Freedom Fest 2006

Tonight Ken and I, along with our daughter, Tresha, and grandkids, Emily & Jacob, went to an Independence Day Celebration in Weleetka called "Freedom Fest". Boyd was invited to honor the veterans, both living and deceased. We had a wonderful time together and Boyd did a terrific job. Lester came along with him to assist him in folding the flag. It was great to spend the evening with two of my wonderful brothers. Here are some pictures so you can see what a great time we had.

Uncle Sam was there to welcome everyone! He was very very tall!! (Actually he was wearing stilts.) He picked Jacob up and I captured this cute picture of them. He almost lost his balance when he picked up Jacob. I'm sure glad he didn't, because he had a long way down to fall!!

This girl clown was so cute. She is a ventriloquist and her little monkey fell in love with Boyd. I never thought I would see Boyd kiss a monkey, but I did tonight!! I didn't get that picture though, but here Boyd is with a monkey on his shoulder. (The monkey was actually a stuffed animal.)

The ventriloquist did a great job of making the little girl monkey talk. In the second picture, this is Boyd up on the stage as a part of her act. It was too cute!

I have more pictures to post, but it will be tomorrow sometime. Blogger has decided it didn't want me to upload anymore pictures. Apparently, they are having some technical problems! Well, I really need to go to bed anyway as I have a big day at church tomorrow.

More later . . .

Little Red-Hat Ladies!

Here are a couple of the cutest red hat ladies I've ever seen! Emily is wearing the red hat and Trista is in the purple,

Emily is my granddaughter and Trista is my great great niece.

They are just adorable!

What fun!

Emily & Trista had so very much fun dressing up in Grandma and Aunt Mary's red-hat attire! What a day!!

(See related story of our day together in the previous blog.)

A Day With The Girls!!

Today, my granddaughter, Emily, and Double Great Niece, Trista, came to spend the day. We started out the day with Swedish pancakes.

I used to make these all the time for my kids, Karen & Steve, when they were young. Especially when they had a groups of kids over for a sleepover. The girls had lots of fun making these. This was their first time to eat Swedish pancakes and they loved them! I didn't have any powered sugar, so they decorated their pancakes with some icing mix I had on hand.

The Swedish pancake is more like the French crepe. Rather than syrup, the pancakes are usually garnished blue-berries, strawberries, or cherries and sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Ingredients and Preparation:
3 eggs
2 1/2 cups milk
1 1/4 cup flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons melted butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla, optional
In a blender, combine all the ingredients above until smooth.
Heat a non-stick skillet over medium heat until very hot.
Lightly butter the skillet and pour 1/2 cup of the batter into it.
Swirl the pan with batter to expand to a thin layer.
Cook until bubbles form and the pancake is golden brown on the bottom, about 1-1/2 minutes. Flip turn and continue to cook for about one more minute.
Remove from the fry pan. It should not be necessary to add more butter to the pan for more pancakes.
When finished, top with the traditional dollop of berries or some other fruit of your choice and sprinkle with powdered sugar. YUM! YUM!

Next, the girls found a feather boa in my house and started dressing themselves up, so I thought I would just help them a bit and get out my red-hat goodies--feather boas, large brooches, gaudy jewelry, hats, umbrellas, etc. So, suddenly the day became a day they will never forget! I painted their fingernails, toenails, put makeup on them, got the curling iron and hairspray out and we did a complete makeover on these two nine-years olds girl. Did they ever have fun!! I tried to upload the pictures of them all dressed up like red-hat ladies, but blogger won't let me upload anymore pictures. I'll put them on my next blog as soon as the uploader works again. The girls had a terrific day and so did I, but am I ever tired! What a day!!