HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY TO MY DARLING STEW

 

Today Stew is 60!

He is finally in the 60's like me.

Yep, I'm 2 years, 2 months and 2 weeks older than him.

NOT that is makes any difference at our age.

We will be having a small party for him  tomorrow.

Today ?  Well we shall be gathering up all the things we need to tomorrow really.

I have no idea whos coming, hardly anyone RSVP'd.

It's a horrible time of the year to expect people to drop everything and come to a party.  Most people are away on holidays.

But, we shall have our kids and grandkids here, and that's the most important thing to us.

Mike and Joyce will be arriving back here tonight!  And Lacy is picking Griffin up tomorrow, so he will be here too.

ABOVE:  Because the single spare bedroom is rather small, I decided to put the drawers INSIDE the wardrobe.

It fits in there perfectly, and there is room for clothes to hang on the side.

While doing that I discovered a new job.

I'd not really noticed this before:

ABOVE:  The inside of that wardrobe is in a dreadful state!

There's holes that have been filled very roughly, and marks all over the place!

So, once the weekend is over I might make a start on sanding it back and re-painting it.

One place we will be visiting again today is:

ABOVE:  This place.   Coupland's Bakery in Te Rapa. It's a local bakery that supplies baked goods to supermarkets etc.  They have a retail shop on site, and Stew and I visited it yesterday.

ABOVE: I'd not been there before and was very impressed.

So, we shall pick up a few items for tomorrow's party from here today.

I hope my darling Stew has a pleasant day today... I will try to refrain from making him do any jobs!  

I LOVE YOU STEW

35 FANTASTIC years together...

and many more to come.

So Stew's in the bathroom... having a shave before his shower.  You know, just the usual morning stuff.

And Lacy arrives and MUST  give him a Birthday HUG:

ABOVE:  so... PHOTO OPPORTUNITY!  LOL... he's now free to continue his ablutions.

Once done, we are heading out to the supermarket to get all the food for tomorrow.

And balloons.

MUST. HAVE. BALLOONS. 😄😅😊

12 noon and we have just bought all the 'party food'.  OMG that was expensive!  But as I said to Stew, it's not going to happen again for a very, very long time.

Tomorrow all I need to get is fresh bread buns.

We are heading out again shortly for the BIG 60 inflated balloons, and lunch.  

3.30 pm and we are home from our lunch outing.

Lunch was a bit disappointing.  We went to The Foundation at The Base and got our usual .. Bar Snacks and wedeges.

The pork belly bites were dry and had no sauce around them, very disappointing.

The chicken nibbles were lovely.  The wedges... I think we are over wedges!

So next time we will try something different.

 

ABOVE: After lunch we had a quick wander around the mall... and for once decided to try the massage chairs.

NOT something we will ever get, they are just too expensive!  The one we both liked was 'on sale' (yeah right) for $8,800.00!  Can you imagine spending that much on A CHAIR?  

Yeah, NAH.

After enjoying a free massage, we went to Spotlight and bought the birthday balloons.

ABOVE: Luckily Stew is a tall guy cos the '0'  came off it's string and flew up to the roof just before we left the shop!

That was lucky too, cos if it had happened outside we would have lost it.

And those freakin' inflated numbers are not cheap.

ABOVE:  It's now safely inside.

Steve, Bex and the boys were here when we arrived home... all enjoying a swim.

It's another really hot and humid day.

We are living in a sauna right now... rain then sunshine = 99% humidity.

Stew bought some new jandals today, but he has to wait for them to be delivered on Tuesday.

And I bought some new sneakers too... I'll show ya tomorrow.

Right now I can't be arsed getting up and taking them out of the box!

I woke this morning at 4 am.  And didn't get back to sleep at all... so I'm a bit tired.  Why so early?  NO IDEA.  I had some freakin' weird dreams last night... the sort that you semi-remember during the day and they haunt you.

ABOVE: Steve and Bex gave Stew this 'LOVELY' sunhat, to use when he's working in the yard.

It's not to my taste, but Stew likes it.

I just hope he doesn't want to wear it to the Mall ... cos he won't be walking with me!  😂😊😆

ABOVE:   Dante's water confidence has grown so much that he's now swimming under water!

Very proud of him.

ABOVE:  Amanda and her two youngest came for a swim this afternoon too... and ended up staying for dinner.

ABOVE: Mike and Joyce arrived just on dinner time too... so we had a nice little gathering.

Liam has cottoned on to his Uncle Mike and you literally have to prise him away from him!

It's rather sweet.

Mike has morphed again... I'll show you his latest face shot tomorrow.  I like it.  So much better than the wooly Viking look he was sporting last weekend.

And it's the end of the day and I'm damn tired (again!).  It's just this heat and humidity doing me and everyone else in.  

Catch ya tomorrow.