Hubby's Birthday Part 3

 

This post is a little late, have been a little tied up with kids this last week, you know the usual school holiday madness lol.

As I mentioned last week, Hubby's birthday was split into 3 parts this year due to kids comings and goings with the other parents.  Tuesday night saw our party night.  The kids love party night, we have all the usual party type food......you know the really fattening and bad for your pizza, pies, sausage rolls, fairy bread etc etc etc lol.  The best bit is that I don't really have to cook, its all heat and eat and pick up from the shop type stuff lol.  The only thing I can't avoid is the cake.  Me making the birthday cake is just a tradition in this house that has developed since having children.  Hubby was unsure this year what he wanted, previous years has seen him have a Footrot Flats cake, an Alf cake and I can't remember what else lol.  This year he just couldn't decide so he said "make me something with jellybeans and make it tall".  I considered a giraffe lol but settled instead for something a bit easier.  The cake above is a double decker cake.  I made two cakes, cut each one in half to fill with jam and cream and then stuck them together with a little more jam.  The outside is decorated with chocolate biscuit sticks, jellybeans and vanilla cream.  It was pretty yummy.

I think the best bit of this was that each slice of cake I cut more or less fed two people.  They each got half the slice (worked out well when I have a few who don't like jellybeans, they got the bottom half and the jellybean lovers got the top half)!

Hubby's Birthday parts 1 and 2

FIRST FALLS AT WATERFALL GULLY, ADELAIDE

 This year Hubby's Birthday, October 2, once again fell on the long weekend, (lucky guy he is!).  Due to my ex just having to start a new job of sorts, I couldn't plan anything until the last moment as the new company took over on Sunday and they didn't get their rosters until late last week.  So we had a bit of a mish mash  birthday which is still going even today lol.  On Sunday we had my boys for the day until 6pm when they went to their Dad's.  Yesterday we picked up his kids to have them for the next week of school holidays.

So this year his birthday is being celebrated in 3 parts.  Sunday, his actual birthday we went out for a nice walk to two places he had never been before and Sunday night he chose to go to dinner at the Adelaide Casino and have a little flutter on the pokies.  Monday I took him out for pancakes for brunch at Port Adelaide and last night when all the kids arrived home, we had presents.  Tonight we will have our traditional "party night" which consists of all your usual party type food and the birthday cake (which I need to get moving and make lol). 

Here are some pics of our walk at Waterfall Gully.  This area, just out of Adelaide is beautiful and one day soon we aim to walk the trail which runs from here to Mt Lofty Summit.  This walk is approximately 3.9kms each way and is quite steep in places.  Best make it a day when we are feeling fit lol.

Mr11 at the First Falls Lookout

First Falls Again

And here is Hubby as he undid his presents from each of the kids.....

Hubby's Mr11 (trying to get him to smile is impossible,,,,I tried but in the end they both looked like stunned zombies lol)

My Mr11

Hubby's Miss12 (along with Justin Bieber)

My Mr14

My Mr16

My Mr9

Sad Goodbyes and Birthday Surprise.....what a busy Saturday it was!

Saturday was a real whirlwind of a day in our house.  First of all we made the trek up to my brother's house which is out in the country about an hour or so drive away.  He lives in a very dry part of SA that sees very little rain.  Thankfully over the last few weeks they have received some rain and over the next few weeks it will turn into a nice lush green on the hills his house overlooks.  Sadly for us and for him he won't be here to see it as he is moving interstate next week.  He is swapping his beautiful views for some more equally beautiful views apparently.  I can't wait to go and visit him when they have settled in to their new house (not that it is actually built yet lol).  It will be a 14 hour drive for us though so it will be a very rare treat.  I sure will miss being able to go and visit his place though, it is so relaxing up there, so peaceful.

Here are some views from his house, it is perched on a small hill so overlooks the surrounding area and as you can see, there aren't many neighbours around.....

 

The kids will miss the dogs...

and Jimmy the Galah

and not to mention the numerous cats,,,here is one, her name is Jess and she is part Ragdoll part Birman and we are hoping she is pregnant.  The daddy is a purebred Ragdoll, also owned by my brother.  We have been promised one of the kittens if she is pregnant, yippee!!!

While we were surrounded by beautiful views, we decided to get a group photo of the kids.......anyone with kids knows how hard that can be,,,,here are our attempts with some very unwilling participants lol....

Take 1 Hubby forgot to zoom in

Take 2 looks like we have 3 separate groups of kids

Take 3 a slight improvement (honestly you would think the words "stand closer" meant touching something that would cause instant death!!)

Take 4....

Take 5....a reshuffle but now Miss12 doesn't want to get boy germs, sheesh

Take 6...the comedian comes to life lol

Take 7...family togetherness it isn't today!

Take 8...ahhhh just forget it...this went on for another 8 or so shots and the ones I have shown you are the best of the bunch.  I guess this photo will have to do for my frame on the wall lol, at least the background view is happy looking.

 

This photo and some individual ones we also took are to go in a huge frame I am revamping at the moment (I will show you my little art project once it is complete, I think I know what I am doing lol)

Once we came home I had two birthday cakes to create.  Getting home at almost 3pm didn't leave me feeling very inspired but it was our birthday night for the two Mr10's so I had to get the promised cakes made.  I think they turned out not too bad.  Here they are, they Thomas cake for Mr10 with Autism as he loves Thomas the Tank and the Scary House for Mr10.  Not as scary as I had originally planned but I couldn't find the original lollies I wanted to use so crocodiles, snakes and alien windows had to do lol.

The little legs sticking up in the air in the pool is meant to be a person getting eaten by a crocodile, it just didn't come out very well in the picture lol, but my son loved that bit.

All in all it was a great day.  It was sad to have to say goodbye to my brother and his wife, but they are following their dreams and you can't deny them that.  I wish them all the best and I can't wait to go and visit them in the not too distant future.

As for my birthday boys, well, I love them to bits and I can't believe they are both now 11 years old, where has that time gone?????  Today is in fact my Mr10's birthday, he actually seems older today in a mature kind of way lol, where has my little boy gone, the 2 year old that used to screw up his nose and say "that's disgusting" lol.