Last weekend we celebrated my parents 35th Anniversary at the Epping RSL which was a nice place.
The food was ok, Andy had the chicken and I had the beef, we sat on the ‘kids’ table and shared a bottle of wine with them. I helped Andy resist the urge to go play on the pokies. We took many photos (will upload soon!) and all in all had a pleasant evening.
Hiii! How exciting, i’m totally engaged. That will keep me happy for another few years haha. Thankyou so much everybody for the well wishes, we’ll keep you posted on any plans.
Andy was very tricky with the proposal, he got me to get the camera ready for a photo of both of us and when i got back into position he got down on one knee and proposed (which is why we now have a photo of it! It’s not a re-enactment hehe). Very smooth Andy, very smooth.
In case I forget later it was on the 24th of May near Thornleigh Park on one of the walking tracks, ‘The Great North Walk”, the little stream there was very pretty and secluded. The family went to dinner last night to celebrate, i’m looking forward to more good times up ahead.
On a related note, love is in the air with heaps of other people getting engaged. Congrats to Michael and Kate who announced their wedding plans earlier in the year I dont think we ever ‘blogradulated’ them so yeah best wishes for you two, I’ve also noticed quite a few of my friends are engaged via facebook! I must admit the first thing I did was change my facebook relationship status…
~smily
hehe, love those photos! such a well-thought out proposal! those photos are gonna keep me smiling for a while! congratz again guys… i think i might make the trek to The Great North Walk soon, looks like a gorgeous place 
x
Thanks Jen Yeah apparently the Great North Walk is a nice one for beginners, more info here.
We celebrated the engagement family-style by going to the Fook Yuan restaurant in Chatswood. We didn’t manage to take a single nice photo everybody looks terrible so here are some terrible pics:
 
Toooooday, I asked Smily to marry me. She said yes
Andy.
click here for close-up pics of the ring
YAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! congratz mAh BroThaHhhHz.
Comment by mal — May 25, 2008 @ 10:44 pm
Congratulations! rug rats next?
Comment by noodle — May 26, 2008 @ 8:18 am
CONGRATULATIONS SMILY AND ANDY!! =D
Comment by Sarah — May 26, 2008 @ 8:55 am
Heya!!
Congratulations!!! I’m cheering for you here at work.. it’s making me look disruptive, i better go do some work!
Happy for you both!
Catch up soon… i wanna see the ring in person!
Cheers
Comment by Annabelle — May 26, 2008 @ 9:14 am
Congratulations, you guys!!! I did wonder… YAY!!!!!
Comment by Andi — May 26, 2008 @ 9:43 am
Omigosh ~ Congrats Sumali and Andy!!
This is wonderful news! Those are gorgeous photos – Doesn’t Sumali look adorable in that bottom middle pic.. (not that she’s showing off her bling or anything…) =)
Aww.. Sumali my longest childhood friend is all grown up now! =) (About time! hehe.)
Comment by Simmy — May 26, 2008 @ 9:58 am
Congrats dear!!! The ring looks fab 
. So when’s the wedding ;P
Comment by Oli — May 26, 2008 @ 10:19 am
CONGRATZ Smily and Andy!
CHEERZzz!!!! Thats great news!!!!
xoxo
Comment by Alicia — May 26, 2008 @ 10:28 am
Congratulations guys. MWAH. love the ring very pretty! Now Smily you do realise when you marry the man you marry the whole family!!!!!!!
Comment by jo jo — May 27, 2008 @ 7:34 am
LOL thanks everybody!!! I’m heaps excited.
Nigel no rugrats til we at least have a house with a rug in it :p
Annabelle I’m sure your workplace knows by now how disruptive you are :p Yes you have to come over, I might have some more news to share later. Maybe. I dont know. We’ll see.
Thanks Simmy I wouldn’t say i’m ‘grown up’ yet though!
Hehe thanks Oli, it’ll be a little while yet like at least a year away.
Jojo marrying the whole family doesnt sound too bad! I’m glad you’re all nice although Rod’s a wee bit scary hehe…
heeey! congrats to you both!! so happy for you guys. make some babies already please
Comment by rhea — May 27, 2008 @ 4:18 pm
Grats guys!
So happy for both of you.
Everyone’s getting engaged lately is great!
=D
Happy birthday Jojo hope you’re having a lovely time in Ardrossan and that you have an awesome birthday.
Thanks, at least one brother remembers my birthday!!
Comment by jo jo — May 14, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
Just got pics of Rachael and Matthew’s wedding up at Kurrajong, it was very nice wedding and the lunch time reception was an awesome idea.
