Great Day!

So, My youngest daughter Taylor turns four this coming Tuesday! Yay! I love birthdays! I've told all that before so there's no need to go into it again. But let it suffice to say, I love birthdays! Since her birthday is on a weeknight, we had her party today. It was such a good day. The sky was clear and blue, the sun was shining brightly, and it was warm, not hot. Marsha and I have worked on the house and yard four three or four days this week to get things in top shape for company. Spring cleaning, right? Marsha Renee got the indoors clean, and sparkly, and smeeling good. Okay, she keeps it that way all the time, but it is a lot of work, what with the kids and dog. She also handled most of the shopping, and party prep indoors. I handled the outside. What fun. I would rather work in the yard than almost anything I can think of. I've been off work for a month and have done very little while recuperating from my surgery, so it has been awesome getting out and getting sirty, and sweaty, and smelly. Haha, I love it! I have mowed chopped, picked up limbs, pruned things, weedeated, ran the blower, cleaned up trash, mowed... oh man, it has been a great week. We got the place looking great, overall. At least the area right around the house. There is more to do over by "the holler". There is an area near the storage shed that I have allowed to really get grown up the last two years, There are three nice, mature apple trees in there, so I think my next major outdoor project is to clean that up, and get those trees in shape. I'm also considering planting grape and blackberry vines in that area. There was an old grapevine there once before. After that, I am working on a plan to build a goldfish/koi pond in the front of our place. A pator in the district has one, and I think it is awesome. He said if I will build it, he will give me some goldfish to get started. His are HUGE! Very cool.
So, anyway, back to Taylor's party. She has been excited about it for weeks! We really do go overboard and all for birthdays, but oh well. There is usually a weeks long build-up and then, because we normally hold the party the weekend before their actual birthday, then we hold the whole thing over until the actual day. Taylor helped us go and pick out her party decorations...Barbie princess themed for the girly girl. Marsha got her a great cake. So today, Taylor got all dolled up and wore her princess crown all day long! We had 20 plus people here and I cooked burgers and dogs on the grill. We ate outside, and Marsha set up cool scavenger hunt for the kids. Taylor opened up all her presents, including the doll who gets sick, and of course wets it's pants. Then we just sat around and enjoyed the day as the kids all played. It really was a great day. I go back to work Tuesday so this was a great day. Taylor is a beautiful baby doll, and her birthday was awesome. We sat around the farm with family until well after dark, just enjoying the last little bit of the day. Thank God for a beautiful time.