Marcia's Birthday

I am so glad we get to celebrate Marcia's birthday once again. I am always so grateful that she is still with us after her heart incident. She has truly become one of my best friends and I don't know what I would do without her. She is always there to listen to me blabber away and she always has great advice. I just have THE sweetest mother in law of all time.
At the Stewarts house, every time it's your birthday, you get a Sunday Birthday Dinner. Marcia always spoils us rotten with her amazing cooking skills so I was a little nervous cooking her birthday dinner. Michael was such a big help. As I cooked he cleaned and while I cooked one thing, he prepared another. Marcia makes cooking look way too easy! Thanks so much for your help Mike!

(Even our doggies love going to Marcias house. They run out of the car and go straight to the back yard, it's pretty cute)



 

Grandma and Grandpa Stewart were in town for the week. Always so glad to see them!

Little Ridgy crawling away. He's so good at grabbing unto things and standing up. Hasn't quite gotten the balance thing down though, ouch!

 

I love these two!

 

Birthday hugs from her oldest boy :)

For dinner we had glazed carrots...

 

Steak...

 

Green Bean Fries...

 

 

Potatoes...

 

 

and fluff salad...

And I am happy to report that dinner was a success! Thank you SixSistersStuff.com :)

 



 

After dinner Walt and Marcia set up their new TV! It's ginormous compared to the old one, they were pretty excited

 

Forget Christmas presents, Ridge and Odin are getting a box for Christmas!

 



 

 

...And maybe Michael too, hehe

 

 

Can you tell Papa is excited about his new toy?

I supervised the entire thing. They did great ;)

 

Ridge also got his very first hair cut that night

 

Such a pleasant baby

 

For dessert Katie made German Chocolate cake and Marcia made home made frosting, it was soooo good.

Happy Birthday to you!

 



 

After cake Marcia got to open her present from us

She loves entertaining at her house, I think this will be perfect for those parties or church activities.

After presents, cake and ice cream we sat down to watch the Christmas Devotional. One of these days we'll have to go see it live!



Michael is going to be such a good daddy some day, he's a natural! :)

 



 

The next day we went out to have breakfast at Patsy's Country Kitchen. Marcia had heard from a friend that it was a great hole in the wall place and her friend was right!

 

Everything was finger licking good. There was so much food on our plates we could hardly finish it all. This is Papa Cy's order of French toast, it was enough to last him all week!

 

Deep fried bacon, mmm.

That night Mike and I tagged along to Walt and Marcia's annual bishopric night out. I love that the old bishopric from singles ward still gets together every year and hang out. That night we had dinner at Romano's Italian Restaurant and then headed out to University of Redlands for Feast of Lights. Thank you Marcia and Walt for letting us tag along and for the tickets! I loved every second of it. It was like a mini Tabernacle Choir. These students were so professional and the orchestra was amazing. We had front row seats so when the trumpets came forward to play their song it blew my hair, I loved it! I had never gone to Feast of Lights so I had no idea what to expect. It was in a catholic church and they had music, poetry and a live nativity.  

 

I was scared to take pictures in the church so here are some ones I borrowed from Google to give ya'll a good visual :D

Towards the end I found out why they called it the Feast of Lights. They turned off all of the lights in the church and students went around turning on all of the candles. There was no clapping inside the church so that you could feel the peace and tranquility when the Father read the story of Jesus' birth.





We had such a great weekend. Thank you Marcia for having a birthday:) Here's to many more!