im sure..but for now, sleep beckons.