Miri Age Group 2014

The kids and I travelled to Miri last weekend to compete in the Miri Age Group swimming competition.    Despite the wet weather it was a lovely weekend and kids had fun competing and socialising. Iman competed in the 9-10 girls age group and both Jack and Ayden competed in the 8 and under.

McCarthy brothers competing in the same heats again!

Fuelling up with "Mountain Dew" which is not allowed any other day!

The boys 8 and under 200m free relay team winning gold!

Iman came home with 3 medals

Gold in 50m breaststroke

Silver in 100m breaststroke

(no points for guessing what her favourite stroke is)

And a bronze for a relay event

Jack came home with a Gold for the boys 8 and under 200m freestyle relay. The team were himself, Ayden, Aaron and Alex. They had a rocky start but took over the other two teams to win the gold. 

And Ayden came home with 

Bronze for 50m breaststroke

Bronze for 100m freestyle

Bronze for 50m freestyle

And Gold for the relay event

Iman's 11 Birthday Party

Iman had a lovely birthday party with her closest 19 friends (!!!) in the weekend. Strugging as to what to do with 19 10/11 year olds we thought of pillowcase painting. Thankfully we were able to source everything for it last minute (which was very un-Brunei!) and what a success it was as it kept 19 girls occupied for at least an hour and a half.

 Iman's chosen cake was KOJs latest creation - chocolate banana cake

Ayden was allowed to hangout with the girls

Quite a few of the girls stayed in the pool till the evening

And some girls did what they do best - hanging out in the kitchen and having a good chinwag - how some things will never change!

And here were the finished painted pillowcases of various designs and colours. Though the recurring theme in many of them was a big moustache. The only explanation I can give for this is I showed them examples of what they could do from pages I had saved, and one on of the first ones there was a big moustache!

Of the 19 girls, 9 slept over and this was the aftermath the following morning!

Iman loved the party and despite numbers it was one of the more relaxed parties we have hosted. One of her friends gave her a hamster and this has been keeping her busy!

Happy 11th Birthday to our Iman

The house was buzzing much earlier than usual this morning - the excitement of presents! Iman is now an eleven year old and her presents are certainly getting more grown up!

She was very excited to get to school with a box of cupcakes and I was hoping a picture with her friends but this was the best I could get!