A little Nichelle birthday celebration

We celebrated Nichelle's birthday this evening. It was a day late, but the birthday girl worked on Saturday afternoon/evening. We have officially indoctrinated her into family birthday traditions. Her birthday dinner was very "Nyborg." I made homemade noodles and chicken over mashed potatoes with chocolate pudding cake and vanilla ice cream for dessert.

This, of course, made her husband very happy! He would have chosen the same thing IF it had been his birthday. Nichelle was, however, very pleased with her birthday dinner. She said that it was just right for a somewhat nauseous prego stomach.

And that is my formal announcement that grandchild number nine is on the way!

The following grandchildren were in attendance at our little birthday celebration.

Sadie, who has her mommy all to herself! Daddy Dave and Ruby are on the houseboat at Lake Powell along with Eric, Susan, TJ, Heather, and Toby.

They left this little munchkin home with grandma who insisted that mobile babies who crawl faster than commuter trains do not belong on houseboats. Julianna loved the attention she received as well as noodles and mashed potatoes and spoonfuls of ice cream provided by Nichelle.

Grandpa Glen asked "Sister Jensen" to offer the blessing on the food. Emelia, Sally, and Nichelle wondered which "Sister Jensen" to whom he might be referring. It was a hard choice, so "Brother Jensen" stepped in. Nathan was the man at this meal and a great help. He single handily peeled every potato!

The Ranes family missed out as they are in California taking care of details for their impending move out of the country.

This means that there was a chair for every guest at the table and fun conversation. Grandpa Glen loves all these women in his life, part of the "1982 Club." We are so happy to have Nichelle as our newest member.

Nichelle, I hope that you had a fabulous birthday weekend!

Don't you just love Julianna's new headband which I picked up in Kansas? We did all three hours at church today, just not always in my usual places. She kicked into high crawl gear when the Sunbeam class passed through the foyer. She definitely wanted to go where they were going and followed them down the hall. She has provided us all with much entertainment!