Speaker 1: On today's episode of our summers series are very outspoken Christmas.
Speaker 1: We're joined by the talented Leah at Senas. Now this
Speaker 1: is a really fun chat and will make you feel
Speaker 1: extra Christmas y. Let's get into the episode. Is there
Speaker 1: any other rumors that you've heard or seen online that
Speaker 1: you're like, that is just so crazy. I want to
Speaker 1: set the records stroke that me.
Speaker 2: And Kaylor hate each other. That's the biggest one. It's
Speaker 2: the weirdest thing that like, oh they okay, I could
Speaker 2: never get along with me, kind of like so like
Speaker 2: my dad, it's their hipness. And I'm like, what's the
Speaker 2: hot our entire thirty years? By my past thirty years
Speaker 2: on this earth, I say fifteen it then you're just
Speaker 2: kind of switch up on us. Now.
Speaker 1: One rumor I remember hearing and it was like Taylor
Speaker 1: and Lea's mum have to go to the shop to
Speaker 1: buy them boost bars because they can't be seen purchasing trouble.
Speaker 2: People are insane. I've ever heard what's about it? Because
Speaker 2: who gets a boost buy? Anyway? I think at the start,
Speaker 2: you know, my parents were like, no, why would the
Speaker 2: Daily Mail be writing this? Why would they like what?
Speaker 2: Who told them? That and we all just learned to
Speaker 2: like ninety nine nine nine percent of the fastic it
Speaker 2: goes online, it's absolutely trash like it's such, it's just
Speaker 2: a full live.
Speaker 1: So thank you so much for joining us on Outspoken.
Speaker 1: We have previously been roasted by our listeners for pronouncing
Speaker 1: your last name wrong, which is very hypocritical of us,
Speaker 1: considering our last name is Torba. Can you please put
Speaker 1: an end to our argument for once and for all. Well, firstly, Lee,
Speaker 1: I feel like we should maybe say how we say
Speaker 1: your last name and you tell us if it's correct.
Speaker 1: Is it it's Cenis, Yes, yes, thank you.
Speaker 2: You got it right, so you it means to just
Speaker 2: hang on for a egg because yeah, a lot of
Speaker 2: people say it's signs, it's sign Us. I don't know,
Speaker 2: it's definitely it's Zenus, so yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: See we used to say it's Denus and then we
Speaker 1: learned it was yeah, and then yeah, but yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of our Facebook like you guys don't pronounce it right,
Speaker 1: like listen to this, and there was like a really
Speaker 1: nitpicking disagreement online about it. Do you get people coming
Speaker 1: up to you and telling you how your name should
Speaker 1: be pronounced like is that ever around?
Speaker 2: But do you know what it's Actually, it's actually really funny.
Speaker 2: Within our own household, we already have an argument. So
Speaker 2: like my dad, who is it's his last name? Obviously
Speaker 2: we say, he says it's I'm like, what's the pot
Speaker 2: our entire thirty years, by my past thirty years on
Speaker 2: this earth. I say, it's seen us and you're just
Speaker 2: going to switch up on us now. So now we're
Speaker 2: literally Dad's like, it's it's and we're like, no, it's not.
Speaker 2: It's it's like oh no'ally arguing so who knows.
Speaker 1: Really having an identity crisis.
Speaker 2: So however you want to say it, really we're coming
Speaker 2: an agree.
Speaker 1: So do you know what it's so exciting to actually
Speaker 1: have a fellow Adelaide girl on the show, Like, we
Speaker 1: love what you were doing and but we're devastated to
Speaker 1: hear that you're no longer officially in Adelaide anymore? Why
Speaker 1: the move? And are you enjoying the gold coasters as
Speaker 1: much as Adelaide?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Do you know what it's? Yeah, it's it's a
Speaker 2: crazy It's honestly the weirdest thing that I six months ago.
Speaker 2: You could not have told me about that we were leaving.
Speaker 2: I was like, no way, no way, no way, Like
Speaker 2: my sister moved obviously, like over a year and a
Speaker 2: half ago, now maybe more. And I was like a
Speaker 2: dead no, like not gonna happen, not moving, blah bah blah.
Speaker 2: But we spent a lot of time up here, obviously
Speaker 2: because Master and I are very close, So we came
Speaker 2: up here like with you, a week's at a time.
Speaker 2: We stay in the same house as we just it's
Speaker 2: almost honestly when I say stars aligned, like stars aligned,
Speaker 2: which and I had like to make a decision whether
Speaker 2: we were going to renovate or sell our house, and
Speaker 2: if we were going to renovate, it's going to take
Speaker 2: a while whether we like, do we just move, do
Speaker 2: we stay, do we whatever? And we just had this
Speaker 2: massive conversation as a family, like Kaylor and us, and
Speaker 2: we were just like, you know, I have never in
Speaker 2: my life my family house. I went to primary school
Speaker 2: two streets away, high school three streets away. Mitch and
Speaker 2: I lived a straight away from that. I've been in
Speaker 2: this little like I've never gone anywhere. I've never done anything,
Speaker 2: I've never lived anywhere else. I've never traveled properly, Like
Speaker 2: I've just really in my little bubble, right and we
Speaker 2: our supplements, all of our supplies are up here, so
Speaker 2: it's a lot easier business wise up here. And I
Speaker 2: just thought, you know what, like Gidi's still young, she's
Speaker 2: two and a half. We don't have to set Stelle
Speaker 2: anywhere for school. We can just if it's it's like now,
Speaker 2: we'll never right, And we just decided we're like, you
Speaker 2: know what, the worst, the worst that can happen is
Speaker 2: we've just come on like we just there's no difference.
