Saturday, April 18, 2009

Birthday Pics

Just some pictures from my traditional birthday tea party with the Chid. ladies and this year Mrs. L (another lady who volunteers at the retirement home) came too.

First I will make you all drool with envy over all the yuuuummy goodies we had. :-)

Chocolate + Strawberries = Bliss!

Chocolate dipped strawberries and cranberry pistachio shortbread...

Lemon curd tartlettes and orange cream tartlettes...

Ham and marmalade pinwheels...

Cucumber and egg salad sandwiches...

YUM.

Tara also turned hairdresser for the morning and did Mrs. L's hair. When it was done we all agree that she should be in Pride and Prejudice or something!



Sokea!

It was white dress day, and here we apparently have a hair-fixing train. :-)

And here are a couple of pics from the morning of my actual birthday:




Friday, April 17, 2009

Happy Birthday, Kathryn Grace!

Happy 17th birthday to the best sister (and many other things) in the world! 


Pictured with best friend, Emily


Have a great day! We love you!

More pictures to come

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Happy Birthday, Dad!

Happy birthday to the best daddy in the whole world!



We love you!

Saturday, April 04, 2009

The Newest Addition...

...to our family of instruments. :-)

A while ago the Geaschels sent out an email to the church saying they had heard about a pump organ someone was giving away (for free!). Our Opa LOVES (loves, loves) organ music and listens to it and plays it whenever he can. So Mom emailed him about it and of course he wanted it. Oma, however, was skeptical because they have no place for it in their house unless they get rid of the piano. Plan B? Keep it at our house and he can come play it whenever he wants. :-)

The nice couple who was giving it away


It was pretty dusty, but that's the inside




Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Write them upon thy door posts...

"Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:

That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth." 
Deuteronomy 11:18-21


Well, it's not exactly our door "posts" but I suppose it's close enough. Mom is a demonstrator with Stampin' Up, and though she doesn't do parties anymore, she still uses the product. This year they came out with "decor elements" - rub ons for your walls. VERY neat.

And what's even neater, is that they had a SCRIPTURE one! Therefore, we put it on our wall - above the door.

First you rub the design on to the transfer paper, and then...

Stick it on your wall, and rub, rub, rub...

Then CAREFULLY peel the paper away, rubbing again as needed...

And voila!

Pretty snazzy, eh?

And the best part is that if you don't like it, you can take it off. You can't reuse it, but at least you don't have to worry about totally messing up your walls. SU has a lot of other designs... flowers, trees, quotes... Mom was pretty excited so I wouldn't be surprised if we have some very fashionable walls soon...
 

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