Flower festival

Today we ended up with a bonus public holiday, in memory of Queen Elizabeth. So Hayley and I took the girls on a mini influencer excursion to S&R Orchards for their annual flower festival. 

They set up the entire orchard with cute props all over the place for people to take fun photos with, like this mini retro caravan, plus there are food trucks, live music, and even a mini ferris wheel. It's so much fun, I'm absolutely filing it away for a visit next year, but maybe not on a public holiday as the lines were insane!

These girls were absolutely living their best lives though, taking hundreds of photos and loving every minute.

They even managed to talk us into buying them fairy floss which were by far the cutest ones I have ever seen!

Honestly these girls are goals, this is the kind of thing I could have only dreamed of doing with my best friend at that age!

❤

I have never met two girls that spend more time laughing either. 

They just laugh at anything and everything. Non stop.

and love every minute of being together.

They are at the age where they are all arms and legs and this shot shows that off haha

I especially love this pic of Maddie, her hair looks amazing in the sun - it is so many different colours and the light here really shows it off. She really is a lucky girl, people pay so much for that colour!

I even jumped in a couple of the shots, managed to get some time off being her "instamum" for a few minutes.

The flowers were so beautiful too. 

There was spring blossoms in full bloom everywhere and they were so pretty to look at.

Almost as pretty as these girls. ❤

 

Sneaky icecreams

I love these girls. They always make everything so fun. Alex has been a bit of a grump lately, I mean his world is continually being turned upside down while we have open homes, I deal with tradies, we move things between houses - and it's just left him a little unsettled. So, sometimes when it's bedtime and he's super tired, the best way to get him to sleep is just to pop him in the car and drive around for a few minutes while he fidgets a bit and looks out the window, before settling in and going to sleep. It's the best when he's over tired.

Tonight, we picked up Madeline's bestie Ella and they sat with him quietly as he drifted off, before we headed down to Joey's diner in Herne Hill and I bought them a sneaky icecream. As you can see it completely made their day and it was well worth it. Sometimes it's nice to spoil your kids (and other peoples I guess! haha) at the most random of times for no reason at all.

So icecream it was - on a school night, then back home to bed, and to tuck in fast asleep Alex. Double win. ❤