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Long morning walk on beach, breakfast, beach time, lunch, nap, shopping, asian dinner, great band in egos bar, midnight walk on beach. Wide awake because had such a good nap....oh and I told our waiter I liked the centerpiece at dinner and he gave it to me. I offered to buy it and he told me to just take it. Score....

View for the day. 

sunday

Just the normal- long walk on beach, breakfast, nap, lay by pool, lunch, Walk on beach again, read, shower, amazing dinner, lay on lounge chair and listen to live band and look up at stars. Crawl in bed and watch the Broncos win in overtime, Be thankful, A very good day. 

 Decorated room with candles, rose pedals and m&m' s.

Thanksgiving Project 2015

Tom and I helped deliver meals again this year in Tooele thanks to  Denny's for making over 800 meals. Our first delivery was to a trailer and I saw beer cans in the trash. They didn't answer the door or the phone # we had so we took that one back. The 2nd was 11 meals to a Mexican family who could not speak English. They were really happy to see us and had the best smiles. I practiced my Spanish counting to 11 and wanted to tell them we were going to Cancun on Sat, but didn't. The 3rd had a full large bottle of beer sitting in the driveway next to their car. They had a sign on the door that they were in the shower and to leave it on the front porch.(Maybe someone was delivering beer also to go with the meals?)  I told Tom I was not going to judge but I really enjoyed delivering to the little old ladies last year much better than the trailer court. And it was a good day even tho we weren't with family. 

Miss Shelby.

after her bath. 

Ride em cowgirl.

checking out Michael Jackson cabbage patch doll. 

We house hunted on Sunday. Thought we found the perfect one, but it wasn't meant to be.

The backyard was fun at this house, but the house was Yuk.

Then we came home and watched the Bronco Game and Grandma brought green chili over. 

and Liam fell asleep at the dinner table. 

Monday Nov. 16th. K was sick and missed school.

Cotton Candy for the birthday party. K was sick and didn't leave the couch most of the day. 

There's always that one picture! Love this one.

Den Trip-Mom's and Dad's 61st Anniversary

We landed around 12:30 and met mom, dad, lori, tom and lacey at Ted's Montana Grille for a late lunch to celebrate mom and dad's 61st anniversary. 

Looking good after being married 61 years. 

Then we went to Brenda's art show and saw Tatum and Lana also.  

And finally ended up at our kiddos. These two slept with me and we had story time. 

Even Clay said this is the cutest book I've ever brought them. 

Mimi Day-Shopping at Costco and NPS with these two kidddos and their momma.

"Do you want Santa to bring you a teddy bear for Christmas?"

I'm a shopper...not a big spender but I Love to shop. Chels~not so much. I have days when I'm shopping all alone and see mothers and daughters shopping and I'm kind of sad. So yesterday I convinced Chels and Boo that we should go to Costco and pick up my new glasses and run by NPS to get Batman cotton candy for Killian's birthday party. Neither of them were too excited but Papa threw in a $20.00 bill for Boo and he was on board. And Chels decided she'd like some food from Costco. So it was a fun day, it was an exhausting day. But with a 9 yr old and a 1 yr old lets just say it was challenging. And maybe, just maybe  I should appreciate my shopping time alone. And I also appreciate why it may be easier for Chels to just stay home some days. 

The Addams Family Play presented by Stansbury High School. They did an awesome job.

We took Boo and his new step brother Carson to the play Fri night. I used to watch it on TV and loved it. I forgot how much Morticia and Gomez loved each other. There was quite a controversy on the Stansbury FB Page saying it wasn't appropriate for kids. I wish they would look beyond the cuss word and look at the message it was giving. 

Love and accepting everyone even tho we're all different. 

I saw a quote last week saying "Grandparents love us when we forget to love ourselves". Just this week Chels told me she talked to Grandma and she's always been her biggest cheerleader. And I talked to Dad this morning and he was telling me about Liam and how he makes his heart smile he loves him so much. 

And on a totally different note, the LDS church announced this week that children of gay parents can not become members. 

Boo has struggled with getting a new step brother and step mom at his Dad's house. But hopefully if we can all try to love one another a little more we'll survive. And as for grandparents: we don't even have to try when it comes to loving our grand babies. 

How much is that doggy in the window? How about the cologne?

For today's Mimi Day we went to City Creek. We told Boo how big the trout had grown since he was last there so that convinced him to go. I had bought a summer dress and the store had left the security tag on it plus I bought a sweater with fringe that I decided looked like a tablecloth once I got home so it was returned.  Boo is also starting to like cologne so while in Nordstrom we went to the cologne counter hoping to get samples but all they do now is spray it on a paper and let you smell. We tried several and Boo found one he liked. We looked at the price at it was $65.00 for a small bottle. Boo said NO WAY.  I'm so glad he knows the value of a dollar. Guess we'll be heading to Wal Mart to try their colognes out. 

'"OLD AGE, A LUXURY DENIED BY MANY!" Happy to celebrate another birthday when I think of it like that.

   My birthday month has finally come to an end. It was the warmest Oct in history in Utah and we ate vegetables from our garden all month.
   We went to Wendover Fri night with Marsha & Gary and watched Air Supply. They're an 80's band (and almost in their 80's) but they were really good. We had 3rd row seats and the venue was really nice. We stayed up until 3AM and then met Marta & Terry for breakfast at 9AM. After breakfast we headed to Boo's last football game of the season in W. Jordan followed by lunch. It was
Shelby's 1st time at a McDonald's and of course she loved it.
   Boo has asked me ever since his first game if I would make him a football DVD of all his games. So since it was his last game he was ready to start it TODAY. We explained he could come home with us but we HAD to have a NAP first. So while we were napping he went through all the videos and numbered the ones he wanted in his DVD. I was impressed and we both enjoyed working on it. I told him it would take about a month to make it.  The next morning as soon as he woke up,  he was texting asking if he could come work on it some more. So we worked on it all day and got finished. A couple cute things he said were" Mimi, now I know why you make so many videos. This is so fun." and  "Mimi I get all tingly when I watch my video".  I told him that was called goose bumps. So we got it finished and on facebook and youtube and he was a happy little guy.
   Wendell & Carole came in the afternoon and spent the night. We went to La Fountain and Wendell measured for our new hardwood floors.So excited for them.

Boo decorated her pants and she's cheering him on. 

They LOVE their Papa. 

 These kids follow Shelby everywhere she goes. She is the star of the sidelines. 

Air Supply sang lots of  love songs.

"You get toys at this place?"