Baby Bethany's First Birthday and Dedication

At the very beginning of January Lee and I first of all headed to Penistone for some brunch and some other stuff. We went to Cafe Creme for a breakfast sandwich each, and we most likely popped in to the market too for some cheese and butter. 

Then we went to the dedication and first birthday party of my friend Michelle's second baby, Bethany. We got to Leeds for the service, and met our friends Gillian and Tom and their two kids. Then afterwards we headed off to Gomersal Park Hotel - which is also where we got married way back in 2005 - for the party. Michelle throws an excellent party so each table had a jar of sweeties and some decorations. We say with Gillian and Tom but their girls went off to play in the play area. 

There was a buffet a bit later on and it was delicious. Gillian's mum had recently died so we were talking about that and hopefully comforted her a little bit. Bethany had an absolutely beautiful cake and we left with a piece of that each, at about 6pm. I clearly didn't take a photo of my outfit, but I do remember it was church appropriate! But I was wearing my new Snag tights that my aunt and uncle bought me for Christmas. I already had a pair of tights in this colour and when I saw them with the glittery snowflakes on I couldn't resist them. They're absolutely gorgeous but they were shedding glitter all over the place! 

I will also say that just the day before the party, my mum had been diagnosed with breast cancer. She had it forty years ago when I was a very small baby, and has been well all this time. At her routine mammogram in November, they found an extremely tiny tumour and did further testing before Christmas. She had a mastectomy at the end of January and recovered well from the surgery. As I write this she's about ten days post surgery and is doing pretty well. But of course this was a huge stress for her and for all of us, so January and Christmas were actually just a bit crap for us. I do want to document this here because I think it's important to do so. 

Tights and boots before we set off

Some weak sunshine in Penistone

Egg, mushroom and has brown sandwich. I had a hot chocolate too 

The gorgeous cake

And here's Michelle and the birthday girl herself!