Jason's 40th Birthday Party.

We celebrated Jason's 40th birthday yesterday, a couple of days before his actual birthday.  We had an Italian themed birthday party with pizza, Sicilian spiced sausages, pasta salad and lots of Limoncello - non alcoholic of course, we have to go to work tomorrow.  Oh, and the Chianti Red wine too - thank you Crystal.

The Birthday Boy.  39 + 1

I understand his hand signal now.

Getting organised for the celebrations.

Yummy Limoncello.

Lemon Sherberts

A new serving plate and salt and pepper shakers to add to the Italian theme.

Still getting organised.

Caprese Salad.

Happy 40th Birthday Jason.

Feeding the hungry group.

Plenty of food to go around.

Bentleigh - he was a thirsty boy.

Frosty.  Lovely that he could join us to celebrate.

Stevie and Sharni.

Cassata - yummy Italian ice cream cake.

Yummy homemade Cassata.

Feed me ice cream.

Andrew with one of the Photo Booth props.

Gerrard and Crystal.

Sharni and Stevie.

Not a lot of food left.

Stevie, Bentleigh and Sharni.

Andrew and Sue.

Sue.

We all had a wonderful Sunday afternoon celebrating with Jason for his 40th Birthday.

We wish him a wonderful birthday and all the best for the coming year.

Richard's Birthday Party

We celebrated Richard's birthday in November on the weekend after his birthday date.  We all had a lovely time catching up.  

We were all very well on the day of the party, however, by the Tuesday I had started to come down with a cold, which by the weekend was a really bad flu.  So it's taken a couple of weeks for me to get organised to put the photos on the blog.

Happy Birthday 66th to Richard.

Richard's birthday cake.  I didn't want to put too many candles on his cake.

Birthday decorations.

The BBQ area outside, all decorated and garden looking pretty.

Table all set.

Biscuits and dip a BBQ staple.

Richard had been busy making ham, salami, cabana and capocolla smallgoods.

It was so lovely to catch up with Olivia and Maddi.

Sharni and Jason.

Crystal - sorry Gerrard I didn't get a photo of you.

Andrew and Sue.

Plenty to eat.

Plenty to drink.

Lots to talk about.

I hope this little clip works.

Having fun with party poppers.

Fright Night at Don River Railway.

We had an amazing time at the Don River Railway Halloween event.  It started with a  spooky train ride (which was so not scary, but the hostess on board to keep us entertained had spooky stories etc - it was all quite funny, except for the Zombies).  Then we went onto the Haunted House - which was too dark to take photos - however it did make us jump a few times with more scary zombies and creatures that crept out of the dark to ensure we were kept on our toes.  We had such a great time.  😈

This was the advertisement from Facebook which caught our attention.

They had early train rides to cater for young children, 

then after dark rides for the grown ups.

One of the carriages in the railyard.  Not the Ghost Train.

Creepy zombie welcoming us into the Don River Railway shop.

One of the Zombies holding a severed head.

Zombie with severed head.

Then he threw the severed head onto the ground.

Blurry zombies waiting to invade the train.

More blurry zombies.

It's hard to take good photos of zombies.

Then the lights went out on the train and there was a zombie invasion.

OMG this zombie was right outside of our carriage window.

This colourful zombie was at the Haunted House.

We had an amazing time looking after our inner child and hope 

the Don River Railway put on another Halloween event next year.