They Say It's Your Birthday . . . .

They Say It's Your Birthday . . . They Say It's Your Birthday . . . 

A year ago

we were in Minnesota

for a very special event . . . 

And today is Her Birthday

Grand Girl Lucy turns one!

A tradition started when

Daughter Sarah turned one . . . 

A hand painted toy trunk

Painted in the style of Holly Hobby

Popular when she was small

It's lived the test of time and Daughter Sarah took it to college with her

And on all of the moves after

And she still treasures it.

For Grand Girl Lucy

a joint gift from her parents and her grands

the chest a gift from her parents

the painting a gift from me

A new trunk
(for old trunks have lids that don't stay up and metal edges can hurt fingers)

Painted in the style of Tasha Tudor

of prairie girls at Daughter Sarah's request

Besides the girls and the gardens,

Sarah's cat on the left

Dog Doogie on the right

And on the side, our two corgis

Dolly on the left 

Our dear Ollie on the right

And Sarah's (and Lucy's) cat, Rome on this side

And the top is filled with flowers

and some surprises --

a robin, two chickadees, four leaf clovers, a squirrel and two butterflies

It will be fun for Lucy to find them

Lucy and her trunk

On her birthday