Our birthdays!!

For some of you who don't know Tate and I have our birthdays only 6 days apart, I'm on the 11th and he's on the 17th of November, and then, after 2 weeks is our wedding anniversary, which is coming up. So as you can imagine, every year is a bit hard to decide what to do, surprise no surprise, combined or separated, cheap or expensive, lots of planning, bookings and sometimes headaches, just to please one another.
For this reason, we've planned to have the baby after all these celebrations and holiday season, I don't think I could cope with another birthday between November and January.

Anyway, this year we had agreed that we'd do a combined birthday in a Brazilian Churrascaria with all family and friends. I was all excited about it as it was a 1st time experience for most of them.

For Tate that didn't seem to be enough to celebrate my birthday, so he told me he'd like to take me out for dinner on the 11th, my birthday night. For my surprise, the dinner was just a pretence for a much bigger thing, he had bookings for us to go see the musical Wicked, which was a awesome experience. I loved the dancing and singing, it was my first time seeing a musical, even baby Ryan enjoyed it by kicking every time the singing was a bit loud.

Dinner at the Vibe Cafe

We dressed up a bit for the event!

On the 14th night we went to Braza Churrascaria and had 18 people invited. Huge table!! The place was great, the food was authentic Brazilian style BBQ and lots of 'picanha'. Everybody seemed to have had a wonderful time and their tummies reached full capacity. We had even grandma Val showing her dancing skills on the dance floor by the live music guys. It was a memorable night!

Happy Birthday to us!!

Everybody looks so full!!!

After all these celebrations, it was hard to come up with some great idea for the 17th. Tate had for his birthday breakfast in bed, which I must say it was really good and then in the evening we had dad, Erana & Mick come over to share some nibbles and chocolate cupcakes and sing Happy Birthday to him .

Choc cupcakes look so yummy!!

Pregnancy

Tate and I haven't been taking a lot of pictures of the pregnancy, it's going all so fast and we've been very busy with everything happening at the same time, e.g. looking for a car to buy (ours blew up), buying the apartment (which settlement has been postponed, but we need to start researching and getting quotes for all the work it needs to be a better liveable place), going to garage sales and shops looking for furniture for our place, we haven't even started thinking about baby's furniture yet. I guess he would fit in a suitcase for the first month, wouldn't he? Rebeca, my sister, did, and she slept there till my dad was able to build her a small bed. We still got more than 3 months ahead, so hopefully by then, things will be a bit more settled.

Well, for all those who kept asking me for photos, here they are. Chubby Hanna!

Took this photo this morning especially for the blog. (24 weeks and 2 days pregant)

Below are some retrospective photos.

By the way, for those who don't know yet, we are having a BOY!!!

I didn't look to puffy on this one, did I?

Look at the bump!!! (20 wks 4 days)

We got a really nice weekend to show the South Coast to a couple of Brazilian friends that are in Sydney studying English. Thais & Paola. I met Thais in my 3 months trial in an Electronics course at Liceu de Artes e Oficios.

21 weeks & 4 days (around 5 months)

We are so blessed to live in such a beautiful place!

Morning picture, I look so puffy!! (24 weeks and 1 day)