Thursday, March 27, 2008

EASTER

Good Friday

On good friday rick, reuben and I went out for lunch to Ballyrobin with my nana and papa, mum, dad and brother. We had a lovely meal. When we got to Ballymena Reuben got his Easter egg from my mum and dad! A keyboard. Check out lindsay and lilians blog for a video of him playing it! I think we have the next frank sinatra in our house!


Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday we were in Carrick. We had great fun!
A lovely meal was prepared for us which was delicious. Afterwards we designed and rolled our Easter Eggs.


Reuben also tried on his daddys old wellies but he couldn't walk in them and didn't like them very much!


Easter Monday

We all had a very relaxing day until rick and lindsay took reuben out to play football and he came in with a split lip! Apparently I took it worse than reuben- first of many falls I would imagine!
Monday night we had an indian night. Lindsay prepared an amazing indian meal for us. We all dressed up and had a great night. Finished it off by watching catch me if you can.



They served candy coated fennel after dinner. Just flooded all my senses with memories of Oman!

Easter Tuesday

The men went and played golf in Portstewart while the ladies and Reuben relaxed in Ballymena. In the evening we had a lovely meal and played the big taboo- great end to a great Easter, the boys just couldn't keep up with the pace!!

Friday, March 21, 2008

paint me, glaze me, sing happy birthday to me!!

Winnies birthday comes next on the calendar. This year the ladies all went to paint me, glaze me for the afternoon. It was a lot of fun! Lilian did have a bit of a dilemma whether or not to do spots on her dish! Pearl did a giant tea cup (same as me), tory did a fish ornament and winnie painted a jug. We get them in a weeks time so the outcome will be interesting!



We all went back to our house for a chinese and gave winnies her presents. Reuben helped her to blow the candles on her cake. The ladies watched a movie while the men made crepes for dessert. A good party- great fun had by all!

Saturday, March 15, 2008

BIG Birthday celebrations

During March is my dads birthday and ricks dads birthday. This year happened to be 2 big ones. My dad turned 50 and ricks dad turned 60. We had a couple of weeks worth of celebrations. Really good fun.

The first party was on Mothers day at my aunts house for my dads 50th.



The following Sunday was the day after his actual birthday so we had a quiet family party and gave him his birthday present.






The day after lindsays birthday we all went to Carl and Mavis' for a birthday celebration. It was a good nights craic playing mafia and listening to Bill recite some stories!

Friday, March 07, 2008

It was a happy mothers day.

This was the first year since rick and I have been together that we got to see both our mothers on mothers day! It was very nice-
Here are three mothers in the allen/mcilrath home