Tuesday and a Birthday.....

Tuesday stitching with the girls.....

  yummie morning tea......

A very cheeky Teresa with her wonderful finish.....

"Home for Christmas" mini quilt..... lovely

I didn't finish mine on the day but got it done on Wednesday.....

We are soooo happy with our group project......

Today.... Thursday the 8th was our June's (g/daughter) 20th Birthday....

OMG where have all the years gone.......

So it was out to lunch with Heather ... June and Carter (b/friend).....

we decided to go to the Kooralbyn Valley Kitchen for lunch, very glad we did as the food was just great.....

I know it doesn't look very interesting but it was delicious ......

Chicken with cranberry, salad with aioli sauce...... yum

June's beef burger with real meat..... lol.....

We (Heather and me) shared a piece of cheesecake with our coffee.....

A lovely day with great company.....

Righto I'm off to my hexie stitching now....

Toodles.....

The "Festival of Helen" continues.....

 

Birthday Dinner with the family.....

we went to the local Golden Inn restaurant and had a great meal.

I'm so lucky to have so many wonderful friends and family in my life.

Love the balloons.....

I wanted a family photo with our children and this is the best I could get....

as you can see our son ....Robert absolutely hates ( with a vengeance) having his photo taken...hopefully someone else might have a better one.

So here it is 

Heather.... me ... Liz... Rob and Gavan.

Grandchildren.....

June...Corinne...Jake...Clayton...

back row

Bianca...Alex (extended family) and little old me.

Birthday cake and it was yum....

I have been waiting for more photos but these will have to do for the moment.

Thank you sooooo much for a wonderful night....

Love you all heaps.....

Gifts from Gavan....

from Liz and the boys

from Corinne

from Heather, June, Sylvio, Bianca and Alex

Well I'm off to do another post..... getting a bit behind.

So much to show too.

Toodles

A big week for a big Birthday....

The lovely Sandi has called this......

the "Festival of Helen" .....

there is a story to this and if you pop over to her blog you can read all about it.

So let the Festival begin.....

yes I will tell you, it's my big 70th  Birthday....

starting with an outing on Monday with my eldest daughter Heather....

High Tea.....

 It was soooo good.

We did do a bit of shopping as well.

Thank you Heather for a really lovely day.

Tuesday Girls ......

well we were out and about again of course

 Beginning with morning tea....

Naughty girls in the fun chairs....

imagine us all swinging, rocking and twirling like little kids.... and we did oooowa.

Present opening....

The girls know me soooo well.....

I love Royal Albert and Christmas.....

Sooooo

here is a Royal Albert Christmas Ornament....

A beautiful Teapot.

How good is that ?

Teapots seem to be the theme of my Birthday.....

Gorgeoussssss.

And there was even more gifties....

lucky me....

 Koala Bear candles from Sandi....

a beautiful 70 mug from Norreen....

and a lovely memory book from Teresa...

Lots of great photos of our outings.

I would love to show you all the pages but that might be a bit over the top.

Shopping....

A little Pole Dancing to work up an appetite....

And yes I did get some funny looks.....
but I'm old now so I can do what I want.....

who cares.....

Then another High Tea..... woohooooo

Before

After

Yep I think we thought that was pretty good too.

Thank you soooo much ..... my Besties.....

Teresa.....Sandi..... Norreen

I hope you return for the rest of the " Festival of Helen "

It just goes on and on......

Toodles.....

A Birthday and an outing....

On the 19th October my youngest baby had her 42nd  Birthday so we got together to celebrate.

I just love this photo of Liz and her youngest son Clayton ......

they get on soooo well.

Here they are comparing muscles...... so funny

Liz does weight lifting and Clayton plays AFL footy.

Her other son  Jake was at work so he missed the fun.

Jacarandas are so lovely and it was a very pretty sight on the way to the shops where we enjoyed lunch for her special day.

We had birthday ice cream cake which is a tradition in their home.

Thanks for a lovely day Liz and Clayton.

On Tuesday our very small group.....

Teresa, Norreen and me decided to have lunch at a very pretty cafe not far from home.

While Sandi is away these 3 little kittens went out to play....

"Green Frog Hollow" cafe

Teresa and Nor

The gardens are so beautiful.....

 It was so relaxing there.....

We did have a sensible lunch which didn't even get in the photos but.......

it was followed by this naughtiness.....

ooooowa

Well it was only Teresa and me that were naughty really.....

We are all off  to a retreat in Tasmania tomorrow so hopefully lots of photos to come.

2 Celebrations

It's been a very busy week here and today we have Gavan's Birthday and Corinne's Graduation from the University of the Sunshine Coast.

We are so proud of you Corinne not just for what you have achieved but for the young woman you have become......
 caring, thoughtful and a real stunner like your Nan.....lol...a little humour there sorry.

Heather a very proud Mum.

It was so good to be able to join in the celebrations with you .....

Pop.... Nan....Heather....Corinne and June.

It was  also Pop's Birthday so we didn't do anything very special for him this year.....
he hasn't been feeling very well so he was happy to take a back seat for Corinne's big day.

On our way home Gav and I had a quiet birthday celebration at a service station and we enjoyed a yummie Krispy Kreme doughnut.

A progress photo of my Christmas wreath.

Corinne's Birthday

Corinne's 23rd Birthday.....

It was a very quiet birthday night at home celebration this year....

Pizza

Watching a movie with us .... Nan and Pop.... after a day at work for her.

We did have cake but no photo.

There was a busy week ahead ..... another post to follow.

Tuesday saw more progress on my Christmas Wreath but that seems to be the only photo I have of our Tuesday girls get together.

Very unusual.....