Josh's 1st birthday party

It's Josh's first birthday on the 8th and so he had his first party this saturday (5th). Lots of family and friends but unfortunately not many of his friends were there - several have now moved to Australia and one of the others for some reason never received the invitation which was a bit sad.

He got lots of presents and some nice clothes (which was lucky as he was starting to run out of clothes big enough to fit him!). My grandparents are also over from Germany at the moment and so it was nice to have them there too. On sunday we then showed them (and Josh!) where we got married and had our reception. We still had our fruitcake from the wedding in the freezer (as we know we should have eaten that for our 1 year anniversary or the birth of our first child) and so we defrosted that and took it with us to the rose gardens and had a picnic there with the my family (incl dad's parents). Almost took the beetle for drive too but we would have had to take both cars as Josh can't really go in the back of the convertible and so we decided against it - just proof that we really should sell it as we're not using it!

VW nationals 2008 - Cambridge

Took our beetle down to Cambridge for the VW Nationals over the easter weekend. The weather was perfect for driving round in a convertible and the beetle finally got a bit of time out of the garage and on the road! The tyres had actually developed a little bit of a flat spot from sitting around for so long without being moved - but the tyres stretched themselves back to almost normal now. Our beetle won 3rd place in the convertible section which was pretty cool!

It was a nice weekend camping and Josh again enjoyed sleeping in his own tent - it convinced us that we should really get rid of the kombi too as it's easier in the tent at the moment anyway and I can then spend more time on our stretched one (which I haven't worked on for over a year now!).

Below are some pics from the nationals and Josh having a bath at the campsite (thanks Rob and Cass for providing the 'bathtub'!).