Happy Birthday, Mom!

Today is my mom's 70th birthday. We drove down to Strasburg after Sunday School yesterday to visit and celebrate a day early. My grandma was there, too, and commented that she can't believe she has a 70 year old child! Duane, Betty, and Casey were there for the festivities as well. A good time was had by all.

After a delicious dinner of meatballs, baked potatoes, sweet corn, and applesauce, there was a choice of pie for dessert -- blueberry, rhubarb, or pecan. It was truly a wonderful meal.

After dinner the kids played and the adults sat around the table discussing various topics and events. Dad is restoring an old corn sheller and he later took us and the kids outside to the shop, mainly to show our kids how it worked. He let them toss the ears in the throat of the machine. We used this hand-crank sheller when we were kids. I think the main purpose was to get corn for rabbit food but some times it was just for the novelty.

Late in the afternoon we had birthday cake, of course. Nancy made this cake. The center of the sunflower is Hershey's Kisses. Nancy later wondered if maybe chocolate chips would have looked nicer.

Happy Birthday, Mom!