Big News and Birthdays

Yup...lookie here-I got the first of 2 vaccines today! YAY! One more in April. So glad to get this done!

On Saturday, this postcard kept taunting me....20%off...go over to Amana....

SO of course I caved and drove over to Heritage Designs.

THis is just the nicest store-It's not the biggest, but they do have a nice selection...and on sale!

I picked up a few of the Iowa prints, I've been thinking about the Iowa Hawkeyes quilt for awhile now. Than I saw a pattern on MSQC Youtube that I think will work out really well.

I already had quite a few black and golds stashed for this project.

And the first few blocks look pretty good! 

Then I came home and made a little birthday cake. It's a Mt Dew Cake.

People make soda cakes all the time, and you could use any flavor beverage. It came out pretty good. It looked pretty on the glass platter.

We also had the German chocolate cake to celebrate Dannie & Jaymie's birthdays.

It's been quite awhile since we have been able to get together. 

Everyone except me & Ben oh and Dannie's latest BF Shannon, had their vaccines, and the kids are always a wild card no matter what. 

Jaymie turned 13! 

We had breakfast for supper, pancakes and waffles with sausage & bacon.

It was really good. 

And with 7 dogs playing together it was like a scene out of Go Dog Go! Happy Birthday indeed!

 
 

Birthday Fun!

So the family gathered to celebrate the fall birthdays. The kids rode horses,

 and played in the hay barn and had a good day.

 We determined the good looking wooly bears were telling us that we would have a mild winter...it's bound to be better than last year, right?

 As always when we go to my older sisters house she had a project. This time it was a big gas grill she wanted assembled for her BF's Christmas present. So Uber Son and SIL went to work on that job!

 This is my Mom & Dad. Don't they look great! Dad cut up a little bit of firewood from a fallen tree-he avoided the grill project successfully!

 Uber Son with the multi person birthday cake.

 Lunch was late...sorry, who knew that Stouffer's Lasagne took a long time to bake, but it was pretty good by the time we finally ate!

Fun was had by all...horses, kids, wooly bears and cake! Who could ask for a better day!

Birthdays

It's Valentines day today but I'm covering the birthdays instead.

We're pretty multi purpose at birthday time at Mom's house. One cake to cover all the birthdays. See Daughter is 24 on March 6, Dad is 77 on Feb 18, and my much older sister is 54 on Feb 5.  Got all that covered!

 

mmmm so much good food. My Mom makes the best cabbage slaw and she also made a delicious Apple salad.

 

I made cheesy potatoes and brought bread from the bakery at New Pioneer Co-op

And look how pretty these strawberries are that Darling Daughter made! I think it's a sin to ruin a strawberry with chocolate, but they are sure pretty.

 

I made a good card for my much older sister.

And gifts, I got my much older sister some delicious Alba skin cream,it's awesome stuff. And for Dad, I got a book about Mousehole Forge Anvils.

You can get the book here Amazon
 and Alba skin care is available on line here
Amazon but I find it locally at the Organic food store.
I'm just being mean about my much older sister, she's really only a year older than me, she's 46!LOL!!