Speaker 2: So like we said to ourselves, like, we'll give us
Speaker 2: a year just to try. And if you don't like people,
Speaker 2: go home. We love Adelaide, so we'll just see and
Speaker 2: we love it. It's such a it's an amazing growth
Speaker 2: change for us. Wild did we and.
Speaker 1: Gold Coast people, I feel like they're quite similar to Adeladians.
Speaker 1: They're a bit more chilled and yeah, no one.
Speaker 2: Cares about anything. Yeah. And I always always said, oh,
Speaker 2: you know, people on the go cost like they don't
Speaker 2: wear any clothes, but when you're here, like, I get it,
Speaker 2: it's hard. We don't want to wear clothes. It's too up.
Speaker 2: If I get it, yeah, chill out.
Speaker 1: Is it true that you guys, when you're living in Adelaide,
Speaker 1: it was like your mum and dad were on the
Speaker 1: same street. Kayla was on the same street. Were you
Speaker 1: that close or is that just a bit of a
Speaker 1: parents down the road?
Speaker 2: No? Yeah, no, not the same street, but very like
Speaker 2: we weren't literally like my parents. It was like two
Speaker 2: streets to Kayla. We were on the adjacent street to Kayler,
Speaker 2: so we were on the street over and then Jay's
Speaker 2: mum and sister were on the street over that, so
Speaker 2: like that way, and then my grandparents were a minute
Speaker 2: drive away, like very very close, like a walk all
Speaker 2: distance within like two minutes. So it was great. Was
Speaker 2: really that.
Speaker 1: Must have been helpful at Christmas time because you know
Speaker 1: you could go, Would you guys all go to your parents'
Speaker 1: house the morning of or how would that all work
Speaker 1: beings so close?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, pretty much. We just go straight there and
Speaker 2: evert all the kids everything there. Everybody just pack up
Speaker 2: and take everything there. It's always at mums. It's always
Speaker 2: a mom and dad. It's the best.
Speaker 1: Yeah. How does your husband feel about that? Because his
Speaker 1: parents just as close by? They just three streets down or.
Speaker 2: No, they're like twenty minutes, which in our word is like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, twenty minute dry. But they so we
Speaker 2: they always do they do, like, you know, different Christmases
Speaker 2: on different different families, because he's not much is an
Speaker 2: only child, so for us, like it's a big back,
Speaker 2: great Christmas, and for him it was like something a
Speaker 2: little bit smaller. So he thinks it's hectic, and he's
Speaker 2: grown to love it. It's great.
Speaker 1: So is he Just like the main character from my
Speaker 1: big fat Greek Wedding. I can't remember his name, the
Speaker 1: guy that how did Greek Christmases compare? Because I've often
Speaker 1: said to some of my Greek and Italian friends, I
Speaker 1: actually wish that I was born into that because you
Speaker 1: guys just seem to do it so much better. Like
Speaker 1: there's seven course mills and is that is it just
Speaker 1: the best?
Speaker 2: It's so good, honestly, And like this year is going
Speaker 2: to be just the same, like all of our stuff
Speaker 2: is just very much like anyone can come. It doesn't
Speaker 2: matter who is coming, like friends, family, neighbors, Like it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter, like there's never like an invite list, like
Speaker 2: we just say, like we just sent out a big
Speaker 2: takes being like weather on Christmas. This is what times
Speaker 2: And I'm like, rock up if you want, like and
Speaker 2: that's and that's how it works in our family. We
Speaker 2: never have like we have sit down time where everyone
Speaker 2: like sits and eats. But most of the time the
Speaker 2: ship flinging around everywhere, like there's like there's you know,
Speaker 2: you out up at the start and for people picking,
Speaker 2: we all get tongs and we picked the lamb off
Speaker 2: the spit like as we're eating it. It's just so
Speaker 2: much fun. It's all about whoever comes, like and we're
Speaker 2: just al just hanging out.
Speaker 1: And is there a bit of pressure for you to
Speaker 1: produce the goods because obviously you're such an amazing cook.
Speaker 1: Are you sort of like is there particular tasks that
Speaker 1: you get given? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I get given most given. It's usually like me, Mom
Speaker 2: and Yaya are usually doing the most. And then like
Speaker 2: you know, the guys are outside of the barbecue, were
Speaker 2: inside just like getting everything ready. But like I said,
Speaker 2: like it's very free flowing, so it's kind of like, oh,
Speaker 2: do we feel like eating some squid? Now, great, let's
Speaker 2: go make it, Like do we feel like doing it?
Speaker 2: Like it's just very cruisy, But yeah, I think I
Speaker 2: think my mom would have the biggest role because she
Speaker 2: does all the shopping. I don't want to do any
Speaker 2: of that, but I hope that will cook all day.
Speaker 2: But I enjoy it. I love it.
