Adalyn is here

New grand baby Adalyn is here.  We have 3 grandsons but she is the First grand daughter.   A doll baby.

mommy

daddy

Lil Adalyn -  about 2 hours old here.  

grand pop and daddy.   Love the side profile here. 

Opa

Oma

mom,  Adalyn's grandma, and aunts
We are all so blessed

Moms b'day

Mom turned 90 on November 23.    Here are a couple photos.

Elijah , moms great great grandson.
Oh yeah ,  now we have his attention.   He sniffed out the truffles, looks serious too.

Wyatt - gr gr grandson, making sure no one takes moms stuff.  He was glued and wanted to see everything.

Miranda does not have much longer til lil Addy makes her debut,  I AM SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS   First grand daughter - she will be somewhat spoiled I think

Donna in a serious mode,  she wants to eat cake

My nephew  Ales and girlfriend Carrie,   They both will be graduating in June.  Very good students and most of all ,   very good children.

Now I am off to do more decorating so I can post to my Christmas blog

Cake

My b'day was the 20th of Oct.   My  friend Jennifer sent me a cake.  I am watching my diet and need to cut out sweets , because I want to make room to eat more when  the extra weight is gone.  I always set goals like this so I will follow a diet.

Not a calorie to worry about here, smells so good, cinnamon and spice .  Love it.

sides dripping with brown sugar glaze

There is only 4 candles burning,  the age I wish I was again

I will have this again next year.    Did you know it was a large candle?

paper flowers

I saw some paper flowers in a gift shop about 6 months ago .   I decided the other day to try to make some for myself.   I copied some small print and then cut in the shape of petals.  Green wire I cut in lengths , any length you want and placed in between the petals with white glue.  Let'em dry.  Six is what I used for each flower.   Stamens I found at Michael's.

cut and placed wire in between papers.

I brushed some glue on the petals and sprinkled glitter on them to give a little shimmer. Spray adhesive would have probably been less messy.

I decided to outline the edges with this glitter glue

I started winding them together and then dotted the center with glue to hold stamens

after all dry,  the floral tape is wrapped around all of the wire after I twist it together.

I will make some more to go with these, maybe even give them leaves.

I am linking to A bowl full of lemons

Baby Shower

I held a baby shower at my home last Sunday for Miranda - my daughter in law.   She is due on Dec. 11 and the baby is a girl.  There are 3 grandsons and now a little grand daughter on the way.

Miranda brought me some beautiful flowers and the lillies scented the room.   Gorgeous flowers.

Some pictures of the shower

musical baby blocks

great grandma gave her this,  so cute

I made this cake,   I like these better than the store bought ones.  Cream cheese filling between the layers.
Cream cheese frosting on top with heavy whipping cream.   The whipping cream ,  cream cheese and confectioners sugar made it take so good.   It was a 3 layer white cake.

She got so many nice things,  part of the bassinet in pix she received.  

you can see part of a balloon pacifier I made in window

Hard to believe mom will be 90 next month , 11/23

A game we played measuring Miranda's waist and see who comes the closest

Jenn ad Steven in Hawaii and couldn't be here,  they sent this beautiful frame and sweet clothes
for baby

first Christmas ornament from great grandma

Annette sent a  bottles and baby clothes.   She couldn't be here as she lives in Arizona.   I wish we had them all in the same place,  miss'em

Amy my niece also sent baby a gift and she lives in Nashville.   Very thoughtful of them all and cant wait to see them soon.

Missed Jessica , lynn and  Rachel .   They sent lovely gifts and much appreciated .
Til next time