Birthday week goes on...

Thank you for your lovely birthday wishes the other day. It feels more exciting being able to share my birthday with my bloggy friends. Much more fun.

I decided for my birthday that I wanted balloons, plus I thought my almost-5 year old niece would enjoy them when I had family over for dinner. She loved them!

I saw this idea on Pinterest. I bought a small cylinder of helium, some clear balloons and confetti. I used a cake piping fitting to open the end of the balloons so I could fit in the confetti. It wasn't easy but I loved the results. It made my dinner really festive.

Here's me just before opening my champagne. Yum!

I made myself a cake as well, the pink ombre vanilla cake. It turned out well. So much butter and sugar though! Half a kilo of each. Oh well...

The aftermath...

Really, it wasn't that bad as Mum and the MIL did some washing up for me before they left. That was nice :)

Tonight Lyn and are are going out for dinner. I'm really excited and already know what I want to order - it's a funky place where you can order a few small plates. This might be the first or perhaps second time this year we have gone out for dinner. Terrible! Do you go out for dinner much?

Have a lovely Friday friends

xx

ps I've realised it has been such a long time since I have done a vegie patch and garden update. I shall get onto it!

Birthday bits

Happy Monday friends! Yes, I'm another year older today :)

I decided that this is the year to celebrate, big 41. Last year was a bit tricky with lots of difficult things happening, so this year is going to be a bit of fun.

Look at the beautiful cake by very good friend Liz baked and decorated for me? Gorgeous!!

I can't wait to eat it.

I have decided to have a bit of a birthday "week", so started last Friday night with a few drinkies with Lyndon, followed by yummy pizza.

Saturday arvo I had more drinkies with my buddy Liz (cake maker extraordinaire) and so much fancy pants French cheese that I felt sick :) That evening Lyn and I ate yummy Asian takeaway sitting up in bed.

Yesterday, because I felt like it, I had Baileys and popcorn for dinner, followed by maltesers. I'm so naughty!

And today I have popped this lovely bottle of bubbles in the fridge to share with my family this evening.

Lyn spoilt me with this lovely brown box this morning. Inside, well, not a handbag, but a book I have had on my wishlist for a long time.

I'm really looking forward to a family dinner tonight and even going out to an actual restaurant for dinner with Lyn this weekend. We hardly ever go out for a meal, so I'm excited!

I hope you all have a wonderful week too. For the southern Tasmanians, yay for Show Day holiday this Thursday!

xx

The Destructathon

Molly thanks you all for your sweet birthday wishes in the last post. She had an exciting time, though the weather was too horrible for a fun outing (plus I was stuck at work all weekend). She had some more pressies to open yesterday and I fear we have created a monster as the first thing she did this morning was go looking for more pressies!

We often refer to the little girl as our "Destructathon". She is just so good at wrecking her toys. She rarely ever keeps any of them in one piece. Lyn's parents brought her around the pink pig and Molly set about destructing it. At least she has a nice time!

Have a great week friends!

xx

Birthday girl!

 

Hip hip hooray, it's Molly's birthday! Our little girl is 8 years old today.

 

I took these pics yesterday. Last night I wrapped some pressies for her and she was onto me, sniffing them out. She's a super smart girl.

 

 

This morning when she got up she knew it was pressie time. I have never known an animal to love unwrapping pressies so much!

 

 

I made a very dodgy video of the unwrapping.

 

 

What a cute girl!

 

 

I love her fuzzy butt.

xx

ps are any of you experiencing problems with uploading pics? I am finding it almost impossible!

Friday flower + birthday wishes

Hello friends, thank you so very much for your lovely comments over the past few days.

Auntie Ila is hanging on but for how much longer we just don't know.

Mum and Rachael have popped up there again tonight as Rachael had a work meeting down the coast.

A sad trip for Mum, especially seeing as today is her birthday.

So, these Friday flowers are for her.

Mum gave me these poppies from her garden last night and I thought we could all do with something cheery to look at today.

Happy Birthday Mum and I wish the rest of you a nice Friday and peaceful weekend :)

xx

40 years ago today...

...I came into the world

(please note very impressive lamb chops sideburns on Dad).

