We've just had the Queens Birthday Long Weekend and it was a pretty good one.
There was no soccer so we had a pretty lazy morning - did some groceries and some general shopping (picked up a heap of cheap kids movies) and then lay around the house doing a bit of work here and there but mostly just being mellow.
The afternoon was a 'Pirates and Princesses' party. Both kids got dressed up and LGR looked pretty good. He had a pirates hat with a skulll with flashing eyes, a cool little sword and even some stubble on his face :-) Hayzey was a princess and she was quite cute.
After the party (which the kids loved but I found moderately boring) we were off to the Little Athletics presentation night. We travelled over with clans Chef and McK and met Aunt LU and Uncle AU and Lillee and Nanna at the venue for some dinner. It was a rowdy old meal - most of the kids seemed to be very wound up and several points were also feeling a little 'emotional'.
The presentation itself was over relatively quickly. LGR got a medal and a trophy. He was pleased as punch. All day long he had been talking about getting a medal so the additional trophy (his first) was a very nice touch.
On Sunday morning we finally packed up all the camping gear that we borrowed almost a year ago and returned it to the rightful owners - who may or may not have been happy to get it back :-) We also finally got a chance to sit down and have a chat, and even got some birthday cake for Nanna's pending birthday. Little Lillee bounced up and down in her Tigger harness and we all smiled and enjoyed the show. She's the type of baby that makes you think babies aren't hard work after all ....
Clan Chef came around late in the afternoon for some dinner. The them was Indian and the meal was very mellow - no chilli to be found anywhere. It surprised a few folks and the kids seemed to enjoy it quite a bit. After dinner the adults settled in for a night of card games and the kids did what the kids always do - played, fought, cried and then played some more ....
Monday was very cruisy. After taking the pups out for a run (they are big enough now to runk with me when I go running) Hayzey and I ducked out to get some stuff for lunch. When we got back home Grandma was there, and so were the Chef's. Mr Chef helped take his tools and stuff home from the fence building exercise several months back and suddenly we have a garage that we can fit cars in again.
Grandma hung around for some card games (snap, fish and something LGR created with extremely fluid rules), some lunch and a bit of post lunch nothingness. After Grandma left we all settled down for a bit of movie watching which was interrupted by a dodgy DVD player and some baths.