Auntie Janice's 40th Birthday

 

To celebrate Auntie Janice turning 40, she organised a family dinner at 'Wilidings' in Maidens. Aunt Janice, Uncle Alan and the kids had been having a great time staying at the family caravan for the week - so it was great that they invited us down to help them celebrate. We had a lovely meal together.

Wildings Restaurant

 



Janice's family organised a surprise cake for her which was brilliant. I know she secretly loved it when all 14 of us burst into "Happy Birthday" in the restaurant. Ha ha!!

 

 

 

 

 

 The kids helped blow out the candles.

 

Janice with her brothers Douglas & Adam and her sisters Shona & Jean. Sadly her sister Elma couldn't be there.

To keep the kids entertained, we brought sticker books and glow sticks as well as letting Heather lose with the camera (she loves taking photos).

 



Hannah



Grampa and Alec



The glow sticks were a big hit - the kids had loads of fun running round the table with them and making them into bracelets, head bands and hula hoops.  Grampa enjoyed them too!

Poor Ian and Alan drew the short straw and had to take the kids outside to the swing park, while the rest of us chatted and enjoyed our dinner at a leisurely pace.   

 

 

Me and my boy

Ian and Hannah

 

 Here are some lovely pics of the gorgeous kids & Granny and Grampa


Hannah

David



Alec

Heather



Evan



Granny and Grampa



 



Evan turns 2

 

 

Having gone all out on both Heather and Evan's first birthdays, we decided to make the next birthdays a little more low key. Yes...Ian and I CAN do low key! Low key, but still with a theme!

We had a few close friends over, a cake, some party games and some family members. The theme this year was Super-hero! Although judging by Evan's current obsession with horses, we maybe should have had a horse theme..

For his birthday we got a very cool farm/ stables and lots of horses or "neigh-neighs" as he calls them. He was one very, very happy 2 year old.

 

 The decorations:

As usual, we find a way of decorating the living room and hall. Ian created a city-scape out of black paper, stickers and chalk. It looked really effective.

 In the hall we continued the city scene and added a superman poster and some super-hero bunting.

 The cake

Activities

We set up some super-hero mask making things on the kitchen table. The kids (and adults) had fun making their own special mask.



 

 

Mask making fun

 

 

 



 




Superhero-silly string 

 

 

 

 

 

 Pass the Parcel

 

 

Photo Props Time

 Super heroes come together

 

 

 

 Heather showing her muscles.                                                 Best Buds:   Rory and Ben

 

 Uncle Gordon and Jenny

My wee cutie and me!

 

 

Think Uncle Gordon fell asleep in this one

 

 

Happy 2nd Birthday to our gorgeous and clever Evan,

lots of love Mummy, Daddy and Heather xx