Speaker 1: I remember this is so Adelaide, But there's We wanted
Speaker 1: to ask you about some rumors that keep floating around
Speaker 1: about yourself and Kayla. There was one I remember hearing
Speaker 1: and it was like Kayla and Lea's mum have to
Speaker 1: go to the shop to buy them boost bars because
Speaker 1: they can't be seen purchasing chocolate. I think this was
Speaker 1: like way back in the you know, in the day
Speaker 1: of the bikini body guy. That was one rumor I remember,
Speaker 1: and I was like, surely that is not the case.
Speaker 2: People are insane. That's the weirdest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 2: What's about it? Because who gets a boost buy anyway,
Speaker 2: get me anything and be something ridiculous. But we would
Speaker 2: buy our own chocolate. Yeah, I definitely wou would go
Speaker 2: out marriage. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It just seems like they were urban legends about your
Speaker 1: family because everyone couldn't believe that there was some you know,
Speaker 1: a family that was so successful out of Adelaide, which
Speaker 1: is a little bit sad, like we're really downplaying. Is
Speaker 1: there any other rumors that you've heard or seen online
Speaker 1: that you're like that is just so crazy. I want
Speaker 1: to set the records straight that me.
Speaker 2: And Kaylor hate each other. That's the biggest one. It's
Speaker 2: the weirdest thing that like, oh they would I could never.
Speaker 3: Get along with me, kinw of like in world like
Speaker 3: that is so weird, Like people say things all the time.
Speaker 3: We just laugh, but it's like that, it's so random. Oh,
Speaker 3: like you know, Leah just like you know, I don't
Speaker 3: even know hates Kaylea. Kellor hates Lee because she's so mean.
Speaker 3: I'm like Kelly, he's me. She's mean to me, I
Speaker 3: mean to her, like bullying.
Speaker 1: Each other like lis just normal.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, yeah, I'm like doports and make money
Speaker 2: like ship. She's like yeah, all right, then hangs up
Speaker 2: on me and then she called me the same telling
Speaker 2: me I need to do my hair. Like there's literally
Speaker 2: unless you won't get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these people that don't have siblings at all, because
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I am a bully.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's a it's like a specific sister
Speaker 1: thing though, because like people don't get it the way
Speaker 1: we speak to each other, and you can have an
Speaker 1: argument and literally two seconds later be over it and
Speaker 1: be like, oh can I borrow that of yours? Like
Speaker 1: our partners are like, what is going on? Weren't you
Speaker 1: just arguing with her two seconds ago?
Speaker 2: You're like yeah, yeah, And then all like Mitt be like, oh,
Speaker 2: you know, like you know, if he says anything about Kayla,
Speaker 2: I'm like, I beg your pardon. You don't say that.
Speaker 2: I can say that no one else in this room.
Speaker 2: I can call her any names like that.
Speaker 1: That is so funny talking about Kaylor. I really enjoy
Speaker 1: hearing you make cameos on her podcast, And there was
Speaker 1: one episode where you were talking about how you get
Speaker 1: compared a lot, and also talking about the trolling that
Speaker 1: you have received, which is just awful. How do you
Speaker 1: deal with that type of negativity?
Speaker 2: Honestly, Like I would say, the last year has been
Speaker 2: really good, Like I've really learned to just you know,
Speaker 2: shut it out. It's honestly then, like negativity posts having
Speaker 2: a baby literally handed postal depression to me on a
Speaker 2: fucking flatter, which is great, but honestly, like you know,
Speaker 2: but like it's unfortunately, it is what it is, And
Speaker 2: like I've had. I've worked in like therapy to literally
Speaker 2: be like how do I deal with this? Because this
Speaker 2: isn't normal, like a normal situation. If you know, if
Speaker 2: someone doesn't like you or you don't like them, like
Speaker 2: you can just like leave like separate, you know, you
Speaker 2: don't have to see them, or you don't contact them,
Speaker 2: you block their number or whatever. But unfortunately, I just
Speaker 2: can't do that. So I've just like had to work
Speaker 2: really hard and being like my mine and Kayla's relationship,
Speaker 2: my self worth, kayla self worth is just not up
Speaker 2: for discussion like that you just U isn't for us.
Speaker 2: And We've just had to do a lot of like
Speaker 2: self work to be like okay, like whatever these people
Speaker 2: are saying whatever they want to say, like just let them.
Speaker 2: It's like a one sided beef at this point, like oh,
Speaker 2: we don't care, We're so happy like that is It
Speaker 2: just kind of is what it is, and it's an
Speaker 2: unfortunate thing that you have to go through. But I
Speaker 2: think for the last like ten years, it's we just
Speaker 2: had to grow some big skin is Unfortunately.
Speaker 1: The crazy thing about it is I can't and I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm just being biased towards you guys,
Speaker 1: but I actually don't. I haven't seen you guys do
Speaker 1: anything that would actually be worthy of anyone. No one
Speaker 1: normally does, that's the thing they don't. But there's obviously
Speaker 1: a lot of controversial influences out there who might do
Speaker 1: something that that do that does warrant not warrant. But
Speaker 1: you can understand, oh they're going to copy bit of that.
Speaker 1: But I'm so confused because you guys are so likable,
Speaker 1: but it just.
Speaker 2: Shows you, yeah, not even in the the likability. I
Speaker 2: think that, Like I literally all I do is make
Speaker 2: recipes and be a musk. Like I don't understand it,
Speaker 2: Like I'm okay if you hate me for that, oh jeez.
Speaker 2: It's like.
