- Waking up early.
- Baking cheese stars and mini banana muffins.
- Madly tidying the house.
- Wrapping presents.
- Icing cupcakes.

- Running out of icing half way through and having to dash to Spar for extra butter and icing sugar.
- Icing more cupcakes.

- Eating Thai food.
- Laughing at how much Izzy loves green curry. She slurps the sauce with a spoon like it’s soup!
- Feeling too tired to give myself a manicure.
- Collapsing into bed.
- Waking up to Jesse’s huge grin and cute baby gurgles. I love being a mum.
- Sleepily singing happy birthday.
- Keeping up a long running family tradition by playing Altered Images as Jesse came down to open his presents.
- Putting up decorations and getting the bubble machine going in the garden.
- Thinking about what I was doing this time last year.
- Hurriedly getting dressed and doing my make-up.

- Loving Revlon Cherries In The Snow lipstick, new shoes and seamed stockings.
- Hugging old friends.
- Showing off the children.
- Eating party food.
- Singing ‘Happy Birthday’ and helping Jesse blow out his candles.

- Posing for a million photographs.
- Laughing out loud at the sight of Jesse demolishing a cupcake.

- Opening birthday presents with Jesse.
- Wondering what our friends were thinking when they bought us a pop-up ball pond complete with 250 balls. The kids adore it but it takes up most of the playroom. That said it did play a part in my favourite photo from the whole day…

- Wishing my best friend didn’t have to go back to London.
- Embarking on a major clean-up session.
- Pouring myself a glass of wine and ordering pizza.
- Collapsing on the sofa.
Loveaudrey xxx

Love the pictures 🙂 You look gorgeous, Jesse and Izzy look happy and LOVE the ball picture, those cupcakes look FAR too tempting too, hehe!
Really glad you had such a lovely weekend, it looks fab (love the outfit too!), and I wish I’d been there, hehe!
x x x x
Thanks Laura! It was a lovely day. I can’t believe my gorgeous boy is 1, it goes far too quickly!
I wish you could have been there too, I’d love to see your bump in the flesh!!
xxx
You look amazing in these photos, hun, the fatigue doesn’t show at all! Looks like such a fabulous party – I wish I could have a bite of that cupcake! xxx
He’s so cute! Aww, happy birthday! The cupcakes look delicious!
the photos are beautiful! your family is gorgeous. you’re a totally adorable mom. 🙂
i hope your little one had a wonderful birthday. many happy returns from across the pond! 😀
Happy Birthday Jesse! Hope he had a lovely day. And thanks for my birthday message, I had a brill day xx
@Rocaille Thank you lovely! the cupcakes were quite yummy!
@Heather Taylor Thank you, of course I think he’s very cute too!
@RMb I think he really enjoyed himself, there were lots of smiles on the day!
@Lauren Glad you had a good birthday hun!
xxx