For Bill’s birthday I decided to make him a birthday cake. I’ve been wanting to try this rainbow cake so I bought a couple boxes of vanilla cake mix and a bottle of Sprite, followed the instructions and made the cake batter.     I divided the cake batter into 5 bowls and added some pretty colours. Then I poured the colourful cake batter into 2 round cake ... Read More

Thirteen Things I need to do before the Pirate Party 1.... Buy the food and drinks. 2.... Buy the lollies for the pinata and the goody bags. 3.... Write out the tags for the goody bags. 4.... Make up the goody bags. 5.... Get DS16 to mow the grass and weed the gardens in the back yard. 6.... Make other arrangements in case of bad weather. 7.... Find the fishing line to hang up all the decorations. 8.... ... Read More

We don't work on a set schedule as to which year the kids can have a birthday party with their friends. If we don't plan one where their friends will be invited, we always do an afternoon tea with the family, or offer a "drop in" invitation for icecream and birthday cake. We do of course have birthday parties for the milestone birthdays. But this year will be a little different. ... Read More

Ah, it's so nice to have some time to just sit down, relax and read some blogs. It doesn't happen often so I'm not sure how long this is going to last but I'm enjoying it nonetheless. I have something like 863 posts waiting for me in my google reader so I might just slowly crawl through that! I see some interesting post titles there that I'll click on first ... Read More

I promised some photos so here's one for now :) My baby's birthday cake! My sister and brother-in-law picked it up for me tonight. It was made by the same lady who made my sister's wedding cake which was beautiful! I'm so pleased with it! It's so beautifully detailed and looks as though it has tiny speckles of glitter on it. ... Read More