I made a cake!

I'm not sure where this birthday cake making "thing" has come from but I'm starting to like it. You see, I don't make a lot of stuff anymore. My creativity seemed to have died or has lay dormant since child number one and two. The moment child number one started to pull my scrapbook and card making papers off the dining room table, out went my creativity and in came preschool activities and encouraging creativity within her instead.
So after all these years I have found a new outlet...I'm not sure how long it will last...but here's the latest cake pic for you to ooh and ahh over.

I'm pretty stoked with it. I googled a few other volcano cakes. They some how had dry ice coming out of the top, we had 5 sparklers left over from Guy Fawkes.

Joes 5th Birthday Volcano Cake

Happy Birthday Joe!

My Joe is five today...can someone please tell me how this....


turned into this...

He was born Good Friday 2006. He "whooshed" into the world at the crack of dawn and changed our lives forever. And by "whooshed"...I now understand how some people have their babies on the side of the road...or in taxis on the way...because in some labours, once the pushing stage is "on" its over in a matter of a couple pushes. It went this way for us that time. We had him at the hospital and walked home a couple of hours later...We lived pretty close to the hospital!

This guy keeps me on my toes. He lives life on fast forward...a lot like his entry into the world. Forever bumping into things and man can he cry when he gets hurt. He has my laugh...loud and proud. He is an amazing imitator and is funny like his dadda. He appears to be showing some good leadership skills and is very social. After years of jumping on the trampoline he seem to be developing quite a bit agility.
He is so looking forward to school. There is only one more day to go before the school ends for the term, so he's just going to start on day 1 of term 2...Im sure he'll be fine without any school visits! He'll fit right in...here's hoping!

Happy Birthday Little Man.

I'm off to cook the special birthday dinner. He wants Chicken Curry with roti...roti?! Hate rolling out roti!

Trying out the new trampoline mat. Thanks Grandma and Poppa

Birthday drinks and tappas

For my birthday I gathered a few of my besties for a night of drinks and Tappas...who new so many of us had red wallets! Paisley Jade sneaked in her pink one on top...close enough!

Thanks Gals for helping me celebrate life as a 30 year old. Love you guys
xxx

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday...Me!

I turn the big THREE-O today. Thought you might like a picture of what I looked like 30 years ago. What a cutie!

I'm really excited about turning 30 for some reason. As if three kids and a mortgage doesn't make you feel like a grown up...turning 30 sure helps this along.

Have a great April 11th bloggy friends!

Littlest Pet Shop party fun!

My little Miss 6 is now a Miss 7. Where has the time gone. She really wanted a Littlest Pet Shop party and like a good mum I obliged. After the mandatory google research, I managed to pull some enthusiasm together and put a party together for her and 6 friends, and tag along brother.
First Dadda practiced his face painting skills on our two. I thought he did a great job for his first time. It really set the scene for when the girls arrived, as they were keen as to pick a littlest pet to be.

Next we had craft time. Each of the girls was going to get a Little pet to adopt in their goodie bag so we decorated little carry bags for them. The stickers (mainly animal ones) were a big hit. Glitter and glue, they bedazzled those boring wedding favour boxes right up.

Other ideas
We had a game of jumping lily pads. Instead of musical chairs, we made green coloured lily pads which remained on the floor. Girls had great fun with this one.
For the decorations we had orange streamers with purple and white balloons with paw prints on them (the littlest pet shop theme colours)
For food we had hot dogs (American and the ones on a stick). Carrot sticks and dip, Sour worms...and that's about where the theme ended...the usual chips and dip, banana splits, fruit kebab etc.

This was the cake I made. Making birthday cakes has only become a recent thing for me (this is my fourth). I was pretty pleased with how it turned out. I amalgamated a couple of ideas I had googled and came up with this one.

Great fun! The girls had a great time. Master 4 had his moments and negotiating master 5 months was a bit tricky but all in all it wasn't too stressful, but I'm pooped now!.


Happy Birthday my little girl xx

Happy Birthday Paisley Jade.

If you are a KiwiMummy blogger..there is probably no doubt you have PaisleyJade in your favourites list...and for good reason... I love her blog too. I have the privilege of knowing the famous Kristy of PaisleyJade in real life, and today is her birthday and I wanted to let ya'll in on some inside information on her. We've known each other for about 11 years, our husbands and children are besties and shes one of my besties too.

This is my top 10 list of reasons Paisley Jade is one of my favourite people in the whole wide world.

1. She has the funniest sense of humour, a great laugh and she doesn't take herself too seriously.
2. She IS theProverbs 31 woman.
3. She is generous.
4. She is amazingly creative. Sewing, card making, jewelery, cakes, toys and of course crocheting...are just a few
5. She is a great wife and puts up with all of Symon's shenanigans and obsessions passions ;)
6. She is an awesome youth pastor.
7. She is a cool mummy to FOUR lovely, bright kids.
8. She is the friendliest person I know.
9. She is an amazing baker.
10. She is the most encouraging person you will meet. If you are ever down or having a bad day she will always let you know she's there thinking and praying for you.

There you have it...if you love PaisleyJade- the Blog...just wait till you meet her in real life.

Happy Birthday PaisleyJade
xxx

Hubby's Birthday.

It's my lovely husbands birthday today.

I love him to bits. He's a great husband and fantastic dadda.
Today was his special day.
Birthday breakfast at a local cafe, then back to work in the afternoon.
And later home to a pork roast dinner and some excited kids who were just as happy as I was at our afternoon cake creating.
This is only my third attempt at birthday cakes. Before that the tradition in our family was heading down to the local cheesecake shop and picking the picture to put on top of our bought cheese cake (embarrassing I know!).
So this is a real step up...
Hubby was very surprised and delighted I might add with his birthday cake.

"cheers"

I call this masterpiece "Chocolate fish(ing)"
Two rods because he's so awesome at fishing!
Happy birthday my love!