Tea for 17

 Faith had been asking for months if she could host a tea party.  I finally agreed and we got to work.  We made these cute invitations and hoped that since it was scheduled for the last day of school before school holidays most would go out of town.

 We ended up having 17 little girls for our tea party.  I didn't really know what to do for a tea party so we made it up as we went along.  We started out playing Tea Party Bingo and they could win fancy, junk jewelry.

 They decorated tea pot sugar cookies and little tea cup cup cakes.

 What a crowd.  We served little sandwiches, strawberries and carrot sticks and hot chocolate instead of tea. My friend said it looked like a unicorn threw up on our table while we were cleaning it all up.  

 I think they loved it.

 I saw these cup cake molds at the Reject Shop and had to buy them.

 The tea pot had hot chocolate.  We got all of our tea cups and saucers and the tea pot at the junk shop (a big green shed full of junk that people don't want anymore; basically a junky thrift shop.) When Faith saw the tea pot she said, "This is so beautiful, why would anyone give this to the junk shop?"  Maybe it was the crack in the spout :)

 When it was all over the girls got to decorate a cake with the left over frosting.

I know it's the 4th of July and it isn't a very conventional way to celebrate, but the more I think about it,  a tea party is the perfect way to celebrate America :)

Legally Blonde

 I know some pretty awesome ladies who agreed to come and see Legally Blonde the musical with me tonight.  We had 20 of us in all!  We ate dinner first at a Chinese restaurant then went to the theatre at ANU to watch the play.  Pictured:  Malia, Kristen, Keisha, Sarah-Jane, Monique, Brooke, Ashley.

 Britt, Hermarnee, Chenoa, Bindi and Nicole.  I love these ladies and I'm going to miss them so much.

The play was a lot of fun!  There were some moments when I was a little nervous of what these ladies thought about this play I drug them too :)  What a fun night out.

Happy Birthday, America!

 The Embassy looked awesome tonight for the 4th of July party.

 Patriotic star hair-dos.

 Bugs from Questacon.

 The kids had so much fun at the bouncy house...

 batting cages...

 and this velcro wall bouncy thing.  Spencer and I did it, and it was so fun.

 I think that's me; Spencer took the picture.  You had to jump as high as you could and stick your body to the wall trying to get 40 points.  I touched the 30-point line, but that's about it. Not so easy to jump and stick your body to a wall with a velcro suit.

 James is the cub scout on the right helping with the flag ceremony for when Ambassador Berry spoke.

 We had so much fun and there was so much food!  Hot dogs, hamburgers, hot chocolate, chicken fingers, cup cakes, etc.  And what is the 4th of July without fireworks?

Last year we were on vacation at the Great Barrier Reef on the 4th of July so this is our first 4th of July at the embassy.  We will never forget the 4th of July where we were in coats and it was dark at 5:00 pm.  There ain't no doubt we love this land!

Grandparents Day

 Today was Grandparents Day at Faith's school. Since we don't have grandparents who live near us, we didn't bring any grandparents with us.  All of the families were invited to come anyway to have afternoon tea with our kindy kids.  The kids made us fruit kabobs and pizza to eat.

 Hope loves to visit Faith at school.

Right after school we left to go the embassy's July 4th party.  Hope is looking very patriotic :)

Our visit ended with grandparents showing us toys from when they were little and then the entire school sang some songs for us.  I love it when Faith sings Molly Malone :)