Helen's 30th Birthday!

My little sister Helen turned 30 on 17th August! We were invited to a children's birthday party at our parent's house. Jordan, Timmy & Luke were VERY excited to be going to a party & talked about it lots! We pretended that we couldn't stretch to making Helen a birthday cake & put 30 candles on a shop bought cake. The packet of candles stated that they should be placed 2 inches apart- can you imagine the size of cake required to do that with 30 candles????? After lunch we began the festivities & played loads of party games including Kim's Game, Parcel Parcel (what the boys call pass the parcel!), hunt the pegs, treasure hunts, team games & more! The winners got stars on their chart which Jordan loved! There was much hilarity playing the fill the jug up with water team game & a little bit of cheating by Helen & Lee! They got a bit wet too!!!

At tea time there was a traditional kids birthday tea with sandwiches, fairy cakes, jelly & blamanche. This rabbit jelly proved to be very popular with the boys! (Jordan has only recently begun to eat jelly by the way!)

We played pin the tail on the Radley dog after tea. Helen collects Radley handbags you see! There was a little bit of cheating going on in this game too if you look at the photos carefully! Tsk! Tsk!

At the end of the game we turned Radley Dog into Radley Rhino! He looks good don't you think??!

Jordan won the BIG prize for winning the most party games. He was very pleased with himself! He chose a little yellow smiley popping up toy which has kept him entertained for ages!

I just happened to find this photo the day before Helen's birthday from way back in 1991, taken on Helen's 14th birthday. I made her this teddy bear birthday cake.....

...and now in 2007 I made her a monster cake as a surprise! Actually, Jordan, Timmy & Luke made the madeira cake & then I iced it. I was quite impressed that we managed to make a 'proper' cake altogether as we usually do the all-in-one method of making sponge cake where everything goes in higgledy piggeldy! The boys loved cracking the eggs open & sifting in the flour. It was quite a successful bake!

The boys couldn't wait to eat the monsters & did really well keeping it a secret from Helen all day. As I went out to get the cake from the living room Timmy couldn't contain himself any more & said 'I want to eat the monster cake!' It tasted delicious & went down very well. Luke ate all the icing first before demolishing the cake!

Uncle Ian had so much fun at the party that he has decided that he'd like a kid's party for his 30th birthday too!!

As the day drew to a close, the boys had their baths & got into their pyjamas. Lee read them a bedtime story before we drove back home. It was a very enjoyable day! Happy 30th Birthday Helen!

EDIT: Ok everyone, those monsters were made for eating! They were more than happy to fulfil their destiny & be eaten so don't be sad for them! LOL!!