An Adult!

Ella has turned 18! Landing on a Saturday, Ella thought it would be fin to run 18km on her 18th birthday with the final 5 kms at park run at Weston Park with the family and friends.

So she headed off early and we all drove later to meet up. There was a large group including our family, Ryan and most of his family, plus a few o friends!

Breakfast after was at Ryan's Dad's house with egg and bacon rolls.

Then finally it was time for presents! Ella and Katy have an agreement about spending $50 on each other at thrift stores for birthdays. They do seem to find some real bargains! This time though Katy found a cool pair of pjs - she really loved the bottoms but not the top but they came as a set. We all had a great laugh about the top when Ella did her parade!!!

After a few weeks of deliberations Ella decided that she wanted new touring skis, boots, skins and poles for her birthday. We were pretty happy about that!

Andy subsequently left for a two week work trip the Europe and UK that night. Family celebration dinner was put on hold. Ella decided that she wanted to make dinner with just Ryan! Katy and I cooked separately but we did put together a small cake to celebrate!

Birthday celebrations continued the next day... with friends and cocktails on the deck!