One week in May

This past week has been a full, fun one. Last Saturday Mike & Josiah came home from the Father's and Son's campout.



Goldie took some time out to write a few letters.



We made a dinosaur Birthday cake for Aunt Rosa's fifty -something birthday.



Here is how it turned out!



Stuart made googly- eyes at the cake.



We found, examined, played with and were delighted by an orange lizard.



We made this cake today to auction off at the Girl's Camp fund raiser.

Now I've got to finish their flag and feed the kids lunch before the auction tonight!

Chopsticks and Flowers

I'm experimenting with Flickr. Trying to decide the benefits of a photo site as opposed to just posting through Blogger. If anybody has any ideas or thoughts, please let me know. I don't really know much about it. This is my first attempt.

The kids have really been enjoying the chopsticks lately. These are pictures of their first attempts. It has been a lot of fun.

Finally, there is also a picture of my Mother's Day Flowers. They were perfect. Bright and lovely. Hope you all are having a lovely day.

Goldie is FOUR!

April 30, 2009

Goldie Emma Richardson turned four years old.

She invited friends and family to her birthday party for months before the day finally arrived.

Together we decided to have the party at Mom-Maw's house. We woke up in the morning and after a lesurley breakfast we went for a hike with Mom-Maw. These are the flowers that we picked along the road to her old house up the holler.





Here is one of the spider cakes we made. This one has chocolate under the white icing. Her cousin Megan and her brother Josiah had lots of fun helping to decorate her cakes.













She got a camera for her birthday and had lots of fun taking pictures of everything all day long.

This is her spider cake with the eight to ten legs that were on it at any one time. Josiah or one of the other kids would steal a leg and then Goldie and Megan would add extra ones back. When it was time to eat it they gave forks to all the little kids and just let them have at this cake. They had lots of fun.






We went on two hikes during the day. The second one was in the evening after we ate sloppy joes or cooked hot dogs over the open fire. Our friend JoBeth and her three little ones and our niece Amanda went on the second hike with us.

Mike and Goldie showed us this plant. The green thing on Goldie's cheek is called a May Apple. They are not edible but they are fun to throw.

Here is our beautiful little Goldie Girl. We love her very much. We are so glad that she if four years old. She had a great birthday!