Bunko Anyone?!!

Have you ever played Bunko with 171 people? That is what we did last night!!! Les wasn't too sure he wanted to do this...he really didn't even remember how to play!!! We had a yummy Spagetti Dinner too! Here are some pictures that I snapped with my phone when it was almost over! We had such a good time! We didn't win anything (Well actually Les came home with a Long John Silver lunch!) There were some pretty good prizes, but the funniest one was for a part of bunko I had never heard of before...

We didn't play for 1's and the rule was if you rolled 3 ones on the dice then you were supposed to yell C. R. A. P. (I am spelling it cause this is a g-rated space!) and your team lost all of their points :-( Lucky for me I only had this happen once...as you can see on Les' score card he got 3 of them!!! He yelled Wallner cause the Wallner Plumbing Group was near us...you get it right? Plumbers...Cra...! Anyway, the prize was a mini plunger filled with candy! An 11 year old girl who rolled 1's six times won this!!!

I was really hoping for the most losses and it was looking good until the last set and then I won 3 times, bummer!!! I got one bunko but, Les didn't even get one. Poor guy! Anyway, there was one other thing that they did that I had never seen before...the Ghost player. If there weren't enough people to make 4 at a table, one team had a ghost and the single player rolled for the ghost...I had this happen the last game I played because someone went home early...boy is this difficult!!! Especially if you are challenged anyway! (Which I felt I was!!!) I am glad this didn't happen too often cause it was hard work! Ha Ha!!! Anyway, We met alot of people...had a fun night!!! Oh and it was a fundraising event for Anderson Explodes!!! We will have to invite all of our friends next time and we can all go crazy together!!!!

Where was Molly???

Molly didn't get her picture in the last blog....but it wasn't because she wasn't there!!!! She only took pictures of herself with my phone so she didn't have much on the regular camera!!!

Actually, the only picture of her was lying on the couch bundled up in a blanket on Thursday morning!!! So here are a few of the pictures that Molly took of herself!!!

3 Great Days!!!!

If you know me at all you can easily guess what I will be blogging about here!!! I was able in the last 3 days have a great time with all 6 of my grandkids!!!!

It started out on Wednesday when I traveled to Sacramento to Jen's house! The main objective of the trip was to get to meet the Mid-Wives that will be helping my grandson Desmond into the world in a few weeks! More about this later...the visit was fun. We went to Ikea and wandered around looking at all of the fun stuff (even Molly thought it was fun!) for several hours. Jen gathered some stuff that she had been wanting and then we tried to find an Office Depot with the map on our phones! This turned out to be quite an adventure when our first choice was clear on the other side of the continent (should have taken a clue right away!) we traveled many miles and saw many sights but never found the Office Depot that was promised...Rowan took a nap in the car and Lydia really wanted the adventure to be over so we decided to give up and go home for dinner! Dinner was a yummy stir fry and egg rolls! We had a nice evening with Lydia enjoying my camera and taking many pictures with it! We do love the camera! Thursday was the Midwife Appointment and we got up in plenty of time to get there. Molly shared her bed with Daisy and I! The appointment went very well and it was very nice to meet the 2 ladies that will be at Jen's house helping with the birth! They seemed very calm and experienced. They answered all of my questions and even told me that when it comes time for the birth that they will take over taking pictures so that I won't miss it with my own eyes! They have a wall with strings of beads which stand for each birth that they have attended since they have been practicing together...it was very interesting to see the different beads which were coded for those born in the water, those born not in water, those who had to be transported to the hospital for their births...(there were only a few of these each year!) I felt very good about the whole situation and am excited that Jen will get to do this the way she really wants to!

I came home last night and today I got to have Melissa's kids at my house for the whole day!!!

It was Teacher Inservice Day!!! Yeah for Us!!! Drew rarely gets to spend time at my house after school any more and Riley never does, so this was a real treat for all of us!!! Collin loved having his sisters there to play with and because the weather was a beautiful sunny day we got to be outside almost the whole time!!! We made mac & cheese for lunch and the play ground got lots of use!!!

