Birthdays B.C.

DH commented last year that the birthday celebrations of our immediate family now number 16 each year so that’s a lot of dinners/parties and cake! 

We start off the year of celebrations early...January no less! Then February, 2 sons in law in March who prefer no fuss, then April, May and early June. Then a big break until September, then November. Now the way 2020 has rolled out, I’ve been describing family birthdays as Before Covid ( B.C.) and After Covid (A.C.) 😜

Carrie’s 2nd birthday in January was a fun occasion with DD1 organising lots of lovely decorations, cake, jumping castle, amazing food etc. 

Carrie’s first birthday party had been at the beach and I hadn’t made her some bunting like I had done for the others...but I’d made sure that she had her own personalised bunting this year. 

Too long for one photo! Lol 

Anthea’s was the next birthday in early February...she had 2 parties! One in the morning with her kindy friends and children of her parents’ friends. Then in late afternoon she had her family party at a local tavern which has a playground and games room. 

We gave her a Paddington Bear and a pack of PB books which I put in a red suitcase from Ikea. 

Of course when you get some new books, you want to read them straight away! 


DsD2 made a gorgeous unicorn cake! 

The next family birthday BC was at the end of February and for this one we drove 6 hours to the farm at Wandoan to celebrate Abby’s second birthday. We drove up on the Saturday and stayed the night at the farm. The party was in a park in the town which is 70km from the farm. It had rained during the night and our son in-law rang various friends to check on road conditions before we set off. We drove through water on the road but not far from the town we encountered this sight...

As we were in a convoy of 4WD vehicles we got through easily but it had been a bit confronting to us city slickers when we first saw it! 

The rain held off for a while and the children at the party were able to have fun on the play equipment. But the flies were horrific; descending on people and any food 🤨😟. 

That’s not passionfruit seeds! 😖

But very soon the rain came down so we all huddled under the one picnic shelter in the park while Abby opened her gifts. We always put money in our grandies’ bank accounts and give them a smaller gift as well. Abby got these from us...

A book to go with the doll we gave her when she was born...the book is lovely. 

Abby’s parents had bought her a toy kitchen for Christmas so I bought her some play food. I also made her a drawstring bag from strawberry and banana patterned fabrics, to store the toy food in. 

Time came to sing Happy Birthday as the rain got heavier...

A photo with the grandparents too...

( faces deliberately covered with text rather than blurring) 

By the time the 2 March birthdays came around at the end of the month, things had changed. But those 2 never want a fuss, so cards and money were posted. 

By April, celebrations had changed dramatically...but that’s for another post.