old news and wild flowers

the wind farm in the rain

From personal experience I've found that the greatest enemy of keeping a blog or a journal is time. I find that once a few days go past, it feels silly to write about 'old' news. So we put it off. And then more stories build up, but because we hadn't written about the 'older' ones yet we feel we have to wait till we get them done... etc.. basically you end up with no journal = sad day.

So to combat my long lasting journalistic battle with the 'old story syndrome' I will now proceed to write about something from a few weeks back. Ha!

About two weeks ago Carter and I celebrated our 1 month anniversary. Even though we're well aware that in the long run 1 month is really small.. it's still heaps of fun to celebrate each and every significant milestone in the beginning. Every day being married to one another is a blessing. :) anyways so it was a Tuesday, we both had the day off, and planned to make the most of it. We kicked it off with breakkie in bed, then packed our picnic bag, and jumped in the car. It was nearing the end of wildflower season, and we were out to catch the flowers before they all died. Someone at Carter's work had told him about a place called the Coalseam, about 1.5 hrs drive out of Geraldton, so off we set into the country.

Here are a few pics from our trip :) enjoy

the road out was lined on both sides by wattle bushes heavy with yellow flowers

Carter gave me some driving lessons in an empty parking lot...      

 ...But sadly this is the only legal driver in the Gero Bandy clan.. 

although if next Monday goes well it won't be for long! 

wildflowers! a lot of them were closed cause it was wet :(

a cocky in mid air as it jumped to another branch. hehe

(Carter was so excited when he captured this picture)

the last of the season

two very happy Bandy's strolling down a riverbed

Obviously it wasn't the best weather to go out and look at flowers, but we made the most of it. Playing spoto with bunnies along the road, waving at truckies, running about the flowers with a blanket above our heads.. It was great. Carter and I went for a nice long walk down a river bed, and made it back into our little car just as it started pelting with rain. hehe. perfect timing. Feeling hungry, we sat in our car for a while eating hummus wraps, and other random goodies we had packed. While we enjoyed our picnic in the car, we felt kinda bad for a van-load of elderly people who'd just arrived and were scrambling to get their picnic out of the rain.

When our bellies were full wet set off home along the muddy dirt track. The next hour and a bit was filled with laughter and smiles as we sung at the top of our lungs. Even with the wet weather, it turned out to be such a wonderul trip. The memories I make with Carter are priceless, and I treasure them all.

I'm so excited and blessed to have Carter by my side. With the name Mrs Bandy arriving on mail in the letter box. I can smile and know the future is beautiful, and totally in God's hands.
xxx

one step at a time we'll joyfully take the future in our stride