A family party
Here a few pictures of my Mum's birthday and my grandparents anniversary last weekend. My Aunt and Uncle have a lovely big house in a lovely suburb of Brisbane, which has a room in it that's nearly as big my whole flat and wide open spaces, and they are very generous with it so we have a lot of family get togethers there. This is one of the outdoor tables. My Aunt did the lovely table decorations and the silver cutlery is actually plastic, which caught people out all day!
Some of what was going on inside.
My grandparents and their six children (my Aunt on the far right normally has gorgeous auburn hair and I was a little distraught to see she'd died it so dark!).
11 of the 18 grandchildren (with one little great-grandchild dancing about - they have six great-grandchildren also). Note what's going on with the height here. My two cousins on the far right seemed to have stopped growing just shy of five foot and I am the family freak up the back.
Some of the guests. The lady in the middle is a dear, godly old lady. My Mum boarded with her and her late husband in Young when she went off to do years 9 and 10 of school (because they grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere) and she came all this way for this event.
Some of the big room inside.
My sisters, Mum and me and my little niece and nephew (Annie had been waiting a long time for the cake!). The two other nieces stayed behind in Melbourne with their Dad unfortunately because of the cost of flying everybody about. You can see that we're all quite different just by our dress sense. I was undecided about what to wear but am often the one who ends up looking a bit "vintage" (I bought that dress online and what I love about it is it's crinkle satin, so you twist it all up and throw it in your suitcase, and there you have it).
My grandparents - congratulations to them for making 61 years! They are wonderful example of faithfulness and perseverance. My Nanna was a city girl who worked in Martin Place here in Sydney before they met, then ended up on a farm in Rye Park raising six kids and feeding shearers ...
