IT'S BEEN A FEW DAYS

Our life is back to busy again.  It's been a few days since I blogged. Sometimes. can't fnd the time. Today is Monday, February the  2nd!! Last week, on Wednesday, we stayed home after we walked at the  gym. It was my day to prep for the colonoscopy.  Yiipee! 

While I  was drinking the prep stuff (YUCK)  and hitting the throne every 5 minutes, Tony finished a puzzle he was working on. I had to start wearing depends because I could not make it from the couch to the bathroom. It was so frustrating. I was just grateful Tony had the depends from when he had his prostate cancer surgery. I pretty much used up what he had left. I was up 7 times during the night and we got to the hospital at 7am. 

They got an IV going and then I waited for about 1/2 hour because someone was in front of me. They wheeled me into the surgery room, the anesthesiologist told me to turn on my left side and take 3 deep breaths and I was gone.....don't even know if I made it to 3. lol The next thing I know, I back in the room Tony was in waiting for me. I guess the doctor came in and talked to Tony and said I was clean and I don't ever have to have another!!  BEST NEWS EVER!! 

We came home and I pretty much laid around the rest of the day. I was wiped out (lol  little pun there)

Monday, I went to see the Taylor sisters as Lorraine had surgery on her shoulder. Ava is having trouble with her back and they are both younger than me. They got a Amaryllis from me for Christmas and it was blooming nicely. I told them mine bloomed but it looks like a new stem was coming up and it would have a flower or two. They told me to cut off the one that had bloomed, so I did and the other stem shot right up there. I count my blessings as far as my health goes but I have to admit, I do think a lot about my mortality a lot lately. I'm getting up there and last Friday night, all I could think of (when I was trying to sleep) was all the things I needed to clean out in my house before I pass. lol  The next day, Tony and I served on our shift at the temple. I was so tired! Not enough sleep. 

 It was cold when we left in the morning at 5:15 but when we came home at noon, it was sunny and beautiful. It has been so overcast the last several days, that it was nice to see the sun. BUT, we seriously need moisture. It has been a very dry winter. 

We got home on Saturday after stopping at......you guessed it, 

CHICK FIL A! Tony's favorite place in the world! lol Then we came home and I got a few things ready for our dinner on Sunday. I took out the Wild Rice casserole that I had made a while back. It was Heather's recipe and she said to cut it in half because it made a lot! I decided not to and froze half of it. I was glad I did because on Sunday, we were having Yeti, Drew and Robert over for dinner. More about that later)  Then on Saturday evening, I get a text from the Sister's asking if we can meet them for a lesson with Robert at Yeti's house. I asked if they could just come to our house because Yeti just lives at the end of our street and he has 2 dogs and Drew (who also lives with him) has one. They said that was a great idea so they came to our house at 7:45PM. 

Robert is a recovering drug addict like Yeti WAS, but he's not as committed as Yeti was. I remember Tony and I, meeting with him about a year ago and he was not with it at all. He talked about suicide and had a very "I don't care" attitude. (His shirt kinda tells it all) However, he went to a Recovery Farm in Rupert and just got back to Nampa.  We met with him, the Sister's and Yeti on Saturday night and he seemed so much different than he did a year ago. Yeti let him move in with him and is trying to help him. Yeti wanted us to have dinner on Sunday so he can start feeling a part of people who care.  We agreed. SO, Sunday, after Sacrament meeting, I went home and put the casserole in the oven. We have later church now so we get out at 2. Tony was having a presidency meeting at 4, so I needed to feed the guys by 2:30 in order to be done and cleaned up by the time Tony's meeting started. (He does them at our house) I was heading back to the church when a police officer pulled me over!!  When I got to Davis, I was turning left and I thought I had my blinker on. The police officer was directly across from me on the street coming out from the park.  I pulled out onto Davis and was driving down the street when he pulls in behind me and flashed his lights. WHAT!!  I pulled over and he said I didn't use my blinker. I said I thought I had but he just took my information and gave me a warning.  Oh bother!!  I got back to church, we finished Sunday School and we came home and finished preparing dinner. I made a salad and Tony sliced and buttered the rolls for me and I toasted them.  Yeti, and Drew showed up and I asked where Robert was. I could tell Yeti was a bit frustrated. Robert had been at church , but left. Yeti said he sent him a text but hadn't head back from him yet. So, we started to eat without him.  We'd been eating and visiting for quite awhile and Yeti said he was seeing "red flags" and was wondering if Robert was starting to use again.  We went ahead and ate without him and we were sitting in the living room visiting when Robert finally showed up. He said a friend had called him and asked him to go shooting.  He apologized for not being on time for dinner and I told him I bagged up his to take home.  Yeti told him about the red flags he was seeing and Robert assured him, he was not using. The other men for the meeting started showing up so the 3 guys left. I tell you, some days are a real fiasco! 

