November 10, 2021
I just love when all the leaves start changing colors. There’s this great neighborhood around the corner from Janet’s place and I got some great pics of the trees and leaves when I went out for my walks.
November 7, 2021
Once we left the hotel after a fun wedding weekend we headed over to Lizzy & JD’s house for the afternoon. It gave us all a chance to see their new house and also just relax and spend more time together.
Across the street from Lizzy’s is this cute little farm stand. It sells fresh veggies, eggs, chicken, plus some flowers and craft stuff. It’s all on the honor system. There’s a lock box there or a number you can Venmo your payment. 
Their house was great and a big highlight was riding JD’s stand up mower. I’d never seen anything like it and he brought it out for us to take a turn trying it out. I only have a picture of Alicia on it but I did take a turn and it was awesome.
November 6, 2021
It’s wedding day!! It was such a great day and perfect wedding. The ceremony was outside and so pretty. There was an awesome happy hour with any type of food you could imagine and then a great dinner at the reception with the most amazing band that entertained us all night long.
After the reception was over, they had an after party at the indoor pool and slide. They had more food, a taco bar and still more drinking as the open bar continued.
November 5, 2021
I flew to NY with Alicia to go to Lizzy’s wedding. It was supposed to be last year but because of Covid it was postponed til this year. Lizzy and JD still were married but in Diane’s backyard with a small group. So this year was the wedding they had planned at the resort they reserved with all their guests. Plus their new baby Charlie!!
The wedding was at a place called Crystal Springs Country Club. It was such a nice place and turned out great because everyone stayed at the resort for the whole weekend. Since we were out of town guests we were invited to the rehearsal dinner. These are a few pics of the resort and rehearsal dinner.
October 31, 2021
It was time for the kids to go trick or treating. Alicia stayed with the Mickey Mouse theme from Eli’s birthday a couple weeks earlier and the whole family dressed up.
They ended up with a pretty good haul.
October 26, 2021
Today was another sad day. It was Teresa’s funeral and it was tough. The service was really nice and when the singer sang “I Can Only Imagine” there was not a dry eye in the church.
After the church service we went to the cemetery where Teresa’s urn will be buried. Again, lots of tears being shed. So hard to believe this has happened.
October 23, 2021
It’s time for Eli’s “Oh TWOodles” party. It was at Tumbleweed Park in Chandler and the whole party was Mickey Mouse themed. Everything was so cute.
September 5, 2022
What happened to the pic of the day for the rest of 2021? Well…..I’m not really sure. I fell behind and then the farther I fell behind the more I kept feeling like I’d never catch up. And then I just kind of let it go. But looking back I have so many great things to post about so I’m going to work on catching up from last year and then keep going to catch up and get everything current.
I do know I’m not doing to catch up the whole blog by doing the pic of a day for every day but will catch up with some posts about stuff here and there from Oct 2021 to current.
First post will be the next one. I have my work cut out for me so keep checking back to see what you missed.
October 19, 2021
Today’s Pic of the Day:
This was a memory that came up on Facebook. I can’t believe Janet and I hiked the canyon rim to rim 10 years ago. If you want to know the story, I made a post all about it on this blog. It’s quite a story, but there is one thing that is different now then 10 years ago. At the time I said I’d never do it again, but now I’m saying I’d do it again. Maybe some day we will.
October 18, 2021
Today’s Pic of the Day:
I am helping Alicia with stuff for Eli’s party. Today I put together this frame for some pictures. The theme for the party is Mickey Mouse…..Oh TWOdles!!
October 17, 2021
Today’s Pic of the Day:
Kev is always making funny of me because for the one game I play, Hydration Nation, you have to take a picture of yourself drinking water. He decided he wanted to be in it today.
October 16, 2021
Today’s Pic of the Day:
I went up to Flag for an overnight with my friends June and Kim. We went up to Munds Park where our other friend Kathy has a new cabin. We came up last night and today went in to downtown Flagstaff to wander around and eat. Found some cute shops and a fun bar to grab a drink. We ate at a yummy Mexican restaurant. To finish the day we played some card games.
October 15, 2021
Today’s Pic of the Day:
This is Yvonne & Greg’s dog Tucker. I went to check on Tucker cause they were gonna be home all day so I went to let him out.
October 14, 2021
Today’s Pic of the Day:
Today is Eli’s 2nd birthday. I went over to see him and the other kids just to hang out for a while. He’s having a birthday party on the weekend.
October 12, 2021
Today’s Pic of the Day:
I got home last night around 3:30 am. We all left the facility after packing all Teresa’s stuff and stuff in the room. I got home and crawled into bed. Usually Kev doesn’t wake up when I come to bed but somehow he knew I was there and he woke up and rolled over and just held me while I cried myself to sleep. It was rough. He knew I needed him. ❤️
October 11, 2021
Today’s Pic of the Day:
This is a hard post for me to write. It’s actually taken me a while to be able to even do so. Teresa died this morning just after midnight. These last few days have included lots of emotions. Since Teresa had come to the facility she hasn’t been awake. Occasionally it seemed like she was listening to conversations but she never woke up or said anything. The nurse that had been on duty the last couple nights came on and talked to Mary and Greg and told them she saw a definite difference since the night before, she actually thought Teresa wouldn’t make it through the night. It was Mary, Greg, Colleen, Barbara, Alicia and I hanging out in the room. We sat and played some music talked about some Teresa stories and just filled the room with love. Around 11:30 Alicia went home and then Colleen decided to go check on the dog and cat around 12:15. We, Mary, Greg, Barbara and I were settling in to spend the night. Mary went down the hall to brush her teeth and I looked at Teresa and she moved a little and I went over to talk to her and she kind of opened her eyes. I told her we were all there and we saw her and loved her. Mary came back and I told her to come here, Teresa’s eyes are open. Both her and Greg talked to her and then she just took her last breath. It was so peaceful. But so so sad. It was final. She was gone.
Colleen had been struggling with not being sure if she wanted to be there when it happened and we were all convinced that Teresa waited til she was gone. Colleen hadn’t been gone 15 mins when Teresa took her last breath. Greg called her and she came right back. It was hard knowing it was our last goodbye.
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