Monique's Birthday || Stampin' Up! Party

For Monique's 13th this year, she organised a Stampin' Up! party which she ended up having at the manse, since our pastor was away and Monique really wanted to have Mrs. Smith (our pastor's wife) at the party. It turned out to be great for us because when Mum and Monique left, we had baking utensils, ingredients, you name it (just about . . . ) all over the kitchen and dining table (lol). 

Overall I think the cake turned out pretty good, no?

: : Talking before making cards : :

: : Cardmaking! : :

: : Treble Clefs!! : :
{Guess who piped those lol?}

: : Amelia Smith (7yrs) made this for Monique's birthday cake since I only made a cake last minute : :

I melted more chocolate than I needed, so I piped this pony as well. I think we ended up using it for Danielle's cake (photos still coming of that one lol)

Do you think?!

Visit to Lyndal's

I think I've mentioned on here before that Lyndal is one of Mum's friends from school. When she lived about half an hour away we used to visit her quite often, but around seven years ago she married and moved north (circa 1 hour drive) and since then we haven't seen as much of her. Second Monday of the school holidays we headed up for a few hours.

: : Lyndal's pony Marmalade : :
She loves her salt lick!

: : Laura loved sitting on Marmalade! : :

: : And so did Maria : :

: : Lyndal and her husband Dale recently built this jetty over a pond in one of their paddocks : :
Normally the water comes just below it, but there was almost no water!

Bryce rides a pony!!

A couple of weeks ago we went to our friend Lyndal's parents house, where Bryce had maybe his second? horseride on 'Truffles.'

Initially he didn't want to get on, but with lots of coaxing to 'hold the handle' on the saddle, he eventually got on without really realising!  

He rode in a short circle before getting off again.

Anyway, better go organise stuff for the Weet-bix triathlon tomorrow,

CYA,

Bee