Speaker 1: On a more positive note, there is a very popular
Speaker 1: other family member of yours. It has an Instagram account,
Speaker 1: and there's been a fews. There's been a few rooms
Speaker 1: swirling about that particular account, and this is, of course,
Speaker 1: now is it your papoo?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 1: Sorry? But Estinus Pool, sorry, I'm so un We'll let
Speaker 1: it that miss, But yes, you're Poopool's Instagram account. Now,
Speaker 1: there is a rumor going around that maybe he doesn't
Speaker 1: have full control of that account.
Speaker 2: Is that true? Honestly, there's one thing about our family
Speaker 2: is we're pretty much a vault. So unfortunately got under.
Speaker 1: That because we really wanted to get him on the
Speaker 1: show instead of new Lean. This was just a way
Speaker 1: to get to him.
Speaker 2: But you get it. Honestly, he would get canceled within
Speaker 2: five seconds.
Speaker 1: His own tattle thread.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he would have about he would have a
Speaker 2: Leisandrod on there every day.
Speaker 1: How what do your family think about it all?
Speaker 2: Though? Are they?
Speaker 1: I mean especially I suppose about all the I suppose
Speaker 1: the fame, the the intrigue and media scrutiny everything, and
Speaker 1: yeah there's been I suppose they've put up with it
Speaker 1: for quite a while now, you guys have been in
Speaker 1: the spotlight for such a long time. But initially were
Speaker 1: they really surprised by all of the reactions?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think like, like my family obviously it's been
Speaker 2: in the last ten years, maybe a little bit more so.
Speaker 2: I think like we've obviously obviously learned to grow and
Speaker 2: I don't I think at the start, you know, my
Speaker 2: parents will like, you know, why would the Daily Mail
Speaker 2: be writing this? Why would they like what? Who told
Speaker 2: them this? And we're like over time, I think, and
Speaker 2: we all just learned to like ninety nine point nine
Speaker 2: nine percent of the stuff that goes online is absolutely trash,
Speaker 2: like it's such it's just full lies, and we know
Speaker 2: it because we can we see it. And obviously our
Speaker 2: families around. I think it's hard for like our parents
Speaker 2: to like if someone said something about GG, I'd be like,
Speaker 2: I'm ready to fight someone. Like as a parent, they're
Speaker 2: like they've had to do a lot of work being
Speaker 2: like it's okay, it's just an article, it's just a person,
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. But like both of my parents worked
Speaker 2: in schools and my dad's still a teacher, and he
Speaker 2: just thinks like he he finds it hard because he's
Speaker 2: like it's just bullying, Like it's just like kid bullying
Speaker 2: in the playground. I hate it. He hates it. But
Speaker 2: it's just like he also he just don't try about it,
Speaker 2: don't try about it, don't try about it. So it's
Speaker 2: very he's very like you know that we've had to
Speaker 2: come to a point where like we know what we
Speaker 2: know us, we're happy with us, so that's all.
Speaker 1: It would be so tough, like I could just I
Speaker 1: can't imagine not being able to say anything to defend
Speaker 1: your children, like but then obviously it would probably make
Speaker 1: it worse as well, and then you get more articles.
Speaker 2: So it's just like a exactly, so it's just best
Speaker 2: to leave it, and which is unfortunate. I've had like
Speaker 2: a real like thing thing about that because I've always wanted,
Speaker 2: you know, and like a random room like can't buy
Speaker 2: our own chocolate bus Like that is so random. I've
Speaker 2: never never food, like I came up with that, and
Speaker 2: I kind of wanted to, like you know what you
Speaker 2: want to you want to go and tell that person
Speaker 2: about what is wrong with you. I hope who says
Speaker 2: that or who makes up that random thing? And then
Speaker 2: like that in itself, like I don't get and never
Speaker 2: get like it's called like a right of reply, Like
Speaker 2: I don't get the right to say something because it's
Speaker 2: like it's just it's a stupid vibe. It's it's dumb,
Speaker 2: like it's waste of my energy and my time or
Speaker 2: I could be with hanging out with my daughter, like
Speaker 2: I'd rather do that. So we've just had to like
Speaker 2: really hold back and just let it go. But you
Speaker 2: know what I really like lately Tammy Hembro has been
Speaker 2: going on TikTok and and derailing some media articles. It's
Speaker 2: is just like just laughs, and I think that's how
Speaker 2: we deal with it. We just laugh, like the only
Speaker 2: thing you can do, because if you don't laugh, you'll
Speaker 2: just get frustrated. I think.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, that's the great thing about social media, like
Speaker 1: being able to actually have a right of reply because obviously,
Speaker 1: back before social media, celebrities like you'd have to put
Speaker 1: out a you know, a press release that was written
Speaker 1: by a publicist. I mean, I think some influences do
Speaker 1: need a little bit of help when it comes to
Speaker 1: some of these statements. It can be good and bad though,
Speaker 1: because you don't want to have to sometimes it's just best,
Speaker 1: I think for people to ignore stuff. I mean, like
Speaker 1: you don't want to get on your story and be
Speaker 1: like I have heard this rumor that my mum has
Speaker 1: been buying boost bars and this is really you.