Tony started on another puzzle and is nearly done with it!!  He amazes me. It would have taken me till July to put it together! lol

It's Monday again. The days go so fast anymore. My Christmas Cactus is blooming AGAIN! Which is pretty nice. My daffodils are up at least 5 to 6 inches and I'm happy. Although, I still pray we get moisture in the near future. Hope we get a lot of snow in the mountains. Just finished 2 loads of laundry. Getting some down sizing done, a little each day.  Cleaning drawers, closets etc. 

GOD IS GOOD!

PREPPING

We got up and got to the gym at 7:45. Pat and I had a good visit as we walked. I know a lot of people at the gym and at one point my friend Alissa, started walking with us. We went about 3 laps with her and then Pat stopped to use the restroom. I waited for her so Alissa kept going. Then after a few more laps, Maria started walking with us. She is even slower than me and Pat. lol  Anyway, after a lap, she said she was looking for her friend, Patty, and dropped off. Then as we got around to the other side,  I saw Patty and told her Maria was looking for her. My friend Pat said, "You know everybody!!"   I said some of them were from church but a lot are just friends I've made from the gym. Pat says, "I don't like to share you!"   Pretty funny! After we got our four miles done, we walked out to the cars with Tony.  Said our goodbyes and told her we wouldn't be at the gym tomorrow as I am getting the colonoscopy now.  We got home and I took 2 Dulcolax and then brought some things down to the back room to keep me busy while I'm cleansing. lol  How fun is this gonna be!! I drank 3 bottles of flavored water and then the wreath came.

We ordered a wreath on line because I didn't get one before or after Christmas  and I wanted to wire all my coke ornaments to one. The little tree I used to put them on was starting to fall apart.  Besides, the wreaths are so much easier to put up and every Christmas, it gets harder and harder.  I'm definitely feeling my age.

Tony was a dear and put a device on the back of a kitchen chair so the wreath could hang, and it would be easier to wire the ornaments to the wreath. .....Unfortunately, I decided it wasn't going to work. The wreath was plastic and after getting 7 ornaments wired, I told Tony it wasn't gonna work. We are planning on shipping it back to Amazon and then I put the  a tub in the garage. Guess I'll wait till November and buy the kind I want, and start again.  

I needed to feed my sourdough starter, so I made waffle batter and put a cup of the starter in the batter. Then I fed it again. I plan on making waffles tomorrow when I get home, and can eat something. 

I had been cutting out dies before I started on the wreath, so after the disaster with the crappy plastic wreath, I made a couple of cards.

I'm gonna send this one to Pats aunt who was kind enough to make these for us . She sent several hats to Pat along with these bowl caddys. She sent a couple for me and Tony as well as a hat.

 They are for holding hot soup.

She sent several hats to Pat along with these bowl caddys. She sent a couple for me and Tony as well as a hat.

 They are for holding hot soup.

I think I'll give the hat away. Its kinda small. But I love the soup caddys. I'd been thinking of making some myself. Now I don't have to. lol  Now it's time to drink the Miralax. 5 bottles  of this in the next hour and a half!

It's in a Mango bottle (which I drank earlier) but we mixed in in lemonade water. Thank goodness, it tastes like lemonade and not that crap they had me drink the last few times I had to do this. Now  to see if it works! sure hope so. lol

GOT CHRISTMAS DOWN!!

Well, it's only January 26th and I FINALLY GOT ALL OF CHRISTMAS DOWN and packed till this coming Christmas !!  I had to finish the tree. I took off all the ornaments, boxed them and put them in tubs and Tony took the tubs to the garage and put them on the shelf. 

I then vacuumed, dusted and got the front room all put back to normal. As much as I love to have my Christmas decor out, it actually feels pretty good to have the house back to normal.  

I sat down for a bit to rest because it really takes it out of me. But looking at the Christmas village, I decided to get it ALL DONE! Thank heavens' for Tony! I put up a table in the back room and handed Tony all the trees, snow and a couple of village houses. Then Tony said he would climb up there and hand me the houses.  He did and I really appreciated his help. Once they were all down, I boxed them up and then he helped me put them away in the living room closet. He had to go to a meeting so I dusted and vacuumed the back room and then the room off the garage. I also did 2 loads of laundry and was totally exhausted by the time it was time for bed.

