Alice turned nine today. She has thoroughly enjoyed the birthday celebrations. Cynthia and Alice made a pull-apart Turtle cake made out of cupcakes to take to school yesterday. Alice found it on you-tube about two months ago and has talked about it non-stop.
Today her actual birthday happily coincided with Buddha's birthday so we had a public holiday. As it was the non-party year for Alice she was just supposed to have a favourite friend over for the day but Alice wangled two - a favourite boy and a favourite girl. She wanted to visit the SPCA ( Society for prevention of cruelty to animals) so we did that with Harrison and Chloe and were able to pet quite a few dogs in their cages. We then went geocaching - successfully finding two caches and introducing two new geocachers to the world of treasure seeking!
Then back to our place for cake, an animal rescue treasure hunt, a swim and a BBQ with some more family friends and the spontaneous show by children with items titled "a good day to die" and "puffles attack". Our rather chatty three year old neighbour, Lil, is sleeping over tonight with the big girls and asking deep questions like "what's it like being 5?". The night is young... if she doesn't fall asleep she's heading back to level 20.
Happy Birthday to Alice.
ReplyDeleteToday we had a fascinating talk about the soon return of Jesus. So many events occcuring in the last few months are mentioned in prophecy. Heaps to watch but in particular is the European Union and the defaulting of nations in it's Union. The Bible attributes "one hour" to this coalition and since one day in prophecy is often regarded as one year in our time, I can only assume that events in Europe will be soon and devastating.
ReplyDeleteI needed this talk to jolt me into a bit of action. I wouldn't want to be found slack at the return of Jesus.
Ali, your cakes look very impressive! Glad you had a fun day - you're lucky to get a holiday for your birthday. See you soon, love Kim
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