Tuesday, October 20 2015

The Oakland temple

James filled all my tires with air before he left this morning for the valley.  Such service!  He left around 6am.  I got ready and left by 9:30am.  In Show Low I stopped for gas, and at Sonic for a burrito and a diet cherry coke.  I went the Payson way.  

It is a gorgeous day!  55 in Vernon when I left and 70 degrees in the valley.  

James and I had lunch at Cheesecake Factory because I still had some left on a couple of gift cards.  We had the fried zucchini, I had Baja tacos, and James had chicken marsala.  I took home a piece of lemon meringue cheesecake.

Yummy, but almost too rich for me this time.

Back at home I began packing up my Precious Moments statues and the animals from my big Noah's Ark.  

At 5 o'clock I went with Sheri to take Evan and Joshua to soccer practice.  I had ulterior motives.  I wanted to see Darrel and Trina's kids.  I was disappointed that Addy wasn't there but I got to spend some time with Ruby and Lola and Rowan gave me a hug.  Ruby was sick today with the stomach flu but she was feeling better this evening.  I took this picture of Lola.

 I have never seen a cuter little girl!

Sheri and Ian came down and took the living room furniture today.

One room empty and a few more to go!

Thursday, July 30, 2015

National Cheesecake Day 2

My personal favorite right now:

Lemon meringue cheesecake.

 

Vickie came by this morning for a visit.  Jenifer's daughter Amanda has been here visiting and she took her to the Amtrak train station in Maricopa to catch a train back to Texas.  Vickie was here for a couple of hours.  It was so nice to see her and visit with her.

 

After Vickie said goodbye, I went to the Hobby Lobby in Ahwatukee because I needed one more hat for my tea party.  I also went to Walmart to pick up a prescription and then James and I left for the cabin around 2pm.  Of course we stopped at Burger House for our green chili mixed burros, one for today for each of us and one more for James and one for Jared.  We arrived at the cabin a little after 5.  I knew Trina and her kids wouldn't be here until later this evening.  I didn't think Jared was going to leave El Paso until 6pm so we weren't expecting to see him before midnight, but to our surprise he arrived at 6pm driving a white rented van filled with his kiddos.   It was a pleasant surprise.  James wanted to sleep downstairs and Anna in my office.  I setup the air mattress for Anna and put the new 1600 thread count sheets on for her and she was happy.  Jared and the little girls will be in Sheri and Ian's room.

 

When Trina and her kids got here it was a happy reunion for the cousins.  James and I went to bed around 10pm as did Lola.  Everyone else stayed up until 2am playing games.

Emmy and Molly playing chess

These two were so happy to see each other!

Lola after her bath and ready for bed.

Lola and Addy.

Everyone loves Lola!

Most of the gang pictured here.

I even got Anna in the picture!