Birthday and Visiting Teaching Companion...

My visiting teaching companione is a wonderful gal named Vickie.  She is cute, funny and very intelligent.  I like her a lot.  After we did our visiting teaching last week she took me to lunch at our favorite watering hole.  I went to the water closet to wash my hands and when I came back the little plate you see in the photo was in the middle of the table with a green snowball lunch cake and a pink squiggly candle in the center.  I had to make a wish, the birthday fairy must be asleep on the job cuz she ain't answered my wish yet, and blow out the candle.  She gave me a lovely card with a sweet message inside and a small photo album for my purse which I'm going to fill with recipes.  Please note the message on the birthday plate.  That was me!  Thanks Vickie, you're a plum.

More Birthday. . .

 

I received these on my birthday.  Thank you so much Cheyenne, Keston and boys, I'm still enjoying these beauties.

I received this from Jan Ericka and Family.  Thank you so much, it's a nice addition to my collection of 

'chick flicks'

 I received these from my bosom buddy Lanette.  They are so pretty and hang very nicely from my scrawny earlobes. Lanette also got me a candle which smells like a flower garden.  Thanks sister.

 

This is what my hubby gave me... A trip home sometime in the spring. Whooopee, thanks honey!!

Lanette also took me to dinner which is our yearly tradition.

Dave was on the road on my birthday so he took me to dinner when he got home.  

I had a lot of birthday wishes which were well appreciated and loved.  Thank you friends.

A lovely birthday all-in-all.

I have decided that next year I will celebrate my birthday all week, something special every day.  Too much??

Empty Nesters & a Shamrock Cake

 

Last night was  our Empty Nesters Family Home Evening group.  I made my casserole and went over and to my surprise Peggy came in with this birthday cake for moi!  Actually they're cupcakes and as you can see the other half of the shamrock pair is gone.  It was delicious! Peggy said there were no candles because the fire department couldn't put out that much fire.  She's a character! I took this photo when I got home as I had no camera with me.  I was so tickled they thought of me.

Our group consists of 2 senior missionaries (hsb & wife) , 2 Elders (male junior missionaries), and the  rest of us which usually consists of 5.  We are a happy group of about 9.

We have a potluck every Monday evening at 7, fellowship,  and at present we're working on Family History.  Our FH leader was under the weather last night so we had a history quiz supplemented by Hershey miniatures.  We did  pretty well, I'm uncertain if it was because we're really smart or we were really inspired by the chocolate.! 

I received this yesterday by post from my Canadian daughter for my birthday which is the 3rd.

My daughters and I love anything Jane Austen or English.  I have the original Cranford and was tickled to receive this one.  I had mentioned to Cheyenne only recently that the Return to Cranford was on our local PBS station, I had no idea it was even out and voila here it is.  The girls have sent me several movies over the years and I've watched them many times over and enjoyed them anew with each viewing.  Thank you!

Happy Birthday Cheyenne

On the morning of April 11, 1966 I began labor with my first child. I spent the day at my parents home, hubby and I decided he would go to work and I would call when the time came to go to the hospital. After all, it was my first baby, two weeks early, and what did I know?

Around 5 pm labor intensified and after speaking with my OB's nurse we decided to go to the hospital. After a call to the hubby my folks took me to the hospital where upon the Daddy-to-be arrived about 45 mins. later. I continued to labor through the evening and finally at 11:43 pm

our daughter, a 7 lb 5 oz, 19" long bundle of joy arrived. Cheyenne came into the world with wild coal black hair, black eyes, and a rosebud of a mouth.

My mother said, "Look at that hair, it'll never lay down. She didn't get that hair from my side of the family. That's that North of Ireland hair...she got it from your father. That's the kind of hair you see on Presbyterians. If you had married a proper Limerick man she wouldn't have this standing-up-North of Ireland Presbyterian hair." Then she spat on the child's head to try and make her hair lay down.

Ok, I added this tale about my Mom for effect but it sounded pretty good didn't it?

All that wild black hair eventually fell out and it came back white as snow and those black eyes turned brown which eventually turned green with brown flecks.

You were such a happy beautiful baby; I couldn't have asked for a better 'first' baby than you were.

Cheyenne, you are still sweet and beautiful and a joy to have as a daughter. I cannot imagine my life without you.

I'm so grateful to Heavenly Father for allowing me to be your earthly mother, I don't know what I did to deserve that but I do appreciate it and I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHEYENNE, I LOVE YOU . . .

Your Mom