Lacy, Keera, Brylee and Griffin are all here too. Amanda would have loved to be here too, but a prior commitment means she's out of town.
We will be having a family dinner tonight. I am popping out later on to get some salads, cooked chooks etc to feed them all.
Bex is cooking a birthday cake. Yummy Banana Cake. Steve doesn't eat much in the way of sweet things, but he does like a banana cake.
Talking of sweet things... it's now been TEN DAYS without me eating a single sweet thing! I'm feeling rather proud of myself. Clearly I won't be having any cake tonight. πππ
A while ago I bought a pottery mushroom from a market. Can't remember which one!
ANYWAY... I put it in the front garden.
Yesterday when Stew and I came home from town, I noticed some additional colour in the garden.
What is that? So I wandered over to see:
ABOVE: Would ya look at that! Mushrooms (or toadstools) growing right beside my fake mushroom!
And in the same colour too. Rather amusing I must say. And like... is that weird or what?
ABOVE: These are the new trays we bought to use in our oven. I love them too! The fit on one rack, so today I'm going to send Stew out to buy two more. With the amount of people we often cook for, I need more!
It's going to be a really lovely day. Mike and Joyce being here is just so wonderful.
Nothing makes me happier than having family here. It's all about happiness, laughs and good times. πππ
ABOVE: Steve has been given some more Magic Cards, from Mike and Joyce, and from himself (of course!). He's a happy boy. We gave him a joke book. 50 Things To Do While You Poo. We don't give 'big' presents anymore, it's just too expensive with the number of family members we have.
ABOVE: Dinner tonight was Roast Chickens, Ham, Roast Beef, Lettuce Salad, Boiled Eggs, Tomatoes, Potato Wedges and Hot Salad Buns.
ABOVE: Followed by a delicious Banana Cake, baked by Bex and decorated by me. I really must invest in some small candles!
Happy birthday to Steve, and happy weekend with your lovely family. I use those baking trays, best ones I have ever used. Love the Mushrooms, must be like when you put a pretend egg in the coop to get the hens laying...hahah Margaret
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Steve see ya a bit later
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Happy Birthday Steve I sincerely hope you have a cracking day with the fam π you're a wonderful son π
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday to Steve. I hope you all have a lovely celebration.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Steve!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Steve. Banana cake is the best. Enjoy your day with your family. Karen J
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday Steve, hope you have a great day
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Steve ππ
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Steve! π₯³
ReplyDeleteThose mushrooms are truly weird! I have the same oven as you and didn't realise I could take the glass off the door! Well done on no sugar, that is fantastic and will make such a difference to your health. Have a great family day and HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVE!!
ReplyDeleteYou have to unscrew that two door panels to get them apart. Then you can clean both sheets of glass.
DeleteHappy Birthday Steve! Banana cake sounds yummy!
ReplyDeleteAm in your neck of the woods this weekend.
ReplyDeleteTaking lad to hobbiton for his bucket list
And I just posted your table runners! Dang I wish I'd known you were up this way. I hope your son enjoys Hobbiton.
DeleteHappy birthday Steve. Have an awesome day.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to Steve!!!
ReplyDeleteHeres some of that pottery on eBay
ReplyDeletehttps://www.ebay.com.au/itm/294138265010?hash=item447c01bdb2:g:pgIAAOSwTgxgWpT1
Wow, how did you fnd it? I hunted pages worth of pottery on there.
DeleteTyped in blue portmeirion pottery
DeleteOh that’s the same items I found. I did notice that two different spellings are used
DeleteHave an awesome birthday Steve, enjoy celebrating with your family! Have a lovely weekend Chris enjoy being surrounded by those that love you and you love π
ReplyDeleteKym/Australia
OMG cracking up...it looks like there's a little mini-grandchild sitting up on the edge of the oven door!
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful day Steve, HAPPY birthday
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Steve, enjoy celebrating with your family. πππ
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Steve! Hope you all have a great weekend ππ
ReplyDeleteLovely photos. So good to see Lacy and Keera so happy together.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Steve.... enjoy the day and the yummy banana cake !!!!! xxxx
ReplyDeleteThank you all very much for the birthday wishes, I've had a wonderful day with family, even convinced my wife to touch me this morning :) looking forward to a fun night ahead.
ReplyDeleteHa ha... Happy Birthday Steve...
ReplyDeletePeta
You do realise that your wife only touches you on your birthday and Christmas ?
DeleteHappy birthday Steve and many more of them. Nice that you can have all the family together....and buy cooked chooks. Enjoy yourselves
ReplyDeleteWonderful family pictures lovely to see, happy birthday to you Steve.
ReplyDeleteLove the blue cheese dish btw
Blondie
I tried to post this morning but got an error message twice. So glad to see you all together, and Happy Birthday Steve!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Steve. I hope you had a wonderful day. That dinner looks absolutely delicious. Love Karen xx
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Steve!! Looks like you all had a wonderful day :-)
ReplyDeleteBelated Happy Birthday to Steve. Looks as though a good time was had by all.
ReplyDeleteI don't buy my kids birthday gifts anymore, usually I take them out to dinner and that's expensive with the whole family!
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