Catch-up - Birthday, Birthday, Birthday!

Hmm, seems I'm rather behind with my blog posts so I'm going to do a few catch-up ones from earlier in the year.

The first birthday of the year was (sister) Jane's at the beginning of February, and it was a 'big' one!  We all headed down to Salisbury to celebrate with her.  The weekend was really fun as lots of family and friends congregated.  A meal for family on Saturday afternoon saw us meeting up with family that I hadn't seen for about 20 years and who Steve had never met.  It was very relaxed and we got chance to chat, catch up and, of course, eat cake!

In the evening, the kids safely tucked up in bed and under the watchful eye of a babysitter, we headed out for part 2 at a local music venue where Jane often participates in Open Mic Night.  She had organised three bands, food and plenty of liquid refreshment for us all and it was fab.

The weekend wrapped up with brunch on Sunday morning for anyone able to pull themselves out of bed.  It was a most enjoyable weekend and sets the bar rather high for any of us who may have a big birthday coming up in the next year or two!

Next up, in March it was Toby's turn (well, in theory it was Steve's first but as it wasn't a big'un it went under the radar somewhat!).  This year we didn't know if we were going to have to put his birthday on hold as he ended up in hospital with his asthma.  Earlier in the ear he seemed to have a few 'episodes' but we think it was because he had grown out of the dosage of his medication.  He's now been upgraded and hasn't had any problems since March.

For his party, Toby wanted three of his best friends to come round and have a video game afternoon.  Steve borrowed the projector from work and they had a massive screen to play on and had a blast.  Thankfully the cake request was 'bought' so I didn't have to stretch my skills and produce some hideous Pokemon (or other cartoon-type monstrosity) and just picked one up the day before.

Beth's request for a party (mid April) again was quite an easy one - a few friends round for an Alice in Wonderland inspired do.  She had sewing lessons in the spring and made an 'Alice' dress and I begged and borrowed tea sets to finish it off.  The cake wasn't quite one I could just buy off the shelf but fortunately a food technology teacher in the village offered to sort that out - I think she did a pretty amazing job (even the cup is edible!).  I rather enjoyed it too, perhaps I should do this for my birthday - wonder how many 'drink me' concoctions I could make up?!