Christy's Baby Shower

On Saturday I was invited to Christy's baby brunch at her relatives home and it was wonderful. The decorations were amazing and the food was delicous. The "Puff" as it is called was an egg with cheese kind of a baked thing in the oven and we had fresh fruit and scones with fresh jam and it was so cute. We drank orange juice from silver antique baby cups and had flowers in the center of the table in antique baby shoes. It was SO cute.
She had little areas of focus that had baby items from the family and a really cute book that was about the baby's point of view of being bored in the womb without a view!! I think it was called Ma, I don't have anything to do! If you look closely you can see the amazing cake we had for dessert. It was a raspberry cheese cake with little baby booties on top. It was out of this world!! I have a close up of the cake further down the post. (I seem to be obsessed with food!)
Doesn't Christy look so cute!! I can't believe she will be having little Ava so soon.
Oh, Yeah!! That's what I am talking about. This was one of the best desserts I have ever had!
They even had a sash for Charlene that said Grandma to Be. It looked antique but I don't know for sure if it was. Really cute. They had little pastel mints sitting around the room in antique baby dishes. Such a cute idea. Christy got a lot of cute clothes and a portable crib that she had registered for at Wal Mart. The baby closet is getting really full!! We all left with a sugar cookie in the shape of a crown covered in pink frosting. What a fun day. Thanks for letting me be part of this one.

Food from the garden!

As you can see we are picking things from our garden. Whoo hoo!! I am a little tired of the zucchini but we are giving that away to people at this point. The tomatoes are starting to come on if we can keep the worms out of them and today was the first pick of the beans!! Not bad huh??? The big tomatoes will be ripe soon and the corn is tall and developing ears. The watermelon is growing so it is fun to watch and harvest the hard work. I guess Sid has learned a few things from his dad!! I went to Auburn on Saturday and picked raspberries and made freezer jam. It was the hottest day of the year so far (106) so I didn't pick as much as I would have liked. I am going to get some strawberries and make freezer jam too. They have blackberries that will be available to pick in August so I would like to make some jam out of those. That is a lot of jammin!!

A SPECIAL DAY

Today Sid and I celebrate our 33rd year of marriage!! I can't believe it has been that long since I drove down from Portland Oregon and went to the Oakland Temple to be sealed for time and all eternity!! Little did I know the adventures that would be mine since we have been married. Sid is the greatest husband a woman could ask for and the best father to his children and grandchildren. He loves and cares for me every day and puts up with my rantings and ravings and still loves me! Thanks for all the hard work you put into your dental practice so we can enjoy the finer things in life and especially for being the fun, sexy, handsome, wonderful man that you are!! I LOVE YOU! May we have many more years together on this earth to enjoy and many more adventures to come our way!

Girl Time!!

First of all I need to explain that there will be no pictures with this post because I was a ding bat and forgot my camera on the computer before I left for the airport and didn't remember until I was half way to the airport. If you want to see pictures of my fun time in MN then you will need to go to Kristin & Thomas's blog and Kandis & Nic's blog to see all of the fun pictures.

Well, with that said I just returned late last night (1:00am) from MN and have the day to get things put away and lay out and just relax before I work at the temple tonight. I had such a great time with Kandis and Kristin and I am so glad Sid was a great sport about all 3 of us getting together for Kristin's birthday. We had a BLAST!! (I think they still use that phrase??)

Thursday the 12th was Kristin's birthday so while Kristin was at work Kandis and I ventured out in their truck and tried to find a grocery store so we could get the appropriate things to have a birthday party i.e. plates, balloons, flowers, cards, cake etc. We found a place close by her town home so we stocked up and decorated the place for when she returned from work!! We then went to a place called Stillwater. I LOVE this place. So pretty by the river with the paddle boats floating by and the shops were really cute and different. A lot of them were closing but we still had enough places to see and shop. We had a fantastic dinner at a really nice Italian place and it was so nice we ate outside in the warm evening breeze. We had enough food left over to munch on for the next 3 days when we got hungry!! We then drove over the bridge into Wisconsin and took a little drive along the back roads and it was beautiful. We then ended up at Kristin's place and had birthday cake and ice cream and sang her happy birthday.

Friday we went to downtown MN to an open air mall in the heart of downtown. No cars drive on the street and they have one of the largest Macy's outside of New York there. I must say I was disappointed in the shoe department at the Macy's at this place. Not up to my usual standards for a HUGE Macy's store. Kind of a let down for a shoeaholic like myself (Julia, can you relate?) We shopped and then walked to a wonderful park where there were sculptures to look at and gardens in greenhouses etc. We saw the giant spoon with a cherry sculpture and I still wonder what that is all about. It was such a beautiful day and the weather was being nice for us. We walked back to the car and then went home to change and go to a great rib place called Red Stone. The food was fantastic and the ribs were great.

Saturday was slated for the Mall of America so we got to that place around noon. We started on the first floor and then worked our way up to the second floor but that is all we had time to do until they kicked us out when the stores closed!! We ate lunch/dinner at the Rain Forest and had their famous Volcano dessert! The best thing I ever tasted!! Enough for 6 people I think but Kandis, Kristin and myself did some damage on that bad boy!! We rolled out of there and got back to serious retail therapy after that. Kandis was a good sport in her heels but bought some comfortable shoes and wore them for the second half of the day!! We returned home to eat the leftover Italian food from the first day!

