Sunday 24 June 2012

Mountains

We came up to the mountains yesterday for another one night stay, and the weather was glorious! And my camera had battery! Yays! So here are a few more photos from our lovely mountain times.
Our chalet.
My mum and sister resting in the sun.
Dinner in the evening.
Eggplant, tomato and goats cheese. It was supposed to be feta instead of goat's cheese, and I think we all agreed that would have worked better...but we didn't have any up in the mountains. 
Chicken!
Prawns in a sort of red curry sauce, super yum!
Nomnomnomnom!
I do love little visits to the mountains, it so relaxing up here. :)

Now off home to get ready from some Durham adventures! :D

Saturday 23 June 2012

My Little Sisters Graduation

As I said earlier, my little sister graduated from High School yesterday. It was a GORGEOUS day for the ceremony, and she looked beautiful. Proud of my little sis. :)
 She was pretty hard to photograph, she looked down a lot, and when she looked up she pulled faces like this, but she still looks gorgeous. :)
Congratulations little sis!

Bobbi Brown make over

Before
Yesterday was my little sisters graduation from High School! That's all of us grown up now, scary! As a treat we went to go and get our make-up done at the Bobbi Brown area in Globus. She looked gorgeous, photos to come soon, and I was quite happy with how mine was done too. The lovely lady that did my face put eyeliner on me, which was probably the only thing about the whole look I didn't like. I find it such a heavy look...but ho hum, here are the before and afters! (I think the lighting changes...cuz I did nothing to my hair during the day)
After
You can see the eye make-up a bit better here. :)

Tuesday 19 June 2012

To Do

Today feels like it's going to be a lazy day. The clouds are out, and they make me feel lazy. :P But I still have my list of to dos:

- Walk whilst watching CSI.
- Empty and load dishwasher.
- Work some more on Visa stuff.
- Maybe go into town.

It's short, and very doable. But these should keep me occupied whilst I'm at home alone. :)

Monday 18 June 2012

A week of scrummy food

Key West Grilled Chicken
We have lots of yummy meals planned for this week! I'm back in Geneva where we have a gorgeous kitchen, gorgeous weather and a gorgeous table outside to eat on, so it's really hard not to want to cook lots of yummy goodnesses. Adding to that, I have quite a few recipes pinned that I have wanted to try but haven't quite been inspired to try back in Sydney (our kitchen is on the small side, plus I always assume it costs more money to try something new...). I've got my mum all excited about trying some yum new things to! It will be a yummy week. We shall be attempting all the beautifully delicious meals you see hear, as well as Greed Pork Belly (for our left over pork) and some experimental croissants after the success of the spinach, mozzarella and feta ones. Mmmm, I can't wait to start eating all these meals!
Spicy Prawns with Zesty Avocado Spread
Grilled eggplant, tomato and feta.
Warm Chicken Salad with Pepper, Pear and roasted Pinenuts. 
Yummo! Have you got any yum meals planned for this week?

Sunday 17 June 2012

Mountains

I always enjoy going to the mountains when I come home to Geneva, they are just so pretty. So, I was pretty happy we got to go up Friday night to sort some stuff out on Saturday. BUT, my computer died on me, and although I do LOVE the sun, the breeze, the flowers and the view...I also really love taking photos of it too and am always slightly bummed when I can't. Ho hum.

Saturday night we went round to some friends of ours for a lovely catch up (plus to celebrate a birthday). It was a really lovely evening, I always love going round to theres. I'm not sure my liver appreciates it much, but I enjoy it! :D

Today has been spent napping on my bed with the window open...been a while since I've had a proper lazy day.

Friday 15 June 2012

Holidaying

I'm back, and hopefully for a while! I've done some thinking and sorted out my head re my blog. Unfortunately, I can't say my head is entirely sorted out about life...I shall always be confused about life, but I think I've sorted out my blogging problem...I as trying to control it too much. I used to just post, whenever and whatever...I probably bored a lot of people, but I enjoyed it, and I enjoy looking back at those posts. Ultimately, what I want from my blog is something my close friends and family can read so they know whats up in my life, and something I can look back at when I'm older and smile at (a less embarrassing form a journal really). It'll be nice to see what my thoughts were on certain things, what things I loved, and what I didn't, and smile at it. So yeah, I shall be from now on updating you on pretty much anything I want to from my life: what I did during the day, photos from my day, quotes I'm loving, music I love, movies I want to see, materialistic things I wish I had the money for, memories, drawings, dreams and food I love.

Speaking of food, I made myself one of my favourite lunches today. Today is gorgeous outside. We've had quite a bit of rain since I arrived, so it's lovely to see the blue sky and sunshine. The weather has made me happy, and I thought I should make the most of it and have a lovely lunch outside. So mozzarella, tomatoes and balsamic vinegar it was. YUM! If you haven't ever had this dish, I recommend you try it, now. It so simple to make, and so yum, and seriously lovely on a summers day.
Yup, one of my favourites. Needless to say I enjoyed my lunch time. Yum food, sunshine, gentle breeze, birds chirping... :)

And whilst I'm sharing, my family tried this amazing recipe this week: Croissants with spinach, feta and mozzarella. When we were making them they looked horrendous, a mess. I think they turned out looking lovely though, and man were they delicious. Another easy recipe I recommend trying. Yummo!
Time to read some Hobbit (anyone else excited about the movie?).