Celebrating 50 is lots of fun!!!!

And esp. so when you can do it with this bunch of ladies!!!

The second one from the left is turning 50 tomorrow and so her sister(which is the first on the left standing up) decided to take her out for coffee this morn and then the rest of us came in dressed up in red and purple and brought extra hats for them also!!      Of course hitting a milestone like that anything seems suspicious, so "surprised" wasn't really the word this morn!!

Miss Martha--the lovely one turning 50!!!who always has a ready smile for anyone!!!

Yours Truly

Miss Emily---the one who so graciously got all the feathers, hats and boas together!!

Miss Glenda--- a sister in law to the one turning 50!!!

Miss Merlene---Our uppergrade school teacher, my sister in law and a sister to the one turning 50!!

Miss Margaret---just a side note to go with this one---she absolutly abhors feathers of any kind, alive or dead---huuuum are their dead feathers??? Anyhow this boa was the one that best matched the rest of her outfit and being the good sport that she is, she wore them!!!!! Isn't she lovely????

Our trip to Ks.

The children had all kinds of fun on our trip to Ks. and having a place like this to play in, who wouldn't????

It was time for the chinking to be replaced and all pitched in until the dirty job was done!!!

The room decor was lovely!!!

Jessica was so impressed withe the blue jays and cardinals around there!!

These 2 became fast friends over the weekend

 

DRESS-UP DAY AT SCHOOL

Davy Crockett

Queen Elizabeth

short-stuff who thot he needed to have SOMETHING different on when we take the others to school

From old west cowboys to queens!!

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A Crusader

 

The popcorn lady- 

The clown

Rose Wilder

Johnny Appleseed

 

~~~Different activities since the new year~~~

SEWING DAY

Yest. was our monthly sewing day. Since our church has greatly dimished in size in the last year, we sorta needed to come up with some different projects and way of doing things at the sewing, the vote carried to have one person in charge all year ,but there would be a different lady each month to either plan the meal, have devotions or plan the project for that month. My turn was up to plan the project for the month of Feb. after doing some researching and making phone calls, I got enthused about making pillows for the OU Childrens Medical center, they like having things like this on hand to hand out to the children as a special keepsake!!  They could be any shape, color, size, flavor we wanted to make!! We cut  a few out the day before and then some sewed, while others stuffed and others stitched them shut!!

Anyone want to take a guess how many were made?????

The "young ladies" and their projects!!

The day we sang at the MDS meeting, would like to get a better picture yet with all of us on!!

 

SCRAPBOOK RETREAT!!!!

This is how it looks when ladies get together for some scrapbooking fun!!!

And no that is not my table!!!

There were only about 6 of these there!! And no, none were mine!!

My sidekick for the wkend!!

And then there was BAD HAIR day at school

Check out these scary guys!!!

 

We also have bad hair days at home, otherwise known as static!!!

SNOW

In the first part of Feb. while some folks were off galavanting on cruises we had an awesome snowstorm blow thru!!! And since we were doing these folks chores, the children discovered a really cool snowdrift in there garden and since no one was home to play in it, the children thought it terrible to see it go to waste!!!

Notice the sand mixed in looks like choc. swirl ice cream

Random happenings of the week!!

 Earlier this week we had SNOW which was really nice!! I would prob change my mind if I lived where there was LOTS of snowfall, but as of now I wouldn't mind having a LOT for weeks!!!!

Thurs. morn we had -11 which was a record for Oklahoma!

Which was also the same morn. we had a freak happening here at home, I had been in the living room and thot I heard a strange sound coming from the stove , so I checked it everything seemed to be okay, when I turned around and happened to glance out the east windows there was white smoke billowing down over the house. At first I thot the house was on fire, to make a long story short the chimney HAD caught on fire, which we didn't know at the time!!!!  My brother (who is also the fire chief in our little town)stopped in to check it out yest morn.-took the pipe apart in the attic, which was at least half full of crude!! And still had glowing embers in it!!!!! It must have gotten hot enough to burn out the sensor on it as now it won't light on it's own!!! We have a new one to put on and in the meantime are glad the temp. are so much warmer again!!!Talk about being thankful for Gods protecting hand!!!

This week was also the BIG MDS (mennonite disaster service)meeting in Weatherford, I was down there all of Fri. and Sat. noon helping with the meals!!

  We also as a family sang in the meeting this morn which was first for us,  Jessica's opinion on it?? --Never again mom, my knees were shaking so bad I thot I was gonna faint!!   Cody's opinion??? ---That wasn't really so bad, actually it was sorta fun!!!  Devon's opinion??--- He got a terrible stomach ache while we were sitting there waiting to go up, which kept getting worse!! I was sure this is the moment this awful flu which has been going around and which we have soooo miraculously escaped has caught up with him, he thot he could make it thru the singing, he did fine, but going thru the lunch line- the thot of food did not appeal to him, but he did eat some cheese and crackers and soon felt a lot better and ended up eating most of his soup!! And the rest of the day has felt fine!! I really do believe he had a BAD case of nerves hit him, which is sorta funny as he usually doesn't have a shy bone in his body!!!!

  This morn while getting ready he comes out with his shirt buttoned UP ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP!!! I told him he can undo the top one, He goes,-- No way am I opening this button and having them see my chest while I'm singing!!! And he didn't either!!!!

  Earlier this week I had complimented him on a picture he was drawing as I have been impressed with how well he can draw for a 5 yr old and he goes, aww don't worry mom you'll be a famous artist too once you're my age!!!!

  So life keeps on getting more entertaining and we TRY to go with the flow, which is a whole other story on it's own!!!

   Good-night~~~~