Number 40. Have an amazing time celebrating my 40th!

Number 40. Have an amazing time celebrating my 40th.

So I've definitely celebrated in style with a few different occasions! I'd like to thank everyone who joined me to make my 40th so very special, and for all the lovely gifts, cards, and messages, I was very spoilt and feel very blessed! x

Thursday 17th October 2013....an early celebration for me but not for Louise who turned 30 early October & Jeanette who turned 50 at the end of October. I work with both of these lovely ladies at Dee, Atkinson & Harrison, we are only a small team so was rather strange that the 3 of us were celebrating big birthdays so closely together! We therefore decided to have a 'work do' to celebrate and had a lovely evening after work at the Dine Bangla Restaurant in Beverley. 

Saturday 10th November 2013. 

I also have always wished to see 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert' I never managed to get to London to see it but earlier this year I found out that in November, for one week only, it was showing at Hull New Theatre. I therefore decided to organise a girly night at the theatre to see it as it was perfectly timed with it being November!

Fantastic night, amazing show, what a laugh we had! There were 37 of us in total and it was just a lovely lovely way to celebrate!

Friday 22nd November 24th November 2013. Birthday weekend!!

I decided not to have a party...I think this did shock a lot of friends as most people know that I like to throw parties!
Instead the weekend of my birthday we booked a barn conversion in the Lake District and together with 7 other families we celebrated which is just what I wanted & on the Saturday evening we had a Wig&Stache Bash which is what I wanted to do,and thank you my lovely friends for the hilarious wigs and moustaches (some even naturally grown!!) however there were also a few unexpected surprises thrown in!
Starting with a beautiful memory/photo book created by my bezzie Helen, a gorgeous 'skinny dipper' birthday cake created by 'Ali's Little Cake House' on behalf of my husband and Helen, decorations of banners and balloons, and entertainment which involved my friends making me sick!!
They had devised a very funny game of 'I'm a Celebrity/Bush Tucker Trials' which they blindfolded me and I had to eat things....I was gagging on the first one, but wasn't sick at this stage!
After finishing this task, Helen then said that there was another challenge for me to do, the 'Cinnamon Challenge' which I had never heard of and stupidly agreed to put a tea spoon of cinnamon in my mouth....I just can't explain what it does to you!

The powder sucks and clings to any moisture in your mouth so you can't breathe, or swallow, you don't know what to do!! When you laugh or splutter you blow out puffs of red powder! Now obviously this was highly amusing to watch as everyone was really laughing, I had felt a bit queasy after the 'I'm a Celebrity' shenanigans but after a few minutes of the cinnamon challenge, I stood up and vomited all over the floor in front of my guests, then dashed outside and threw up a few more times but I was still laughing!!

I was obviously very embarrassed to have been sick in front of my friends, and all the children, plus it was all over my tights and I'd managed to get it inside one of my shoes...gross!! But I have to say it was very funny, you really do just have to laugh!

I then had a multitude of delightful presents (including a Tiffany ring from my husband!) and cards, I was very spoilt and was made to feel very special, a big thank you to everyone! xx