My my it sure has been a while since I posted on the blog. I have so much I want to share now that have been away, but the truth of the matter is I had tried to discipline myself to stay away since it really has gotten very busy at Uni. Have told u this before, but I realise it more and more each day that the final lap is the craziest, mind challenging and all but also heart testing, hence I had been forced to a corner where I decided to give skul a bit of undivided attention to prevent any form of guilt, especially that its only till end of May that it ever has to get this crazy. To be honest, each day that passes by I am tempted to come down this direction and wish without ceasing that blogging, especially 'bout the things that I blog about had been what I wake up and set out to school for. But I wouldn't trade in the way my life currently is for anything. The whole experience of everything in and around my life has been a MOULDING PROCESS. Life is simply a beauty, I must add...
So this post, busy as I am just had to be done as is the closest to my heart so far, for various reasons which when understood, one would easily agree with. First of all I would like to make it clear that I give God above all, praises for his endless love and faithfullness and I dedicate this post to my handsome and very loving Husband of 1 year so far. Yes, yesterday marked exactly 365 days (well 366 now that we had Feb 29th this year) since we got married. Well I do not want to call it unfortunate as there is always beauty in each circumstance, but yes for our very 1st anniversary we were oceans apart and forced to reminisce our most precious day time zones and continents apart. Did I wish I were there? Of course it goes without saying, but I do not regret any bit of it. It was a beautiful bright day and everything about yesterday just popped with colour. So are u intrested in how the day began for me? hehehehe, it began like this......
I'd like to believe that every single day normally begins on a bed hahaha, looking
a bit ungrounded with hair and evrything all over the place.
Mine was no exception, except the bit where excitement was on an extreme
(okay I think these are really weird pictures, but um not bothered)
Yes having said that, following the excited waking up, mind you that's after sleeping for about 3 hours max, since babe and I had an all-nighter of a chat session via whatsapp (bless Technology) getting lost in the moment of a memory lane. I started the emotional bit of my day. First it was being brought to tears by hearing guitar lines in each song I listened to, more especially this 1 here by Joyous celebration.
The guy playing that guitar just almost sounds like my sweety on his Ibanez
the 1st part of the song is where you can really hear it and am
sure our persons can attest to it, Right Ngazozo?
Then there was my facebook home profile. I opened facebook and bang on my face was pictures of Tsheps and I all over the home page and that was not me uploading. Most of our close friends had made posts for us and had coincidentally though worlds apart for some, used pictures of us they had and loved from our 1st year together as posts or profile pictures to wish us well. My wall and inbox have got to have had more attention than my last birthday did on facebook. It was heart warming and emotional. each post and inbox totally moved me and if I have not thanked you yet I have not ignored you either, as there is totally still plenty more to grow through, but one thing for sure, Love and I both appreciated each and everyone of them and he sends his gratitude and love to each of you :-)
Tsholo's own profile almost got me posting things in the wrong profile as I totally thought was my profile page
So then I started going down memory lane of the day it was last year and at that moment it was when my dad and I had been walking down the isle to an audience of a then very emotional crowd of fam' and friends. Believe me my dad and I oh and my almost in tears husband to be then might have just been the only ones not crying 'cause pictures (thanx Fify) show him to have had the brightest of smiles and I had to pull him back most of the the walk of glory as he was excitedly leaving me behind to almost trip on my not very long tail.
At this very moment I was listening to the song I walked down the isle with. Though I managed to hold the tears back a year ago, yesterday I was a total mess.
But can u blame me really?
Every single word of that song tells our story just as it is, believe you me!
Maurette must have seen our lives written somewhere before :-) Bless you.!
Okay I had totally done enough of crying after this. It was finished, it was time to celebrate our love and marriage so I got up took a shower, because was very hot (almost like our wedding day) picked the simplest and lightest of my dresses, yet the brightest, because thats exactly how I rembered our 1st year.
A very bright year it was..!
And then was tryna be cute so my lovely friends helped...!
