Happy 18th B-day!

Happy birthday to Kenny!!! She's 18 today, way down there in Georgia! LOL Sooo have a fun day, girl, and a good time at Youth Group tonight! Love ya lots!

Love you! Hugs!

Ruth

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to dear, sweet Bascha! She's 18! WOW! lol Old enough to vote, or get married! :O Love you, Basch!

To a very special person! *hugs and kisses*

Love you! xoxoxoxo

Ruth

Picnic in the Rain PART 3

I couldn't resist putting the third part up today! lol Soooo... here it is! and you don't have to wait :D

Here are the potatoes, right before I put them to boiling :) I purposely left some skin on :D Mom said it would be more 'rustic' that way! LOL and I like the skins anyhow :)

Freshly mashed potatoes :) Yummy! They were nice and warm at this point :( not so at the picnic unfortunately.

And now for the pride of my heart! LOL the Lemon Meringue pie! LOTS of pics of this one!

Freshly molded pie crusts :) Soft and oily!

Here's a closeup of the pie crust before it's cooked :)

Here are the baked pie crusts, and the pie filling, not yet boiled :)

Here's the filling almost finished :) for a while I was scared that my little bro had ruined it! lol but it came out beautiful!

An early pic of beating the egg whites :)

Looking fluffy a bit?

OOOO! Look! a little mound in the middle? YES!

OOOH! the peaks are standing now!!!

Here is the pie with the filling poured in, and the meringue spread on top :)

Here is the meringue formed into peaks! :D

This is me making the peaks! :D

About to go in!

Fresh out of the oven! Look at that beautiful gold colouring! :D

Here they both are! :D the one on the right is a little 'too golden' but it tasted good! :D

There you have it! I did it in three parts just like Theresa did! :D

Love,

Ruth

Picnic in the Rain PART 2

Sooo I promised more pics of the picnic :D here some more are!

Here's Andrew being a little sweetheart! ♥

Don't you wish we had gotten pics in this room?! 

Those stairs would have been BEAUTIFUL to get pics on! 

Here's us trying to get arranged on the stairs that had to do, since the top two pics are miniatures! lol

Another picture of Bascha's beautiful dress and hat and gloves! :D

Here's us along the loading dock before t joined us :D

It totally looks like I'm fixing Ann Marie's skirt, doesn't it?! BUT I WASN'T! lol it's so funny!

Here's Caroline's ivy shot. Isn't she pretty? :)

Here's dear Theresa! :)

And here is sweet Bascha! :)

Now for the food pics :P Purely put up to make your mouth water! LOL

Lemon meringue pie! Hand beaten meringue, and hand mixed crust! :D 

Mashed potatoes decorated with Rosemary. Potatoes were made from scratch :) Hand mashed ;)

Kinda fuzzy, I know, but you can still see it :) and no, Bascha is not doing anything with a phone or ipod!

No more pictures are allowed to be posted! lol sooo this will have to satisfy you for the time! :D I WILL post pictures of me baking the pies and boiling potatoes, don't worry! lol

Enjoy for now!

Love,
Ruth

Picnic in the Rain PART 1

We finally had the picnic! It was soo much fun and we sang for about two hours! So here are some pictures and a little bit of commentary :)

Me, Ann Marie, and Caroline! We're sitting on a covered well :) 

Me, Ann Marie, Caroline, Bascha, and Theresa! I loved the ivy! And look at the background! LOL

There was no sun out! :( All cloudy and dark and raining part of the time! :( But the kind curators (or whatever they were! LOL) let us eat in the building in the lecture room! Oh by the way! lol this was the High Point Museum! :D We had lots of fun! Here are some more pictures! lol I'm gonna have mostly pics I think!

Ann Marie looking beautiful! 

Me outside one of the historic buildings! :D

Me holding Theresa's little brother Andrew! :)

Caroline! How sweet she is here!

Close up of my sleeve and little Andrew grabbing onto me! :) He's so sweet!

I love this picture! :) Snoops! lol

LOL someone's seen them! :D

Aww look how sweet he is going up the steps! I like this shot! :)

Me and Theresa! ♥

Bascha looking lovely! I like how she did her hair! Her dress was BEAUTIFUL!

Look at Bascha's beautiful dress! :) I LOVE it! I gotta make one like that soon!

Here's the ivy shot of me! :) We each got one. :)

Unfortunately.... It doesn't let me upload any more pics! :( soooo another blog post coming soon! lol

So yeah... I will be making another blog post probably either tomorrow... or Sunday, or sometime this week! lol :) Enjoy for now!

Love,

Ruth