Love

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♥ See below for our Love Story ♥ 

Our love story is transatlantic - Sarah is British born and bred, Laura is American through and through. Our love story didn’t exactly start with a bang - in fact, it was quite the opposite! In October 2008 we both joined a training company in London – sat at opposite ends of the office, and our first impressions were less than stellar. Sarah thought Laura was the ‘obnoxious American’ and Laura thought Sarah was ‘the quiet girl in the corner’. But a few work nights out later and working long weekends together we were inseparable. We were both dating men when we first met, but as soon as we started hanging out alone we realised that there was something more between us.

Sarah was the first to break-up with her boyf and Laura followed shortly after. Awkwardly Sarah’s ex worked at the same company and sought Laura’s help to win her back….  he hadn’t realised that we’d been getting a whole lot closer. The flowers he gave to Sarah were re-gifted to Laura and the notes he wrote went unanswered. Our relationship, however, was blooming. Having never been in a girl-girl relationship, the feelings we shared were a complete surprise and (with a little Dutch courage) we took the next step in our relationship after a work/birthday night out.

Laura had a family trip to Australia already planned and she left the day after the party. She was away for a long three weeks. Sarah was back in London somewhat love-lorn, and Laura was in Australia walking on the beach and telling her wonderful Mum how she felt about Sarah.

On her return to London, Laura stayed with Sarah and what was meant to be a week between flats turned into over a month. Eventually Laura moved into her own flatshare but we spent almost every night together from then on! Laura’s new flat-mates didn’t realise they were getting a 2 for 1!

We continued to work together until January 2010 and then our grand escape plan was put into action – we up and left to Australia FOR A YEAR! Moment of madness or rush of love, whatever it was, it was the BEST decision! Australia was chosen for a number of reasons:  1) we both had family there, 2) it was the other side of the world, 3) we wanted to leave the working-world and get as much time together as POSSIBLE – oh and it being much hotter than the UK was a bonus!

Flying via Singapore we arrived in Adelaide, where we grape-picked, visited family and hired a car to drive the Great Ocean Road to Melbourne. From there we flew to Sydney and found our home for the next 10 months. Thanks to family & friends, we had all the support we needed while we found our feet and before we knew it we were living the dream. We had beaches at either end of our road, and worked only 4 hours per day. This is where we realised we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together. 

Our normal life restarted in London in January 2011, we moved into an amazing riverside apartment and were back working together (no idea how we manage to get so many of our jobs together but we do work best together). We had an amazing few years in London, travelling and going on plenty of Date Nights.

In 2012, we got ENGAGED!! We each proposed, and were proposed to - you can read about the proposals HERE and HERE! 

In 2013, we fell in love with the city of Birmingham, and decided to slowly move our lives up here. We bought a HOUSE in November 2013, you can read about that HERE. We commuted from there and Sarah's parents' house in Reading to our jobs in London for over a year (4-5 hours per day) while we made our new house our home.

29th March, 2014 - gay marriage became legalised in the UK, and we were among the very first to get legally wed. We were lucky enough to be the first female couple to be married in Westminster! Though we didn't count it as our wedding as we were getting properly married in a few months, we are very proud to have been a part of history.

28th June, 2014 we finally became Mrs. and Mrs. Smith! We got married in Garden Valley, Idaho, in front of so many loved ones and the incredible mountains. It was truly the best day of our lives! 

See more about that here!

At the very end of 2014, we bought a cockapoo puppy, and named her Bisbee. We did it so we could call her Queen Bee and Young Beezy and Bisberado (sung like Desperado) and all sorts of odd nicknames, and since then we have found out it is a town in Arizona! She is so sweet and has a big personality, and she is so sweet to other dogs, kids, everyone except pizza delivery men!

Read all about her:
When Bisbee came home: here
Two years of Bisbee: here
Three years of Bisbee: here

On July the 2nd 2018 we welcomed Annabelle to our family. Our baby girl was born at 15:55 at Birmingham Women via c-section. It was an incredible moment and since her arrival our family has been closer than ever. Bisbee is a wonderful big sister and being Mummy and Mama to our bundle of joy will be our biggest adventure to date.

The pregnancy announcement was here
Announced it to our family here
Our vlog answering questions about how Annabelle was conceived can be found here
We announced that we were having a girl here
Detailed strange first trimester symptoms here
Had our maternity photoshoot in Norwich here
Answered questions about the pregnancy in this vlog
Shared Annabelle's birth story here

And if you are interested we tracked the journey in these posts:
6 - 12 weeks pregnant here
13 - 19 weeks pregnant here
20 - 24 weeks pregnant here
25 - 28 weeks pregnant here
29 - 33 weeks pregnant here
34 - 38 weeks pregnant here

As a family of four we can't wait to make more memories but as a couple we have certainly had plenty of moments we never want to forget. So far we have traveled to France (on a boat, by train and by plane), seen New Zealand in a camper-van, driven round the Isle of Wight, seen the Northern Lights in Iceland, enjoy Norway, been to Aberdeen and Loch Lomond, to Blackpool, to Brighton, to Bournemouth, to Portsmouth, to Manchester and Liverpool ridden around Amsterdam….been up the Sydney Harbour Bridge and bungee jumped in Queenstown. We’ve seen sunsets on beaches in Thailand and sunrises over the Red Square in Russia, we dressed up as Queens, as ladybugs and bees, as an angel, a devil and as Rocky Horror characters too. We welcomed in our first year as an engaged couple in Times Square, New York City. Found our way through Singapore and enjoyed Naples sights, driven from Idaho through Utah to the bright lights of Vegas, had BBQ’s, takeaways, roast dinners and Thanksmas! Spent time with amazing family and met life-long friends we will treasure forever, we started a blog, bought a house and a car and even a puppy, had our baby girl….and best of all, we did it not just as girlfriends/fiancees/wives, but as best friends too.