Michelle's chickpeas: Mad May, Birthdaytastic!

So it was May and as most of you know, May is mad in our house having Tristans and Reubens birthdays right next to each other.

Reuben wanted a bouncy castle as he loved his party so much last year that he wanted the same again! A few problems with that though, we have no flat garden space (the back garden is a pool and the front is a hill), so then we thought we could go to a park, but to hire a castle was really expensive, so it was back to the drawing board. Then he was going to have a party in the local leisure centre, but being May eveyone thought it would be too cold to be playing outside in water (it would usually be around 20 degrees!), so we ended up having a party at a local soft playland! I couldn't bring myself to let him have an organised junk food fest at the playland, so we just payed for him and 5 friends from his class and 2 from the street to get in, bought everyone a drink and a couple of plates of wedges! All the kids were well happy, they got to run and jump and bounce and play and they all had loads of fun! Reuben had a great day.

So Tristan didn't feel left out and miss his usually birthday antics too much I planned a surprise party for him too. I got a friend and her kids to come up from Brisbane and a family from down the street to go to the surf club, which is our nearest family friendly restaurant. There were 14 of us all together and Tris thought it would just be us 4. He had a great night. We didn't leave until 10pm, the kids were great, they love it there too.

The Sunday of that weekend was also Mothers Day here, Tristans real birthday and Reubens present day (he had his pressies a day early as otherwise Tris would be at work). We did a morning of pressies then spent the arvo at the park for a bbq and then went down to the beach for a swim and surf.

Here are the photos of the birthday shenanigans.......