Another birthday

Rob's had another birthday! Not a BIG one this year but a nice even number - and they're so much better than those unhappy sounding prime numbers (IMO)...…

We've done a few special things over the past few days for his birthday but today's lunch at a vineyard/winery out near Lake George at Womboin ("Contentious Character") was definitely the most special ………

The company, the food and the setting were all perfect - even the weather was cooperative - not too unbearably hot outside today.

Abi was happy during breaks in table service because the vineyard supported a bit of insect life. Abi is quite the wildlife tamer - she strokes them into submission!

 It's always a challenge to set up a family picture pose - but I thought it was worth trying at the end of our long lunch, in this picture perfect setting.

Rob scored a beautiful gift hamper for his birthday which included fig scones made by Ella, tomato sugo made by Abi and some raspberry jam that was a family effort. He's so lucky!!

Another year older

We celebrated Josh and Rob's January birthdays with a wild afternoon gathering on Saturday. Ella showed off how she can crawl, Angus and Ollie went crazy trying out all the new toys: our Christmas car, the new teddy and all the old favourites (Rob's vintage car and train collection etc).

John and Erin came full of plans for their trip to Thailand in 10 weeks. Jeremy and Claire have firmed up plans for their trip to Italy/Florence at the end of the year and we have been working on some of the details of our France/Turkey trip in September with M&R.

So lots of travel talk in between squeals of joy from the kids and downing bottles of boutique beers & sauv blancs to accompany my sang choy bow rice wraps (my own invention). It was wild!

Angus thought the early picked grapes were the best.