A New 4 Year Old

Happy 4th Birthday Allie!

 Looking forward to a wonderful year of fun!

Happy Birthday, Almost

With lots of love and family we celebrated Sadie's 5th birthday (2 days early).  After a meal at Cracker Barrel, her choice, we reconvened at my house for cake and presents.  

Sadie and Allie have had colds recently and no one wanted her blowing on the cake.  So she got 5 candles on a cupcake. 

She may have gotten more presents than Christmas.  A big hit was the special jewelry from Gigi. 

She did not get bongo drums.  Those are Joe's from Christmas.  

I think Allie knows that she will get to play with everything too.  Plus, her other grandmother brought her a big bag of gifts.  

Mike tried out the "wall walker" trying to get a spider web off of the ceiling for me.  

Linda and Ann helped Sadie was her "rescue" pet, a stuffy wrapped in a net that dissolved in water to reveal what kind of animal.  Then there was a lot of towel drying, blow drying and combing.  

But the most time was taken up pickle hunting.  I hid it really well this year.  

Virginia had set up a family survey and presented the results in a very professional and humorous format. 

Joe won, "who would last the longest without their phone".  Now that he has a new iPhone 16e, we will see if that holds true.  

More blow drying of the stuffy.  

And Matt was the pickle champ.  His persistence paid off and he was rewarded with a cereal box Spiderman watch. 

 

A Few Things

Sunday was a special day, Joe's Birthday!

Lots of family came to eat out then stopped here for cake.  I splurged and made a totally from scratch cake and butter cream icing instead up a box cake and canned frosting.  I still like using the "Covid Candle".  At the time, we decided it was keeping germs off the cake.  Now I just like the big candle and no worries about wax dripping on the icing.  

Sadie even made a card for Joe.  It was a picture of Woody from Toy Story.  

Monday morning we woke up to our first snow.  It was just a skiff.  The real problem was going for 70 degrees to 20.  

But that didn't stop us from taking a trip to the meat processer.  We have decided to go a little further to be able to get the meat vacuum packed instead of paper wrapped.  It is also USDA inspected so we could sell individual cuts if we wanted to.  

Joe had been feeding a heifer that didn't breed.  She was plenty fat.  

On the way back, I found a Christmas blow up hoarder.  There has to be over 30 in that line up.  And it's not even Thanksgiving yet.  
 

Happy Birthday Allie

We celebrated Allie’s birthday for two days!  One day just wasn’t enough for turning 3. 

Her actual party was a princess theme. 

There were princess dresses and tiaras. 

Someone was a little messy with her cupcake. 

And too many presents to list. 

Then today was her actual birthday. Enjoy the many faces of Allie. 

 Happy Birthday Allie!

Eggs And Goats

We had a wonderful day yesterday celebrating Mama's 90th birthday!

After lunch, cake and presents, we had an Easter egg hunt for Sadie and Allie.  

Sadie took it very seriously.  She ran like she was competing against 40 other kids and not just her baby sister. 

There was some cooperation.  

And plenty of eggs to go around.  They had a wonderful time being the center of attention to 12 adults.  

Then today, I got to see Allie and Sadie again at the farm.  Sadie was anxious to see more baby goats.  I had a set of twins in the barn that were 2 days old.  One was just a little slow to get going hence being in the barn.  

Then we walked around the field to look for more goats to pet.  Maggie wanted to make sure everything was ok.  

Allie wasn't too interested in petting the goats but she does make a good goat noise. 

Happy Easter

The King Has Risen

 

A New 4 Year Old

We had Sadie’s birthday party a couple of days early because a lot of the family was still here after  Christmas. But different illnesses cut back some on the guest list anyway.

Sadie 

and Allie had a great time decorating the cookies Emily had made with leftover cake icing.

When Sadie came in she said that the decorations were perfect for a birthday party. 

She really liked the extra attention.

Emily did a wonderful job on the cake and icing.

Sadie got several very fun toys, a Spirograph Jr. from uncle M, which is a vast improvement over the Spirograph we had as children, a camera from aunt A that takes pictures and prints them out on thermal paper for immediate viewing, a Coco Mellon version of Chutes and Ladders from aunt C that I am looking forward to playing with her, and a Barbie Dream House from me and Pop Pop.  I am trying not to spoil her but I just cannot  help it.  

Then today, I was going to keep Allie while Virginia and Mike had a special real birthday with Sadie.  A couple of hours later, they brought Sadie over because she was afraid Allie was having a more special day here than she was.  I had not planned anything to do so on short notice we took a trip 2 miles down the road to Dollar General.  Virginia orders groceries on line and has them delivered to the house, so Sadie had not been to the store very often.  She pushed the kid play cart and we went up and down all of the 

aisles looking at everything.  She wanted to get Christmas presents for next year.  But she could not even wait a day.  She got Allie a Christmas headband and ornaments. She wanted a plastic party crown but I told her we could make a better one at home.  Then I let her get a mermaid Barbie that she can play with in the pool of her Dream House.

At first she was pretty skeptical about me making a crown better than the store crown.  But she soon changed her mind, wanted to help, then play dress up with it.  I am sure with a little planning I could make a better one.  As soon as Pop Pop came in and said he needed to feed the calves and dogs, Sadie wanted to go with him.Then we ended up the day with a viewing of  the 2018 version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas.  I hope we made her day special.