Park, Park, Park & Park

I met everyone at Borough Market for lunch today after they had a boat ride. The kids were amazed that I could eat a kangaroo burger and not get jumpy.

Faith, a family friend from the States, arrived today. She's here for 3 weeks to help corral the kids over the summer holidays.

D had her final ballet class of this season today, which of course had a small recital. And we all went out for pizza and ice cream to celebrate afterwards.

Back on the day C was born(!), Andy and Jack dropped everything and joined me for his head wetting drink at our then local pub.  Here's the evidence . At the 10th Anniversary Party, we were reunited for a quick photo.

We had the 10th Anniversary Party ( invite here ) last weekend.  And we had a special guest- a 10 year old cake! The Original Cake After the original Big Day ten years ago, we saved the top round of the wedding cake.  Living in a sealed container in a dark cabinet meant it was actually well preserved.  The fact that it was a fruitcake soaked in alcohol helped. The "new" cake was delicious as well.

We had several of Bella's work colleagues over for a lovely poached salmon, with a bit of English champange beforehand, today. Ian and Ed brought their newest member of the family- Dora the 6 month old Dauchound. The kids were taken with her. And she helped D overcome her fear of dogs.

The boys had their first proper cricket match this morning. We headed out to Barnes Common at 8:30am as the overnight rain stopped. C showed both some strong bowling and batting- hitting a 4 at one point.

D and I walked hand in hand up to the high street for milk this morning before breakfast...

All that remains of the cake we all made for her party... This year again, D and Amber had a joint gymnastics party. All the kids had a great time, but Dad didn't do a very good job taking pictures.