March 30, 2010

• Ahhh! Sweet Success!

  Last night, Annamarie’s birthday, was absolutely the best! 

  Such a great gathering and such a happy time.

  It makes me unbelievably happy when I create something, or do something, my child loves!  And love it, she did!

       

  She had a delightful time with her dad.  They went to take care of some banking business, first thing.  Then went to lunch at “Incredible Pizza”  which is a pizza/salad/dessert buffet with all kinds of rides and arcade games.  The manager found out it was Annamarie’s birthday, and gave her a card with $10.00 on it to be used towards the games.  So nice!

                                

  From there, they went to the mall.  She loved the “Disney Store” and bought herself, her two sisters, and JanaLyn (their niece, our granddaughter) a stuff animal in a soft basket.  There was a cute Disney character gift sack they placed each gift in and Jesse added some candy at home.  Annamarie added a note to her sisters and JanaLyn, “Thank you for my gift.  Love, Annamarie.”  A nice surprise for those who were “giving” gifts!

  Stephanie came early with JanaLyn and we had a bit of time to talk, while JanaLyn played on the trampoline.  Jesse had taken our girls to the park.  JanaLyn hated arriving and the girls being gone, but . . . such is life.

                               

  While Annamarie was gone, I got things around here ready and she was so pleased when she saw her cake and the brightly colored packages.  To see JanaLyn, on top of all that, was the ice cream on her cake!

  The “party food” was out of this world.  We haven’t had these appetizer foods since about 2 Decembers ago!  I did nothing for the last two Super Bowl Sundays in January, and Jesse was thrilled when he tasted it all.  Stephanie was also pleased, because she hasn’t had anything like it in a long time.

        

  Stephanie told Annamarie she thought she had made a wonderful choice for her birthday meal and she would have chosen ALL the same things!  Annamarie glowed!  She was so happy that everyone else was happy!  I admit, the food was delicious to my taste buds, too!!!

       

  We prayed before the meal and I did something rather unorthodox – I took pictures of the children praying.  It was just so cute, I couldn’t help myself!!!  Darling little people with eyes tightly closed!

   

  Then they ate and with great gusto!  

                                        

  Annamarie received a poster of kittens that will go over her bed in her newly painted room.  She loved it!  And our real cat loved being in the middle of things, again!

                                        

     

  Her dad had found a video that had been recently released and she screamed when she saw it!    Everyone had to laugh at her completely shocked reaction!  She *was* excited!

       

  We gave her quite a few church (spring/summer) dresses and added a doll, and some doll clothes, to her collection.   

                           

  Always an aftermath!

         

         

  After opening gifts, we cut into the cake.  When I showed pictures of it yesterday, I realized it had no candles.  When I went to place ten yellow candles with one more red candle “to grow on,” I realized I was creating a fire hazard.  When lit, the candles were dangerously close to the roses!

     

  We lit the cake, sang, and told her to quickly to blow out the candles!  She gently blew them out with a couple puffs!

                              

  The red inside of the cake looked great with the red roses on top, and it tasted good, too.  JanaLyn kept asking, “What’s a *red velvet* cake, anyhow?!?

                                 

  There is enough food leftover for us to have leftovers for today’s lunch AND dinner today.  We’ll spend tonight and tomorrow night clearing out the refrigerator foods.

  I have to go to the hospital in the morning to drink some barium.  They want to “watch me swallow” with a camera and I don’t expect it to take long.  I’ll have to fast after midnight tonight, which is no problem.  I’m not a huge breakfast eater.

         
                  My granddaughter JanaLyn with my daughters Rissy and Stephanie (JanaLyn’s mother).

  I may not be back until later in the week. 

  The painter continues to make great progress in our front room, but I bet he’ll need to work on  this computer wall in the next day, or so, and I will be disconnected from the computer.  I’ll be back when I am able!

        
                          Look at that cream cheese frosting just dripping down the cake.  Oh yum!

  Be Blessed  ~

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