Our sorry attempt of an M
So this was me and my girls, Hazel Jackie, Heidi, Dee-Kay and our other 2 house-mates Nip and Gabriel all celebrating the day and giving a shout out to Tsheps in a bright and lively tone
Meet Hazey again
And then there was a bridal party re-union.. re miss skimi sa the power
Did I introduce Ratuza...yeah that's Jackie Chan
Owai when kisses are in the air Hazel does not want to be left out
My monkeys are pretty... look at them.. They wanted to look pretty for "our" so they say husband I guess
Hehehehe...the youngest and tallest monkey that we all love..Dee-kayzooooo
Hehehe she brings out all the energy in me, look at my veins
well the Mrs in me was wearing a long dress so wanted to also look like the lil gals do hahaha
Finally u meet the sweetest of the Salford monkeys pack..Heidi..the number of the day is 1 bwabwey
Sending baby some love
Our version of Tshepiso
because they missed the wedding they wanted their share in the bridal party so yes meet the best ladies of Yesterday
the boys also gave me some masculine loving
Nip and I
Sepora and I
Now that you have seen how the 1st part of my day was like I'd like to take you on a walk through our time mirror from the year 2011.
Lets do this...!
My dedication for this final section of this post is: Stll the one by Shania Twain
Pre-wedding shots with Fify
an extract from my i-journal - By the way on the right there is a piece of his intro to his vows. It translates that I am a thief, a crimal..I robbed him of his heart..he sure is a romantic this one in the weirdest of ways..he left evryone in stiches when it now became clear where he was getting off with his intro..hahah precious you! I repeat never a dull moment with you
Because we are temporarily apart I have his side of the bed occupied by the warmth and love he radiates throug h my heart. And that old couple on the top right carry a lesson I wish for us to master .
At the magistrate office to do the legal vows the day before the wedding
At Nolie and Shumi's wedding in July
At our cousin Ati's house When the Kolobes(his mom- my mom too's new family) came to visit in August
With our siblings from the Thaga side on Nono's birthday End of May
Enjoying summer together though worlds apart on the 25/03/12 *kisses*
The life we wish to paint..Yes I am saying we because I know his wishes too..there are OURS :-)
The past year has been gracious to each of us and as a couple. Off course there were challenges but they were all stepping stones to better days.
In our world
MARRIAGE IS A CALLING FILLED WITH GRACE AND JOY
My heart skips a beat - Before and After(Top 2 pics) marriage-still looking good right
We both have located our cheeks a year later
most recent captures
Photos taken a year apart
He makes my heart smile to this very day
Photos of me taken on the 25th and 26th of March 2012
Yes I love him so so so so so so much..!
By the way during the compiling of the post I came across a gorgeous picture of a very beautiful dress that almost had the brightness of this post and I love the colours I must say so thought should share the lIme light a bit with it. Wish I knew who took the picture.....HOWEVER......
Even the model (with thee gorge dress) on the right can see that I am still number 1 in this post ..*giggles*
I AM STILL 'NUMERO UNO'
It's still my hubby and I's first year as a married couple so we deserve the 1st rank.
SO HERE GOES TO WORKING TOWARDS NUMBER 2
SUPER CHARGED AND EXCITED TO UNFOLD A FRESH YEAR..!
I LOVE YOU BABY..YOU ARE STILL MY ONE
P.S. look out for part 2 of this day
Excuse any grammatical errors, POST too long and available TIME too little to proof read.
HAPPY VIEWING FRIENDS, I DID MISS YOU ALL
POST REVISION:
I realised from the comments so far that there is need to credit and mention my gratitude to the following people hence this edition. There is no one particular photographer in these shots. the wedding pics and engagements shots as most of you all know where by our friend and amazing wedding photographer Fify of Fify Loewen photography. The ones @ Nolies wedding were courtesy of Dream Team Imaging who were their wedding photographers, also amazing I must add..all of Tshepi's recent ones were self captured via his phone during our random daily whatsapp chats. Other random ones of us from when was back home were from our simple camera by random friends and fam' and finally the ones from our anniversary were coordinated by self and captured mostly by my nana Heidi and some by Jackie, not forgetting some random pics I have collected over a period of time of the little things that I like captured by other people out there that I don't even know personally....then all these were taken by self and went through a process of croping and collaging, to get the desired focus and effect and tell the story just as was. So yes thank you to all role players in this oh so beautiful post.
