Happy 30th Birthday Peaty.

Our beloved Peaty, my handsome hubby turned a very respectable 30 years old last weekend.

Here are a few photos of Kirsten him opening some of his gifts.

And wearing lots of his other gifts, t shirt, shirt, hat, watch....

He received some awesome presents. My favourite gift, hands down was this one..

A net book!!! Hallelujah! Thank you so much to Murray's mum and Dad and of course Beebs! For the best and most fantastically timed gift! 

Ok Ok Ok I know the gift isn't ACTUALLY for me. But my super loving, very generous and very handsome husband firmly believes in what is his is mine. woo hoo!

And back to blogging we go! yee ha!

With our beautiful Lor Lor away living it up in the big smoke (another blog post due to debut around two weeks ago but we'll get there now that we are back online!) we were without a fantabulous expertly decorated Birthday cake. So I whipped up a batch of cupcakes instead, in Dundee United colours of course :-)

Murray didn't want a fuss, he likes things simple. But after a lot of persuasion, he agreed that this birthday did need to be marked. So we planned a family barbecue.

" It is always sunny on my Birthday" he declared confidently.

Famous last words!

The rain tipped down. All over the garden we had lovingly prepared all week long.

All over the tables and chairs we had borrowed.

So the Dad's (and Uncle Ronnie) hid under the umberellas and warmed their hands on all of the candle jars I had made for the lovely sunny evening in the garden, that we had been expecting.

The men were tough!

The wind was so strong that it kept blowing the flames out on our gas barbecue, so in the end we all retreated into the house.(even the men) We grabbed as many chairs and tables as would fit inside and fired up the George Foreman grill.

(I may or may not have consumed a small glass of wine at this point. just to steady my nerves and calm the panic rising inside me as my mum found a burger raw in the middle, which led to BBQ abandonment and the full embrace of burgers cooked indoors)

No one minded and the party continued. We had such fun, we are very lucky to have such an awesome family and great friends.

Make a wish!

We think you are the best Daddy in the world ever.

And we are looking forward to seeing what the next 30 years holds.

The end.

No really this was where the day ended. K went to bed, the guests all left and we enjoyed a quiet night in with Beebs.

You really don't want to see what happened when everyone else left.

It got slightly messy...

with just a few "elite" guests attending the "after party"

An occassional beverage was sipped in an orderly fashion

There seems to have been a lot of hugging and reminiscing.

K decided the music, dancing and singing sounded so fun, she wanted to join back in.

( I am too ashamed to publicly admit what time this pic was taken)

Happy Birthday sweetheart, it's a good job you don't turn 30 every day!

 A week later we are still recovering!

I guess we really are getting old

x x x x