NINE

BEAUTIFUL MORNING...

This beautiful morning came far too quickly...

 Today Justice ran around on deliveries with me, there was no school... AND it is his birthday!

FANTASTIC --- at 9!

This year the little pink Brisbane playhouse was putting on The Fantastic Mr Fox and Justice asked if that could be what we did for his birthday party...

SO, we did! 

 MR FOX gathered everyone together after the show to sing HAPPY BIRTHDAY

We invited a list of friends, and loved the show!

Justice was able to open one gift afterwards (he had to save the rest until the actual birthday) - and look which ONE he picked!  LUCKY!

Falling Behind...

So, I couldn't find the nifty cable for camera to desktop... and really, who wants a photo free post?  It held me up, and then the semester started, and the next thing I knew I was months behind... so stay tuned, I am going to update via backdate... Really, we're two weeks away from school holidays, and I last posted right before our last school holidays...  An entire term behind!  (Then again, I WISH I were only a term behind in scrapbooking!)

HAVE YOUR CAKE...

In the morning, we celebrated a first birthday party for our friends' little lady.

 And afterwards, I took Justice to his friend Morgan's 10th birthday party...  LOTS of yummy treats!

INVITED

We were invited to a dinner event that one of our customers, Sustainable Catering, was holding.  Unfortunately Will had to work, but Justice and I got dolled up and headed into Brisbane on a school night to see them in action.

We arrived to a delicious display of lovely breads...

and a roasted feast table:

suckling pig, goose, angus beef, turkey and root vegetables.

These were all served "under the apple tree" 

I thought that the caramel apple tree was SPECTACULAR -
I can see (Tara) someone doing one of these at a birthday party - such an impression! 

As well as the feast table, there were several stations, one did winter mushroom broth,
one did a sand crab and popcorn shoot petite salad,
and the third was sweet potato ravioli with burnt sage butter sauce. 

Presentation was everything -

the portions and the plating were exceptional

- and everything was about how well they could do it - they even made the ravioli in front of us!

There were heaps of servers (some dressed like this monk chick) and so many canapes! 
They heralded each course of canapes... literally! 
SO COOL...

The church is stunning, and proved an impressive space for such an event! 

There was live music, and I missed the chance to catch a photo of my little man busting some moves on the dance floor!

The set up was deliberately atmospheric

The desserts (apple pie, warm donuts and these!) were lovely. 

And at the end we got a little take home gift, which was popcorn shoots, the sandcrab recipe and presentation boats and mini chopsticks... 

 I had a great time, definitely worth the late night. 

If only I could fix the red eye...

ROBOTS...

Robots are cool.  Legos are cool.  Lego robots are VERY cool!  I like the face on this robot Justice built... its some Star Wars thing.  STAR WARS LEGO ROBOT... its a bit overboard on the favourite things!