Saturday 19th April - My 40th Birthday Party

YIPEE It's here at last have been waiting all week for today to arrive, very excited to be able to celebrate with all my wonderful friends. This morning I did another clean of the house, and am sure on Sunday will wonder why did I bother to wash the floors like I always do everytime we have visitors at least I got all that done on Friday.

Fiddle Faddled all morning really putting stuff away, taking phone calls, my friend Helen dropped around to see if I needed a hand with anything, which was really lovely of her, we had a coffee and a chat as we do. Bella had a Birthday party for her friend Mia at 12pm so we had a nice shower together and washed our hair and got ready for the party, I dropped her at this one, the first ever drop and run for a birthday party (I was a little bit nervous that she would not cope but that was silly) she was fine and why wouldn't she be surrounded by her friends, party food and a princess jumping castle. While she was there I went and got a few things at the shops and the rolls from the bakery, had some lunch and a bit of a chill out in front of the tv. Picked her up from the party at 3pm and headed around to Stacey's so she could straighten my hair for me, she did an awesome job once again of my curly mop. Have a mild panic that it really is cold and everyone will be too cold, Andrew says don't worry they will just have to drink more.

Fast forward to 5.30pm mum and dad arrive with loads of food and we have a bit of a photo session and then my friends started to arrive. I have been told on good authority that Bella was greeting people at the door and asking where their present was haha!! That's my girl, never the shy one at all.

I had an absolute ball, I think back to 9 years ago when I first moved over here and I had no friends and now here I am surrounded by my nearest and dearest.

We had so much food it was great, thank goodness for slow cookers we had lots of great dishes and everyone really enjoyed all the food.

There was a bit of dancing going on in the lounge well into the night, the frozen Magherita's and Pina Colada's made an appearance together with ample amounts of Sambucca, heard there were a few sore heads on Sunday morning.

Check out the food!!!

Must add in here that Bella decided that it would be a great night for a sleep over at Nanny and Poppy's and was very quick to pack her bag when they were leaving, what a girl hey!!!

My night

finished around 2.30am when the last of my guests left and we headed off to bed, only to be woken by the mobile going off 10 mins later, sadly it was a message from Andrew’s sister to let us know that his Nanna had passed away at about 1.30am. As sad as it was to hear this news we were happy to know that she was no longer in any pain and was at last at peace.