Jazz, birthdays and pigs

Last week Thursday, we went to Hutchinson to listen to our nephew, Jared, sing in a jazz group called Badinage.

 

We met Jared's fiance, Hannah.  Don't they seem too young to be getting married??  But they are older than Al and I were when we got married.  (20)

The theme of the evening was 

JAZZ!

A Journey Through Time

Speaking of journeying through time, Hannah turned 11 years old this week!

There was no school since it was spring break and Jill was sick, so Adam brought the girls to town to spend the day with me!  He went to the office (Starbucks) to work on his sermon for the next week.

 We met up at Druber's for birthday donuts!

And then we went to Walmart for a few things.
The girls wanted to do some painting when we got home.

We were planning on celebrating Hannah's birthday later in the week when the cousins would be coming from Arkansas but we HAD to have a little celebration that day too!  

It WAS her special day, afterall!

Hannah chose these little cakes at the store.

After lunch, we went to the park. 

These trees are in full bloom!

But as Hannah pointed out, they are rather "stinky" in odor!

Not a pretty smell at all.

Back at the house, we got out the record player and we listened to:

 The scratchy noises from an old record sort of confuse these modern day girls with the latest in tech.

 We read the story of the Three Little Pigs and then for dinner we decided to eat pigs n blankets too!

Then Daddy came for them and they went home.

More birthday celebrations to come!