luisa's baby shower

yesterday we celebrated our beautiful friend luisa who will be having a baby boy in just a few weeks! this baby shower has been a long time in the works and during the uncertainty of covid and not being able to organise and book a location, i offered up my house for the day to make sure it could go ahead.

our mates elena and keryn have been working on the day for weeks, constructing a blue and leopard print party. what a wild theme. not something i could picture but they managed it!

they had thought out every last detail, including drinks on arrival

and an epic grazing table with desserts. 

i was so blown away, i had not long been home from dropping the kids off to school when luisa's husband and his brother turned up and did the grazing table all by themselves. i am so impressed it's insane. they have the skills mate!

here is our guest of honour and the girls who made it all happen.

and her epic cake (made by my bestie!) it looked incredible.

we laughed, chatted, played games and ate ( alot!) and had a wonderful afternoon.

last but not least, i have to showcase these. mum and i spent hours stitching, turning and constructing these scrunchies for the guests to take home. such a cute idea! totally filing that away for future parties! 

i can't wait to meet the little man when he arrives. so exciting!

poppy’s birthday

we are so lucky to have doug's parents living close to us. it's a 8 minute drive between our houses and the kids love it, as we can just drop around whenever we like. it also means they've able to grow up seeing their grandma and poppy a few times a week. 

as much as the kids love to tease steve and call him grumpy old poppy, we know they love him like crazy and love to be around him. he has a great sense of humour and is a lot of fun.

last night we celebrated the old man getting a little bit older, with family dinner, followed by cuddles from the kids and cake. what's better than that?! ♥