That is great Praise the Lord for another year. I am glad it was good. -- In any kind of circumstance PRAY Karen Carter 74' -------------- Original message -------------- > My Dear Loving Family and Friends, > > I want to thank each and every one of you for making my birthday so very > special. I started writing this even before I read my birthday messages. lol. > > This has been the best Birthday ever! Thanks to each and every one of you! > > On Saturday, 9/11, my birthday, I made a huge potato salad, and Vernon and > I cleaned house for the party. My menonite friends called me that morning, > and they asked if they could come over that afternoon. I was so happy! They > do this every year, and they always bring a lovely cake, ice cream, and > food gifts from their freezers which consists of stuff they have baked from > scratch. I always look forward to this every year! I always get lots of > those precious lovings and squeezings, too! > > The day was spent cleaning, visiting, squeezing, and talking on the phone > to all of those of you who called! Thanks to all of you who left sweet > messages on my cell phone, and loving birthday wishes in my email inbox! Oh > I'm just elated with love and thanks to our Lord for all of you! > > Saturday I received so many wonderful phone calls from many of you! Vernon, > bless his loving heart, he helpped me clean house, and took me out to eat > Saturday night! We didn't need much, as we were not really hungry from the > cake and goodies. > > Saturday night was spent talking on the phone to many of you Loving ones! > Thanks to all of you on my Prayer and Praise group for all the love and > prayers and birthday greetings. > > I prepared my turkey for roasting the next morning, and my frozen buns for > baking on Sunday morning, and went to bed. > > > I had the funniest thing happen. lol. > > I got up at around seven and went down to bake my buns for the birthday > party that afternoon. I opened the oven door, and to my surprise, I found > bread dough all over my oven. lol. > > I had two pans of buns in the oven raising, and well, they really rose! > lol. It was so funny! I couldn't get upset about it! I just laughed, and > squeezed the bread dough as I cleaned up the oven. lol. I didn't let it go > to waste either. lol. It all got put back in the pan with the rest of the > mess. lol. > > I preheated the oven, and I told Vernon, You are getting my Duds for > breakfast, because I can't serve this mess at the birthday party. lol. > > I had one tray of buns in my Microwave/Convection oven, and they turned out > beautiful! > > After I baked the duds, I took out the last package of frozen buns, and > prepared them for baking in muffin pans, and also another batch in the > convection/Microwave oven. > > They rose in a few hours in the warm ovens, and I baked them. They turned > out beautiful, so I had 30 beautiful squeezable buns for my birthday party! > lol. > > Vernon and I cleaned, and I put my loving turkey in the roaster, and made > my pasta salad > > Sunday afternoon people started showing up here at around 3 PM. Marilynn > Gehm showed up a few minutes early with the punch makings, and the really > cool whale made out of the watter mellon rine. This was for the fruit bowl > which was served with the punch. Everyone offered to bring something. It > was cool! Marilynn had different people bring fruit for this fruit bowl, > and others brought vegies and crackers and salads. We visited and then we > had the vegies and the crackers and the dip that Marilynn made, which was > delicious. > > When it came time to eat supper, They had me be the first one to get in > line to dish up my plate. There were lots of delicious salads. > > I was so glad to have everyone there. Jackie Siver sat by me at the table. > Then it was time for cake and ice cream and coffee. > > They set the cake in front of me that Linda Perry had baked and taken over > to Marilynn's house on Friday evening. Then they sang happy birthday to me. > I almost cried, because it was so sweet! They lit the candles and told me > to blow them out. I blew! and Blew! They kept telling me I was missing the > candles. lol. There were 2 rows of candles. One was a row of 5 candles each > one representing 10 years, and then a row of 3 candles. I told them I > didn't want to hyperventelate! They said "that's okay! We got a nurse > here!" lol! I said And if I start a fire, we got an X fireman here, too! > lol. Everyone was laughing! > > Then they took the cake to cut it. It was delicious. and I think Marilynn > decorated it, but not sure. > > Then I opened all the wonderful cards and gifts. > > We visited and the guys were having fun out in the movie theater watching > movies, while the ladies were cleaning up the kitchen and doing the dishes > after filling the dish washer. > > After a while, people started leaving, and I got lots of lovings and > squeezings! > > It was such a beautiful party with lots of loving friends and relatives. > > So, thanks again to all of you for all the birthday emails, phone calls, > cards and gifts. > > May God richly bless all of you. > > With much love, > Pat Ferguson