Lilly turns one!

Lilly's birthday party was last weekend and it was the most beautiful day surrounded by people who love her dearly! I spent many weeks leading up to her party getting things ready with zero stress...that was until the day before the party when I realised how much I still had to do!

Thankfully we had loads of help from our families and everything came together just how I had imagined it would in my mind! Scroll down to the bottom of the post for info on where we got our goodies from and for a free download!

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Birthday banner and Pom Poms - $2 shop
Mini pegs for photos: Typo
Cake: Made by myself
Cake topper: Little Paper Stand on Madeit
Quote in Frame: Designed by myself
Play dough tubs - The Reject Shop
ONE letters - Spotlight
ONE bunting on highchair - Made by myself
ONE signature board - Made by myself
Lilly's party dress - Upsy Bling
Headband - Spotlight and Upsy Bling
 
Click the image below to download the printable quote for your own party!

Dream Big Little One - Free Nursery Printable

Even before I fell pregnant, I knew I wanted a yellow and grey theme for our nursery. This was mostly so that I could get started right away before we even found out the gender of our baby haha. I decided to have a play around and design my own wall art for the nursery and just love how they turned out. We often get asked where we got the prints from so I figured I would share the PDF with you all so that you can print a copy for your own yellow and grey nursery. Click here or the image below to grab a copy.

A little bit of sunshine!

My poor sister is feeling unwell at the moment so I decided to put together a little basket of goodies to brighten her day! I headed to Woolies and picked out a few different yellow things to pop inside including a bag of starbursts, twisties, flake chocolates, timtams, orange and mango poppers and some scratchies. You could also include some lip balm, hand cream, fuzzy yellow socks, solo softdrink cans...you get the idea!

You can download a copy of my printable label by clicking here.

Family Budgeting Tip - Monthly Meal Planning

Now that we are living off one and a half incomes (while I receive paid parental leave), we are having to be a little more careful with our money. I've been meal planning for most of this year but usually only plan a week at a time so I've decided to plan for an entire month of dinner meals!!! 

So this is how it works - first I sit down and look at what we have in the pantry and freezer so I planned our first two weeks just based on what we already have. I also wrote in the nights that I know we won't be home and planned a couple of flexible date nights where we can either order take-away or go out for dinner - we often go late night shopping of a Thursday so this works well. Once we've got the plan, I write up our shopping list with any extra meat for the two weeks and fruit/veggies for the first two weeks. We will do another little shop half way through the month for more fruit/veggies and probably a weekly shop for bread/milk. Here is my completed plan for the month of August! 

 

I have made my template free to download for anybody else that would like to have a go at monthly meal plans. Simply click any of the photos in this post or click here to download your own version. Don't forget to share your completed meal plan on instagram with the hashtag #adorecherishlove so we can all get some delicious food inspiration!

So what about lunch? Sometimes I will make a double batch and freeze the leftovers for easy lunches and then we also stock the pantry with things like noodles and frozen meals. I will usually have leftovers, sandwiches or something easy like wedges or sausage rolls and hubby takes sandwiches. Breakfast is usually wheatbix or toast.