Sunday we took Kandis to the airport and then Kristin and I did a beautiful walk by her place. The weather was beautiful again and that evening they had a free concert in the park that we walked to and heard this wonderful band play great music. Kind of like Dave Matthew's Band kind of music. Really fun and nice. We watched all the little kids dancing around on the grass to the music and it was really a relaxing day. We linked into the internet to talk and see Thomas in England and hear all of his escapades. You can feel the love between Kristin and Thomas when they talk and he misses her and she him so much!! Really cute to see!

Monday was a day of more retail therapy so we hit the Marshalls by her house and Home Goods and then a store called Hornbergurs (sp?) Kind of like a Macy's store. We then headed to MOA again to see the 3rd floor and eat lunch before Kristin took me to the airport. It was hard to say goodbye but I know she has a lot of stuff she needs to do before she leaves for Paris and London and so she will be busy.

What a GREAT time I had and it is so wonderful to see my two daughters so happy and doing so well with their lives. Nothing touches my heart more than to see my children succeed in life and with their sweet little families!! (I'm getting misty as I type!) Like I said before, if you want to see pictures of this fun trip link to the other blogs to see them!! Thanks, Kristin for letting me come and spoil you and Kandis!!

Happy 80th Grandpa Scott (DAD)

Happy Birthday Dad!! He looks great for 80 years old and we had such a wonderful birthday party (tribute) to him arranged by Jan. She put so much hard work into making this party so special for him and our family. A lot of family and friends came and there was plenty of food and fun to go around. Wayne did a great slide presentation of his life and Nancy made a wonderful memory book for him with pictures and memories from his 5 kids. What a great night for everyone who came. It was wonderful to see all of the nieces and nephew's with their husbands and wives and all the little kids running around. We had a great place in Hillsboro to hold the party and thanks to Emily for living in the district so we could rent the hall for the evening!!
This was our accommodations while staying in Oregon. We were the lucky ones to stay with Jan and Dan in this beautiful country setting. So green and lush and just a treat for Sid and I. Jan and Dan are the hostess with mostess!! Thanks guys for the fun time. Sid will never forget the 4 wheeler ride with Dan!!
Sid petting the cute little foal on the property. He was so friendly and cute. Very soft and liked to nip at you!! I have had enough bites for now!!
We walked the property with Dan and Jan and this was the biggest tree I have every seen. Sid climbed up and I had to get a picture. One of the limbs broke off the front a while back but it is still HUGE! A giant elm tree.
We had time to laze around in the hammock on Sunday before we flew home. The weather was picture perfect and so relaxing. Wayne came by and we had a great time talking to him about his trip to the beach and getting the latest on Jessie. Jan made cinnamon rolls and we porked out on them while we were sitting outside. Yum Yum!!

Doctor Visit Update

I got into Dr. Harris's office and saw Joe Lobaccarro. He looked at the wound and asked me about the dogs and wondered if we knew the owners. I told him we could not find them after the attack and he looked worried. He told me I should probably start the rabies series of shots and then I told him I was leaving town Thursday night and he said that wouldn't work with the shots. I told him I HATE shots and he said that I could get a Tetanus (sp?) shot for now and start on strong antibiotics and keep in touch with animal control to see if they picked up the dog. I agreed to that and got my T shot and then off to Wal Mart to fill the prescriptions. He told me to elevate my leg and not walk tomorrow morning with the group!! (DUH!!) Glad that is over. I am sorry for the pictures being at the top of the last post but I couldn't get them to post after my typing. Never a dull moment around here!

Who Would Have Thought????

Well, today was just like any other day. I got up around 7:30am and got dressed to go walking with the sisters from our ward. We meet at the church at 8:00am and then off we go for about an hour. We have a regular route we walk so if anyone comes late they can find us. Today there were 4 of us. Me, Penny, Kathy and Barbara and Kathleen Penny but she left after the first loop. We had walked the first loop and we were coming around for the second time on Francis Drive by the church. As we crossed Cutler Court we saw 2 dogs running and barking toward our group of women as we crossed the court. We had never seen these dogs the first loop and had never seen these dogs any other time we had walked this route. They came around the corner and started growling and barking at all of us. We all told them to "go home" in our most mean voices and they just kept getting closer and more aggressive with us. There were two of them, one solid black dog a little smaller than Rusty and another dog about the same size that was white with brown and black spots. The white dog kept coming closer to me and I thought if I kicked him he would bite me so I just kept backing up towards a fence and he jumped and bit me in the left upper thigh. I could not believe what happened and the girls with me could not believe what happened. I knew he bit me but it didn't hurt much at that point. A man came out of his house and yelled at the dogs to go away and they ran back up the street where they came from. I took a look at my leg and it didn't look too bad so we kept going back to where our cars were parked. One of the ladies lives where our cars are parked so she took me into her home and we washed the wound and put neosporin and hydrogen peroxide on it and she gave me a bandage. It was bleeding at this point and I was glad to get it cleaned up. I went home and called the doctors office and I have an appointment to see the doctor and probably get a shot. What a morning!! I called the sheriffs department to report the biting dogs and they had me make a report to the animal control people. They told me to take pictures today of the bite and again in a couple of days to keep as evidence in case they could find the owners of the dog that bit me. I did take pictures but they are pretty yucky to see. Anyway, kind of a weird start of my day!! I am glad the dog didn't bite and hold on to my leg!! Scary for sure!! I think I will just stay home tomorrow and get ready for my trip to Oregon. (This is going to leave a mark!!)