It was great seeing Vanessa and Alexis again they were great company (along with Vanessa’s fiance also called Andrew) and meeting some of Matthews friends.
We wish the lovely couple well!
 
 
Well well it’s been an interesting week. The biggest news has been that Dana came to town for a few days and Andy’s bike almost left town!
The first thing that really happened was Andy’s computer broke down and he spent all week trying to fix it. That was purely self inflicted though (trying to install a new hard drive and switch cases at the same time). Then one morning he realised somebody had tried to steal his bike (damaging it in the process) and this was after finding out his tool kit was stolen from the back of his bike the previous week. Andy’s fixed both the computer and his bike, he’s attached an alarm to it so hopefully we should hear it go off if anybody touches it and hopefully this streak of bad luck has ended now!
Dana arrived on Friday morning so both me and Andy took the opportunity to take a day off. She arrived with yummy cookies and pressies too, thanks Nigel for the cyberman clock and sonic screwdriver, Andy said they’ll totally come in handy next time alien pigs attack local monuments.
So we hung out at towers and then later that night me, Andy and Andrea took Dana to a rather interesting show called "Busting Out" at the Factory Theatre in Enmore so we had dinner at a nearby Asian restaurant. On Saturday me and Dana did a bit of shopping at Hornsby while Andy was fixing his bike, poor guy. Later that night we went to my parents house for dinner.
On Sunday Andy was still fixing his bike so me and Dana took the train into the city and went to the Mind Body Spirit Festival at the Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour where we went to all the stalls and must have drank half our body weight in sample teas. On Sunday night after fish and chips for dinner we dropped Dana off at my parents place so that she and my mum could hang out on Monday before driving her to the airport.
All in all it was a lovely weekend, thanks Dana for coming all the way to Sydney and visiting us, next to visit we hope is Joanne and Wayne, Nigel or Rod when he’s well enough and Isabella’s always welcome, parents/guardians optional :p
Stay tuned for more updates as they come!
~smily
that shelf is soooooo damn cool.
Comment by mal — May 25, 2008 @ 10:46 pm
Heys,
First things, first, there’s a new poll out, be sure to vote on the sidepanel ->
For those of you who have noticed the missing whiteboard, basically it got spammed after upgrading, we can put the old one back if anybody thinks they’d use it but you can comment on each individual post. Let us know.
We spent SriLankan New Years with the extended family, pics are below.
Our memory doesn’t extend beyond the previous week so last week we had the usual Tuesday night dinner with Andrea and Rhyl at the Inn, last night we helped Annabelle brush up on her pool skills before sending her on a dangerous ride home on the train and tomorrow night we’ll be doing steak night at the Fernando house. Got the motorbike repaired (with the bike repair kit stolen out of its locked compartment) and the car got serviced and its brake pads replaced so we can start getting out again.
wooo! more food! gotta love it.
Comment by mal — May 1, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
Hey hey, we were totally busy over the long weekend building a DVD cabinet, ok well Andy did all the building but I brought him drinks and I did the first coat of paint. Anyway we finished properly tonight, here are some pics:
We’re still filling it up but it’s starting to take shape.
I think it looks pretty nice and the paint matches the pool table quite well. Nice job Andy.
~smily
whoa looks good!!! are you sure it wont fall over??!
Comment by mal — March 31, 2008 @ 10:42 pm
Yeah it’ll stay up…Andy put another one that goes along the back behind the sofa so the sofa helps keep it up as well.
Comment by smily — April 1, 2008 @ 6:23 pm
Looks good. Hows the weather been, a bit rough here this last week.Have you made anything else.Bye for now love you both
Comment by dana — April 3, 2008 @ 9:10 pm
That does look great! I wish I was as talented as you two! Hope you guys are going great, nothing much has been happening here.
Comment by jo jo — April 7, 2008 @ 12:12 pm
hey hey, Nah, nothing else new… I hear julie has moved to adrosson too???
Comment by andy — April 7, 2008 @ 10:21 pm
Yeah she doesnt like it though, she moving further down to work at Port Giles to see if she likes it there. I think she is moving in two weeks. She has been living with us so wayne cant wait to have the house to our selves again!
Comment by jo jo — April 11, 2008 @ 8:14 am
heeyyy i just read this to mum :p she laughed. hehe. still waiting for photos!
Comment by mal — June 20, 2008 @ 8:27 pm
:p yeh the pics are up now, tell them to leave a comment or something, why is our family so technologically retarded?!? (except us two of course)…
Comment by smily — June 22, 2008 @ 4:54 pm