Saturday, May 3, 2014

I got up at 3:40 to shower, wash my hair, and get ready to go to the valley.  We are going to Dahlia Dowdle's endowment session.  She has been called to the Chicago spanish speaking mission.  Her brother Geoffrey just got home from his mission to Guatemala two days ago.  Here is a picture:

We left at 5am and went the Globe way.  James drives while I sleep.  We are developing a pattern here.  We arrived at the Gilbert temple a little before 8:30.  

Dahlia was the only one taking out her own endowment in the 9:15 session.  Her bishop, Bishop Lewis and his wife Cindy, were the witness couple.  Here are some of the other people we knew in the session: Diana, Jared, and Geoffrey Dowdle, Jason and Drea Boles, Michael and Adrienne Ellsworth, Christy Wanlass, Katie Gunther, Janet Burchfield and her son, Dave and Laura, and an uncle and two aunts.  

After the session we went to Deseret Book and then to lunch next door at Cafe Rio.  I had to wait in line for about 30 minutes while James saved us a table.  I had the sweet pork salad.  James had a chicken toastado and a beef green burro. Quite delicious.  Now we are ready to start our fast.

We went home and I had a short nap before going to the Schneider's to fix up furniture we are buying from them.

Brian, Joe, Michael, and Alex helped for 

about three hours.  

Thank you so much!

Sheri and I made a run to Circle K for drinks for the boys and then we went to get pedicures.  Sheri is doing this for me for mother's day.  I loved it.  Thanks Sheri, you are awesome!

Sheri, Alex, and I went shopping at Fry's for the ingredients to make fried chicken for tomorrow's dinner.  We are using the Barefoot Contessa's recipe for oven baked chicken.  It is delicious and the first step is to marinate it overnight in buttermilk.  

Earlier in the day Michael and Joshua did some yardwork.

 

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Darrel and Trina insisted that we sleep in their bedroom while they slept on the couches.  It was so nice of them but so unnecessary.  We would gladly have slept on the couches.  We do appreciate their hospitality.
James's MRI was scheduled for 10:30 but he had to be there by 10:00 to fill out paperwork.  First, he dropped me off at Sheri's.  Sheri had a day planned for us to celebrate my birthday.  First we went to Sweet Tooth Fairy's in Scottsdale to get some cupcakes and cake bites.  I had the vanilla cupcake and let me just tell you that it is delicious.  It taste's homemade and it isn't too big and doesn't have too much frosting.  I loved it!
At around 12:15 we met Christy Wanlass and Drea Boles at the Paradise Bakery on Alma School and Queen Creek in Chandler for lunch.  Sheri bought my lunch.  I had the chinese chicken salad and creamy chicken soup with rice.  Very yummy!  Thanks Sheri.  After lunch we went for a pedicure, Sheri's treat again. I love looking at my toes after a pedicure, even if they are crooked.

After the pedicure it was time to pick up Alex from school, and then Max and Evan.  Ben has football practice until 5:30.  Joshua got home from school around 3:30.  Sheri, Max, Evan and I picked him up and took him to Target for his birthday date. Of course Joshua wanted a Lego set.  We finally ended up with a Batman Lego set and a ghost-monster smaller set.  After checking out I got pizza and a drink for Joshua and he was very happy.  Back at home Max and I put the Lego sets together.  Max did most of the work.  Thanks Max. 

Joshua had to take some time out to do his homework.

A happy, satisfied boy.

This evening I went with Kim and Sheri to dinner at the Olive Garden, one of my favorite restaurants.  Kim not only bought my dinner but she bought James's too.  We took it home to him.  He loves their stuffed chicken marsala.  I had chicken and shrimp with pasta and alfredo sauce, can't remember the exact name but it was delicious!  Thank you Sheri and Kim for making my birthday celebration so special.  I love both of you so very much!!  On the way back to Darrel and Trina's we stopped for ice cream at a Water and Ice.  It reminded me of when we use to go to Thrifty's with the kids for FHE only instead of 25 cents a scoop this ice cream was $3.59 for a double scoop. 

 Back at Darrel & Trina's Sheri was shocked when she saw her Dad.  He was so out of it with drugs he could barely talk to them.  She says she cried all the way home and then she emailed all of her siblings and asked them to fast for James this Sunday.  We were very touched and appreciated so much her concern.  She really does love her Dad.