This site is about my life as a farmgirl, wife, mother and grandmother. We have a beautiful granddaughter and the cutest grandson. We own two farms in Craig County Virginia, leasing one and raising beef cattle on the other.
Quiet weekend
This time last Saturday we were all preparing for a 40th birthday for my baby boy! First there was the outside preparation of mowing, setting up games, cleaning up the paddle boat, most of which my hubby and my daughter did while I was at work.
Balloons in placeSeating for everyone.Yard is mowed and gazebo ready for party.BIG 4 0!!!
Saturday arrives and we’re doing last minute things at the farm. Heather goes to Roanoke to pick up the birthday cake and pick up the hotdog and hamburger buns I forgot the day before. The cake is designed to show the past and the present. Shawn had so many superheroes when he was growing up and it was appropriate that the new Superman movie opened this year the week of his birthday. He just graduated with a Masters in Civil Engineering from Old Dominion University in Norfolk Virginia. He’s had his associate’s degree for quite some time and finally decided it was time to work on the other. We are all so very proud of him!!
Spiderman throwing his web over Old Dominion University. Spidey was Shawn superhero when growing up and he just graduated from ODU with a Masters in Civil Engineering.
The CAKE!
Birthday banner.
Plenty of cold drinks on hand.
Now, all of the guests have arrived and here’s some pictures of the birthday party, guests, games and more!
Plenty of cold drinks on hand.
Volley ball was a big hit as was badminton.Victoiria and Jason enjoyed themselves.Keith & KIm, Matt, Tim and Jason, all friends of Shawns and work mates.Shawn and Christine join Shannon and Lisa for the meal.
Shannon and Lisa meet Christine for the first time, I think!Shawn & Christine wait for the guests and point to the parking.Dad and Mom enjoy the festivities too! Our little boy is all grown up!Dean, my baby brother that lives with us, even joined the festivities. He doesn’t like crowds.Vicotoria was my photographer.Hubby was the chef!!
And a few more pictures of the evening.
This is a family friend that joined us. Jimmy watched Shawn grow up right along with us!
Waiting for his guests to arrive!!
Keith, Christine, Kevin & TimOff to see AnnabelleJason, Shannon and Shawn
Now it’s time for the wonderful slide show that Christine prepared. She used 155 photos I sent her along with some of her own and made a history of Shawn’s life from birth to the present. I got so emotional watching him grow up all over again. Shawn and I both cried at the end and ended up in hugging each other so tight and crying like babies. Christine did a wonderful job and Tim set up the movie screen for us. I’ll never forget the show for the rest of my life and am tearing up now just talking about it. It’s just so hard to believe he’s 40 years old. On with the cake!!
The CAKE!Waiting for the cakeThe cake is lit!
Does he have enough to blow out 40 candles???Keith, Kim, Matt, Tim & Ellen eating birthday cake!
And now the end of the party grows near and Shawn HAS TO HAVE fireworks!!
Fireworks last about 30 minutes.The sky was lit up!!
The fireworks at the end of the night were awesome!!
And we couldn’t possibly end the evening without Victoria lighting up the group with sparklers!!
Victoria with some heavy duty sparklers.
At 10:30 everyone started helping clean up the aftermath, hugging and promising to come back to the farm real soon and going home!! I think it’s a party/birthday that Shawn will never forget!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY BOY!!! Mama loves you!!
I am a wife, mother, and grandmother that lives on a farm in Craig County, Virginia and I am retired. I love to cook, read, quilt, craft, garden, hunt and take long walks in the woods. I have one gorgeous teen granddaughter, a wonderful little grandson and two beautiful and caring children, boy & girl.
I've been married to my farmer husband for 46 years and he's the "love of my life"!!
I love doing things the "old" way such as canning, making maple syrup & cider, handcrafts and baking. I've taught myself to crochet, embroider, and quilt with help from my paternal grandmother. I could read until the cows come home.
We live off the products we raise and hunt for the most part. We run 75 head of cattle on our farm, 30 chickens, three rabbits and one dog. I help my husband with the cattle, feeding the livestock, hauling in firewood, fence repair, and general maintenance on the farm.
I was a stay-at-home mom to my children and then went to work when they finished high school. I was a cook at a School for At-Risk Teens and part-time substitute teacher. Then I started work at our local Farm Bureau and stayed there for 17 years. I worked at Virginia Tech for almost five years and decided to take early retirement in July of 2015. NOW, I'm a full-time farmwife and loving every minute of it!
I love to read fiction and the Bible. I'm currently hooked on quilting novels and Annie's Attic mysteries.
I started this blog in 2011 and have met so many interesting bloggers and have kept up with my friends through my blog.
I love to hunt with my bow and rifle and with a camera. We hunt to fill the freezer and cellar but would never kill anything for the fun of it.
I have friends and family all over the United States. Some of my ancestry last names are Bradley, Dickson, Hylton, and Rose.
I've lost both of my parents to brain cancer and miss them very much. I have one sister and four living brothers. I was raised in Paint Bank VA and moved to New Castle VA when I married. I went to school in Waiteville, WV, Gap Mills, WV and New Castle Va with a short semester of college at Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke VA.
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2 thoughts on “Quiet weekend”
How much fun was his party!!!!! What a great cake, where did you get it?
This is the blog for our little farm in Skagit county. Here we have Shetland sheep and Nigerian Dwarf goats. In addition we have donkeys, cattle, pigs, chickens, geese, and peafowl. The blog describes the weekly activities here.
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How much fun was his party!!!!! What a great cake, where did you get it?
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Heather had it made by a girl in Salem that she uses for all her cakes. I thought it was great.
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