Happy 57th Birthday

Happy 57th birthday to my dad!  This man has been one of the most inspirational and amazing men in my life!

He’s always been there for my siblings and I, even when he did get angry and grumpy with us he no matter what loved us unconditionally.

Always supportive, always watching us succeed, there when we failed and needed to someone to pick us up.  No matter what my dad was our number 1 supporter…

The day I got married my mum said my dad had tears in his eyes.  He was so proud of me the day Xander was born, he was in the birthing room with Gareth, my mum and I and stayed with me no matter what, even after Xander was born dad stayed with me and Xander while letting Gareth and my mum get some sleep (24 hour birth).

I love you dad.

Love from your baby and youngest Girl…

ps I don’t have a lot of photos on this laptop but there would be too many to put on.

Tash xxx

colds and parties…

So our household has come down with the common cold!

Xander has had his for a week and a half now, Gareth has had it for four days (and he’s the only one who had a flu jab) and I only got it yesterday… How I knew was my throat got really sore and I can’t swallow food properly now…  (I get severe tonsillitis.)

But Xander is almost better now, his chest and throat infection has cleared up and he only has a snotty nose now yay!  And since he is better he got to go to his friends fifth birthday party today…  At the Aquarium!

So Gareth drops Xander and I off at the Aquarium at 9am and we wait for my friend Moo (that’s her nickname) and her two boys.  Once they arrived we headed in.

Now, there were lots of children running around excited so Xander quickly hands his present to the birthday boys mum before waiting for the final children to arrive.

Once everyone had arrived Moo and I stayed just to see the penguins get fed (this was first in the kids exciting day).

Interesting stories about each penguin there and how they came to live in the Aquarium…. Mostly loss of limbs, brain damager and other things so they live happily in the Aquarium… And Xander loved it.

Afterwards the kids went back to eat before it was present time, which the birthday boy loved the Spiderman shirt we got for him.

Moo and I left when they were heading to their next activity, and what I got out of Xander’s sugar highed talking was they went and watched the fish get fed, the sharks get fed, watch divers swim with the fish, got to hold Lizards, look at the kiwis, have cake, do colouring in and much more!

Now, Moo and I went and saw a friend who had just had a baby girl for the next three hours while the boys were at the party which was nice for us (clucky Tash much XD).

We got back and boy were they running around screaming and shouting their heads off.

And we went home at 12pm.

Right now, at 8:00pm as I write this, Xander is fast asleep in his room as he had such a full on day.  And it sounds like he had a lot of fun.

For me though I have a thumping headache and need to take some medicine soon… and try to stay up as late as possible because I fell asleep this afternoon (yay not).

I will be getting photos sometime during the week and I might put a couple of Xander up.

 

Tash xxx

Birthdays…

Had another lazy day again with my main man Xander.  Gareth went back to work today so it’s been a bit of a lonely one.

But anyway, Gareth’s job is very interesting… He’s a funeral director… or undertaker.

I will talk about that in another blog I promise but for now today is just about Xander and I.

Xander seems better thankfully, so hopefully he had a small chest infection because my boy did not get a lot of sleep Saturday night sadly.  But that is okay because he seems fine now which means he should be able to attend one of his friends birthday parties this weekend.

This month, July (and a bit of August), is a busy time of year for birthdays… Let me just list a couple of birthdays…

The first is my grandmother whose birthday is the 16th July, then it is my nana’s birthday on the 18 July.  After that there is a week before it’s my siblings birthdays, my sister on the 27th July and my brother on the 28th July… My sister is turning 26 and my brother is turning 31 so yeah, five year age difference between the two of them.

Also a couple of my cousins have birthdays between those four dates too so thats another so many birthdays…  None of my in-laws seem to be July babies… Well, apart from my husbands Aunty, she is in July.

Then August… We don’t have birthdays till 23rd August which is my aunties and I think my brothers girlfriend’s birthday…  Then the 24th August is my dads birthday and he’s going to be 57 years old!  So old haha.

On the 25th August is my mother-in-laws birthday.

Then when we hit November it has become a busy life for me…

November 23rd is one of my brother-in-laws birthdays and 22nd is my youngest nephews birthday.  Then the 27th November is my birthday (25 this year)… Then the 19th December is Gareth’s birthday before we hit Christmas…

Then we have a birthday in January (my niece) February (my other brother in law), several in April… My mum is on the 7th, Xander is on the 16th April, and my other nephew is near the end of April (I cannot remember the dates properly for his or my niece so I’m not going to write them down in case I’m wrong…) and then Gareth’s father’s in May…

So yeah, July is the busy month for us and I still have to get my siblings birthday presents… I have an idea for my sister but not for my brother…. Time to brainstorm.

Again, sorry for the random blog but I wanted to write down most of the dates… Mostly to remind Gareth again and again as he seems to always forget even mine and Xander’s birthdays… I don’t get annoyed, just laugh it off and wonder what will happen when we finally have more kids how hard it will be to remember everyones birthdays for him.

 

Tash xxx