The table at the Nelson home was filled with candy and Sprinkles Cupcakes. (Photos by Helen Ford Wallace).

Lynda Nelson was hostess for a party to honor Candace, Charles, Charlie, 4 ½, and Harry, 1, Nelson from Beverly Hills, Calif., who were in town visiting. It was Harry’s first trip to Oklahoma City to visit grandparents, Lynda and Chuck Nelson. Candace and Charles are founders of Sprinkles Cupcakes, the world’s first cupcake bakery, in Calif. and she is one of the judges of “Cupcake Wars,” Food Network’s reality-based cupcake competition show.

 The invitation with a colorful lollipop on it stated in part: “Harry has his first year ‘Licked’ and he’s here visiting from Beverly Hills.”

Candy and cookies were everywhere. Garlands of peppermint candies, ribbons and greenery decorated the front door and the stairway inside. Bowls of tasty ribbon candies, peppermints, red hots, candy- coated pretzels, jelly beans, suckers, colorful bubble gum and of course, the very excellent Sprinkles Cupcakes filled the dining room table.

Among the guests were Fanny, Bolen, Bebe MacKellar, Karen Browne, Libby and Bobby Nelson, Betsy Thorpe, Lisa Banks, Bette MacKellar, Marilyn Balyeat, Patty Cohenour, Caroline Cohenour, Martha Bradshaw, SoRelle Fitzgerald, Toni Moses, Bolen MacKellar, Kay Brown, Ruth Gorkuscha, Charlotte Nelson, Robert Nelson, Rachel Bolen, Patricia Franklin, Gayle Ann Roberts, Leslie Samara, Judy Lehmbeck, Gene Barth, Sarah Geiger, Kathy Brown, Angela Payne Reynolds, Charlotte Gibbens and Christine Browne.

The Nelson family.

Caroline Cohenour and Patty Cohenour were at the party.