Long For The Flowers

Ryleigh's Birthday December 15, 2011 We did presents in the morning and he got the one big thing he asked for. A basketball! We had birthday breakfast of Ryleigh's choice. He did not want to cook, he wanted to be cooked for. Melissa made cupcakes, and we were off to school. They had a small celebration for him and Melissa did something bigger for him for lunch. She went to the school with Ryleigh's favorite American food we can find here. It is called Soda Rock , she brought him and his two friends lunch for the day. They all were stoked. So for Birthday dinner, Ryleigh chose to go to TGIF and at the shopping center we went to, Jolly St Nick was hanging out there. Lastly we went to Lindt Chocolate Store for Hot Cocoa's.  It was a good day for him and us alike. The years just keep driving by, don’t they? I blinked and you were 4. I sneezed and you were 6. I coughed and you somehow turned 8. Everyone around us says you’ve grown and as much as I’d like to say that you’re s...

Boys Birthday party at Luna Park  December 10th 2011,  http://www.lunapark.com.au/ , water balloon war and sleep over. Alright, when Melissa woke me up at 8am frantic with work to do before all the kids got over I was hungover or I  partially still drunk or a little of both. I am not too sure but I went into help mode. As I was helping, the first case of the drunk morning sweats came over me. 10 mins later, I was yaking in the toliet. The kids were laughing because I was super loud with deep and long dry heaves. LOL, that didn't help so I showered.  About 30 mins later, our first guests arrived and within 20 mins we had all 7 kids ready to go to Luna Park. We went our to the main street and jumped on the next Tram (East-West Line) that came by heading West towards St Kilda road a 10 min ride. We had a good plan but in the heat and with 7 loud kids. It was a stressful Tram ride. We got off Tram 1 at St Kilda's road, walked back across the Tram lines to board Tram 2 He...