Davids 41st Birthday

 My Lover is 41 today!

Message from your Mel:

If I was still with you, I'd want to stay in bed holding you until the second service of church. I loved us sleeping in together on Sundays. Have a good Sunday my love xx

Old Photo:

To-do before your next birthday:

Take the kids to "All you can eat"

Buy yourself a new drink bottle

Put $50 in one of my old fave Pokie Machines (Not Camel)

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David’s Birthday Trilogy

Holey Moley

Ten Pin Bowling

And Arcade Cards!

Last Monday the kids, David and I went to Point Cook Holey Moley for some family fun to celebrate David’s up coming 41st birthday! 

We started with Holey Moley and enjoyed the different themes throughout the venue..

They were all very creative and fun to putt through!

As you can see Nevaeh was our winner, followed by David, then me and then Jie!

Something you may not know about my David is that he bowled competitively before we met and has trophies and medals in Bowling. 

So bowling on his birthday was a lot of fun although none of us stood the chance of winning! Even with bumpers!!

Throughout the game though I loved the way David shared his knowledge giving the kids advice in their last few turns. This part of the day really signified his role in my kids lives as being someone they can learn from and how he always shows up for us through the crucial parts of our lives. 

The boys absolutely dominated us girls even without bumpers but it was slaps and high fives whether we hit or missed!

All that bowling made us thirsty and so we got a drink each and a few selfies before we headed to the arcade! 

We all each had a $25 gaming card and played different games throughout the venue..

I killed some dinosaurs, the boys played air hockey, Nevaeh was addicted to the car racing games and we all spent the last of our money on trying to win a toy from the claw machines..

Overall it was a fun family day out in which we all enjoyed! 

I really love these ages of the kids!

 

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Jie's 21st

 My bullfrog is turning 21 today!

Message from Mum:

Oh Em Ghee Jie! 21 today and I'm sure you still feel 18! Remember those dance moves you used to do in the kitchen? I think its time to pull them out this year on a public scale! Time for some fun!

  

Old Photo:

To-do before your next birthday:

Go Clubbing/Strip Club

Buy some new Sunglasses (to stay lookin' Fresh)

Hit up the arcade with Nevaeh and David

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A Rose Garden Kinda Day!

 

On Saturday afternoon David and I picked up his Daughter Bridgette and took her out for a few hours.

We took her to the Victorian Rose Garden in Werribee where she wandered around admiring all the different colours and scents of the roses capturing them on my phone as she went.

Throughout the day let her lead the way down and around the pathways and let her imagination run wild when talking about the different birds and insects she saw throughout the day.

We stopped in the middle of the park where we got some photos of Bridgette with her Daddy and where they could spend some one on one time together.

But it wasn’t too long before Bridgette had many questions for me about her Daddy and sharing little snippets of her life with her brothers.

She spoke about school, a boys, and called her Mum “precious” (which was so beautiful and validated) before asking more questions about Mummy and Daddy in which we answered the best we could for her. 

One of the hot topics of the day was Dogs! Bridgette spoke of her grandmother and the dog dynamics happening at her house. It sounds complicated over there!

Bridgette asked for a photo with me this time and also one of our hands in the shape of a heart.

She asked us to send that one to her Mummy so she could show her in which later that night we did!

We ended the day with a play at the park where we sailed the 7 seas, fought off sea monsters and played shops before going to collect shells on the beach. 

Bridgette said that sometimes her Mum tries to guess where she has been when spending time with us so she took a pocket full of shells and a flower home for clues to help Mum guess where she’d been!

One the way home we learned that Bridgette and her Dad also share a love of sour frozen drinks and skittles so we went past 7/11 before we dropped her home where she could take sour skittles home to share with her big brothers.

She was very excited!

It’s really beautiful to see David and his daughters bond and love and admiration for each other. 

We are already planning something for the next time we see her! 

Our beautiful blue eyed girl 💙

(The reason there are no photos of Bridgette with her Dad and I is because her mother has asked us to not post her face and we respecting her wishes. But we still want to document our special times together on here so that one day we can all look back on them together like I do now that my kids are all growing/grown up) 

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Nevaeh’s 17th

 Nevaeh ended her 17th birday eating birthday cake in bed!

Nevaeh's onlt two requests this year was to go out for dinner together to Back to Bacchus and to have a biscoff Cheesecake as her birthday cake.

With only $70 to get us through the next two weeks it was looking highly unlikely that I could fulfil her only two requests.

I asked 5 of my closest friends and 3 of them helped us make her birthday become a reality.

I would like to thank not only these three people but also Back to Bacchus for paying for all our meals on her birthday night! Truely a soulful at a time where many of us are stuggling week to week..

It was a cute little night out just the four of us just as she requested..

My girl is actually 17 years old! 

17 years of being a girl Mum!

Happy Birthday Mamas Girl <3

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An Afternoon of Art

 Last week I met with an elder in our community for a bit of Art Therapy.

After being diagnosed with Depression and Work Related Anxiety an Elder of our community invited me over and into their home for some Art therapy.

Together we spent the afternoon painting to the sounds of birds and her outdoor water feature.

So peaceful and so needed.

Very thankful for this time together..

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