Celebrate This Week!

                                Join us each weekend for Celebrate this week with Ruth Ayres.  

 When we pause to celebrate, we find the joy.

  A week filled with moments to celebrate and remember!

Celebrating Birthday Week! 

Throw back pics  & notes posted by Sara on Instagram,

A visit from the Lundell ladies:
mom, Imi, and her big sisters, Kilee and Lenna,  

 Lenna (rising 1st grader) read me her card.  

A long phone chat with Jan, my bff in OK, and 

discovering that poet Joyce Sidman is my birthday twin.

Phone calls from my siblings and Kara, my teacher niece,

cards from family and friends,

and many greetings on Facebook

Beautiful peonies from hubby 
with Hood strawberries handpicked by Sara & Will 
in OR for freezing and shortcakes.

A beautiful jar filled with 60 memories from my family

and color-coded by family member.

Thanks, Sara, for masterminding this special gift!

A visit to a new-to-me indie bookstore, Parkplace Books,

with this beautiful sculpture nearby.

A stroll along the Kirkland waterfront

and these macarons shared with Sara and Will.

Yummy sandwiches at Homegrown with Sara, Will, and Karen E.

(with a promise of another bday lunch to come).

I love stretching out the celebrations!

A Skype visit with Blake and Stefi

accompanied by an Island Books gift card

and Anne Peterson's chocolates.

A copy of Christy from Sara and Will

(an all-time favorite book that is out of print),

and a Powell's book bag from Lance. 

Beautiful salads for dinner.

This birthday cake (Mom's chocolate buttermilk cake recipe)

 with yummy sour cream chocolate frosting (Amber's recipe)

baked by Sara and served on Mom's special birthday plate.

It is such a treat to have Sara and Will here 

waiting "patiently" for their moving truck to arrive

with time to indulge me during birthday week.  

Thanks, everyone, for a spectacular sixtieth!