Party People

Here are a few piccies from recent celebrations & other exciting things! Annie-Joy had her first party invitation in her own right earlier on this year. She was very excited to go in her party clothes with a little bag full of presents! Her brothers were miffed that they didn't get to go too & AJ did miss them terribly for the first hour of the party! She clung onto my leg & wouldn't play for a long time! By then end of the party she was having a lot of fun with her friend Iris.
Lee's cousin turned 18 this year & we all went to the 'grown up' party one Saturday night. The kids really enjoyed the disco, the balloons & the buffet. They all did really well staying up so late & we even got a tiny lie in the next morning! It was great to see our kids playing with lots of their second cousins & to meet various Great aunts & uncles for the first time (Lee has a VERY big family).

Here are some of the cards I have made for birthdays so far this year. I had fun sewing felt cupcakes & experimenting with paints, inks & my eyelet punch!

One of Timmy & Luke's friends from school was christened so we all went to the party (we couldn't go to the church service as it was the same day as Lee's conditional baptism!). It was loud & long but the kids had fun! The boys & another friend all had their faces painted like Sonic the Hedgehog! The face painting lady was rushed off her feet all afternoon & by the time she got to our boys she was a little frazzled. She said her Sonics got more & more impressionistic the more she did! Can you tell whose she did first & last??

My Uncle Ben had an operation last month & the boys drew him get well cards. They had a lot of fun creating fabulous rainbow designs with snails & cakes & sunshine! Ben really appreciated them. He is on the mend now & we are all looking forward to seeing him later this month.

I made my friend Fliss a birthday cake in the style of her wedding cake (see here & here) as she told me a while ago that she & her husband never got any of their own wedding cake at their wedding! So I made a special lemon madeira cake with homemade lemon curd & buttercream filling & decorated it in the same colours as their wedding cake. I added lots of sparkle too as Fliss does love her glitter! :o)

This lovely yellow rose is part of a bunch of flowers that my friend gave me to say thankyou for looking after her daughter for the day while she went to watch the tennis at Wimbledon! It was fun! Annie-Joy & Annaliese get on like a house on fire & we had a great time playing in the garden & walking Annaliese to nursery school. Annie is very keen to start nursery herself now that she has seen how much fun it looks!

Well, that concludes a little update of some of our activities of late. I shall endeavour to be back here very soon with more piccies of exciting things like our flooded garden, home grown sunflowers & tomatoes & bike riding boys! Hope all who read are well! TTFN! :o)