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.

A brr Sat.

and I'm pretty sure I solved the latest issue with the Asian quilt.  Don't know why I keep running into these road bumps with this quilt but I shall persist and persevere!!!

Yesterday we had such a wonderful morning at St. Peters.  It was grandparents day and George and I and Terry and Lou went to the mass at 8:30.  It was a very moving experience, William and Katie were so happy to see us.  That does warm your heart.  The kindergartner kids, 1st graders and 2nd graders each sang a song for us, telling us how important we are in their lives there wasn't a dry eye in the grandparents section.  Very heart warming.  We went to the gym afterwards for coffee and donuts and to socialize with the other grandparents, then we went to the grand kids classrooms.  William's teacher showed a special project he did, sent and attachment to her computer and she put it up on the "white board".  We were so proud of him.  Then we went to Katie's class room where we were assigned the task of helping her with a spelling quiz.  I made a notation on the words I had her change so the teacher wouldn't blame her if they were wrong?  Katie gave me one of her awesome smiles.  She is such a beautiful girl, inside and out.  Then we had a math problem, thanks to quilting I was able to show her how to connect the dots without taking the pencil off the paper by drawing a quarter sq. triangle block.  The second problem was moving 2 of 4 sticks to reverse an object.  Now who in quilting has never done that.  I think we passed.  LOL  All in all a very memorable, beautiful day.

Wish this forgetful grandma had remembered her camera.  Yack!!!!!

Never too old to learn something new

and I did today.  George had a tooth extracted and the instructions from the Oral Surgeon included putting a wet tea bag wrapped in wet gauze on the surgery area to stop or slow down the bleeding and it worked.  Who knew????  He's feeling pretty good, why not Tylenol with Codeine real happy dance stuff.  Well maybe not it's happy sleepy time stuff but it does kick the heck out of the pain.

George wants to go over to Terry's to work tomorrow, we'll see.  I want to sew, sew and sew some more.  Did get my fan pieces removed and the other color reapplied it looks so much better, glad I took the time to do it. Now to get the top assembled.  We'll see if I get that done after exercise haven't been there since last Wed.

That's it for today, now we'll see what tomorrow brings.

Good news

Dermatologist said the lab report came back and no cancer in the surrounding tissue.  So on to the next challenge life has for  me.  I'm actually enjoying my exercise sessions, I go 3 times a week and I can already feel a difference in my leg strength of course I've got a long way to go. 

The red work project I'm trying to get going on just isn't working out for me.  I'm having trouble getting nice stitches to lay right so I'm going to try and see what Perle cotton looks like on it.  Trial and error until I feel good with the way the panel looks. 

That's all that is going on around here, looks like we are going to have a frost tonight so the lilacs will probably be gone tomorrow.  They were so pretty this year.