Maureen & Alan's 50th Wedding Anniversary Party

Mum and Dad celebrated 50 years of marriage today with

an Afternoon Tea Party in our garden. Here are a few photos of the afternoon which was a great success and we had beautiful weather.

Congratulatory letters arrived from Quentin Bryce - Governor General, the Victorian Governor, the Prime Minister, the Premier of Victoria and their local MP.

I read out the notes you had sent me and the speeches were great.

Sharon, Linda and I baked solidly for a couple of days and even Bart got in on the act as Gail is away in Europe on a business trip.

All the cousins had a great time together. Jarrod and Keegan ran the bar, while Elise and Melissa helped out in the kitchen and served food.

Camping with my Cousins and Nana & Pop

We spent four days in Early February at Inverloch with Nana, Pop, Sharon and my cousins, Hayden, James and Cameron. Liam and Gail down down for a day trip.

James & Daddy heading out
Pop's knees are a bit dodgy to get all the way down in the sand!!

Cousins and Cricket


House Slaves!

March

Balloonatic Bruce at the Kinder Family Night Picnic

Amy's Birthday Party - it was a Barbie Party - who is Barbie anyway Mummy?
Patiently waiting for cake

Playing Ball with Daddy and Daniel

William at Kinder (Pre-School)

William started Kindergarden (or Pre-School) a few weeks ago now, here are a few shots of his first day.

He now tells me that he loves his new Kinder and is not scared when I leave and he loves his teacher Sally. He asked me whether I missed him when he was at Kinder - I said "of course I do" and he told me that he didn't miss me!!! he still likes me to stay for about 10 minutes when I drop him off, until he settles into a game or joins in with some other kids.

I had my first parent duty within the first weeks and decided to make banana muffins with those kids that wanted to join in. It was a success with 6 kids sitting around the table taking turns adding ingredients and having their turn to stir the mixture. We baked them and the teacher handed them out to the kids at the end of the session with the recipe to take home. One little girl even helped me dry the dishes.

We had a Friday night family picnic a couple of weeks ago with Balloonatic Bruce entertaining the children with balloon animals and a magic show that ended with a balloon turning into a live rabbit!! The parents having a drink, and dinner whilst getting to know each other.

This is my journal covered with family photos. The teachers and I will paste pictures of what I do at kinder throughout the year.
Enough photos already Mummy!!
Our handsome boy!


Play Doh
Puzzles
Pin Board construction
Campfire Playground

Dad's 80th Birthday Party

Last Saturday night 11th February, we celebrated Dad's 80th birthday at Greg and Linda's place and we invited a few of Dad's close friends.

The birthday boy was speechless after the "Horror Movie" has he called it - A DVD of photos spanning 80 years. He was also speechless after "the kids" presented him with a watch engraved - "AJL on your 80th from the kids 10.2.12."

June & Stan Caton - long time "camping and holidaying" friends of the family.

Mary & Brian McGuire.
Uncle Brian (mum's brother) and Helen.

Ray and Lorraine Loel

Chocolate Mud Cake - made by me! The picture was taken from a photo on Dad's wall at home (it was edible).

Can I have some cake Pop?

The watch



Three generations of Lawson men.
Looking at the stars with my cousin Matthew.

I telling Elise how to use the Iphone.