i look to the hills

I lift up my eyes to the hills—where does my help come from?
My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
He will not let your foot slip—he who watches over you will not slumber;
indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
The LORD watches over you—the LORD is your shade at your right hand;
the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.
The LORD will keep you from all harm—he will watch over your life;
the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.

Psalm 121

clothe your self

Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Colossians 3 12-17

i'm walking on sunshine

4th July 2009 i married my love Timothy...more photos and news to follow soon! xx

GUITAR HERO

yeah so i am officially the crappiest video game player of all time...
i got booed off the stage playing beat it! ah which takes on a whole new meaning now! :)

lots of things to blog about...

you know i get these really great ideas on what to blog about when i am out and about and then think i must blog about that, and then time goes by and the moment is passed and then it becomes a bit redundant...well i am going to tell you about some things i have been meaning to tell you!

1. New Kids on the Block (NKOTB)...OK so when i was a kid we used to play at one of the neighbours house on the trampoline and NKOTB was on high rotation. i knew all the words and we loved it. this was the early 90's when east 17 and girlfriend were also part of my music stylings. NKOTB had been far from my mind...FOR a long time until only a couple of weeks ago when i found out they were doing an Australian tour and i was flabbergasted! it was funny! and their name had almost become redundant...because they were no longer the new kids on the block!in fact they had been around since the early 90's...um that's NOT NEW! ha never the less i was intrigued and i thought just for a joke i would check how much the tickets were going to be for their concert...cause they were actually coming to Adelaide! ....&175..are you serious...so it wasn't really a surprise when their tour was cancelled this week...apparently the financial crisis...mmm i think there might be another reason behind it! perhaps the RIDICULAS price of the tickets!

2. sort of similar to the last point GIRLFRIEND...they were a band i used to listen to ALOT! i taped all their songs off of the radio and would make up dances to their songs in my parents lounge room when we were growing up...TODAY i heard one of their songs on the radio...ON THE RADIO....that hasn't happened since 1992 for me...it was funny!

3. Last night i was totally spoilt! i had my hens night and it was a hoot! we had a shared dinner together...and you know when you go to something like that there is one dish that EVERYONE seems to bring...well last night that dish was MINI quiche!!!! it was great! thankfully there were homemade sausage rolls, soup, bread, coleslaw, risotto it was delicious. we had pass the parcel and everyone had to answer questions about me it was fun and i miraculously won the prize at the end! ha a candy bikini top...you know those necklaces you can eat the beads. it's made out of the same things, fantastic! we also had a body shop at home party and i totally got spoilt...i will now own half the body shop at home and smell super sweet!

4. the problem with doing these sorts of posts you start off really gung hoe and then after a few you forget what else you wanted to say...well i did have some other things i wanted...oh just remembered one thing! Today Tim bought guitar hero...he is a bit of a computer and video game lover and he claims that i might actually enjoy playing this game. maybe. but i am CRAP at these things...i claimed i was only good at mortal combat cause you just have to bash the crap out of people, to which Tim replied NO you'd probably be crap against someone who actually knew what they were doing..HA and then he called me a BUTTON MASHER!!! have you ever heard of that term...it's someone that just mashes the buttons...as in just pushes whatever buttons...i had NEVER heard of that...and the fact he actually had a term for it is beyond me.it's true you learn something new every day...and keep learning new things about your partner!

and now i really have forgotten the other random things i wanted to write...one day i'll just get on the computer when ithink of these things and JUST DO IT!!!

16 sleeps...

it is very exciting and very soon til our wedding! i have made lots of lists and i am checking things off day by day. lots of phone calls, emails and conversations to people about things to do and finish! i have been talking to friends who are about to travel to see us and it is so exciting to be seeing them soon. and today i got some super great news. my friend clare who got married last december has been waiting for her visa to go back to the UK so she can be with her husband...and SHE GOT IT last night! after 6 months of waiting, she'll be able to come to our wedding and then be able to go with her husband!

ahh happy!

I've heard it being said that...

if you can put ikea furniture together without having a huge fight you are doing well! well on Tuesday night Tim and i did well! we have been purchasing new things to deck out our new home. Bed, book case and CD stacks and today a dining suite. the other stuff comes assembled BUT not the Ikea stuff. we did well...it got a little close at the end to tempers flaring, but NO squabbles! we got to put together one CD stack and one of the big cubed bookcases....so our house isn't so empty now!!

I think i get it...

so i have been hearing A LOT about Twlight. Like, you should definitely read the books, you should absolutely watch the movie.
So last night i watched the movie. and it was...pretty good. Jek had watched it earlier in the week and talked it down a bit so it wasn't so hyped, which was good because you know when you hear about a movie and sooooo many people are talking it up and when you actually see it, it's not all it was cracked up to be.

I actually quite enjoyed it, and i think i probably would have enjoyed it a little more if i was a 16 year old girl because the main character...who is a vampire albeit being a bit pale is pretty handsome. the sexual tension between the lead girl and boy...i wanted them to kiss earlier but because the guy is a vampire and "wants to suck her blood!" they didn't! ha

but jokes aside it was an enjoyable movie just a little slow. and it ends so it is SCREAMINGLY obvious there will be more movies, but i think i will wait to have another night in and watch them on DVD.

