The Day before Christmas and all through the house....

Pretzels, Kisses, & M&M's.  

All my babies together in DEN

Mimi Day

I hadn't seen Boo or Shelby in two weeks so I was ready for a Mimi Day. Boo had his first basketball game the night before and he did awesome. After he came and gave me a hug and he smelled so good. Flash back from junior high and the roller skating rink. I guess it was his musk deodorant. He asked if he could go home with us and as we were walking to the car he asked me "Mimi, will you please sit in the backseat with me?"  Tom and I laughed. Guess he missed me. He's somewhere between musk cologne and still loving his mimi. I'll just enjoy it as long as I can.

fri. its raining so i guess we ll go home today. At least Sindy & I got a jog in trying to get back to the resort.

Rain can't stop him from enjoying the pool. 

thurs. sindy and i got soaked on our morning walk. it looked like we were in a wet t-$hirt contest. .after breakfast she taught us a fun new card game called sevens. then it cleared up for a little while. and we hung out at the pool. then it poured so we had a nice nap before our dinner reservations. and then a last dance at egos before going to bed.

 Our last night and we are relaxed to the max in the egos bar.

Swimming in the infinity pool.

Had second thoughts on this one but it was to late.....

We all loved this habenero soup and so we got the recipe.

wed

Our morning started about 6am on the balcony  looking at black clouds moving our way
  they miraculously moved to the north and missed us.
We went on our morning walk to the far point. Tom swears it was 6 miles (maybe 5). We finally found a few seashells there. After that we needed breakfast and a long nap.  Then pool time where the people watching is incredible. I brought 2 books and haven't opened one. we met holly st. George celebrating her 40th birthday and shooting  everyone with her squirt guns including us that were close by. She said she was in the military and ready to bomb whoever needed it. Scary.  Her gay girlfriend got annoyed and left. Then we met the cutest couple from England in there early 30s sitting next to us all day and visited with them for a long time. World peace in the making....and the guy with the body and the orange neon spandex who Mike told he thought he'd retire and become a porn star down here and the guy told Mike men porno stars don't make any money but girls make bank and started quoting the pay scale.  As he and his girlfriend left the pool area he hugged all the employees and waved to everyone around the pool like they were royalty.  Quite an exit.
Couples massages at 6. So relaxed heading to bed early again.  Another good day. Our week almost over.

Room Service for Breakfast. Yes Please. 

tues

Isle of mujeras . ferry broke down. Engine went out as we were leaving dock. Turned around and waited for a new one. Golf carts. Hardly any seashells. Playa Norte beach. One of travel channels top 10 beaches n the world. Italian rest for dinner. Double desserts (tiramasu)  by mistake. Egos bar but with no nap- we were in bed by 10. (8 our time)

mon

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.