Sadie's Sweet Sixteen: Part I

Happy 16th Birthday, Sadie!

Smiling around the dinner table

Sadie's birthday is Sunday and this year she is having a slumber party, so we had our family dinner with my parents (Mimi & Drandad) on Saturday evening.

Sheppard's pie, apple sauce and Challah.

We have started celebrating Sabbath (on Saturday evenings).

Patrick braided this loaf. Pretty! And yummy too!

She got a really big surprise. Can you tell?


She couldn't believe it!


Drandad is our family genealogist. He gave her a book he printed
listing her ancestry, some going back eight or ten generations.
She and Daniel were very intrigued by it.


"Genealogy Report for Sadie Marie Franklin"


Sadie needed a new storage box for her correspondence.
Patrick & I found these nesting boxes at the Avon Park ARC store. Just perfect!


There were a few goodies inside the final box...


Fabric that her daddy hopes she will use to
make a shirt for him for the next Highland Games...



a DVD set of 20 old musicals...

and Billy Bees honey mustard :~)

Here is the big surprise. Mimi & Drandad gave her a sewing machine in a beautiful cabinet. My mom searched all over for one. She found one at the ARC store in Wauchula, took it home but it didn't work. She called and had to bring it back, but to the Avon Park ARC store. They were willing to let her exchange the machines, but they didn't have one that would function properly, so they gave her a credit. Mom struck up a conversation with a couple in the store who offered to give her the sewing machine the man inherited from his grandmother. He felt giving it for Sadie's 16th birthday would be just the right thing to do with it since neither he nor his wife sewed.

Well, Mom took it home, but it was frozen stuck. They couldn't get it out of the cabinet to take it to the shop. Then Mom remembered her old machine she had in a storage shed. She put it in the shop for repair. The repairman said that her machine is one of the best old machines and that if Sadie takes care of it, she will be able to pass it along to her granddaughter one day. Well, they brought both machines and the cabinet and Patrick was able to exchange the machines.

While the kids and my mom were out in the pool, Patrick and my dad brought it in the house and did the exchange. We put it in the family room and had closed the blinds so she couldn't see it from the pool. When they came in from the pool, Sadie helped finish dinner prep, set the table, but never noticed the sewing machine and cabinet in the family room.

She was so surprised and we were so surprised that she never noticed it the entire afternoon :~)

Looking over all the gadgets.

Mimi even included some old patterns.

Sadie requested apple pie for her family dinner. She and I enjoyed our time in the kitchen preparing all the special treats for her birthday weekend extravaganza!

Part II "The Slumber Party" coming soon