Sunday, 27 November 2011

A Happy Derby Birthday to me...... :)

4th November....

For the past 3 years - my birthday has been pretty much forgotten...  the joy of having a baby the day before your birthday... not that I'd change that for anything in the world - but no one wants to celebrate two days in a row...  

Last year Mom and Dad took the kids so that Rob and I could go to the movies for my birthday... and this year the Derby Girls got together (Cara and Holly organised everything) and we went out for dinner....  I love my derby girls to bits......



Cara....


Best Barmaid ever.... little Squeak.... 


Cara & I


Holly & I


Laura, Holly & Yvonne


Kristel & Cara


Nat's cocktails...


Laura, Yvonne & Holly (again)


Nat & I


Holly and her VERY healthy dinner... eheh


Dani & I


My Ice Cream cake... 


Faye & I
 

Yvonne, Kristel & Laura


Danielle & Cara


Holly & I
  

Nat & Yvonne


We had a brilliant night.... Thanks Girls!!! you all ROCK!



THE PRESENTS


New Skates....
(not that there's anything wrong with my old skates - but I wanted to have separate outdoor skates so that I didn't have to keep changing wheels a few times a week to be able to go street skating.....)


Such an awesome t-shirt - but you'd need to be size 12 to wear the XXL that it is.... which is a bit upsetting...


It's now Holly's shirt....

Monday, 21 November 2011

Blake's 3rd Birthday.....

Thursday 3rd November...

(so yes, I'm still behind .....)

Blake turned 3....  I still can't believe he's 3 already...  a lot has changed in the last year, he's gone from being a child who barely spoke a word (which - given Jade doesn't stop talking - you could understand)...  now he talks nearly as much (if not more) than Jade does....  

Such a gorgeous boy with such a fantastic attitude....  and gorgeous dimples... :)


The present stack... waiting for the birthday boy to wake...


Opening the first present from Grandma....a Cars Garage and Cars toys...


The present from Aunty Bethia, Uncle Mark, Tom & Tiny


Cars PJ's.... It took a bit of convincing to get Blake to put these down to open his other presents... he's very impressed with his new PJ's



Birthday Cuddles from Greg before he had to leave for TAFE for the day


Piston Cup racing Cars from us


A caterpillar sprinkler from us


The cars from the "Mater Tales" Movie


3!!!!!


Deep in thought about what it means to be 3....
(Ok, he was probably eyeing off some new toy.... but it sounded good for a minute)


Yup, still 3!


The Caterpillar


The Cars PJ's
  

Cars garage and cars....


Piston Cup cars...


Mater Tales cars



After school we had Cat and her boys as well as the usual crowd over for the afternoon and sausage sizzle dinner....


Cat


Talon


Blaze


Bailey


Bailey, Xander & Blaze


Cheeky man...


Birthday boy...


Talon again.... he loves the camera... and the camera loves him



playing with the sprinkler...








Brotherly love..





Jade finally came out to join everyone...


Declan...



Teething... can you tell?? hehe


Looks like Xander is about to dive....  no pools here...


Soccer...


Cranky pants....



Wobz


Mom


Dad


Gran


Frank


Holly.... charming as always.... :)


Holly got on the trampoline with the kids... they thought that was fantastic...




Blake was sad when Holly got off the trampoline







Posing with Uncle Frank




Sad Declan... this time it wasn't Talon....






The Cake



Coloured Flame candles.... these were awesome...


Green Blue & Orange





All blown out...


Playing with the Cars Garage and Talon


Jade reading with Holly before bed....

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