Birthday at the Nursing Home

One of Rosie's birthday wishes was to make cupcakes and go celebrate with the residents at the local nursing home. We all agreed that it was a great idea and set a day.

In the morning we made cupcakes. A lot of cupcakes. :)

John and Rosie were quite helpful and took care of the extra batter in the first batch.

Second batch? Chocolate!

They helped clean up after that one too.

As did Timo and Becca.

And me. We may have had a bit too much fun!

The first batch is out, which means...

Frosting!

No this is only 2/3 of the cupcakes we made. As I said, we made a lot. :)

Next, clean up and get ready to go.

Some of the Wattermanns joined us for the occasion. Thank you all for coming along.

The kids played several rounds of 'Go Fish' with this lady, and she won every time! Taught those young whippersnappers a thing or two! :)

The entertainment for the afternoon was provided by a local band. They played quite a few old gospel songs, and were very good.

They heard we were there for Rosie's birthday, so they had her come up and sang 'Happy Birthday' to her as well.

The band leader was delighted to have so many kids in the audience, and he had them come up and join him in a couple songs.

My friend Christine and I, enjoying the music.

In the end, Rosie topped off the day by coming up and singing the last song 'I'll Fly Away' with the band.

They were all quite taken with her and said she could come back and sing with them any time.

Afterwards the Wattermanns had to go, and we left shortly afterwards. We just had one small dilemma, what are we going to do with some 40 left over cupcakes? We decided to go all over town, and we gave a cupcake and some joy to everyone we met; until we only had a few cupcakes left and we couldn't find anyone who had not had one already. We had a splendid time!

I vote we do that for everyone's birthday! :)

That is all for now folks!