Yes, it was the early seventies. Check out those groovy curtains. There's Puddles and Rebecca the poodles with me.

Sorry about the pic quality. Was in a rush this morning.

Wow, who'd have thought I'd ever be 40 years old?

Not me.

When you are a child, 40 seems so ancient. But now that I'm here, I don't feel very old. Strange how that works.

Here I am with one of my bestest buddies Zeta. We were born a day apart (me first), grew up a street apart and went to the same school. It's a long time between drinks for us as Zeta lives in London (currently) but when we do see each other, it's like a day hasn't passed. That's a good friendship if you ask me.

Well, Happy B'day to us!

xx

Our Birthday Girl!

Hip Hip Hooray!

Molly girl is 7 today!

I took these photos on Sunday, sitting in the sun on the front lawn.

"Throw the ball for me Mum!"

We just had the very exciting pressie opening. The floor is now littered with scraps of ripped paper.

She now has a new ball to destroy and some lovely, smelly dog treats.

We might go for an outing to the pet store later and most definitely a nice walk.

We love our little furry girl just SO MUCH!

Look at that beautiful face. What's not to love?

xx

Friday flower

For Friday flower this week I am re-posting an image from earlier in the year. This is one of my roses called Scentimental. It is absolutely one of my all time favourites, for the growing habitat, bushiness, amazing blooms, fragrance and disease resistance. Another reason I love it is because it reminds me of my wonderful old Great Aunty Ila. Ila turns 90 years young tomorrow - so Happy Birthday Aunty Ila! I know she doesn't browse the web but it's the thought :)

Whilst I was visiting her a few years ago some relatives dropped by with a bunch of wonderful roses. In amongst them was a beautiful striped rose. I just loved it and discovered what it was. I planted it in my garden (or a pot at that stage) and it always reminds me of Ila now.

Have a lovely Friday peeps and hip hip hooray to Ila for tomorrow! xx

Friday flowers on a Thursday

My other beautiful clematis, called Lord Neville, a day early for Friday Flowers. It's my mum's birthday today so I thought I'd post early for her. 

I thought this plant had died last year so was surprised to see little shoots of green and buds! It's a beauty. The flowers are huge.

Happy Birthday Mum xx

Friday flower

A lovely pink ranunculus for Friday and my birthday.

Hip hip hooray - it's starting to get scary...one more year and I hit the big 40!!!

Oh well. Here's to a happy weekend to us all xx

Birthday Girl

Today is our little girl's 6th Birthday. We were told that as a Labradoodle, Molly would settle down when she turned 3. She hasn't settled down yet, but we don't mind :)

She was so excited last night when I wrapped her pressies. This morning when we woke up I said, "time for your pressies" and she was up and out of bed in the blink of an eye.

Molly just loves gifts. She loves unwrapping them and even if the gift is not for her, she likes to help out.

Her hamburger toy lasted about 4 minutes. It was 4 minutes of great fun for Molly :)

Happy Birthday Molly!

Belated Birthday

Yesterday was Lyndon's birthday. We had a pretty busy day with family dropping in and then dinner with his parents. In lieu of a cake I made Brownies but they took so long to cook and cool that I didn't get them cut up until this morning. Oh well, I like the idea of dragging birthdays out a little. I'm looking forward to morning tea :)
Happy Birthday Lyn! xx

A nice birthday

Today is 'people's day' at the Royal Hobart Show and it's also my birthday! It's so nice having the day off work and seeing as it was such a sunny warm day, Lyndon and I went to the show. Gosh, not much has changed in the years since we have last been.
I thoroughly enjoyed seeing all the animals, especially the baby ones, like this super-cute jersey calf below. He and his buddies were all wearing little hessian jackets! I am not a fan of hessian, especially as a fashion statement, but they looked gorgeous!!
Dinner at Mum and Dad's tonight so that'll be nice.

The Birthday Girl

Today is Molly's 5th Birthday. She has had a lovely day, showered with gifts and treats. Whilst not really keen on posing for photos, she did enjoy her birthday 'cake' for dinner.

At the moment she is snoozing in front of the fire - it has been an exciting day.