Sister birthdays...

Two of my sisters had birthdays last week so with Brianna home I thought it would be nice to host a lunch for them.  I made Melting Moments...

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...sandwiches...

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Janine made toasties...

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I made sausage rolls...

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My niece brought the birthday cake. We also had fresh fruit salad and icecream.  All in all, a lovely day.

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My other two sisters couldn't attend on Monday but were free on Tuesday so we went to our local Indian restaurant.

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We shared all the dishes and it was yummy...

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My beautiful roes from my garden.

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I think it was Wednesday when I was out watering the garden. It was so peaceful and quiet apart from the birds twittering.  I grabbed a glass of wine and sat just listening...

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We enjoyed lovely salmon for dinner, expertly cooked by my huz, I did the salad, salsa and potatoes..

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Joolz xx
 

 
 
 
 
 

Presents from my sisters...

I have 4 older sisters and each year we buy/make a small gift. This year the theme was 'Round and Shiny and $15 maximum. Above are the bangles I bought for them - nice and round and shiny!
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My sister Leanne chose this cute card about sisters, with a shiny and round medallion...
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a cute verse...
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and a picture of us all. She also made a keyring with our initials and pretty glass beads. Special mention has to be made of the Christmas pudding she made. ... at the end of the day, she couldn't give it away! It was a good pud but her trifle was even more awesome. Thanks Fred!
~Sue gave me this little candy bowl filled with yummy truffles and liqueurs and round, shiny gold chocolate coins...
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This is a glass water bottle that my sister Janine hand etched and it has a glass bead decoration so I guess the bottle is round and shiny....
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and delicate glass Christmas decoration to go on the tree from my sister Marilyn. So we all completed this years challenge.
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This is the criterior for next years Sisters presents. It was Leanne's turn to choose and it's is quite ironic that she works at a garden nursery, don't you think??
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This is a fun way to do presents for family members and keeping the cost down is part of the fun. It also gives you a whole year to think about the gift.
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Also, this is my 300th blog post since August 2008. I recently had a lady comment on my site, saying she loved my blog and how I promote my town etc. She saw me in the local supermarket last week and made herself known to me. She visits Pip's Restisnotidleness and checked out my blog and discovered we lived in the same town. Small world eh?
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Joolz

Aren't we cute....my sisters and me!

This is the present my eldest sister gave me for Christmas last year. They are scrap booked blocks with our photos on them. My photo is a little different as I wasn't born when the photo of the other 4 girls was taken.

Top Row: Leanne (now aged 50), Julie (44)
Bottom Row: Marilyn (57) Janine (55) and Susan (52)

I am the baby and my Mum and Dad were probably hedging their bets on a boy. Tough luck, they got a fifth girl and spoiled me rotten. Ha!

Four of us live in the same town and the other 80kms away.

Here's a bit of family fact:

Mum & Dad (sadly he passed away in April 1989) had 5 girls who all married.
We had 10 children - Kirste, Jeremy, Heath, Melanie, Ben, Adam, Jane, Bianca, Kirby & Brianna.
They have had 14 children so far - Tayla, Josh, Blake, Jett, Rylee, Cash, Mitchell, Jed, Saige, Kobe, Sapphire, Brodi, Nathan, Kayden, Jake. No one is pregnant at the moment that I know of...Phew! Baby Cash is the youngest, born October 4th.

We all live in South Australia.

I love my family and can't wait for Christmas!

Cheers - Joolz :]