Celebrating Birthdays!

This has been such a good Sunday!

We love being a part of Fellowship Church Grapevine and being in church on Sunday makes me happy. We haven't found a church to attend in the country yet but I haven't given up.

We came home and watched the first half of the Dallas Cowboy vs Washington Redskins game.

The competition and camaraderie between our two teams go way back.

I remember one game Summer and I attended at the new stadium where both teams were lined up.

The Cowboys made a good run and I yelled, "Come on, BABY!!! RUN!!"

The Washington Redskin fan that was in front of us turned around and said, "Man! I like that! Calling him 'Baby!'" It was a fun game and we can all be cheering our teams without being hateful about it.

Louis Dean recorded the game and we left at 2:00 to drive to Murphy, Texas for a birthday party.

The Dallas/Fort Worth area is HUGE and you can easily drive an hour or so and still consider that 'local.'

It was our family friend's birthday.

As we were gathering around to watch him blow out the candles - 

someone noticed his name was 'Gerard.'

Oops!! His name is Gerald!!

We all had a big laugh about that and the cake was delicious!

He was such a good sport!

Our gift was a jar of Wildflower Honey and some Fruitcake Cookies.

This is Dee - the birthday boy's sweet wife and my friend.

Dee is Patrick's mother and Patrick is Nita's daughter, Leah's. husband.

Yesterday they celebrated their 6th wedding anniversary.

This is me and Logan at the wedding.

So that makes Dee a family friend!

Nita and Mike make such a beautiful couple.

Mother/Daughter Beauties!

We all mingled, munched and had a great time together.

I had gone to the bathroom when I heard an ukulele. 

Some of the younger grandchildren were gathered around Gerald's computer and they were playing music.

It didn't take a second strum of the strings to get Louis Dean's attention!

It was a great party!!!

When we were all about to leave, I walked Nita, Mike out and they gave me my early birthday presents since I will be at the ranch on the 24th. That's the Bee Meeting!

And what should I open but a string of Bee Lights!!!

How cool is THAT???

Only Nita could find something so perfect!

And that's not all!!!

I got a Cat Shirt - a BLACK Cat Shirt!

And another super cool shirt that I shall wear until after Halloween.

Actually, Nita gives me a new fall shirt every year - sometimes TWO!

I now have enough that I can wear a different shirt every day of the week!

And that STILL wasn't all!!!

She gave me a cookbook using HONEY instead of sugar!!

It was such a fun day!

We came home and finished watching the game.

The Cowboys are looking really good!

I still have art set out and I am about to go in and paint for an hour or so before we close out this Sunday.

I'll close tonight's journal entry with this cool shirt that I saw on Facebook.

I may need to get Louis Dean one of those!!!