first birthday party

Mat and I made some of the decorations, the happy birthday bunting and colourful paper chain.
some of our wonderful family, it was very nice and cosy, the best kind of party I think.
my first novelty birthday cake, a truck of course, I'm so proud of myself.
Mummy and daddy gave Mack a mack truck naturally, he is a bit little to play with it yet though.

It was my first children's birthday party, and it was really fun, not as stressful as I thought it would be. Just close family, Mack was very spoiled and had a terriffic time,lots of great presents and eating lots of junk food, oh well your only 1 once. I baked a lot of food and am pleased to report that there was hardly any leftovers. My little baby is 1....yikes!

one year old

A Year ago today,

A beautiful little boy was born,


And I still cant believe how lucky I am......

An Easter Christening

After Siennas party I was keen to post Macks christening in Roma on Easter Sunday, It was a very small affair, just us, my parents and 2 brothers Danny and Dane who are both godfathers, Kelly is godmother.
He wore a vintage pale blue and white suit with some embroidery on the front, just gorgeous. The shawl he has on above is the family shawl, I wore it too.
Father John was very ill and Sister Nora performed the baptism and she did a beautiful job, we were thrilled to have her. Girl power!
Mack enjoyed himself immensely, he smiled and blew raspberries all through the ceremony. That evening mum made a yummy dinner and we toasted Mack with sparkling wine. It was a perfect day very intimate and special.

Welcome to the world.

Sienna with mummy and her 2 guardians, Elyssa and Aunty Kelly who made such a beautiful speech I had big fat tears in my eyes.. So lovely
Mack and Nana, Mack even pulled out his best tie for his cousins big day, he ate a lot of marshmallows.
Beautiful Sienna and her gorgeous mummy.
Sienna looked like a little doll, there were lots of yummy sweet treats and fun conversation, what a great day! Despite Amy insisting no gifts just come and see our beautiful little girl and help welcome her, who cant resist the urge to buy a gift for a little girl? I certainly couldn't resist. While I was in Roma (my home town) last week, I found a floral covered S and I couldn't resist it along with a brooch engraved with Sienna.

My adorable little neice is having a welcome to the world party today, Sienna you are so welcome and loved. speaking of parties, Macks 1st birthday party is next Saturday and Mat and I did some party prep shopping yesterday, its so exciting! my first children's birthday party. I not really doing a theme, just trying to make it like birthday parties of my youth, its family only but I thing everyone will still enjoy pass the parcel and pin the tail on the donkey. I'm going to attempt my first novelty birthday cake, a truck, wish me luck.

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The very first.

Well here I am, I've been reading a few blogs for a couple of weeks now and after hearing the term "lurker" finally got the courage to start my own, I'm a little nervous as I am not very computer literate and wonder if I am interesting enough to blog. However as a lot of my family live away, this is a great way to keep mum involved in day to day things especially with darling grandson Mack. I have been so inspired by Pixie woods, posy gets cosy, soule mama and lavender hill studio. so good luck to me.