Last Saturday we celebrated Oli and Lulu's summer birthdays with a garden party. Nothing to grand just a few friends and their mums and dads but I prayed all week for the rain to hold off! We put up a party gazebo in the garden just incase it did shower or to keep the sun off little shoulders should it shine!
We filled the garden with toys, dressing up and opened up the clubhouse so they could get up to no good in private!! Luckily it was a really warm day, the sun came out in spurts and we (the adults) were able to laze around on picnic blankets while the children played.
It's really hard when you're preparing party food for outside as I've found children like to graze at party food and if it's warm you end up with curled sandwiches and fighting to keep flies away; so this year I decided to keep it simple and it removed all of the stress...