Happy Birthday Me..... (The Afternoon)

Having had Blake's birthday the day before, I didn't have the energy to organise another party... so we just had cake for my birthday.... we went to Mom and Dad's for afternoon tea - and to have the cake - so that it wasn't another late night for the kids...

Terene was down from Mt Isa with Aston.....

Aston.... (we make them cute in our family - don't we?)

my spunky monkey....

Aston again....

Blake enjoying biscuits and french onion dip....

Mmmmmm YUMMY!!!

Aston liked the biscuits too.....

The Cake

(is this where I put that I had to ask Rob about 4 times to sort out a cake?? we were due to leave to go to Mom and Dad's place and I said "Have you sorted a cake?" ..... answer "oh, *expletive* I'll go do that now!!" - - - - Next year I'll start reminding him a week in advance so that I can get my banana cake!!!)

Cutting the cake.....

This week really hasn't been good for my diet..... but - back on track now - so hopefully I can undo any damage done over the week, mind you - it was nice to just eat whatever and figure I'd deal with the consequences later....... :)

(more blogging tomorrow I think - tired now.... bed time)

Happy Birthday Me..... (The Birthday Shirts)

4th November = my birthday.... 32... *shudder*

Anyway, I've always got Rob G33k Shirts.... this year was payback......

you'd have to watch "The Big Bang Theory" to get this shirt....

for some clients - in the red could be good...

Don't think I should ever wear this one to work....

Disguised?? maybe not :)

Dad thinks this should be my new Trials T-shirt....

Ok, this one would be the most true out of all the shirts....

Rob just thought this one was funny.....

(I'm slowly catching up on my blogging - it's been a very busy week..... and now that it gets quiet - Rob takes off for the week.... so - not sure how much blogging I'll manage this week.... stay tuned!)

Happy Birthday Blake - The Party....

We decided to have a simple BBQ for Blake's birthday... so we had people come around (instead of sticking to the usual "invade mom and dad's place!).....

Mom had Ed & Jen over and Jen's mother - so they came over too.... (Dad's known Ed and Jen for longer than he's known Mom....)

Meg & Greg came over....

Blake happily played with his new toys.... (looks like he's going to have the Thomas addiction)....

Jade happily showed Melissa all of Blake's new toys.....

Uncle Frank is always good for making Blake giggle...

Xander was happy for the evening with the iPhone....

Rob at the BBQ as per usual....

Meg & Greg keeping Rob company....

Greg...

The Birthday Duo.... Blake 1 Jaime 27

Blake thought that Jen was the funniest person alive.. he just kept giggling everytime he'd look at her... and most of the time she really wasn't doing anything....

We decided that because Jade's first cake was an icecream one - we'd do the same for Blake

(plus it meant I wasn't up the night before putting a cake together - although - I had planned on making Jaime a cake - but we'll blame Rob for deciding that sleep was more important than grocery shopping at 7pm....)

Everyone singing happy birthday to Blake....

and the others singing happy birthday...

The birthday boy, not sure what to make of all the fuss....

gotta touch the cake.....

The birthday girl and her birthday raspberry scroll......

Blake eating his cake... he wasn't sure what to make of the cold icecream.... but he went back for more, once he was over the initial shock...

Mmmmm cake....

After cake it was bath time.....

Damian and Jaime had headed off to pick up Terene and Aston at the airport and Xander informed me that his pyjamas were on the freezer and he'd come over for a "bath-over" - so he happily got in the bath (not that there's ever been a challenge getting Xander into the bath)

One tired little birthday boy!

(the kids didn't get to sleep til just before 9pm.... was a very long day!)

Tooth #8

I forgot to put a post in to say that Blake got tooth #8.... it was either Friday night (30th) - or Saturday morning... it was definitely through by lunch on Saturday.... but more than likely it was the reason for the lack of sleep on Friday night....

Either way, he has 8 teeth now..... and he's getting grumpy again - which could be due to a really strange week we've had with birthdays and all things getting in the way of a normal sleep pattern - or it could be another tooth... I'll keep an eye out...

