Katie's 13th birthday cupcakes

The girls called this morning and wanted to know if they could come over and bake cupcakes and decorate them for Katie to take to running tonight to share with some of her running friends. I told them they could come over and we went shopping for cake mix, small marshmallows and colored sugar.  The photos below are the end results of the design Emily came up with and they spent the whole day starting with naked cupcakes, butter frosted cupcakes, making the marshmallow petals and applying to the frosted cupcakes.  William, 10 yrs. old, helped grandma figure out why  I wasn't able to download photos anymore.  Had em downloaded in less than 10 min. and I've been working for days to try and figure it out.  Oh to be 10 again.  fun day even though grandma started out a wee bit crabby.  Sorry kids, that's what too high or too low blood sugar will do to a person.  (((big hugs))).

special birthday cupcakes

Cool Friday morning

I am having a very frustrating morning, took two photos this morning and can't get them to download from the camera to the computer.  Arghhh!!!  I just may have dropped the camera one time too many.  I'll keep trying in a little bit.  I took a picture of the Robin's nest that has been built on the heat vent outside the garage heater, think we'll have babies in a week or 2.  I also took a picture of the Easter Lily that's blooming just outside our bedroom window and the aroma that drifts in through the window is lovely.   Don't you just love the simple joys in life.

The pipe is buried and now we're putting the sod over the trench and he didn't have a heart attack.  That's a good thing.  Tomorrow he's going to work on the barn overhang, etc.  He's swapping out the wooden trim for "a no maintenance" wood like material.  The trench is about 18' and deep enough for that  black pipe on the lower right corner.