Stalk my Weekend: Birthday, Paris, Sausages

So guess what! D has turned 4. What the heck BBQ! Where did that time go and I'm examining my face for minor wrinkle lines. This is how bad we are as parents. We did not anticipate that kids we invited will do a no show for D's birthday party. Mick said invite only a few.. so we only did 3 kids. How the heck would we know that nobody will come? So this was me on Wed/Thurs... SMSing out "I know it's late notice buttttt.. " And on Friday I rang around trying to get a Spider-Man cake for him from Woolies. I rang Coles by mistake and I was told erm.. have you tried Woolworths very softly on the phone. Ooopss.. Problem solved and a 1.8kg cake procured.

This is us going to go pickup said 1.8kg cake. Pickles is featured in double denim. Woolies lady said that she defrosted the cake at 6.30am. Thanks! That's what I really wanna hear when I buy a cake ya know. LOL I probably shouldn't have told my guests that either but anyway...

1.8kg of 110% sugar cake

That's what a Spider-Man cake looks like people! Run to Woolies and get one if you want a bucket of sugar.

That's the boys playing with D's new Lego sets in their party clothes. LOL D said he wanted the blue party shirt. Yeap.. he normally has pink ones. We had a marinated lamb leg BBQ for lunch with salad. Knowing that we had lamb leg, this only means a bit of leftovers for the night and the next day. To break up the lamb leg BBQ overload. We went sausage sizzle for lunch the next day. 

Sausage sizzle!

Roza's Sauces makes really yummy stuff, you need to check it out. If you sign up to their newsletter you will get a discount code. I learnt about that after placing my order. DOH! I bought remoulade, pesto and chutney this time. I have to confess we ate almost half a jar of remoulade with fish and chips for one dinner. Oopss... no low fat here!

Also in the picture was the Scanpan IQ Grill Pan that was sent to me by the folks at Kitchenware Direct. Can I start off by saying I had meant to get a grill pan for ages. I just never got around to it but check out the other Grill pans they have in stock. The reason why I had been wanting one for ages? I am not usually a big steak eater but once in a while, I just really want a steak. And you know those lovely chargrilled marks you get on the lovely hunk of meat? Psychologically I think it makes the food taste better. We Mick has used the grill pan for cooking steak and I think it gets hotter an a normal frying pan and holds the heat better too so he has not figured out the right timing for his steaks yet. It also drains any fat as you can see from the sausages above so your food is not sitting in fat.

This is Paris

Also on Sunday, D was given this chocolate biscuit as a snack after swimming. I was stunned because he said oh.. look, this is Paris. Mick and I had our huh face on because I never thought he knew about Paris, much less there is a tower like that there. Proud... 

And everyone's favourite section as I had been very skincare and makeup focused lately. This is what I wore on Sunday. My hair was straightened -> WOOHOO! Some of you will say OMG Ling your hair is already straight! 

My top was from Ralph Lauren many moons ago. The necklace is called Midsummer Night's from Popbasic. Eyeshadow was Tom Ford not that you can see it and lipstick was Chanel Coco Shine Rebelle. You will have to put up with my bad posing in the future too.

Stalk my Weekend: Le Petit Gateau Cafe Vue Aldi

Le Petit Gateau window display

What a great weekend! I went to Le Petit Gateau and bought their signature Brownie Passionfruit Gateau. It was recommended by @DaisyNTSFM Let me just state it for the record that when it comes to birthdays and cakes. You need to consult Twitter food bloggers! How good does this window display look? I bought some horse head pops too as they were out of teddy bear pops. I guess I gotta go back!

Random Score: Pizza Slice

I must have had some good karma. I got off at a train station that I do not normally jump off. I was walking down the steep slope of Heidelberg train station when Domino's staff were yelling out.. "Free Pizza". Free? Random Score plus Stalk my Weekend, how good is that? I should have ran with the story that I bought Mick a pizza slice for his birthday when he said I didn't know Domino's sold pizza by the slice. Nope, I said the truth. Dammit.

Omg there's cake joy joy!

I am starting to believe that these two boys are going to have sophisticated taste buds. I can tell you that there was dancing and eating at the same time. D said it was very yummy and asked for the cake again in the morning. It was adorable watching their faces filled with joy for getting treats. Luke got too excited and climbed on the coffee table when Mick was cutting it. At one point I thought the cake would have a sock shoved in it.

D with funky sunnies on dentist chair

Lukey getting the sunnies on

I had been very nervous about this dental visit for them to be honest. I have a fear of dentists (no offence to Ling) and I did not want my boys to suffer. So people had been saying that we should be taking them to the dentist once they have teeth. Well it's been 2 years too late then! I pace up and down and was crabby in the morning. But check them out! They look absolutely happy to be there. We visited Ling from The Best Beauty Blog for their checkup, who is excellent with kids by the way! Huge sigh of relief as she said that they were in good shape. Phew. They got used to sitting in the chair and having the lights shine on them. I was surprised that she even managed to get Pickles looked at.

White Aldi Kid's Bench

I am sure that everyone knows I love Aldi (just cannot do another frozen meal for awhile). Now my junk mail guy must have slacked off or something. I do not seem to get the catalogues or maybe I no longer notice them. But I saw their special catalogue as they had a link to a egg hanging chair. So we decided to get them this white kids bench for $50. So cute!!! Mick and D put it together. Not bad for $50... although I questioned Mick on why the slats were not flat and whether it was poor flat pack assembling workmanship. LOL he is not happy.

Yummy Cafe Vue Wagyu burger pack

I leave you with Cafe Vue's Wagyu Burger takeaway pack which I bought as a treat for myself for trooping up to get the cake. It was so amazing, I thought that I could cry! Mick pretty much cried as he was missing out. The patty was juicy and soooo tasty, melted cheese, bacon and a great soft bun. It was only made better with those cut fries. Bliss.

Bake bake bake!

There is a lady in my mothers group that always amazed me. I always thought she was the ultimate domestic goddess. The house was ALWAYS clean, you could spring a visit and it will be guest worthy. Unlike cough ... mine! So for the almost 18months that I have known her, I always thought she was a baker and crazy good cook. I mean the woman makes curry from scratch... I use Asian Gourmet ... the shame and FAIL. She would be one of those that rocks up to your place with a plate of cupcakes.

We had a meet at her place the other day. I rocked up with two babies and I had not seen them in ages. I would say about 2months. So I scoffed chocolate cake into my mouth and handballed my smallest one to the other clucky mothers. In my head I am thinking omg this cake is so good and her oven must be fantastic as the bottom was not overcooked. It was evenly baked and so moist. I am no chocolate cake lover so scoffing this much cake in my mouth means this cake is really good. I put a mental note in my head to get the recipe from her. Guess what, it was packet mix. My jaw dropped and my ideas of how she is a total domestic goddess just went down the drain. I felt cheated. I'm serious! LOL

I am the world's worse house cleaner. I just cannot do it. I hate vacuuming, I hate mopping.. so I hire a cleaner. I am shocked that these ladies have husbands that would not allow a cleaner. Huh? Meanwhile I bake everything from scratch and I have to say I think I have ever bought 2 boxes of cake mixes before. Yes I do pancakes from scratch too. So today, I baked blueberry muffins for Mick's birthday tomorrow. Can I say again that I LOVE my Kitchenaid Beater blade. So now I can pat myself on the back. I do not have the cleanest house or shower screen that you can see through LOL but goddamn it I bake from scratch. There you go!!