CELEBRATING SPECIAL PEOPLE POST

It has been a packed week with many, many

activities. First was our younger daughter's

graduation from the 8th grade. It was a

nice ceremony with a few songs by the

younger kids and an inspirational talk

given by the pastor.

Isn't technology great? Here are the scuzzies

(my daughter and 2 nieces) performing a

song during the graduation ceremony. My

brother is holding his iPhone and my mom

and niece are in WA state watching the

whole thing live--so cool!

Then on Thursday a friend that my husband went to

school with visited us from Poland. He works for

one of the cruise lines and this was one of the stops.

He was very sophisticated compared to us! He has

traveled the entire world on the cruise line, even

Antarctica! He showed us a map on his laptop

that has push pins of all the places he has visited

and the map was nearly full except for most

of Africa. He brought us a bottle of red wine

and I made Beef Bourginon with it.

I wonder what he thought after leaving here...

just look at the shirt my husband is wearing LOL

And then that same day it was our older daughter's

20th birthday! I was so slammed with orders that

I wasn't able to make a masterpiece for her, but

I did manage to make a red velvet with cream

cheese frosting that we all enjoyed very much.

Mostly because we got to have actual pieces of

cake, not just leftovers and scraps.

We surprised her with a ticket for her best

friend to come and visit her here while we

are gone in June. They will have so much

fun, play tourist and probably laugh way

too much.

In case you ever wondered what 100 gingerbread

men cookies looks like...