Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Happy Birthday, Angie!

For Angie's 24th birthday, we had a slam-dunk family party for her. It began as a surprise party, but Mom managed to accidentally give her the email in which I had lined out the entire party plan. That was the end of the surprise, but the party went on anyway. We had her parents and brother there, as well as our entire family. We began with a men's brunch at Levi's house (for which Mom and I made casserole and cinnamon rolls) and a women's brunch at Carolyn's. We women had a jolly time in our own little party room, giving her gifts and eating biscuits and gravy and eggs and other yummies.

We all worked (well, I was more of a Brer Rabbit, to be honest) at Levi's in the afternoon. The men and Angie and Mamie and Rosina cleaned up brush and old barbed wire outside. Ange and Maria (with Lyle's help moving freezers and such) cleaned and decorated the store. Rosina and I were planning to make a little herb garden and front step outside the store, but both jobs turned out to be too difficult; Lyle and Sheldon did them instead.

<<< (I took this photo after they were done working. :) Note all the freshly-cut wood and the smoke from the bonfires.)

We had a late lunch-- a crockpot potluck. It turned out very nice with just the right ratio of vegetables to meat. And then I presented the happiest secret of all-- the secret I had been promising Angie for quite some time... a ducky birthday cake! The funny part about the duckies is that Angie was at the feed store recently, so she bought two baby ducks and two baby banties for Levi to give her for her birthday. And then I made a ducky cake-- perfect! She was delighted, and the children could hardly keep their hands away from it.

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