Elle and Co.: A little more about me!

I love to reminisce and document so I thought I'd do a bit more of an introduction about who I am and where I have come from. Giving those of you who don't know me, a little more insight!

As a child I grew up in the gorgeous outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne. I was lucky as I had the gorgeous Yarra Ranges as a backdrop each day. This is the place I will always call home. I don't get back there as often as I'd like to but love it when I do. I still have family there who we love to visit and hubby and I also love heading back that way for time away on our own. The Yarra Valley is one of our fave places to go, there are some amazing wineries out that way, as well as the now infamous chocolate factory! That's the kids favourite place in the world they tell me!

In April this year Hubby and I decided to head out that way (and a bit further) to Marysville for our wedding anniversary. It was stunning! We stayed at the brand new Vibe in Marysville and we loved every second of it! We spent 3 nights in Marysville and spent our time exploring, drinking, eating and relaxing! I'd go back there in a heartbeat! I've added some photos below...

Driving down from Lake Mountain

Vibe Marysville

Steavenson's Falls

Lake Mountain

Ready for dinner!

Continuing on... I also lived in the north-eastern suburbs of Melbourne which I loved nearly equally as much. The vast amount of trees and the land we lived on was amazing. We lived on a small hobby farm and were able to watch kangaroos hopping around and fighting from our kitchen windows. How lucky! We were surrounded by apple and pear orchards, an ostrich farm across the road and we had a couple of cows and an ex race horse.... life was always pretty and never dull there!

From there my family and I moved to a coastal town in Victoria and I kind of haven't left the area! (We did take a quick hiatus from this area though and moved to a border town for 12 months. We packed up and sold our home, bought a corner store! We rebuilt the business and hubby worked long hours. It was an amazing time in our lives, we learnt so much about ourselves. It is also the place where our second baby Mia was born. So it'll always be a special place for us but it was waaay too far away from our family and friends!) However where we are now.... It's where I spent my teenage years, made many friends and also met my husband! During the 11 years hubby and I have been together we have had 3 gorgeous kiddies. The biggest 2 are at school and the youngest is in childcare while I study. We love where we live, we have family close by, friends around us and our kids are settled here. It's the best of both worlds with the water only 2kms from our home and we are also surrounded by farm land. We built our own home and moved in during 2013. It's still a work in progress and things are always changing inside and out!

I've added a couple of little snippets of our home and one of my fave pics I took whilst at a gorgeous local beach we like to hang out at.

Until next time! Xx