Happy Birthday Brandi

It was Brandi's birthday so another celebration. Our big celebration for her is this weekend we are going to the Gateway eating at the Melting Pot and going to Twilight. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I finished Brandi's Afghan!

GrandParents Day

I had the opportunity to go to school with Stockton. He is such a good kid. I really enjoyed spending time with him. He is a good little reader. I missed an opportunity with Adyson she had a day I could go and I had to miss it because of work. Hope I get a second chance

Visiting Gabe's family

After the ceremony we went to Smity's to have dinner. I enjoyed visiting with Doris i know if we lived closer we would be the best of friends we have so much in common.

Visiting with more of Gabe's family

We (John, Doris Jody Mckenzie and Skyler) meet at the care center with Alan and his girl firend, Ron, Amy and Kyle, Gil. Evelyn arrived later with her husband. We then went to the cenetary and had a small service for Rollie and barried his ashes at Grandpa Naults grave side. i thought it was thoughtful for Doris to do all of this.

Visiting family

The first day we visited with Doris in the morning and then went and visted Gabes Mom. She has been in a care center for about 11 years. She had a stoke and left her partially paralized. She doesn't recognize us. She doesn't hear and see to well. It was very sad to see. She cries a lot, and I can't blame her. It would be very hard to live that way. She use to like scarfs so when I was in Victoria Canada this summer I bought a scarf at the Empress Hotel. I know when she younger she would have enjoyed having such a nice scarf. I thought maybe somewhere in her mind she would for only a min appreciate the times she had nice scarfs in the past and enjoy this for a second. I wrapped it around her neck you can see in the picture.

After we visited with Grandma we went into Winnipeg and made our usual trip to the Roots store to bring home sweet shirts for the grandkids. Gabe was great because the one we usually go to has moved. We were told it was some where acoss town but when we got there we found no store. We went to another one several miles away and Gabe waited in the car with Skyler and Mckenzie while we shopped for the perfect sweat shirt for each grandchild.

I really enjoyed my time visiting with Doris. The kids were so good. I love to watch Jody with her kids you can tell every waking second she is consumed with her kids and what is best for them.

I wished the rest of my family could have came with us.

A trip to Canada

We went for a short trip to Canada to visit Gabe's family. Jody and her kids went with us. Skyler and Mckenzie were great little travelers. We left the house at 5:30 and didn't get to Doris house until around 5:30 the evening

Our First Snow Fall

This is our first Snow fall of the year. It snowed most of the day these pictures where taken in the morning. Snow does not last long in the valley this time of year.

I've been tagged

8 shows I like to watch

CNBC (It really is good)
The Biggest Looser
prison Break
Amazing Cakes (wish they didn't just do reruns)
Gardner's Diary
48 hours
CSI NY
CSI Los Vegas

8 things I did yesterday
Got up at 4:30
Drove an hour to the airport
Had to wait an over lay for 3 hours
Had to set on the run way for 1.5 waiting for them to fix the plane
Played pumpkin head with Skyler on the plane (new card game we made up)
Give Mckenzie lots of loves
Worked on an Afghan I am making
Made omelets for dinner (to tired to cook)

8 Favorite Places to eat
Apple Spice Junction
Grinders
Tuscany
Tepanyakis
Macaroni Grill
Olive Garden
Smitys
Paradise

8 Things I am looking forward to

My trip to New York next year with Stockton, Adyson and my sister (hopefully)
Girls night out with my three daughters
Thanksgiving and time with my family
The Holidays and the time with my family
The market to get better
Taking more cooking and cake decorating classes
Finishing my first large Afghan
Decorating for the Holidays

8 Things on my wish list
More time with my family
My family to be healthy
My family to always have employment
The market to get better
To be able to retire someday
To learn to spend less
To exercise and eat healthy
To be a better person

8 people I tag
Doris
Karen
I don't know 8 people that blog, I like hagging out with the younger generation.

Happy Halloween

What do you do with extra wedding cake... you make candy corns