Anna's Birthday Dance!

As the title says we went dancing this week! Anna turned 16 and for her birthday she wanted to have a dance! Her mom got a great old grange to hold it in and with white and green lights and decorations it was just perfect and charming! Here are some pictures from that evening!

Gracie and Anna together!

The birthday girl!!!

Keslie took this one of me. I made the jacket to go with the skirt!!!! So I had to get pictures!

Ben with his "cool" look! He is so cute!

Just itching to dance!!!!

Get the music going!

Hurry before they all skip down the street after the Pied Piper!

Here they go!

Anna's Grandma was able to be there for just a short time. It was delightful to meet her!

David, Keslie and baby!

Awww! So sweet!

She likes green if you didn't notice already!



The formal dancing begins after dinner!

I even got Lydia out there for "Whip the Willow"! She did great and the guys enjoyed making her fly!!!!

"...left hand star..."


Resting on the stage!

Cake time!


More dancing!

It had been a long day! Time to rest!




Most of the group although some had already left by this time. All around it was a lovely and delightful evening! Thank you Lindgren family for all the hard work you put into this lovely evening! What great memories!

Enjoying our new home!

Like the title says, we are greatly enjoying our new home! Here are some pictures of the goings-on!

Lydia fell asleep on dads lap
after an exhausting day of decorating!

Anna was here on Sunday with her mom and Lydia wanted Anna to read a book! Everyone was captivated!

I have been very much enjoying the kitchen! I made four loaves of spelt bread.

And also scones!

Dad finished all the tile he could do till after the range hood is installed. I was able to get all the grouting done as well! Whew! There is still so much to do in this house! Here is the kitchen window sill.

Detail!

Also, much to the joy of our whole family, Grandpa got the door knobs installed! Whew! It was such a pain to get them open and not scratch the wood with our finger nails! The knobs make the kitchen look finished!

Mom got the drawer pulls at a garage sale and then painted them black! The knobs were garage sale bargains as well, $1 total, and were painted to match the pulls!


On the island!

The other day was so lovely and the sunshine was calling to us! Keslie was here so we all took a walk down to the creek and had a lovely time throwing rocks and building towers!



"See what I found?"

Keslie and Gracie made this tower!

Ben andLydia made this one!
A cute cottage in the woods!

On our way back!

Spring is coming!!!!! Look at those lovely tulips that a friend gave us!

Then Gracie made some coconut cookies and Lydia was more than eager to help! Look at that smile!

Now she's a little more serious and getting to work!

Thanks for taking time to stop by! Hope you have a lovely day!