Happy little girls and birthday boys...

I finally took some time and loaded the pictures that were on my camera.  Here is a sampling of what I found:

 

On Jacob's birthday (a week ago Monday), I loaded up the girls in the Mochs' suburban and brought them back to our place for a few hours.  I dug out the toy box that we keep around for such times and the girls had so much fun playing with all of the "new" toys... 

 

The rest of us had fun watching them!  (My dad was gone hauling grain that day though.)

Here is the LITTLE SISTER, Tracy Jo...

Johanna and Mr. Turtle...

Miss polka-dots...

Playing toss....

Tracy is really getting the hang of walking now!

The best place for a slinky? ---- a foot!

Best place for little girls? -----a lap!

Jacob opened some of his presents while we were there...

I gave him this book as he's so fond of old cars...

My mom played the girls some little children songs and then had some help playing some music...

They were having fun!

This stack of presents was for both of my brothers...

Oh, and here is the promised picture of the guitar cake I made for Johanna:

This picture is of Tracy at her house.  She even left her hair-barrette in for about an hour that day!

And last, but not least-----the cutest lion in the world, and myself:

 

It was a productive day at home.  The guys worked in the shop most of the day, except for when they were fixing more fences...   My mom went to Bismarck for most of the daylight hours...   I had the kitchen to myself, so I baked some bread and a pizza; started the water kefir; canned a batch of pickled beets and cooked, peeled and chopped up another large kettle full of beets; did the dishes; cleaned out and reorganized the pantry a bit; put away all of the wrapping paper and bows that were cluttering up my room; and then I dug out the quilt I've been working on for YEARS and got quite a bit of work done on it.  'Twas a good day!