FA Day Perth

We had our Fanconi Day Family BBQ at a beautiful spot in Kings Park, Perth. It was a worry on the lead up as we had weather reports of rain and storms... but it all cleared and the sun shone down on us!

Here are just a few of the almost 200 photos I took..

First there is my mum, Bev with my 8 month old nephew, Campbell. Then there is me with Campbell. He is such a cute baby and so happy!

We had a BBQ - just sausages and onion with rolls (to make hot dogs) and salads. Here are Bek and John cooking the BBQ... Bek is Helen's daughter and John is Helen's neighbour. (Helen - as you may have seen in some of the previous posts, is our new friend and her son is Ray and he has FA like Jasper).

Here is my dad, Alan, with John at the BBQ. You can't reserve the BBQ's at Kings Park, so Jasper and I got there early and put up some signs, you can see one on the BBQ lid that is standing up. It worked! People were coming up to use them, and moving on from this one!!!

Here is Ray eating his hotdog. He had a mohawk done for the day, and was totally rocking!!

Here are Karen and Adam. They are 2/3 of the other FA family that came to the BBQ. There are 4 families in Perth, and 3 of us made it to the BBQ..

There was a lot of relaxing going on.. here are my mum, 2 nieces (Devin and Georgia) and my sister Alana.

My sister, Alana with Karen.

The relaxing did not last too long.. we had GAMES after lunch! There was a 3-legged race, wheel-barrow race, egg and spoon race, and a sack race. The sack race was for the kids only, but the other ones had a combination of kids and "adults".. there were people stopping to watch us, and a lot of cheering happening!

It was a lot of fun for everyone!

This one was a practice run!

Here are Ray and Helen racing against Jasper and Bek!

This one is the wheel barrow race. The kids were meant to be the wheel barrow, and the adults to move them.. as you can see, there is one adult racing about as a barrow.. this is Adam's dad, John. Karen was pushing him around, and it was such a laugh. They were going everywhere!!

Egg and spoon race here.. I don't think we got one dropped! The kids did really well!

Here is the sack race!

Here is Ray after the games. Do you think he looks like he is having fun?!

Hanging out in the tree.. Here is one of Jaspers best friends in the blue, Liam, Jasper's cousin, Devin and Jasper in the red. Carly (Liam's mum) took this shot - not bad!

Here is Carly.. she hates getting her photo taken, so this is a rare shot!

Here is some of the play equiptment the kids had to play on..

Here is Helen with her friend Vicki.. I told them to look like they love each other!!









This is Matthew - Vicki's son. He is 18 and Helen knows them through the hospital. Matthew has leukemia.

Vicki and Matthew looking like they love each other!

We picked the best day to have the BBQ.. there was music, entertainment and a face painter. All of it was free as part of the Breast Cancer Awareness Month which is October every year in Australia.

Here is some of the entertainment that was just on the other side of the park from us.

Here is Jasper after a trip to the face painter!











Ray after the face painter!

Adam also went to the face painter!

Helen and her friend John - the cat and the Lion!!!

Helen with Adam and Ray.

This is Jasper with his Fanconi Camp t-shirt and fundraising hat.. he looked very cute!

Karen and Helen saying goodbye at the end of the day.

There was a magician mesmerising the kids!

All in all it was a wonderful day and a lot of fun was had by all!!

We cant wait til next year!!!

Thanks for reading.

Brooke