Soft pink hair - Brite first impression

I've been wanting to colour my blonde hair soft pink now... only for about 2-3 weeks haha but when I was grocery shopping I first seen these hair masks on special and if you purchased these two products, it was $10!

So... what the hell lets give it a go. I dilute the dye with conditioner to make it a soft pastel colour and the pastel colours wash out very quickly, so there is no harm in trying.

I had a cheap conditioner that I used it it. The conditioner had a slight green colour to it. I'm sure it wont make a difference.
I made a first patch and it was not enough for my heap of hair. I ended up make so much more after these photos. I applied it to dry hair.

I washed the conditioner mixture out but did not shampoo it, my hair was already clean.
This photo does not show the colour up at all but its as good as I could get. I got the soft pink that I wanted. Yay! I still need a hair cut but at least I have a new colour for a bit!

I will be doing it again.

Xx.

Adelaide Park adventures

Finally... a day with no plans. We went on a really long walk to see a few parks. The first on was really good. There was 2 different style parks at the one area. The first one was a little hard for Axl, the other one was really good. We will be going back for sure. There was a nice area the go walking but I seen lots of magpies so I got scared and didn't go haha




The second park was so far away, I under estimated how far away it was but it was too late to turn back by the time I realised. It was a really good park. Excellent for Axls age. I really liked that it was completely fenced in too.












We then went for another really long walk to get lunch. I wanted to go to this nutrition cafe that I had seen and I was so let down. It really wasn't nice, expectantly for the $$. Oh and lovely Axl had a sip of the smoothie and spat it in our table number haha I was out of there.



The walk home wasn't too far away thank god. We have just spend the rest of the day at home relaxing. 

A day of first

Today was our first day in our big new city. If we weren't exhausted enough from all the traveling, it was going to get worse. 
Axls first day of his new school. On the way there he told me that he wasn't going to play with his normal friends today, he was going to play with his new friends. It was really nice that he understood that. And when we got there it got even better. He was so comfortable, that he put his bag on the hook and just went off and played. Not a care in the world. When I picked him up, they were so impressed by how well he went today and were amazed my his vocabulary. My smart, confident little man.
Now me... it was orientations at Uni. Wow how overwhelming. I am looking forward to just starting and it all to be a regular normal thing. It was such a good feeling to go to the gym after though. I haven't been in over a week and it really let me relax and de-stress.
Tomorrow is a no plan day. Just me and my boy. We might go exploring.
Xx.

Road trip

Day 1 and we are off. 8 hours on your first day. Thank you car DVD player and Ipad. And thank you Audible. I don't know what I would have done without an autobook. It's the first time I have listened to one and it was so helpful. Kept me occupied and the time went so quickly. I listened to The Chemist. I highly recommend it. Me and my little man went out for dinner and had a nice early night. 
Day 2 was an very early morning start. The 5 hour drive to finally see hubby 😍
We just chilled for the day and went out for dinner. 
The next day we went to a trampoline park. It was so much fun. I was exhausted and Axl just kept jumping. We will defiantly be taking him to another one. We had to say good bye to daddy today. It is so hard saying goodbye but hopefully in 3 weeks time he will be coming to see us.
Day 4, the big drive to our new home. He went pretty quickly but omg once we got there, we were exhausted.
Over the 4 days we drove over 24hours.
Tomorrow is first day of daycare and some orientation at the uni. I'm very keen on the next day when we finally have no plans.
Xx.

Lifestyle changes

It wasn't until I looked at these photos the other day, until I realised how much I have changed. I don't mean so much physically but mentally. The one thing I swear by is never go on a diet... Change your lifestyle. I can't get my head around the way I used to eat. How did I feel good and not just gross and sluggish all the time.

It is obviously a lot easier said than done and I can understand how people start and stop all the time. I go through it, even now I find myself slipping back to old habits. 

The first photo is in 2012 when I decided to calorie count and just see how it would work. The second photo is about 6 months later. Calorie counting did take over my life, I'm not going to lie. A tad unhealthy being that obsessed with everything I ate. I still ate a good amount of food and it was all healthy but I OBSESSED over it. Maybe 2-3 months before my wedding in 2013 I decided to stop calorie counting. I new how much of food I should eat and what sort of food I should eat. I did put on about 2kgs but this was my healthy comfortable weight. Having to obsess to maintain a certain weight is not what I wanted to do. If I know I'm eating right and can maintain that, I'm happy.

July 2014 I fell pregnant ❤ It honesty was so hard seeing my body change after all the work I had put in. I still eat really well... not 100% the same as before but it was nowhere near as bad as pre-2012. After giving birth I was happy with the condition of my body. It was harder to loose those few extra kgs but I got back on track. And here I am now. Happy! Love food, I healthy relationship with food and love working out. 

The point I am trying to get across is, I am proud of these photos and love the journey I have gone on with nutrition. It has taught me to love food and just know what I am putting in my body and how it effects me. Because of my "life style" change, I was able to maintain my healthy body, even though my pregnancy. No more dieting for me!!

Xx.

Our big adventure

Where should I even start?! I guess with my husband wanting a new job. He had been in the same job for over 10 years and was searching and searching for a new career. Something to challenge himself in. Well.... he sure got that. Next thing we know he has joined the Army. So many emotions came with this. Excitement.... Scared.... Sad.... But something we think is going to be great for us.

To start with he had to leave for 3 months for training. In this time we had very little communication with him. It was so extremely hard but we did it. Now he is at the next lot of training, which is even further away from us. The communication is so much better, we are able to talk everyday all the time. Facetime is a life saver.

During all this time, we decided to rent our house out and Axl and I would move back to mums, in the granny flat. This is so we could save for the big move to Adelaide 6 months later. I had applied to Uni in Adelaide, not really thinking much of it and I got excepted. Firstly I did not think it was going to work at all. Where would I live? How would I work? Day Care? But within 3 or so days, everything just fell into place. I lined up a job, a furnished rental, Daycare. It was like a massive sign saying I have to do this. 

And here we are now. In less than 2 weeks time. Little Axl and this excited scared mumma are off to the big city. We live in a very small country town now. I have lived here since I was 7. Now we are moving 18 hours away to a capital city where we don't know a single person. 

This is exciting! Xx.