Happy Birthday To Us

A and I celebrated our birthdays together again, this year.  Last year we did the spa and dinner.  This year we did it with strawberry picking at Springridge Farm (fantastic place btw!) followed by a picnic in the park.  There was lots of sunshine, not so many strawberries, lots of laughs and a few tears.  Thanks to N, who was the only boy at the party, for capturing all the fun moments of the girls!

 

Mango Tea

When we were in San Fran in March '08, we met up with a friend who was also in SF at the time, and visited a tea shop near Union Square.  We tasted selections of teas at this shop and ended up buying three bags.  One of them is the best mango tea we've ever had and since then it's been a tradition to meet up with this friend over tea.  We had such a "ceremony" this past weekend.

Beerfest VI

It was the annual Beerfest at our house this weekend. Beerhogger has blogged about the two breweries we toured this year:  Cameron's Brewing Co., and Trafalgar Brewing Co. in Oakville.  Here are some shots from both breweries.

Birthdays

My friend A's and my birthday are two days apart so we decided to celebrate them ogether this year. At the spa and out to dinner with friends.

2 & 10!

You'll remember these two cuties from 1 & 9 :)

My niece and nephew share the same birthday and turned 10 and 2 respectively.

The fun was had at a carnival themed party!

Here are some highlights.

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Baby Shower

On Sunday November 29th, we threw a baby shower for our dear friend Alicia (and Peter).  They're expecting their bundle of joy in February of next year.  Since the baby's gender is going to be a surprise, we chose yellow and white as the colours for our Tea Party theme.

The beautiful tea favours were purchased from the Language of the Leaf tea company; thanks to Neeta and Natalie for doing such an incredible job on them!  There was mango mousse cake, decadent pastries, delicious treats and lots of tea and pink lemonade to be had.

And who knew avoiding the word "baby" would be so hard!

To Alicia and Peter, I hope you enjoy these photographic memories! xo

Hallowe’en 2009

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My Birthday

I hit the big 30 with family and close friends at Archeo in the Distillery District.

There's nothing better than bacon for your birthday.  The credit goes to my husband for most of these shots :)

1 & 9

'Twas the nephew's 1st & niece's 9th birthday on May 17.

There was a magician, a donkey, gifts and cake

A bouncy castle, burgers and a pinata to shake

Lollies and candies and wrappers galore

Toy bats and balloons and don't you want more?

How 'bout ice cream and sprinkles and chocolate chips?

Don't you wish your birthdays were more like this?

Okay, so I'm no Dr. Seuss that's for certain, but I do like birthdays.  I suspect these guys do too.

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AMAL release party

We partied with the AMAL cast, crew and our friend, the director, Richie Mehta at the Harbourfront Centre for the release of their film, on August 8, 2008.

Fun times were had with Gupreet, The Tabla Guy and smoke effects.

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