Smurf is now 14. They're all even numbers in this house (till Roman turns 19 in November). My teens, as of August 11, 2011 = 14, 16 (x2) and 18. heehee.... Looks like weird algebra when you put it like that!!
We went across to Wales to celebrate with Nanny and Grandad and spend time with the cousins. On the Saturday we had a very early start to make sure we arrived in their Welsh village in time to submit some entries into the Village Garden Show/fete. I love these really oldfashioned, traditional village events that they hold in the Village Hall. It really is the hub of the community. So many beautiful flower entries, amazing veg and home-made goodies from cake to crochet. The twins had picked fruit and made jam. They got a 1st in the plum jam section. T-g was super happy...
Smurf entered two photographs. One was for the 'macro' section and the other was 'digitally altered' (which for some strange reason he kept calling 'genetically modified'!) He took photos of bees on flowers in our garden. Here's what he ended up with... we printed them out A4...
The digitally altered/genetically modified ladybird photo won 1st prize. So did Nanny's drawing...
T-g did a watercolour for the prompt 'Storm' and so did Nanny. They came 2nd and 3rd...
My niece, Sweetie, had been staying with Nanny for the week and had made several wonderful entries into the Garden Show. She painted a dolphin and decorated the frame with shells and next to her on the table is a minature garden in a brown terracotta dish. She won 1st for both entries. I think she also entered a veg bunny.
My other niece made flapjacks...look at that happy face...
Sadly, my nephew, Davinci, didn't place for his veggie frog, but the competition was very high. Love the tiny 'fly' on the frog's tongue...
The children lined-up with some of their entries...
There was a Newspaper Photographer about who took some photos...
Hoping they'll be in the paper :)
Sweetie won a cup for the under 12's overall winner. This year Nanny is the President, so was handing out the cups and saying all the thank-yous to relevant people.
Afterwards we had a walk along the beach and returned home for home-made lasagne. The children all chilled out and the adults chatted and caught up. I'll do another post about the Sunday, which was canoeing!
Sounds like a great weekend. I miss all those sorts of things now that I am back in a big city :-( The veggi animals were cool! A very talented family all round!
Posted by: Chipper | August 13, 2011 at 09:08 AM
Well done guys. Looks like a great weekend all round. love xxx
Posted by: Maz | August 14, 2011 at 08:04 PM
Wow a very tallented family. well done x
Posted by: jayne | August 15, 2011 at 04:58 PM