We got up this morning and went to the gym. We came home and I got ready for my dentist appointment. It was supposed to be a cleaning only but I had chipped a front tooth and I wanted it filed down. The dentist said that my front teeth are so thin that she wanted to build them up and then fix the chip. There was also a small filling that came out a long time ago. The last time I was at the dentist, they said I kept my teeth so clean that I didn't have to have it filled. HOWEVER, this time she said she would fill it as well. So, she did it all today and I didn't have to be numbed. All done and it feels so good! |We came home , ate some yogurt and then we went to the store for milk and half and half.  Tony said, since I can't eat tomorrow, ( getting ready for the colonoscopy)  he would take me out for  lunch. I choose FREDDY'S. It was so good!!

I really like their steakburgers. Nice change from Chick Fil A.! lol  which Tony would prefer.  Home again and I am working on cutting out some dies  until my meeting at 7PM. Watching some TV and relaxing. It's been a good day! GOD IS GOOD!~

I LOVE THE TEMPLE

Today, Tony and I served in the temple. We got up at 4:30 and were on our way by 5:10. Tony served in the baptistry at 6am so he missed the 6am prayer meeting.  I was training a new sister who is serving once a month because she drives from BURN'S Oregon. She serves Friday night and Saturday morning and then drives home. She is such a sweet sister and I thoroughly enjoyed my time with her. After our shift, we came home.....well, not true.  lol We stopped at.......... YEP, you guessed it. Chick Fil A! We ate lunch and then came home and rested till 3:45.  I finished Christopher's book and I must say, he did a great job. He dedicated it to his father in hopes other men might be helped. I think his dad would be very proud of him.  We then picked up Yeti and Liz and we met the Sister Missionaries at the temple to do baptisms. We were going to bring Brenda Valera as well but she texted me this morning saying she was sick and wouldn't make it. Then this afternoon, Tammy called and said she had a migraine and Chris was sick with a sore throat.  Probably  getting what we had at Christmas. So we were supposed to have 9 in our party (minus the Sisters) and ended up with  the four of us. The baptistry was so busy today that we were only able to do 5 apiece. The sisters served as witnesses.

Afterwards, we got a few pictures of us outside by  the fountain.

Left to right: Sister Curtis from Rigby Idaho, Sister Fonua, from Tonga, Lis, me, Tony and Yeti.

It was super cold today. 15degrees when we left this morning. 30 degrees when we went back this afternoon. However, when your hair is wet, it feels 15 again! lol

IT WAS A GREAT DAY! GOD IS GOOD!

BOOK CLUB & CHRISTMAS TAKE DOWN

Wednesday after the gym, I cleaned up the living room and then made a coconut cream cake for Book Club, which was being held at my house Thursday evening. Then Tony started prepping for his colonoscopy. We stayed home the rest of the day as he needed to be close to a bathroom. Then bright and early Thursday morning, we headed to the hospital. We got there at 7am and he was done by 9:30. We came home and ate breakfast and he was ready for solids. We relaxed the remainder of the day until the ladies showed up at 6PM.

Klynn laughed as she came in and said she got her Christmas down before me!!  lol I am certainly late this year. We had 7 ladies counting myself. Luva, Elizabeth, and Effie on the couch, and Joyce back in the recliner.

Klynn and Jennie and myself. It was a good discussion on the book.  I was the only one who got it completely done which surprised me a lot. Klynn said she speed read it, skipping quite a bit because she didn't like all the history in the beginning. Jenni, Luva, and Elizabeth  didn't read it at all and Effie was almost done but not quite and Joyce just read a bit on line and she said it was only about 100 pages. None the less, we got the gist of the story and discussed it thoroughly. lol  I served the cake and then the ladies went home around 7:30.  Tony and I watched an episode of Hawaii 5/O and then went to our room and read scriptures before going to sleep. I was so tired because I didn't sleep well the previous night. I slept pretty good on Thursday night.  We got up and went to the gym this morning and then when we came home, Tony helped me bring Christmas tubs into the back room and I started taking down .

I did pretty well considering how much I have. Tony helped me take down the pictures and hang up the regular ones. Then I'd fill several tubs and he would take them out to the garage and put them on the shelves. I am still working on the tree and I have the Christmas village to take down....BUT, everything else is put away. My back was hurting so bad, that after lupper, I went up and took a very hot shower. It felt so good. It's now time for bed as we serve in the temple tomorrow morning. It will be a busy day as we are going back to the temple tomorrow evening to do baptisms. Yeti, Liz and Brenda are going with Tony and me and Tammy and Chris are coming with the 2 boys. It will be Brenda's 1st time and also little Tony 1st time. 

