Happy Birthday, Mom!

M's mother celebrated her 84th birthday yesterday. (She was a bit camera shy.) Attending the party were: Mom; her # 1 son, R; his wife, L; their sons A and A; their daughter V and her son H; #2 son L, who drove up from Georgia picking up our daughter, L on the way; and #4 son M, and me and T. Son #3 attended by phone.

Mom and Brownie

"Mmmm, cake!"

Mom and our daughter, L

Mom's #2 son L (on the left) and #1 son R (on the right)
T and H played with Grandma's plastic vegetables--they planted a garden and then made soup.
The party broke up with the removal of an organ that the mice had destroyed.
(L to R clockwise: T--our son, A--R's youngest son,L--R's wife, and M)
All the guys helped.

Someone's in the Kitchen...

Monday night at Pathfinders, we worked on the Cooking Honor. The recipe we made was for microwave cake in a mug. The kids had to measure the ingredients into their mugs and microwave them for two minutes. (For the recipe, click this blog's title for a link to the one we used).

This is one of the mug cakes.

They made a glaze of powdered sugar, lemonade mix, and water to pour over their cakes.

They seemed to have a good time--made a glorious mess (and cleaned it up). They liked the cakes--the glaze not so much.

Birthday Party for Dad

Today we celebrated Dad's 81st birthday. His actual birthday isn't for a few more days, but today was when we had time to get together. We had spaghetti, garlic bread, succotash, Italian vegetables, yellow cake with buttercream icing, and ice cream.

Happy Birthday, T!

T is 16 today! We celebrated yesterday (since M had to work at the office today). My dad came down for lunch (spaghetti, garlic bread, corn from our garden, and broccoli). T wanted a lemon cake with lemon frosting--the consistency of the frosting was weird--kind of translucent--the cake showed through. It tasted good, though. We also had peach frozen yogurt and blueberry pomegranate ice cream. L had left some gifts behind for T--a college dictionary and a couple devotional books based on the Andy Griffith Show. He also got a couple videos, some audio CD's of his favorite radio show, and a couple books. Happy Birthday!!

Today in Brief

Up at 6:00 a.m.--shower, fix breakfast, fix food for potluck. On the phone multiple times with Mr. M to make sure he is ok--said he didn't feel good the first time I called him.

Sabbath School, church, potluck, nap in the car, Investiture, home for cake and ice cream with Daddy.