Malachy's 4th Birthday!

Malachy celebrated his 4th birthday while we were away on holiday!

Here are some of the pics we took on his special day:

The daily "mosto"... waiting for family and friends to arrive at the restuarant.


Anxious to get the celebrations underway...!

Here comes the family!!! Abuela with Maia and Uncle Luis.

Maia knows that one of the advantages of being a baby is that you get away with sticking your tongue out at people whenever you feel like it ;)

Nora in her party dress... (and post-nap face).

Nora and Saioa.... Javi and Ignacio

... things are livening up!

Malachy is a lucky boy! Look at all the people who got together to celebrate his birthday!!... and they're not all pictured here!

La Abuela, los tíos Gonzalo y Begoña, la prima Marta, los tíos Maite y Juanra, la prima Leire, el tío Nacho, los tíos Luis y Saioa, las primas Nora y Maia, nuestros amigos Marije, Javi, Lola e Ignacio... y Mamá, Papá y los hermanos!!!

WOW!!!

:D

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When cake-cutting time came, we all made room for this scrummy dessert. A chocolate truffle cake from Zuricalday would make anybody's mouth water!

Cumpleaños feliz, cumpleaños feliz... te deseamos todos.... cumpleaños felizzzzzz!!!

Lorcan digging in!!!

Then... it was gift-giving time!!! Malachy was thrilled with all his lovely pressies :)

Lorcan chilled out with Uncle Juanra for a while....

and then we all headed outside for some fresh air (and coffee).

Malachy receiving birthday wishes from Granny and Grandad via cellphone ;)

The restaurant we chose is in the hills of Umbe... so we took a stroll through the fields as the day began to cool off...

We hope (we're pretty sure we know...) you had a great birthday this year, Malachy!

Hey, and look at the cool t-shirt that Auntie Saoia hand-painted for you!