Our Girl’s Garden Party was held on Saturday afternoon in Filipa’s honour. She had lots of friends and family come to celebrate her engagement to Chris and wish her well in her married life. After a week of lovely weather, Saturday turned out to be grey and rainy…so the Garden Party was moved from the lovely outside surrounds to sardines in my loungeroom! We had about 30 people attend and played a few games and listened to Filipa tell stories of her engagement.
Mum, Carli, Filipa and I cooked up a storm and had a delectable array of food for afternoon tea from smoked salmon blinis to fresh fruit and vegie platters to pretty little cupcakes. We had a fun afternoon and are excited about Filipa’s wedding in 2 and a bit weeks.
Nan holding her newest great-grandchild, Alexander Watson.
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ORANGE POPPY SEED CAKE
¼c poppy seeds
¼c milk
185g butter
1 ½t finely grated orange rind
1 ¼c sugar
3 eggs
¾c plain flour
¾c SR flour
½c ground almonds
1/3c orange juice
Orange Cream:
500g packaged cream cheese, softened
½c sour cream
2T finely grated orange rind
¾c icing sugar
1T orange juice
Grease deep 22cm round cake pan, line base with baking paper.
Combine seeds and milk in small bowl, stand 20 minutes.
Beat butter, rind and sugar in small bowl with electric mixer until light and fluffy.
Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until just combined between additions.
Transfer mixture to large bowl, stir in sifted flours, almonds, undrained poppy seeds and juice; spread mixture into prepared pan.
Bake in moderate oven 45 minutes. Stand cake 5 minutes; turn onto wire rack to cool.
Split cake into 2 or 3 layers; sandwich layers with the orange cream, cover top and side of cake with remaining orange cream.
Orange Cream:
Combine all ingredients in small bowl and beat with electric mixer until smooth.
Grandie and Nana bought Oscar a suit from America and Nana gave it to him on her recent trip home. I laugh every time I see him wearing it! He looks so grown up and preppy! Before church this morning I finally got around to taking a photo of him in it. All little boys ride their bikes before church, right?…
A Tassie Summer is a funny thing. After a week of lovely sunshine the clouds rolled over and today it began to rain. Happy because I love the rain, sad because today was Fil’s Girl’s Garden Party and it couldn’t be held in the garden so we had to set up a fake garden inside!
I finished The Best Me Challenge for week 3 last night and I love it! The prompt this week was to frame something that you love, something that will make you feel happy every time you see it. So I put together a little board that hangs next to the computer (because I spend waaaaaay too much time there…) that I can interchange quotes, pictures, photos, words, things to think about. Its not your typical frame, but it works for me!
I just took it outside to try and take some photos in the light as it is so dark and difficult to get a good pic inside on a dreary day. I was standing under the front porch protected by the rain in a photo-taking daydream and the door locked shut behind me. Jaron had just gone to put Oscar to bed so my options were to stand out there for 15 minutes waiting for him to come back and open the door for me or go for a run in the rain…barefoot. I grumbly choose the rain option. I started off with a very adult-like outlook, sooking about getting wet and being cold until my bare feet splashed in big, muddy puddles on the ground and I began to feel like a little child running barefoot in the rain with not a care in the world. Fun stuff! Do you remember when you were a kid and loved running in the rain? I do. If you haven’t done it in awhile make sure you do.
We started Lil on her first solids on Saturday. I can’t believe how FAST she has grown! It seemed like it took forever for Oscar to start eating real food…and it seems like only yesterday that Lil was born! So she has had some rice cereal, which she didn’t seem to mind too much (I LOVE baby rice cereal, so my kids have to fight me for it!) Today I gave her some pureed apples and she really liked them, was getting excited and searching around for more when she had finished her mouthful. So cute!