Speaker 2: Know, and then then then just it just fuels the
Speaker 2: next one. It just feels the next one and the
Speaker 2: next one, and then people expect you, like they can't
Speaker 2: wait for you say something. It's just like I just
Speaker 2: can't be bothered, just actually bothered. I'd rather just do
Speaker 2: something else with my energy, because it takes a lot
Speaker 2: of my energy, and I'm like, my energy is so
Speaker 2: spent with Gigi and my business that I'm like, I
Speaker 2: can't sit here and think of someone who's not gonna that.
Speaker 2: I can't buy my own chocolate bar, like you think
Speaker 2: that you just do that and enjoy your day. I
Speaker 2: don't know what. I don't know how to help you,
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I can understand why Tammy is coming out at the moment, though,
Speaker 1: because there is so much attention on this wedding that's
Speaker 1: coming up. Yeah, we can't pretend, like we have been
Speaker 1: talking about a lot on our podcast, so we can't
Speaker 1: pretends the wedding on the Century.
Speaker 2: I love that. I love that. I can't I mean,
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't wait. But I just like her
Speaker 2: debunking ship that's online. She's just like stupid, Like this
Speaker 2: is dumb. So I just like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, heading into Christmas, I want to get some tips
Speaker 1: from you because I'm actually doing Christmas at my house
Speaker 1: this year and I've checked out obviously your Instagram. I've
Speaker 1: gone on how to look and the recipes look insane,
Speaker 1: But can you give some advice? I suppose maybe to
Speaker 1: first time Christmas hosts, what have we got to do
Speaker 1: in the lead up to Christmas to get our shit
Speaker 1: organized for the day?
Speaker 2: Oh it's hard, But do you know what we used
Speaker 2: to do. We used to say, like, you know, whoever's
Speaker 2: hosting does everything right, absolutely everything, and then that cause
Speaker 2: is so much stress for that one person. Right, So
Speaker 2: we've now been like everyone, if you want to come,
Speaker 2: bring something like bring bring you salad, bring something like
Speaker 2: something that just helps on the day. So then when
Speaker 2: you're actually if it's your hosting, you're just like, I
Speaker 2: can just make a few things, and then it just
Speaker 2: gives you like a little bit of a because I
Speaker 2: feel like the expectation of like you're hosting, you also
Speaker 2: have to feed everyone, like not fends a lot of money,
Speaker 2: Like you're spending a lot for everybody, and you're doing
Speaker 2: a lot of time and f and all that shit.
Speaker 2: You're like, oh my god, it's a lot. So delegate.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's a great time. But I would yeah,
Speaker 2: like just be like because I feel like people that oh, no,
Speaker 2: no i'm hosting, I'll have it like no, no, no, I'm hosting.
Speaker 2: I will have you over. But you can bring things
Speaker 2: as well, and you can we can all celebrate together,
Speaker 2: right rather than stress on me, So one hundred percent
Speaker 2: and delegate firstly, but secondly, I would have a list
Speaker 2: and get things that you can get in advance the
Speaker 2: week before, Like if you're going to make a potatoes out,
Speaker 2: you can buy potatoes now last a week, do you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, rather than doing that Christmas rush the worst.
Speaker 2: So I try and do my things at least a
Speaker 2: week before, freeze things, all that stuff. Just so I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm not I don't want to go to Wallis on
Speaker 2: the day before that or delivery. We love a delivery.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I love that you're giving that advice to Amy
Speaker 1: because she really needs to listen to it because she's
Speaker 1: the type of person. She loves hosting. She's got a
Speaker 1: great outdoor area and she always puts a hand up.
Speaker 1: But she is one of the one of the people
Speaker 1: that buys the things like the day of and I
Speaker 1: don't even mean in the morning, like obviously Christmas is
Speaker 1: a little bit different. But she will have like a
Speaker 1: Halloween party recently, and you bought the stuff like at
Speaker 1: two pm, and people coming back for six months, just
Speaker 1: like what are you doing? I think I don't know.
Speaker 1: For some reason, it doesn't seem like a proper event
Speaker 1: to me unless there is that stress beforehand. It's like
Speaker 1: a last I'm a adrenaline.
Speaker 2: I do get it. I do love a birthday. I
Speaker 2: love I love a birthday for organizing that.
Speaker 1: Actually, I was following Gigi's birthday closely because it was
Speaker 1: under the CEA theme. So I've just had a baby recently. Heyes,
Speaker 1: nearly six months old, and I'm already like going into
Speaker 1: birthday planning mode. So maybe I need to pick your
Speaker 1: brain about that, because that looked amazing.
Speaker 2: I'm literally I was literally her birthday's coming around. It's
Speaker 2: in March, and I'm like, it's November. Start fighting. I'm
Speaker 2: really excited. Like third birthday, I think we're going to
Speaker 2: go with Mermaid fairy theme. So yeah, I'm very excited.
Speaker 2: I love a birthday. I feel like birthday is a
Speaker 2: my thing because I think, like I eat that one
Speaker 2: person's day and it's like Gig couldn't give a shit
Speaker 2: about last year, but I'm like, it's me. I'm so excited.
Speaker 2: It just makes so happy for one second. So I yeah,
Speaker 2: birthdays are great. And the first birthday I literally balled
Speaker 2: my eyes out the entire time. Second birthday was because
Speaker 2: I used to Oh my god, they're twenty one, like
Speaker 2: one years old, you're a year old. Second birthday. I
Speaker 2: couldn't wait. It was my fact. I was like painting things.
Speaker 2: I was, oh my god, it was too much.
