Charlie's 3rd Birthday Party 2010

Caleb, Charlie and Mia

Personally I think having a birthday in between Christmas and New Years celebration is one of the cruelest things you can do to a child.  All they want is to have a party with their friends, but when you have a birthday then people are usually away on their annual camping holiday or have something else on. Something like that anyway.   So this year we celebrated Charlie's birthday six weeks early on Sunday 14 November at the park at the MV rail mini trains at Morphett Vale. 

It was such a fabulous place to have a kids party.  We managed to get a spot under a big gum tree with some shade, and there was a big wooden table we used for the food.  So it was a massive park, with a creek, playground, RC track nearby, public toilet and about 50 metres away the mini steam trains. 

 Everyone was really generous by giving Charlie really beautiful gifts.  Most of the gifts were trucks, trains, cars, a harmonica, art and craft stuff, to tum tennis, and a Thomas DVD (and more).  We put all of them under a big gum tree and opened most of them when we got home.  He loved his new toys.

The food was devine.  Diana made 160 sausage rolls, Auntie Helen curried eggs, Dad 50 cream horns with cherry's on top, Tania yummy chocolate crackles, Renae a sweet twist, and Chris the amazing Thomas the Train Cake.  There were sandwiches, fairy bread, dips and meats too.

You should have seen this cake.  It was incredible.  Everyone was in aw of the cake.  Chris never does things in halves.  He is totally intelligent and a perfectionist.  He made the most amazing cake I have ever seen.  It was a Thomas Cake (of course) with the most incredible detail.  All of the kids gathered around the cake and were all very polite too.  None of them touched it or anything. They all waited quietly until we sang Happy Birthday and started cutting it.  Most of the kids came back for seconds and thirds. 



The Amazing Thomas the Train Cake





So after lunch and cake we all had rides on the mini steam and diesel trains.  Those are actually scaled down versions of the big trains.  They use coal and diesel to fuel them.  The track they run on is about 1.2 kilometres, and you can have as many rides as you want.  The kids and adults loved them.

So we had an awesome day.  Charlie enjoyed getting spoilt with presents and playing with his friends too.  So a big thank you to everyone for those beautiful gifts and helping out, and just coming along.  Love you all.  xx

By the way, if you ever want to go ride cool trains the details are on the MV rail website http://www.mvrail.org.au/

Also, my girlfriend Renae who runs her own card design business did the invitations.  They looked really awesome too.  If you want to check out her card design website "Cherry Bliss Designs" see http://www.cherrybliss.com.au/