Showers of Blessing- First Holy Communion

It was such a delightful and grateful day in our family. Fourth Holy communion in our family , reception at  home . ..Our parish priest was prepping Geo for the day. Cousins reached home early and assisted in so many things. Geo received First Communion and invited some of his close allies only.

Geo had the privilege to have his First Holy Communion alone after school one. Such a blessed time. Many friends and families were there for H Mass.

 There was a small party for the parishioners after

the mass and went well, tea outside the church, nice gathering with home made vanilla sponge cake.

Vanilla sponge cake from food blog cakebyLynz. Cake turned out good though look not appealing.

   Lord who can turn around things so magnificently as weather was bit unexpected. The day was glorious, everyone relaxed and enjoyed throughly including neighbours and friends. After meal , enjoying the desert, came the showers of blessings. Everyone was in action , packed up, some enjoyed pitter patter rain. Boys had a good time in tent playing snooker

We pitched a camping tent apart from Gazebo.. Boys had lot of fun inside tent, pool and chat, during the rain when many went indoors 

Some of the behind the scenes prep for the day

They prepared fruit platter for the day.

   In photo booth with some of his close allies.

Our back garden with daisies....

     Cheese platters

  Fruit platter in the form cross decorated by my cousin sister and friends.

       Cheese and fruit table

Finale with blast of rain was kind of a shower of blessings from above always part of our life....we have to shift everything in, held gazebo , kiddos playing in rain and Anu just simply enjoyed rain.

  Picture albums click here to view..

Baby Shower

Just thought to visit Nimmy as very close to expected date.

Footie - Chess combi Birthday -8th

It was my little Georgu's  8th birthday and Father's day on same day. Maybe its great day as Geo is looking upto his dad for many things. As usual, he was showered with homemade cards, bed breakfast with his favourite chocolate pancakes and chocolate drink and wishes.

        Card prepared by Mike 

Card by  Theresu 

    My instant card 

 He had a fab day prior to his bday. Invited some of his close mates for a footie play happening with fletcher Moss club, following that in Mac and parish priest offered H Mass for his other friend with same name George also.

Fun time with his friends after footie.

By eve He was given a treat from his friend, so he went to Leogoland with other George, 

In the eve was the party of our little niece's First Holy communion and met relatives from far and wide. A memorable, lovely day with big family.

  So on his proper birthday, Annu baked and decorated cake, Theresu assisted with fondants. This time Geo's desire to combine football with chess as he is passionate about both. So Annu fulfilled his wish, a coffee cake with football pitch and players with chess heads and feet. It turned up awesome. 

Towards late eve, some of our cousins turned up to celebrate the day, some from Australia who visiting their brother.

Uncle Jobby receiving slice.

 

      Together as a family. 

     Thank you Lord for the blessing of Geo in our lives.

St Antony of Padua

Junec13th is the feast of St Antony Padua. One of my favourite saint especially in my life struggles. At times the prayer fulfilled on the exact timings.

 His story is fabulous. After reading story with children, I had a revival and a thirst to go back to my routine of reading scripture. As a patron of Lost items and soul, we had a scavenger hunt activity for kiddos. It was fun.

Food for the feast

There are so many varities of bread you can make on this day. There are bunch of Portuguese recipes we can prepare for the day. However we had another variation- French toast .

So many crafts, coloring pages in this blog St Antony of Padua Pray for us

Birthday- God daughter

Some of the snaps with our God daughter who turned 3.

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Mersey fest

One of the good thing to live in a community is to be part of the community event. Thanks to BMCA for organising it. Munnu did volunteering and Geo n Theresu find their space in doing various activities.

Thanks to BMCA for giving me opportunity for putting a stall about Homeopathy in UK.

  Some other fun events happened during the fest.