Speaker 1: I saw that. I was so impressed, like the big sea,
Speaker 1: like the crab and the fish. It's so cool. So
Speaker 1: I don't know what theme to pick because like Jack's
Speaker 1: only starting to just get a personality now, and obviously
Speaker 1: I suppose the first birthday party you kind of just
Speaker 1: pick whatever you like.
Speaker 2: I guessing, or whatever's like easy to find.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I did a Peter Rabbit baby shout that
Speaker 1: stuff is hard to find. It was, like's so and
Speaker 1: it's expensive, like you've got to get it from the UK.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I've got to find something that's cool, but like, yeah,
Speaker 1: easy to get, like.
Speaker 2: The reject shop.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, have you got have you got any amazing
Speaker 1: Christmas traditions now that you've got Gigi?
Speaker 2: And yeah, well we're putting up the Christmas tree tonight.
Speaker 2: We're doing it in November. People do a December time,
Speaker 2: but I was waiting for my Christmas thing. I would
Speaker 2: have done it first November, but my Christmas treck Action's
Speaker 2: got delivered today, so I'm brea excited that I we
Speaker 2: kind of want to start new ones because we haven't
Speaker 2: really you know, GDIs this year only quite sort of
Speaker 2: understanding Christmas at Santa sort of vibe. She doesn't really
Speaker 2: understand a lot of it, but she, you know, she
Speaker 2: loves decoration. So now that we're up in Queensland, it's
Speaker 2: not as easy just to like do things with my
Speaker 2: parents or like Kayla or whatever. But I'd love to do,
Speaker 2: like Christmas Eve, have all the kids and have like
Speaker 2: a sleepover. I don't know whether Kayla will be onto that,
Speaker 2: but I think like I as a kid, I loved
Speaker 2: we used to get the mattresses and willed me and Kayla,
Speaker 2: not mom and dad, Me and Cali's store, myselfs and
Speaker 2: the mom and dad Bella. We'd re allow mattresses into
Speaker 2: the living room and we'd have like a movie night,
Speaker 2: and I love that so much. I feel like that
Speaker 2: would be so fun for the kids. If we can
Speaker 2: do like Christmas Eve, like little sleepover vibes, and then
Speaker 2: in the morning we all wake up together or we
Speaker 2: do like Christmas Eve Eve, so we do like that
Speaker 2: and then it's Christmas Eve with their family. I don't know,
Speaker 2: we kind of want to pick something to we're doing.
Speaker 2: I've forced Kaylor into matching pjs at Santoto, so that'll
Speaker 2: happen next week. So she was like that.
Speaker 1: I think she was keen on that.
Speaker 2: Well. She just was like, we should do photos like
Speaker 2: matching pj's and she's like, can we just do photos?
Speaker 1: We're doing the same thing, and our husbands were thrilled
Speaker 1: that they're in on in the action. We're like, we
Speaker 1: got your present.
Speaker 2: They're like, what, I don't want that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like just post for the photo, just be in it.
Speaker 1: Like just I've got to know what movies were you
Speaker 1: guys watching, Like what are your Christmas go tos?
Speaker 2: We I just think we were the Grinch obviously, Like
Speaker 2: that's a vibe. I think we used to watch Home
Speaker 2: Alone just as just that. I think that was fun.
Speaker 2: But we would, honestly, it wouldn't really be about the movie.
Speaker 2: We'd probably put something on and then we would just
Speaker 2: like eat popcorn or whatever. We were just kind of
Speaker 2: partying around the around the living room. But yeah, that
Speaker 2: was that was fun. I think now now having kids,
Speaker 2: I'm like, that is so important for those little magical
Speaker 2: memories and like Santa warning trigger wanting anybody. I used
Speaker 2: to Mum used to go outside when we were sleeping
Speaker 2: and she'd ring some jingle bells on the street. So
Speaker 2: we and k will be like sleep sleep, so we
Speaker 2: hear it and we're like, oh my god, my god.
Speaker 2: So like things like that, I kind of want to
Speaker 2: make it like a real magical time. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: really excited this is you, this is our year because
Speaker 2: honest like at an age where she gets it and
Speaker 2: then Gigi's there, Jax just wants to riff everything, so
Speaker 2: that's perfect, Like so yeah, it's gonna be good for
Speaker 2: them all. I think it'd be really good.
Speaker 1: So did I hear that correctly? Are you guys staying
Speaker 1: on the Gold Coast for Christmas? You're not coming back
Speaker 1: to Adelaide?
Speaker 2: Yes, we'll be staying on the Gold Coast for Christmas. Yea.
Speaker 2: So my parents are coming out, Mitch's parents are coming
Speaker 2: out where I am like this close to getting my
Speaker 2: before up here, like I'm so close, so close, so
Speaker 2: we could we could see them. We could not. Usually,
Speaker 2: so either year they either go to my my mum's
Speaker 2: sister's house or our so either way, they kind of
Speaker 2: have somewhere to go obviously, But I'm so close. I
Speaker 2: just have to have one more visit to Adelaid, which
Speaker 2: I go next week, not next week, week after. I'm
Speaker 2: there for the whole week. Every day. I'm gonna be like,
Speaker 2: I'm booking your tickets. I'm booking your tickets, booking your tickets,
Speaker 2: and I think they'll come.
Speaker 1: I think that'd be special.
Speaker 2: It'd be amazing if they do.
