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How to spend an outdoor afternoon tea with your 2 1/2 year old ~ Turn up the Baroque Festival loudly so all the neighbors can be enriched, break off a chunk of the good chocolate, brew yourself a cup of green tea and bounce around the backyard with your cup of tea playing kickball with your daughter.  Amazingly uplifting !  I recommend it.

Well it's all about autumnn over here!

Our afternoon tea-time treat ~ Acorn Bites. 

A is for 'autumn' and 'acorn' ~ how about that!

When a September day is as lovely as our day today ~ well you must take your 'afternoon tea' outdoors !  While it was lovely and breezy our desert September day was still a tad warm ~ too warm for the park ~ so it was off to the water fountains.  Cheers!

 

 

Happy September!

A birthday tea!  For our Blessed Mother's birthday.  We were thinking of making cupcakes to celebrate but somehow we ended up making these blueberry and ice-cream tarts ~ perfect for a hot late summer day (106 F today).  We sat down to our tarts and sang a round of 'Happy Birthday to You' to Our Lady the Queen of our hearts !

We saw this sign posted at the library today.  Did I mention that we have a lot of coyotes around these parts ?!

Rose Red wanted to push her stroller all the way home from the library.  It was a gorgeous February day in the desert today!

And when we arrived home we had a little impromptu afternoon tea party on the patio.

Just a little prep for future CM !