Our Wedding

BORN IN SOUTHPORT, GOLD COAST, WE MOVED TO MACKAY WHEN I WAS STILL A BABY. I WENT TO SCHOOL HERE FOR MY 12 YEARS APART FROM 2 YEARS SPENT IN MORANBAH. WHEN I WAS YOUNG, YOU WOULD HAVE CALLED ME A DRAMA QUEEN - NOT SURE IF THAT PART HAS CHANGED YET! - BUT  I LOVED TO ORGANISE AND BE A PART OF EVERYTHING.

I LIVED WITH MY MOTHER AND BROTHER DENNY TILL I MOVED OUT OF THE HOME NEST AT 17 TO LIVE WITH FRIENDS. I WORKED IN VARIOUS ADMINISTRATION JOBS TILL I FOUND MY NIECHE WITH PROPERTY HAVING SERVERAL DIFFERENT ROLES IN THE AREA LEAVING FOR MATERNITY LEAVE TO HAVE COOPER IN 2007.

AFTER MOVING TO NSW WITH PETE IN 2005, AND MOVING AGAIN TO PERTH - WHICH I LOVED I MIGHT ADD, I HAVE SEEN A GOOD PART OF AUSTRALIA NOW. WHERE PETE AND I NOW SHARE AN INTEREST IN WINE WITH ALL OF OUR TRAVELS TAKING US TO A FAIR FEW OF THE WINERIES ACROSS THE COUNTY.

I AM NOW A PROUD MUM OF A 5 MONTH OLD BOY COOPER, WHOM I ADORE. NOT SURE WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR ME, AS FOR WORK OR MORE CHILDREN, BUT MY LIFE SO FAR HAS BEEN A JOURNEY I CAN SAY HAS SHAPED ME INTO ME AND I WOULDNT CHANGE A THING!

BORN AND BRED IN MACKAY, SPENT MOST OF MY LIFE ON A CANE FARM AND DOING THINGS WITH MY MATES. I FINISHED HIGH SCHOOL IN 1996 AND DECIDED TO JOIN THE NAVY 1998 TO GET OUT OF MACKAY AND SEE SOME OF AUSTRALIA AND THE WORLD. SPENT MY TIME IN THE NAVY WORKING ON HELICOPTERS.  

I MET TENEILLE IN 2005 AND DRAGGED HER DOWN TO NOWRA FOR A FEW MONTHS AND THEN DRAGGED HER OVER TO PERTH. I LEFT HER THERE AND HEADED BACK TO SYDNEY TO JOIN A SHIP AND HEAD TO THE ARABIAN GULF ONCE MORE. 9 MONTHS LATER I RETURN AND SHE HAS FULLY SETTLED INTO OUR HOUSE WITH OUR PUPPY (MERLOT).  

IT WAS ABOUT THIS TIME I DECIDED TO FINISH MY TIME IN THE NAVY AND LOOK FOR OTHER THINGS TO DO. ALSO TENEILLE FELL PREGNANT ABOUT THIS TIME TOO. DECIDED TO HEAD BACK TO MACKAY FOR THE BIRTH OF OUR BEAUTIFUL LITTLE MAN, MUCH TO TENEILLE’S DISMAY. (SHE LOVED PERTH AND SO DID I). 

I AM A PROUD FATHER OF OUR LITTLE MAN COOPER AND LOOK FORWARDING TO SHARING MY LIFE WITH MY BEAUTIFUL GIRL AND BOY.

WE MET THROUGH FRIENDS IN MACKAY AND SHARED A LONG DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP FOR FIVE MONTHS OVER THE PHONE AND LONG WEEKENDS TOGETHER UNTIL I MOVED DOWN TO NSW WHERE PETER WAS BASED FOR WORK IN THE NAVY.

WE LIVED THERE FOR ANOTHER FIVE MONTHS UNTIL PETER WAS POSTED TO WESTERN AUSTRALIA. WE MOVED TO PORT KENNEDY IN WA FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS BEFORE RETURNING TO MACKAY IN APRIL 2007 FOR THE BIRTH OF OUR FIRST CHILD COOPER IN AUGUST OF 2007.

WHILST IN WA PETER WAS DEPLOYED TO THE ARABIAN GULF FOR SIX MONTH, SO ANOTHER LONG STINT OF PHONE CALLS, EMAILS AND PRESENTS IN THE MAIL, UNTIL HIS RETURN IN AUGUST 2006.

SO ALL IN ALL, A LOT OF TIME SPENT APART BUT WELL WORTH THE WAIT. WE CANT WAIT FOR OUR WEDDING