Speaker 1: We were speaking on the podcast last week about Kate's
Speaker 1: joined this what is it called like the mums Christmas
Speaker 1: Mum's Facebook group. It's it's so it's look, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not as sold on the group. Kate has added
Speaker 1: me as a group member anyway. It's it's very cute.
Speaker 1: It's like lots of handmade craft Christmas kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Some of it's good, some of it's not so good.
Speaker 1: But some of the moms on there have already done
Speaker 1: their Christmas shopping in November? Is that? Is that kind
Speaker 1: of when do you get your Christmas shopping done? Is
Speaker 1: this sort of all of the responsibility on you? Or
Speaker 1: is your husband pretty good at helping out.
Speaker 2: No, he's good. He buys her more than things than
Speaker 2: I do. It's so annoying. Buy her the same shoes
Speaker 2: like she's got but just in a different color. Might
Speaker 2: I go, she's got them. I bought her crops when
Speaker 2: I went to the shop. But I think what we're
Speaker 2: going to do this year is like there's a big
Speaker 2: w really close. Like the kids literally like I came
Speaker 2: from a home from Adelaide and got her little tea
Speaker 2: set and she's been playing with it for the past
Speaker 2: like twenty four hours. I literally want to take it
Speaker 2: to bed last time. So they're very easily pleased, Like
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna buy them, Like me and Me and
Speaker 2: Kayla are like right, we're gonna spend one hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go together. We're gonna go get Anna a Dole,
Speaker 2: Judy Doll Jackson toy. My mum has already filled up
Speaker 2: the cupboard already with it. I was like, the kids
Speaker 2: do it, like as long as we do the Christmas traditions,
Speaker 2: have fun, They're gonna have like, we're just gonna go
Speaker 2: get My mum used to do this all the time
Speaker 2: for us. She probably would spend maybe I'd say like
Speaker 2: fifty dollars, right, and that would be her budget for
Speaker 2: me or Kayla or whoever. And she'd go into a
Speaker 2: store but get little things like a little and shake
Speaker 2: a toy with anything, and then she'd wrap everything up
Speaker 2: so we'd have like thirty presents, but there were nothing
Speaker 2: that sucks. She'd wrap up individually, like things like that,
Speaker 2: like oh my god, there's so many things, and it's
Speaker 2: just like it wasn't expensive, but it was just like
Speaker 2: the notion of like, wow, this, we're going to have
Speaker 2: all this stuff. So I think that's what we'll do
Speaker 2: for the kids. But we're just I try and buy
Speaker 2: things in Black Friday because I'm like it's like fifty
Speaker 2: percent off, So I'm trying to I'm going to this
Speaker 2: week and next week I'm gonna buy all like the
Speaker 2: like little painting sets and things like that, and then
Speaker 2: I'll go to be fun, are we?
Speaker 1: That sounds like a great plan because I had the
Speaker 1: moment because it's going to be Jack's yeah, first Christmas.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh do you I've heard people discussing that
Speaker 1: do you even buy babies a present for Christmas? I
Speaker 1: will be just because I'm I don't know I'm excited
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so I don't think. I don't reckon I
Speaker 2: got DG anything for the first her first Christmas, because
Speaker 2: I think she was like I was worried and I'm
Speaker 2: so feeling. I think I was like, nah, I just
Speaker 2: I'll just whatever. But I reckon. There was so many
Speaker 2: things from like mum that she Mum would come we
Speaker 2: can say. I thought this, I'm wrap it up, like
Speaker 2: let's not let's not give me her wrap it up.
Speaker 2: So she had so much stuff. I was like, what
Speaker 2: am I going to get her? She doesn't even like
Speaker 2: blink yet. So like I think the first year, I
Speaker 2: was like nado or about it, but second year was
Speaker 2: this year is gonna be all for I'm ready.
Speaker 1: I had I heard they're just like the wrapping paper better,
Speaker 1: so you could just literally wrap a box and they've
Speaker 1: got no idea.
Speaker 2: Or just wrap like a mug or a tup away
Speaker 2: container and be like wow, this is this is so cool.
Speaker 1: Like I know the thing is you're spending so much money,
Speaker 1: like I've had order, Like I just got a playpen
Speaker 1: for him recently. It was like two hundred, but like
Speaker 1: all these things and I'm like, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: gifts that you've already received in your first six months
Speaker 1: of lives quite.
Speaker 2: Costly, and my soul as well.
Speaker 1: It's a lot. Well, last year, you had your wedding
Speaker 1: really close to Christmas, So how did that go. Was
Speaker 1: that sort of at the time, you're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is too close. We should have done it like
Speaker 1: space it out or was it like so magical?
Speaker 2: No, it was great, Like we just did something so cruisy,
Speaker 2: Like I think if we did a massive wedding and
Speaker 2: it would have been like this is too much, but
Speaker 2: we just did. We literally had twenty people my closest
Speaker 2: family like Mitch's family in my family that was already
Speaker 2: like sixteen people, and then we had like a couple
Speaker 2: of friends each. We just had to celebrate at the
Speaker 2: house and had a chef. But I literally did nothing.
