Izzy's 4th Birthday

Saturday 25 April

Anzac Day and also the day that Shirley decided to have a family birthday party for Izzy.

She went with the theme of "Sophia The First Princess" and asked if I would do a "Princess Isabelle" birthday banner for her. I also ended up making a princess carriage and Castle box card as a gift for her. Filled the carriage with hair clips and bangles.

Evan was also invited, so he picked me up along the way.

 Food for the party consisted of duck, stir fried noodles, chicken wings, stir fried vegies, braised beef and tofu and curry puffs. The kids also had fairy bread and jelly and ice cream. And then there was also the birthday cake.

Then in the afternoon on the way home, we stopped at a park near Rhodes and the rains came again and there was also hail, lucky for us only small hail, unlike other places which had hail the size of tennis balls and in the inner west the streets were covered with ice that it looked like snow.

U.David's 80th Birthday

Sunday 12 April

Took some doing, but after trying to secretly organise a big bash for U. David, A. Cath managed to organise a banquet menu with Hurstville RSL Palace Bistro Restaurant and the invites were made by me and sent out.

U. David was adamant he didn't want anything big, yet when it came down to it, he really wanted to invite more people - no winning with him.

The Seeto's invited us over for afternoon tea on Sunday before we went out to dinner.

So no decorations, no balloons, just a big family and some friends celebration at his favourite Chinese restaurant.

I made a nice framed photographic memory present and got everyone to sign it. So this plus $100 from the Tsui's and $200 from the Chan's were our gift to him.

 We had crab with noodles, prawns, scallops with snow peas, 4 kinds of mushrooms, beef cubes with beans, steamed fish, shantung pork and crispy skin chicken. Bindy supplied the peach buns and grapes. The birthday cake was chocolate black forest with jelly.

After dinner, we dropped Fiona back home.