Birthday Pie!

Happy 64th birthday, Goosey (Woody)! We have had a very busy day. Woody once again got up earlier than I did (not hard to do since he often gets up at 4am...not me!). A little after 8 Elijah and Esther came over to stay for a while. The rest of the family were going to the mall. The gymnastics group that Graham, Abigail and Joy are a part of were putting on a demonstration. Nathan juggled for the group. We had a fun time with the two little ones. Woody got them to help him make a carrot salad...they helped while he peeled the carrots. After Nathan picked up the children, we got busy...me making pies and Woody finishing up his marinated carrot salad. Woody's favorite pie is pecan so I made one and also a pumpkin pie (for the little ones who didn't need the nuts and for Grammy...as that is "about" my favorite pie). After lunch Woody walked to the library...while I was still making pies! Later in the afternoon we both watched one of the DVDs that he got at the library. It was one of the American Girl movies...the Samantha Christmas movie. We both really enjoyed it. We took it over to Nathan and Kathy's as we thought that it would be a good movie for their whole family to watch.

A little after we finished watching the movie, we got the call that supper next door was finished and that we could bring over the pies. Kathy wanted to send the children back with us since they got such a shot of sugar so close to bedtime! But they are over at their house and we are back at ours. The pies must have been a hit as we came home with one piece of pumpkin and one piece of pecan. It was a fun party...balloon party hats and a happy birthday sign and some streamers and a red streamer bow on Goosey's chair. Woody managed to blow out his 64 candles...of course there were only two candles to blow out!

The blessing of the day is that two years ago we didn't think that Woody would reach 63 after his diagnosis of 4th stage melanoma and today we saw him turn 64! Praise God for such blessings! And, as Woody always adds to the end of the "Happy Birthday" song..."And many more!"