Speaker 2: Like everyone's like, what can I do to help? I
Speaker 2: was like nothing. People are coming in setting up with
Speaker 2: call ten things of lights, like a lady came and
Speaker 2: did all the table and I was like, oh no, no,
Speaker 2: I literally literally did nothing. I went to the gym
Speaker 2: that morning. It was like, oh, I don't get a
Speaker 2: coffee with myself because I don't know just something I
Speaker 2: can do. So No, it was really good. I loved it.
Speaker 2: It was just easy, and it was nice because I
Speaker 2: got to see my really close family friends and then
Speaker 2: this day was like just everyone and anyone. So it
Speaker 2: was like nice to have that little almost calming moment. Really. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So because Kayla got married like in December last year
Speaker 1: and then yours was two years ago, did you guys
Speaker 1: purposely pick around Christmas because you love the season or
Speaker 1: did this happen to fall on those dates.
Speaker 2: I think it just kind of fell on those days.
Speaker 2: I think we were kind of hoping for hotter weather,
Speaker 2: so it kind of went down to the December because
Speaker 2: we're still in November and it was like is it
Speaker 2: going to rain? Is it not? So like we pushed
Speaker 2: it as far as we could. But yeah, Keayla did
Speaker 2: the same sort of thing like backyardy farm music. It
Speaker 2: was great, Like we both kind of had cruisy weddings.
Speaker 2: I would say it was really easy.
Speaker 1: It sounds happy. I don't know if you had the
Speaker 1: same photographer as Kayla Christina, but I had her for
Speaker 1: my wedding as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she was so good. I booked her in and
Speaker 1: then I like before I didn't hadn't really heard much
Speaker 1: about her, and then I saw a rock up pop
Speaker 1: up on Kayla's page. I was like, I must have
Speaker 1: picked twelve, like she's doing Kelly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So she's actually she's actually a family
Speaker 2: her dad and my dad a cousin somehow one of
Speaker 2: those week things some power and cousin cousin. So Caylee
Speaker 2: got her. But she's the best. She's honestly, she gets
Speaker 2: things from like every angle, like little cans. I love
Speaker 2: I love I love it. We literally we had it,
Speaker 2: me and Keayla. So we're doing me and Kellor working
Speaker 2: on a project together. We're just an adlaid together and
Speaker 2: she was a photographer for it and she's just amazing,
Speaker 2: Like I just I love her so much.
Speaker 1: Just back to Christmas quickly before we go, what about
Speaker 1: for family for presents? Do you guys do a secret
Speaker 1: Santa or do you actually buy everyone in your family
Speaker 1: a Christmas present?
Speaker 2: Nah? We stopped doing that like the minute Anna was born.
Speaker 2: I was like, sorry, Keller, you get nothing kids. And
Speaker 2: I think, like so Mitchell's Mitch Jay's family does a
Speaker 2: secret Sanata and we were just kind of like, hold
Speaker 2: onto that and we now do a thing where like
Speaker 2: we buy our present, not a specific persons present, and
Speaker 2: then we do the thing that you can steal other
Speaker 2: people's presence like fun, you get a number and then
Speaker 2: like yeah it's a it's yeah, you get a number
Speaker 2: and then if you get whatever, nuther is like one
Speaker 2: story to however many people are there, and then there's
Speaker 2: all presents in the rooms. In your number called you
Speaker 2: get to pick a present, like pick what you want,
Speaker 2: open it, and then it's your present. And then if
Speaker 2: someone the next person gets to pick their present and
Speaker 2: if they don't like it, they can take yours. So
Speaker 2: you kind of want to be the last the higher
Speaker 2: number so you can pick whoever you want. It just
Speaker 2: makes like a really funny morning because everyone just bits.
Speaker 1: Do people purposely buy ship press because we've played that
Speaker 1: before and I remember our sisters Sophie, she bought like
Speaker 1: such a bad present, but everyone wanted it. It was like
Speaker 1: some stress ball pooh. It was like it was like
Speaker 1: most d or people actually buying good presents in your game, we.
Speaker 2: Said, we said like we had we had a max
Speaker 2: of fifty dollars because we were like, don't buy anything
Speaker 2: and anything more expensive than that because and then that
Speaker 2: that happens, like someone buys like a three thousand or
Speaker 2: something and what so fifty bounce is the Macs and
Speaker 2: we all just like and we all kind of bought
Speaker 2: things that were a bit funny, like we thought, like,
Speaker 2: you know, a candle with a Willie on it. I
Speaker 2: thinks like that. So we kind of depends on who's buying.
Speaker 2: And I think that's kind of the fun of it.
Speaker 2: You know that someone you know, I've always gonna buy
Speaker 2: something dumb, so like the Millies came.
Speaker 1: I hope your grandparents were fighting over that Willie Canton.
Speaker 1: Of course, we hope you enjoyed this episode with Leah.
Speaker 1: She joins us again in our subs episode tomorrow, where
Speaker 1: we discuss Christmas food as well as pregnancy cravings. Here's
Speaker 1: a little teaser of what you can expect Christmas.
Speaker 2: Crack that's like one billion, but then that'll be our Christmas.
Speaker 2: That's us. Not that I knew that I was pregnant,
Speaker 2: but I had iceberg lettuce and I was like dipping
Speaker 2: it in French onion dip, and I was like, something wrong,
Speaker 2: something genuinely in pregnancy. If I had any nawse or
Speaker 2: any sort of like back ache, but the wont it
Speaker 2: was it was bloody hungry Jack Suberes. Once I discovered
Speaker 2: that I was over.
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