Noah turns 10!

 Our baby turned 10 today! Happy Birthday to our sweet Noah!

We had birthday balloons, presents, phone calls with the grandparents then off to school.

Birthday cake, bowling and dinner out with the family tonight with a party with friends to come on the weekend.

The years are flying by! xx

Jasper turns 13.

Well, we have another teenager in the house! Jasper turned 13 today.

We had presents in the morning, phone calls from family then off to school. 

We then celebrated with Jasper's favourite chocolate cake for afternoon tea and a promise of a future celebration with friends later on in the year. 

Of course we had the obligatory helium balloons in the birthday numbers but they were a tough find this year! I had to hunt around and the only 13 I could find was in rose gold. 

(There must be lots of celebrations happening this month?!)

Jasper had a smile on his face all day and had a great birthday. 

He is just the sweetest and we love him so much!

Happy Birthday Jassie xx

Happy birthday Finn - 17

Finn turned 17 the other day! Our baby is all grown up. 

We had pressies in the morning, school, then dinner out with the family.

Happy birthday Finn, we love you! xx

Noah turns 7!

Our gorgeous Noah turned 7 on the weekend.

He had been counting down the days until his birthday and he was so excited to celebrate!

We had cake and presents with the family on Saturday and a party with his school friends on the Sunday. His birthday was well and truly celebrated!

Party bag preparation....

We outsourced his party again this year. It's been a long time since we have had a party at home and honestly I don't think we ever will again. It's so nice to have the kids entertained and leave the mess behind! As well as sitting back and watching the kids enjoy themselves instead of rushing about.

There were trampolines, party games, tug of war, races etc

They had the best time :)

For the cake for his friends I grabbed a chocolate Sara Lee slab cake and decorated it with smarties.

Too easy!

Happy birthday to our sweet Noah. We love you soooo much!

The photo below came up on my Facebook memories, it was from Noah's 2nd birthday.

I can't believe how much they have all grown up over the past 5 years. It really goes so fast.

How was your weekend?

A special milestone - a 70th birthday

On the weekend we celebrated a very special milestone for my father in law, his 70th birthday. 

As the family is spread out over the world at the moment we couldn't all get together so on the weekend we got the Sydney crew together for dinner to wish him the happiest of birthdays. 

I've popped some photos up below of the night.....

To decorate the table I shopped my cupboards and pulled out my go to tree stumps as a base. I then added a few cactus + succulents for greenery and the copper mugs added some warmth. I then added the "Paul" blocks to personalise the setting. I  find it difficult to create centrepieces for our round table as it is quite large so you need something substantial. Also it has to be low so it doesn't obsure guests faces and make conversation difficult. I'll keep searching for ideas!

The letter boards were a great way to display the cocktail of the night and a special birthday message I found on Pinterest.

Shop the look......

Our round table was an amazing op shop find. You don't find this size often!

Tree stump offcuts - Big W a few years ago. 

Wooden blocks - Kmart

Chairs - Fantastic Furniture 

Copper Mugs - Big W a few years ago

Gold Cutlery - Big W

Gold cake stand - Domayne

Foil balloons - Big W

Letter Boards - Alpha Board Co

Jasper turns 9.

Jasper has been counting down the days til his birthday for weeks and today he turned 9. 

He was bursting with excitement from the time he opened his eyes this morning until he closed them tonight.  He really had the best day!

He woke up this morning to the usual birthday balloons and he wandered out of his room and found a large Scalextric race car track set up and waiting for him in the living room. It was exactly what he wanted! He had 2 very eager participants in his brothers to race against!

He also received books, a boardgame and a huge bubble wand that he immediately put to use.

We had a party for his friends in the afternoon at our local Flip Out (trampoline place) so I had a cake to make for 15. My instructions were for a vanilla cake with vanilla icing and sour worms, sour patch kids and sour straps on top. Not to everyone's taste but all the kids loved it! ;)

Everyone had the best time and Jasper said he didn't want the day to end. 

Definitely the sign of a good birthday!

Just before bed I realised I hadn't take a photo with the birthday boy so we quickly took one using his favourite Snapchat filter. So cute x

Happy 9th birthday to our beautiful Jasper, we love you.