birthday

It was my Mom’s birthday on the last public holiday that we had and so I wanted to treat her to a lovely breakfast out at one of my favourite wine…

I decided to throw Seth a surprise party.  Which is cool right?  Except for a few little problems: Seth is actually not that big on social gatherings so he’d either…

Over the weekend I started living up to the term “old and grey”. I guess you could say that I started this a while ago actually, since I’ve been sporting the…

Today you turn 30. I know it seems like a big one because people usually make a big deal about it, I guess it’s supposed to be this marker in…

If I claimed this to a definitive guide to party packs I’d basically be saying that I’m Martha Stewart.  And we all know that’s about as true as saying Saturday…

My Knox Yes, MY Knox. (You’ll have to fight me to call him your Knox – sorry future girlfriend, it’s just how it is around here.) There are so many…

I mentioned before that I am all about subtlety – which is why I am subtly leaving this wishlist out on the internet for the World to see.  As one…

My baby girl, you are not a baby any more! Today we celebrate you turning 4 and despite initially being a bit bummed that you were getting older (when you…

Oh my Kyla Bells I don’t know why I struggle to write these posts to you. I guess it’s my own silly way of trying to stop you from growing…

  To My Favourite Husband It’s really hard to sit here and find the right words to say to you on your special day.  There is so much that I…

A little tradition that we have in the Alfino household is that when you turn 1, you get some finger paint, a canvas and all the patience and support that…

One year old parties are often criticized as being for the parents and not for the kids.  And I suppose that could be kind of true to some people, but…

I’ll be celebrating my 27th birthday on Wednesday!  Yippee!!  It’s so exciting that this year I get to share the day with my gorgeous Knox instead of being in labour…

Goodness, this weekend totally owned me.  For reals.  I am more exhausted now than I was before it started.  We have been very busy making sure that our kids get…

So we had a mermaid party.  Although as it turns out there was only one beautiful mermaid and it wasn’t even one of our girls, even though she could be…

My baby girl, you’re 3 today!  Well actually you have been 3 for 3 days now, but I haven’t really had a chance to sit down and write to you…

Oh my word Kyla Bells!  You are 4 today! It’s finally happened after month of counting down the days, it’s finally here and you are finally 4!!  Last night before…

It was Seth’s birthday this past Tuesday.  If you’re a Capetonian you will know that this was also the day of the RHCP concert.  What you might not know is…

So, when Kyla was 2 I sent Seth out to buy her a canvas and 2 different colour paints.  He came back with a MASSIVE canvas which Kyla adored painting.…

When Kyla turned 1 I thought it would be awesome for each of our kids to do their own painting with the same mediums (a canvas and finger paint).  Because…

So the 25th of this month is my birthday.  Just 5 days before Thumper is due to arrive and grace us with his presence.  However, we have now decided to…

The girls absolutely LOVE to run!  I’m not kidding.  They will run from the kitchen to the lounge or from their bedroom to ours in the middle of the night…

Besides a pink cake, the only other thing the girls wanted for their party was a jumping castle.  Kyla LOVES to jump and is constantly making our bed into her…