Monday Maddness

Ahhh. Today has been a good day. Except for the part about being EXTREMELY tired;)



My grandma's party was super, and I have a feeling that her friends will be talking about it for years to come!! ;) The food turned out great, and our screened in porch turned into a tea garden. I hung up some japanese lanterns, streamers and some other decorations. We had lace table clothes, (vinyl-is taht not insane??? You can wash them with a rag and every thing comes up!! NO STAINS!! No hours spent trying to get off the punch stain on yoru great great grandma's table cloth! {although the real table cloth are pretty!})fresh flowers galore and many other pretty decorations.



Today was spent eating WAAAY to much left over food. Around lunch time my mom and I went to her friends house to eat lunch and make homemade bread. We had taco soup, fruit, chips, and cranberry ginger ale. (Now THAT is good!!) {By the way another family came over as well} We all went down stairs after that, and ground (WITH A HAND CRANK GRINDER!!!) 8 cups of spelt berries. We made the bread and it smelled heavenly!! We stuck around until it was finished, and helped her clean out her attic. We got most of it finished and guess what!?!?!?!? SHE GAVE ME AN OLD TYPEWRITER!!! You do not know how long I had been wanting one of those. They are so pretty and fun to type on. When I got home I typed up a letter to my friend:) It really does make you appreciate computers though because it takes so long to type up and if you make a mistake, there is no going back and hitting the 'backspace' button. Nope. She actually said that she had used it to type her college papers. IMAGINE THAT! Sure beats an Apple computer any day. (JUST KIDDING!!!!) (ill take an Apple please!!!)



We stayed until 4 and then I went to my cake decorating lesson, where we finished up our pansys from our last class. They turned out really good I think, so I would like to make a cake or cupcakes to put them on. Maybe tomorrow!!



Well I am very tired, so see ya later!!

-Caroline

Parties and planning

Today has been a really fun day.

My mom and I dropped off my sisters and then headed over to my grandmas house to take her to breakfast for her 80th birthday. We went to Panera and got bagels, that were really good, after that we went by Walmart and got my memaw some flowers.

We decided we needed a gallon of strawberries so we went to this cute little strawberry farm. My mom said I could pick some. (My first time picking them this year!!;) I would love to go back soon. There were lots of strawberries and they taste great!

We planted my grandmas Vinca's and then left for home. At 1:00 I had my cake decorating class. We made daffodils, and pansy icing flowers. I love cake decorating although it does take a latte of muscle and makes your arms feel sore after squeezing that little tube of icing. Its like painting on a cake. I find that really neat!

When I got home, I read a book and just hung out!! Tonight is our churches picnic, it looks like nice weather, but I hope it doesn't rain. I thought it might earlier today, but it didn't. (Thank heavens)

On Sunday my mom and her sisters are putting together an 80th birthday party for my grandma. Since my grandma used to garden so much when she was younger, we thought we would do a garden theme. If we can find a croquet set, we will have that set up in the yard. My grandma gave us some gorgeous Peonies (my favorite!) and rhododendrons. Hopefully they will keep until Sunday! I can't wait until SUNDAY!!! My cake decorating teacher is going to be making the cake. The food is all planned out- cucumber sandwiches, tea, crab tip, fruit, veggies, cake and many other things, only I can not remember them at this moment. So it should be a good party, and I hope she is blessed by it.

I will try and take a lot of pictures of the party!

-xoxox

Caroline

Valentines Day Up-date

Yesterday was a BLAST!! There was so much delicious food like,

chocolates, chocolate dipped strawberries, spinach bacon quiche, orange juice, coffee, tea, cherry jello, grapes, muffins, pirouettes... UM MM YUM! DELISH

The hostess- Mrs. Schmidt has the most adorable,'drop dead cute' little baby in the world! her name is Annie Catherine. She is 2 years old and her favorite words are 'no'. And sometimes "yes." Not the best word to teach a two year old. Right?;) But she is really sweet and has cute platinum blond curls and blue eyes.

We wore evening gowns there, and it was so much fun to get dressed up, into something that you would never go out of the House with now, but was regular attire for some one in a another time. Isn't that weird to think about??

Last night we had the Hime's girls over to our house for a sleepover. It was really fun, although all of us were to tired to stay up late. We had nursery this morning at church so we had to get up much earlier than usual.

CAKE DECORATING!! YES! FINALLY!! I have been looking forward to getting started again since Christmas. I made a little Valentines heart shaped cake. (Well more like I decorated it!) with hearts all over it. It was really fun and I will start going on Mondays. Sorry, no picture this time! It disappeared to quickly for that!

A little while ago I watched a really cute movie. "Penelope." It was about a girl who was cursed with a pig nose. It was really entertaining. Basically a chick-flick. Speaking of movies Lauren and I watched 'Breakfast at Tiffany's.' To be short- I would not recommend it. It was entertaining... Sort of.... But I do not know why it is so well known unlike other cute ones Audrey did.

Valentines day, I went to goodwill, It was awesome! I found a cool teal coloured bottle( to hold flowers in) and two head scarves. They are SO much fun! I have one in blue and green and another in burnt orange. WHOO HOO!!!

How was your Valentines day? Did you do anything really special that was memorable? if so let me know!

Funky Picture

We got this picture from my great grandma, and I really think it looks like something off of 'Pride and Prejudice' (the old amazing 6 hour version!) or 'Jane Eyre.' (I love that one as well.)
sorry about the glare!
It was definitely my favorite picture in her house.


On to Abby's birthday. Yep, its today!! we are having our grandparents over, and her friend Miriam. (http://miriamelise.blogspot.com/)
Miriam is doing the sweetest thing- taking Abby out for lunch, to Panera!! isn't that nice? It will most likely be the high light of her day since she still had to go to school. For dinner we are having

• Vinegar chicken


• Green beans


• scalloped potato's

• foolish pie (Its an old family TOP SECRET recipe, served with fresh strawberries and whipped cream. Did I make you hungry?)

Does your family have any TOP SECRET recipes? (You don't have to share the recipe, just comment on what it is like!;)
I went and got her present yesterday, but I can't tell you because Abby will most likely read this!

At 1:30 I am going to my cake decorating class!! HURRAY! I haven't been since before Christmas so that ought to be fun!