Happy Birthday Blake - Grandma Arrives.....

So, as I said - we made it to the airport just in time.... we saw Angela's plane land and then just waited for her to disembark.... Jade was so excited to see her again - she was getting ready to run to nearly every person who came through the door - I think she started getting a bit worried after having waited a while... but then she finally saw Angela and went running.....

After picking up Angela, we headed back to the photo studio to go and pick the photos that we wanted printed up to be framed... Angela and I went and did this - and rob took the kids to get some food into them to keep them going until we could get out to lunch...

We ended up having lunch at Maccas... and only because of the play area and Jade badly needed a run about... so we let her go....

Rob and Angela...

Blake sat quite happily eating his happy meal...

After we'd finished having lunch, we loaded the kids into the car and headed home.. Blake took about 15mins to fall asleep and then managed to sleep the rest of the trip... Jade fell asleep when we were only 20mins away from home... so she didn't get a really good sleep in...

When we got home we put Jade in our Bed with "My Little Pony Tales" on the tv - so she happily watched that and just had some quiet time so that she had the energy to run around after Xander that evening......

Angela brought Blake's present upstairs... he loved the box... but not in the typical "baby loves a box" way... it was more a case of rip the paper off the top of the box and then climb all over the box.... it's all about climbing at the moment...

blake got a Sand and Water activity table.... his favourite part of it is the 4 bucket type shapes on each corner to put the toys in.... it's taking up our lounge at the moment - but it keeps Blake quiet with putting things into the buckets and then taking them back out again - cycle repeat!

Happy Birthday Blake - Photo Shoot.....

We got up to Rocky 10mins early for the photo shoot... there was a family in there... photo sessions are supposed to be 15mins each - so we figured it would all be good... unfortunately - the family in there ran 25mins past the end of their session time - which meant that Blake was getting fidgety by the time we managed to get in for photos... I was a bit worried that we'd end up not having any good photos.... again - i was wrong!

While we waited the kids mucked around a bit....

Jade showing off her funky dance moves....

Blake showing off his funky walking moves.....

and again - incase you missed it....

Blake's photos were taken first as he was going to be the first to get to the point of having had enough.... so he did all of his photos - and with various props - but at least they weren't as over the top as the props for Jade's first birthday photo shoot.....

After we'd finished with Blake's photo shoot - I wanted to get the sibling photo... now I had planned on only getting a photo of the two kids... nothing more - we already have too many photos - my house isn't big enough for all the photos I would have liked.....

Blake didn't want to sit on Jade's lap... if the photographer had let me position the kids in a way that I believe would have worked - she may have succeeded in getting a decent photo - but they know best.... Anyway, so we gave up on the sibling photo - and Jade just posed her little heart out... and OMG she can pose.... she had a great time.... (I haven't edited any of these pics - I wasn't trying to do anything arty with them - was just a case of getting pics of the photo shoot to blog... will leave these photographers to get their photos)

By the time we'd finished - because we were started 25mins late - we didn't have time to hang around to chose pics - we had to head to the Airport to pick up Angela.... and we made it just in time :)

(as opposed to last trip where Angela landed 10mins early and when we arrived she was already waiting outside with her baggage)

Happy Birthday Blake - Early Morning.....

Blake was up at 5am... how unusual... and not just because he wanted to open presents... ok - he didn't want to open presents... and once he got the first toy - he didn't really care too much about the rest of the presents - just wanted to play with the toy... but we managed to get through the presents in the morning....

Book from Aunty Bethia, Uncle Mark, Tom & William....

he liked the red page..... (so did Jade)

a shape sorter ball from Grandad...

Thomas Clothes from Mum, Dad & Jade....

Tractor from Mum, Dad & Jade....

and a fishing boat (that can go in the bath - but we haven't pointed that out to the kids - they've got enough bath toys for now....

Jade was all dressed up in her dora outfit... she does love this outfit and we thought we'd have a problem getting her into her dress for photos... but we were wrong! :)

We left Mom and Dad's place just after 8:30 ... and headed to Rocky to get Blake's first year photos taken.....