1ST FEW DAYS OF THE WEEK! BUSY

Sunday was sweet! We go to church at noon now so we slept in. Man, that feels good! It is such a joy to go and renew our covenants as we take the sacrament. I love my Savior, Jesus Christ. I want to follow Him so I can return home one day and be with my parents and family who have gone on before. One day at a time. Our sunday School class was incredible. Brother Shorzman taught and he is a really great teacher. He got so much class participation and all  the comments were so insightful! Looking forward to his classes.

We had invited the sisters and Liz over for dinner and some New Member fellowship for Liz.

I  made a Wild Rice casserole that Heather said was good. I had a salad and garlic bread to go along.  We had a great visit and Liz expressed her desire to get her endowment. She is really coming along in her Gospel journey. She and another new member sister and Yeti, are all going with us this coming Saturday evening to do baptisms. It will be Liz's 2nd time and Brenda's 1st. Yeti has gone several times so he will be helping baptize.

After dinner and our visit, we took pictures because the sister's had an appointment.

I plan on taking (well, starting to take ) down my Christmas decor after Book Club, this coming Thursday.  I'm enjoying it for now.

Monday, we went to the gym late. 10AM LATE !! Pat had a doctor appointment and I told her we'd go when she could. She was happy about that. lol It was Martin Luther King day and wow, was the gym ever busy!! We walked and had a good visit catching, up about our weekend.  She is such a generous friend. She got me a box of Pomegranate seeds that come in 4 cups. AND, she gave me two special oranges that have a big tips on the end of them and they peal so easily. I saw them at Costco and they are spendy!!

 

When we got home from the gym, Tony got our Christmas gift from Debbie and Robin, hung up on the back patio. It's a wooden dragon wind chime. Pretty cool!! 

 We got a text from Tammy on Monday asking if we wanted to come for dinner. Katie cooks 3 nights a week and she was making a Seafood boil.

We said we'd go and it was a great choice!!

She had shrimp, crab legs, potatoes, sausage and corn on the cob.

She did a great job and we all enjoyed it. Except for Corbin.  He only ate the corn on the cob. lol

Katie is getting to be a good little cook. Glad we got to be some of her guinea pigs. ANYTIME, seriously!!

Tuesday morning, we went to the temple. Sister Brown went with us again. We did 3 endowments, 35 sealings and 15 initiatory. It was a wonderful day.  After dropping Sister Brown off, we came home, and changed our clothes and then went to the church to set up tables and chairs for the  Relief Society activity this evening.

The activity was our 1st for the new year. We had a tea party and a cookie exchange. 

We also played games and visited. Our table played UNO  at the table I was at. We were having so much fun that when the sister missionaries came, they sat with us. We played 4 rounds and it was a lot of fun. I didn't win even once but we weren't keeping score so no big deal. lol 

We have such sweet sister's in our ward.

Liz said later that she wished she'd sat with us because we were having so much fun. lol  WE DID!!

Lois Patterson decorated our table with a tea pot and two tea cups that she'd made with her Cricut. She has told me she would come over and teach me how to use mine but we just haven't found the time. She works and I always have something going on. 

Maybe one of these days.

After it was over, she gave me one of the tea cups. It is so clever. I've got to learn how to do this. Well, the week isn't over and it just keeps getting busier.  Guess it keeps me out of trouble. lol

FRIDAY, ALREADY!!

We got up at 7:15 and got ready to go to the gym. It wasn't as foggy this morning but still some fog.  We did our walking and visiting and then home we came. Stopped at Lynn's 1st  and put her mail in her house. Not sure when she'll be coming home but her health is getting better all the time, as is ours. 

While eating breakfast, I admired my Amaryllis. All four flowers are opened up and it is beautiful.  

I'm thinking that I may get another stem that will have blooms eventually. Time will tell.  Beauty and enjoyment in the little things.

Tony and I went to Costco on Monday and they had HOKA tennis shoes on sale. We have so many friends who have them and they LOVE them. We'd looked at them at some shoe stores but they were too expensive.  They were still $119.00 at Costco but that beat $175.00 and up at the other stores. SO, Tony and I tried them on and they were so comfortable!! We both got a pair and I have been walking in them all week (well, since Tuesday) and it feels like i'm walking on pillows. I love them so much. I even look forward to getting up to go walking!  lol