Today and Tomarow

Tomorrow is Nathanels 11th birthday! We are going to the market... We have to get up early, It is going to be fun fun fun in TC! There is the GT Cherry Festival going on and there will be a parade! Last year Just Hannah, Enoch, and Nathanael and Daddy watched it. Now this time I am going too! It will be fun! Me an Hannah made cakes today for tomorrow. We have some Ideas on how we are going to decorate them. maybe if I'll post a few pics of them when they are done...

birthday pictures

Daddy gave me this beautiful bouquet

Cards from both of my grandparents

Grandpa and Grandma called and sang happy birthday

I read one of Hannah's books.

I made dinner for the family. David's homemade Brats from Enoch's pasture grown hogs. Crusty natural leaven rolls baked in the clay oven. Potato salad.

While I was making dinner, My dear friends Grace & Olivia came. Me and Hannah went with them to Nate's to get Icecream.

(from left to right Olivia,Hannah,Grace,Me)

We took our icecream down to the river. We had a fun time on the bridge. It is a miniature of the Mackinac bridge.

Hannah took alot of pictures. I will always remember this time I had with my dear sisters

The sound of the river flowing was so refreshing to my ears. There was light mist on the water. Two geese flew overhead.

We stayed until it was dark.

then we came home.

I was just going to open up my gifts when the neighbor girls came over with a gift...

Puppy chow! Yummy! The last time I had this chocolate covered yummer was five years ago.

It was so sweet of them to bring it over. It made my birthday extra special.

This cute night light and recipe book is from Grace & Olivia

Mama put my favorite place to get basket making materials, into a beautiful pastel art piece.

David gave me seeds. I was so surprised! I had know idea that he ordered them. Just for me! It makes me feel so special!

Nathanael gave me these gardening tools. They will come in very handy!

Enoch gave me a book about how to identify poisonous plants and how to stay away from them and what they will do to you if you don't!

I forgot to get a picture. the book is green and old fashioned like.

And last of all but not at all the least. The gift given to me by Hannah.

I like this one so much!

Well that is all, plus what my older sister gave me a few days ago.

It was a very special day because I was with all the special people that God has brought into my life and brought me into theirs. On other birthdays family and friends have asked me if I feel older.

This time I do.

I am blessed

I had a very nice birthday. Thanks to all of you who made my day special! I will be doing a picture post of what I did today. But for now I'll leave you with the last picture that was taken of me when I was still 20! Last night the power went out so I wrote in my daily journal by candle light. So old fashioned!

So good night my friends and dear ones. And please pray for me as I start this new year in my life. I do not know what the future holds for me. But I know who holds my hand. And the chief end of us all is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever!

My day yesterday and Happy birthday to you!

We went to our friend's baby shower It was a enjoyable time! Here is the finished bonnet and booties. She really liked them! After the shower me and Hannah went home with our older sister. Her and her husband went to a birthday party. So me and Hannah took care of our nephews. It was alot of fun. Me and Hannah put the boys to bed then did some reading and watched a couple dvds while we waited for S&R to come back. It was a nice quiet time. We got home here at 1:19 I was super tired!

My friend Cora is turning 23 today!

May you have a blessed birthday and a blessed year! Dear Cora!

Well friends, I need to get going I am baking bread today. I decided to have one baking day out of the week and I thought that the first day of the week would work out really well. I am baking on the clay oven. Our electric oven went out a week ago. I am so glad! I really am! I am baking three batches of bread and I am going to make some pies and maybe other stuff, we'll see. It is very warm out side and sunshiny around. March is my favorite month. For these reasons: My birthday(on the 12th!),sap season, winter and spring mixed together (Hannah says JUST MUD! ),lots of sun!, blue sky, Yes I like March! Do you?

Today's doings/pics

It was so sunshiny all around! We are tapping! David is working for the neighbor taping their trees and boiling down their sap this year as well as our own. We will boil our sap in their evaporator. That is going to be very nice. My older sister and her boys came so Buddy can learn about taping the maple trees. It was so much fun to watch him put the spiles in after his Uncle David drilled the hole. And then Buddy would "pown-pownd" the spile. Izzy who was watching wanted to do it so buddy gave him a turn. I would have posted some pictures of them doing it but my older sister took the pictures with her camera. After that Mama, Hannah, my older sister and her boys all went out to town. My sister only has five seats in her car so me and hannah had to choose which one of us was going to go with mama and our sister. I went the last time so hannah went this time. R said that that was fair because then they could find birthday gifts for me! My birthday is on the twelfth. So that worked out well. Me and my two younger brothers cleaned the house. It is allways nice to clean when every one is away! David went down to the neighbor's to help them put their taps in. And Daddy had to go to one of the nearby towns. So me and my brothers had the whole house to ourselves. We were scrambling around and getting every thing in it's place. Our House gets really cluttered in the winter. Does yours? Now it looks like a white tornado went though and picked everything up and put it far away. I hope everything never comes back!

After all our work was done. We made some maple candy.Like the little House in the big woods kind. Where you heat it up to the right temp and put it on snow and then eat it. Enoch wanted to make it in celebration of the sap running. I hung some laundry up. David came home. R, mama,Hannah and the little boys came back from town. R. (my older sister) gave me a early birthday gift. A dark brown spring shawl, a comb and hair lotion, She knows what I like! Oh and some 5 gum.

I am sure that hannah got a gift. She said "Grace don't look in my shelf upstairs!" I have a really hard time waiting for my birthday to come! On my twelfth birthday I knew all my gifts. It is fun to keep it a secret when I know what I am getting! Me, Hannah, Enoch and Nathanael went skiing this evening. We went to this hill that is steep and icy. First Enoch went down, then Nathanael,then I went and crashed in the middle. While there, Hannah came down after me, She was coming so fast that I could not move. We collided. And the resulting injuries are my ski pole is broken and Hannah's thumb is sprained. I am going to fix my pole will duct-tape. Do you thing Hannah could fix hers with duct-tape? We came home after skiing and daddy was home. David was making potato fries for dinner. We had them with home made asian pork and duck sausage, poached eggs, and bread.

While dinner was being made I finnish a skien of yarn that I started yesterday evening, I am thinking of making a pair of mittens for my friend.