Royal Head Wetting

 We enjoyed a lovely spread at my "boss"es house. The cake was beautiful and delicious. There was a layer of chocolate hidden under the icing.

The rest of the spread included champagne, salmon bagels, cucumber sandwiches and pims - not to mention the royal quiz and pictures.

Its a win

 Our second game and it was a win. Not just a win but a walkover. The mercy rule was applied which the little ones didn't understand but the older ones certainly got it and were very proud.

Body Parts Cupcakes!

My offering for the quarterly cupcake stall - I am obviously working to a selected market!
They all went quickly and we made over $1200.

Dirt

 Intially I was so keen to see my boy come home from footy covered in dirt. He is now really getting in there and having a real go...

 that was until I had to wash those white shorts!

He was easier to wash and headed off for a Cubs Bowling tournament.

Off to the ball

My carriage awaits - well our Maxi Taxi - but we were off to the ball. I can't say the preparation was without its hiccups.

As I had made my dress, I wasn't about to pay for other necessities for the night, so I had planned to do my own nails, hair and makeup. The day started with the kids all off to their various sports, with the exception of Benji who didn't feel well. He stuck with me, and I was keeping him away from Mum who is on her chemo week.

We all returned to our place for a cuppa, with Benji relaxing on the couch - until he got up and exploded into a cascade of vomit. Right across the carpet - thankfully not on my dress. Game change - Mum and Dad were unceremoniously kicked out, Benji cleaned up and put to bed before I could address the carpet.

Ugh - just what we didn't need. Not only a mess on the carpet, but that also put a big dent in our babysitting plans. Thankfully my brother was happy to fill the gap (babysitting not carpet cleaning) and the big squirrel went off and hired a steam cleaner. Wow- that makes the vomit sound extreme. It wasn't that bad, just pushed up steam cleaning to the top of our to do list. So the big squirrel did our carpet at about 4 in the arvo when our party started at 6!

So I got prepping. Hair I went oldschool and borrowed Mum's hot rollers. These babies have had a good workout over the years and I was going for that old hollywood style hair.

Nails were a simple french polish - not much to work with there. And the bag was a vintage glo mesh clutch. Mum had 3 variations to choose from!

This is later in the night when the photographer caught me pulling down my slip. Sometimes you just have to buy the photo to get it off the table!

Now you can see the dress all finished. The slight stretch in the fabric gave it a snug fit but with quite a bit of structure. Decided I didn't need the belt. I have a massive pair of heels on under here, but the hem sweeps the floor so no-one is aware what a short arse I am!

Here is a group shot from our table - one came down with the same bug as Benji so couldn't make it!
We had a lovely night out playing grown ups and are looking forward to next year!

Their First Match

 This is the team - don't they just look so cute!! They are such a lovely bunch of boys and so excited to be paying their first proper match! With 10 kids on the team, we subbed out the whole team and they were really good about that. Every few minutes the entire team changed.

 They all played so well together - and had a go.

 Our team even managed to score some points. Obviously we didn't win. I think it was faily obvious that we were novices but they all had fun. It was so amusing to watch. The poor opponents I'm sure didn't really know what was going on - when the whole team just changed - except one kid whose number kept changing!!

The next generation

 Benji and Spence now are in their own basketball team - thank goodness they are both on the same team as it minimizes logistics - but I have a case of the here we go again 's!