virtual coffee & a spring party...

evening sweet bloggy friends...
i'm a little late to my fave *catch-up* of the week - virtual coffee...
& boy do i have a whallop of stuff to talk about with you!
it's evening here in the english countryside...
& i am snuggled up in bed with one poorly little angel- miss.audrey {again!} & a cup of milky-sugared tea...& a couple of english bickies...
have i mentioned how much i loooove having my sister-in-law staying with us?
she bought me up the night time tea & bickies...
she made dinner tonight...
& banana muffins & oat slice for a special trip tomorrow...
& she packed a luchbox of food for my hubster to take to work tomorrow...
& she is lovely lovely lovely to be with...
she makes me feel just a little bit blessed to know her...

anyhoo...

if we were really meeting for a cup of very strong made by my lovely siste-in-law tea...

& watching over little miss.a doozing beside us...

i would share with you our birthday weekend...

it was heavenly...

our big gal became a teen...& her friends were completely gorgeous & more polite than most people you run into during a day of jobs around the place...

we had cupcakes & vintage inspired flags...

a fancy dress themed around *hippies* & the *eighties*...two extremes...

a table of pizza's & endless laughter...

lovely kids with such enthusiasm & friendship for our daughter...

an aussie girl in the depths of the english countryside...

adopted by these wonderful generous english kids...

showered with hugs & smiles...

you'd have to sit through ALL my photos if we were really having a pot of tea together...

i can't promise to not shed a tear over them...

she looks so happy...& we are so proud of her...

& yep you're probably right- i should have a stronger more sugary-milky tea...

it seems to help somehow...when one is a little emotional that ones's eldest really is getting older!

ok- i've slurped down that first lovely cup...

& i encourage you to do the same, because you are gonna want to try these little beauties on!

everyone wants to see themselves in a mo & a pair of specs at some stage...

these were a total party winner!

cut from black card in various hand drawn shapes...

we made a pile of moustaches...

stuck them on chopstick handles...

&

added 3D movie glasses to the pot...

we pushed out the lenses & plonked the lot in the middle of the table...

the kiddos loved them...

we loved them...

the camera loved them...

see...slurp down that tea & try them on...

or at least remember to make a pile of your own...

ella had seen them in a magazine somewhere & we whipped up our own in no time!

if we were really having a catch-up at mine together...

i'd send you home with a pair...they are soo much fun...

even us oldies look kinda cool...

& we got a little street cred  from the birthday gang by letting them take photos of us in party mode...

if we were really catching up for a tea tonight...

i'd ask you about the birthday's you remember growing up...

the special ones...

the ones that were "better than you imagined they would be"...

there is nothing like a weekend of sunshine & a wonderful birthday party for one of your kids...

there's a long build up & a fair whack of work in birthday preparations isn't there...!?

this weekend we were blessed...

perfect spring weather...

a house full of happy kiddos...

music & laughter...

backyard cricket...

& a bbq lunch...

if we were really here together i'd be wanting to get the lowdown on your weather situation...

i still can't believe some of you are still getting snow!

i've needed this spring heat...proper warm...freckles-on-the-nose kinda heat for a looooong time!

it feels soo good...

it was a little reminder of days in our beach suburb garden at home...

*nothing* days...

warm nothing days...

the kind you always remember...

if we were really catching up for an hour or two of lovely tea in a pot...

i'd have to take you down to sit in our english garden...

i'd want you to make the most of this gorgeous english weather...

storybook spring weather...

& then i'd throw out our picnic rug on the grass for you...

& leave you with a moustache or two & a pair of cool librarian looking glasses & my camera...

you'd have a lovely time...

thanks for dropping by

&

chewing the fat...

catching up on all things 

birthday

&

weather...

we are off to London tomorrow for a little big city loving with our beloved aussie visitors 

before the big day-

the *Royal Wedding*

so see you when we return with tales to tell...

~~~

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& tell my great friend amy i said hi...

i'm off to snuggle & mummy our little a...

xox