I love to be with my grandkids and the only thing that would have made it all more perfect would have being with them all at the same time!!! This should happen for sure in April when there will be 7!!!! The perfect number!!!! Until there are 8!!!!!

Cards for Delaney

We have a couple in our church whose Grand-daughter Delaney is sick with cancer for the 2nd time in her life. The first time was when she was 5. (this is the age of Drew now) She recovered and has been a pretty much a normal girl since then, except now she is fighting the fight again...She is now 10 years old (same age as Riley).
I was talking to her Grandma Georgene on Sunday and she was telling me how Delaney is having a difficult time with everything this time. She has lost her hair and is very sad about it. Her Dad shaved his head hoping to help but it only upset her more and she won't let him go anywhere without a hat now. Georgene said that she really likes to recieve cards so I am hoping that if you have a free moment you could send her a cute card. I don't really feel comfortable just putting her address here on the blog so I am not sure how to handle it. If you have any suggestions on how this can be done let me know!
Several classes including Riley and Drews at school are going to make and send cards to her.
She is in San Francisco right now having treatments. I would love for her to come home to a bunch of cheer!
Don't forget to keep her and her family in your prayers.

Beep Beep.....Beep Beep....

This is the sound that I heard constantly today while at work...every time the wind would blow the doorwould blow open & it would beep beep....and I have to tell you that this happened at least every minute or less. The problem is that this usually means that there is a customer...so I wore my self out checking to be sure it was the wind!!! It even made this noise when the power was off...I actually was surprised by a customer who came in while I had my back to the door! Oh well, WE NEED THE RAIN, unfortunately for me we usually have wind with our rain!!!
BEEP BEEP!!!!!!

Our Great Sunday Adventure!!!

Our friends, Carolyn & Louie visited us today at our church and we wanted to go to lunch with them afterwards...but they had other ideas!!!

We did go to lunch, but in Burney!!! We had yummy burgers in The slightly snowy town of Burney and then Louie (he actually calls himself 'Crazy Louie' !) gave us the choice of directions we could go...since I had no idea, Les chose and we drove over some very snowy roads and we went past Lake Britton, the really pretty dam, down some Very snowy roads and saw some beautiful creeks (Louie says they are great fishing spots) We went past a sign for Highway 89, Hambone & Julia Glover Flat...I am sure you know exactly the place I am talking about! Haven't we all been to Hambone???

Somehow, I mean we ended up in McCloud and enjoyed driving around and seeing how buried in snow the houses etc are! It truely is a winter wonderland...I was so happy that I didn't have to get out and get cold ! We had a nice time getting to know Carolyn and Louie better as we drove. We finished our adventure by going to the Grand Buffet in Redding. This was a first for Les and I and it was pretty good! They dropped us off at our car in the Safeway parking lot and I was surprised to see that it was about 8 pm when we got home!!! It was a very fun day! Thanks for the Adventure Louie and Caroline!!! It was great!!!

A New Title...

I have many titles...Mom, Wife, Daughter,Grandma, Sister, Friend, Pastors Wife...you get the idea! Tonight I added a new and exciting title to the list...Anderson City Planning Commissioner!!! I never really thought that this would be a title that would be one that I would hold even though I have had a lot of interest in the planning of Anderson for many years!

When the door opened I felt very good about stepping through it. The guy in the picture with me is James Yarbrough, he is the City Councilman who nominated me for the position. I have known James for several years and I feel very honored that he has felt that this was something I was qualified to do. I will have the position as long he is a Councilman. At least until 2012. This is probably a perfect time to start on the Planning Commission because there is not a huge amount of projects being started in the city. I will have a chance to start out slowly and as the economy improves the projects will roll in and it will be so exciting to get to be a part of it! I actually will be going to Sacramento this weekend to a training seminar...

Let the adventure begin!!!!