50th

50th

My beautiful daughters and thoughtful husband planned a surprise party for my 50th last November unbeknowns to me and I only found out on the morning of the arrival of about 25 relatives from New Zealand, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney that they were coming to stay and eat.

I grabbed everything off my craft dining table and threw it on the side table and they have stayed there to this day~sad I know~but I only had time to do that as I had to get out of bed on the one day I wanted to sleep in and go to the airport for the day of shuttling back and forth to pick up the relatives.

Here is my gorgeous Emma

My gorgeous Keira

I just happen to have this pumpkin and 

didn't know what to do with it,

everyone got stuck into it with a carving knife 

and this is what they did to it~

So I guess no pumpkin soup or pumpkin pie!!!

My family know I love ELVIS so they bought an

 Elvis wig and each one tried it out.

This is Emma and my brother Ian

 another brother Lawrence and his then girlfriend Mere

 Hubby Michael and Emma

Nephew Taine

Then the party started to get heavy, not sure what they were skulling but because I don't drink I don't own any shot glasses so they discovered my mini beaker and used that instead

Emma

 Keira and Campos

 Niece Larissa

 Sister Vivian

Emma My mum and Keira

 Group photo

L-R Mere, Ian, Virginia, Ivan, Juan, Lana, Me, Larissa, Emma, Keira, Lawrence, Michael

 We always take a photo of the kids when we get together from oldest to youngest

Keira, Larissa, Lana, Emma, Timara, Jamie,Taine

missing from that generation are Ilona and Kevin

 Ian clowing around with the 50 cut out from the pumpkin

 Lawrence, Ian and Michael

All in all it was a wonderful surprise 

weekend and I thoroughly enjoyed it

THANK YOU TO MY WONDERFUL FAMILY

 P.S.. they still can't get me to drink and never will~no reason whatsoever~ I just can't stand to drink liquor

It's only a year later than I can bear to

celebrate my half century LOL

and look back and laugh.

Tomorrow I will post up birthday cards I have received this year