Badge making heaven

i had a lot of fun yesterday morning...why?
i hired a badge maker from Badge-A-Minit and made badges for our wedding...it was LOADs of fun and these pictures are proof of our fun labour. Every time i hire a badge maker from there (this was the third time!) i am REALLY tempted to buy one...and yesterday after i was done making the wedding ones...i wanted to make more and lots of different kinds, ones out of great wrapping paper i have saved to re use...old music it was just the best time. I was having a romantic thought of how fun it would be to have a cafe and have different craft groups meeting every week, a knitting corner, a quilters group...a badge making crew, it would be wild! i need to write all my ideas down so that they can someday come to fruition! :)
for future reference i will be buying more components to keep on making more and more and more!!

a great combination

tim and i went to woolies this afternoon and this is what we found...
what a YUMMY combination...i have a feeling i will be eating these more often! go and taste them! :)

please play those songs less...

you know when you turn the radio on and it just seems like you always get the same songs...the radio station gets a new lot of music in and like EVERY dj gets on board and plays a certain couple of songs every show they host.

i've been getting this with two songs lately...seriously every time i turn the radio on in the car on i hear at least one of these songs, sometimes both. one of them is about soggy toast and bacon that's hard to chew but the author of the song still goes to this cafe because the gir that serves him is pretty and he loves her...and i seriously can not stand this song. it is repetitive and i'm not a big fan of the tune. i've taken to turning the radio down when this song comes on. why don't you just change the channel i hear you say, well this station on a whole is fairly decent while most other stations are rubbish and i would be experiencing this problem a HECK of a lot more if i listened to those radio stations!

The other song is by blis anSO and it's not too bad, but it has a line in it about swinging from the lobby in the Marriott...anyway the language is fairly fowl at times and i could probably go without hearing it for a while because i seriously want to hear some different songs.

how to solve this problem? perhaps i could put a cd player in my car so i can choose the tunes myself...but i might miss the news or something! :)

Aunty Lauren

the little bubba we have been calling pip, piklet, little neice...has finally arrived!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
little Isabelle Grace Spilsbury
what a beautiful name and a beautiful girl...and you just beat me as the newest Spilsbury by 6 and a half weeks what a little champ...
we can't wait to meet you and kiss you!

xx love Uncle Tim and Aunty Lauren xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

engaged

on tuesday night my sisters boyfriend proposed marriage...and she said YES!!! so not only is our wedding in 7 weeks but they could be married by the end of the year too! they came around late on tuesday night but i couldn't find my camera...i'll post a picture of the happy couple soon!

xx

not so modivated...

i was really motivated about blogging for a little while there...but i think i have lost the urge for a moment...
i'm trying to plan our wedding and even more stressful than that...pack up my stuff to move to Tim's place...which is proving to be alot more annoying. I tried the take a few things at a time...culling, pack away papers for the shed and the "I can't possibly throw that out"....line that i keep using..

but besides that...it is getting exciting though! 7 weeks and...3 days til the wedding! eeekkkk

Ambushed...

yesterday was a usual day until i walked to my local supermarket to get some things. some people from the Advertiser were there and asked if they could take a picture of my with my green bags!i was trying to avoid them cause i heard them ask some other people if they could take their picture...but i was ambushed! In South Australia yesterday there was a state wide ban on light weight plastic bags. this photo turned up on line this morning! however as the caption suggests i am actually quit happy about the plastic bag ban! :)

Hill of Grace

About 13 years ago dad was given a bottle of "hill of grace" if you're into wine it's a pretty special bottle that you keep for many years and then drink it on a special occasion. it was a 93 bottle and today we cracked it open. mum noticed earlier in the week that it was leaking so it was time to drink it before it was spoilt. so we celebrated with some good friends from Bundaberg and as a late celebration of Tim and I being engaged.
what was the verdict? I'm not much of a red drinker but it was rather enjoyable!

oh so cute

so this photo may be a little wrong, but if you get past it...it's pretty cute and Tim was looking on the net last night! we are totally looking forward to having a place that is big enough to have a little puppy.

He loves, I love, We love

Just a couple of pictures from YPout on the weekend. We were at Faith Lutheran college and around 350 people came together to learn more about God and have some fun. lots of work, so relieved it's come to an end but satisfied too. thanks to everyone who was involved.

productive as

Over this Easter long weekend i have had the opportunity to have some alone time.
Tim has had 5 friends here visiting him, and they have been doing boy things. which has given me the opportunity to do a few things i have been meaning to do for quite some time!

i have...
1.gotten our wedding invitations printed, assembled and addressed...well most of them!
2.bought fabric for mini bags for our wedding
3.bought photo boxes to organise my jumbled heap of photos
4.ORGANISED THE PHOTOS!!!
5.filed old bank statements, bills etc
6.DUSTED my room...which has happened maybe one other time since i have lived in this apartment
7.cleaned out my boot, it was pretty much filled to the brim with empty demineralised water bottles, costumes, junk and plastic bags, as well as a bag full of stuff for the op shop.
8. enjoyed a few pots of tea
9. watched a couple of great movies (I am Sam and Stardust..while constructing invites), as well as many episodes of arrested development
10.had the opportunity to blog
11. spoken to almost sister and brother in law on the phone
12. cleared my desk
13. tidied my room

i feel accomplished but feel that i have inhaled enough dust for the time being!

what's wrong with this picture?

can you guess?