Happy Birthday to our great niece, Lily! It is her 6th birthday!
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Day 17, Friday, January 17, 2025
Kai got his Christmas card from us, today. It came back in the mail, but they delivered his brothers card. What the heck. They live in New York City.
Day 16, Thursday, January 16, 2025
We had our appointments at customs for Global Entry. We got our TSA pre-approval in June. Mine came through out 2 weeks after our appt in June. Jim's finally came through in December. This was the first appt available.
Day 15, Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Lisa, Pam and I met for lunch in Washington at Blue Margarita! We had so much fun talking, laughing and catching up after Christmas. We are planning to get to together again soon!
Day 14, Tuesday, January 14, 2025
I volunteered at Take Two Resale Boutique, this afternoon. I try to help a couple of hours a day, two days a week while Jim is taking his nap! We have been doing really good selling our Totes for Ta-Ta's purses!
Day 13, Monday, January 13, 2025
This cat is always on the look out to "get" somebody! You can see it in those eyes of his!
Day 12, Sunday, January 12, 2025
We went to eat dinner at Cracker Barrel. I always get the grilled chicken tenders and Jim always gets the Pot Roast. While we wait for our food, I play the golf tee game. Tonight there were 4 tees missing! Guess I will have to take my own tees next time!
Saturday, January 11, 2025
Day 11, Saturday, January 11, 2025
A friend invited me to an event for Stampin' Up! It has been a few years since I went to a Stampin' Up! event. I enjoyed making these cards and viewing a ton of cards made with their products!
Day 10, Friday, January 10, 2025
I have done "December Daily" project for 11 years. 2024 is the 12th year. This is the first time I have not even started the class until January. This afternoon I watched and cut the papers in the first video. I hope I can get it finished this month.
Day 9, Thursday, January 9, 2025
As the "boutique manager" for Totes, (this is not a paid position) I keep a spreadsheet with the totals for the month from each of the boutiques we sell purses. Around April, I secretly set a goal of $10,000, for the year. I am so happy we busted right past that goal for 2024! Let's go, 2025!
Day 8, Wednesday, January 8, 2025
I needed a pedi desperately! A good friend gave me a gift certificate for Christmas. I went to get my toes done. I picked this pink polish because pink is my friends favorite color. After they were dry, I looked at the color and the name was "Princesses Rule". Just perfect!
Day 6, Tuesday, January 7, 2025
I worked this 499 piece puzzle. It was fun right up until I realized 1 piece was missing! ugh!
Day 6, Monday, January 6, 2025
The snow forecast was predicted to be a lot more than we got. Jim always cleans off a patch of grass for Coco.
Day 5, Sunday, January 5, 2025
I worked this puzzle this evening. It was a 500 piece puzzle so it was pretty quick!
Day 5, Saturday, January 4, 2025
We went to see the Muppets exhibit this morning. We got there are 9:45 and the line was estimated to be at least an hour and half long. Oh boy! We actually waited about 45 minutes. They had the line running all through the museum. We did enjoy it. Next time we will not wait until the last couple of days. This exhibit was leaving the country after showing in Peoria.
Day 3, Friday, January 3, 2025
We went to The Peoria Riverfront Museum to see the Muppets display. The wait was about 3 hours long. So we decided to come back tomorrow morning. We went to the Burger Barge for dinner.
Day 2, Thursday, January 2, 2025
This guy jumped up from the ground to get into the birdfeeder. There is a slinky on the pole through the hook. He didn't last very long, though.
Day 1, Wednesday, January 1, 2025
We noticed there wasn't any birds or squirrels in our yard for the last hour or so. I was in the kitchen washing my hands and looked out the window and saw this big bird. So we use google lens to find out what it was. It is a hawk. No wonder the other animals were no where to be seen. It stayed that way for at least an hour before anyone came back to our feeders.
Day 366, Tuesday, December 31, 2024
We had our traditional New Year's Eve dinner. The past few years it has just been me and Jim. We like having the Charcuterie board for our dinner. We added some soup, too! Happy New Year!
Day 365, Monday, December 30, 2024
Tonight we watched "The Holiday". This has always been one of my favorites.
Day 364, Sunday, December 29, 2024
We have been seeing this red headed woodpecker in our yard the past few days. It doesn't look very big when compared to the other birds. The feathers on his head are so very bright.
Day 361, Thursday, December 26, 2024
We started pulling down the Christmas decorations this morning after we exercised. It takes so much longer to put everything away.
Day 360, Wednesday, December 25, 2024
We had our traditional Christmas morning breakfast, stockings, gifts, lottery tickets and family. Merry Christmas! We watched a new to us Christmas movie tonight after everyone left. It was "A Christmas in Vermont". Chevy Chase was in it briefly.
Day 359, Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Our gifts from Stacie this year were Christmas Vacation theme. (We went to the Chevy Chase event at the Civic Center on the 16th.)
Day 358, Monday, December 23, 2024
I have been working on sorting the shells we got from Kice Island and Sanibel Island. I got them arranged into a circle of sorts. They still need to be cleaned but at least I got them put away for now.
Day 356, Saturday, December 21, 2024
I am at this time frame for completing anything for Christmas. Now it is cleaning and cooking and finishing the wrapping/bagging time.
Day 355, Friday, December 20, 2024
I put my Santa's in the sleigh with Rudolph leading the pack. You can't really see the sleigh, but I know it's there.
Day 354, Thursday, December 19, 2024
We watched a new Christmas movie tonight. The Red One starring "The Rock". It was pretty good, but different than we expected.
Day 353, Wednesday, December 18, 2024
We went with Scott and Elaine to Avanti's for the German Christmas Dinner. They enjoyed it very much. I wasn't as happy with the meal as they were, but that was ok. I ate the meat and potatoes.
Day 352, Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Jim put Slinky's on all the bird feeders. Our crazy squirrels will NOT leave the bird feeders alone. So far, they can't get up the poles. They eat the bird seed from the ground because the birds knock it out of the feeders.
Day 351, Monday, December 16, 2024
We went to the Peoria Civic Center to see "Christmas Vacation" on the big screen. After the movie was over, Chevy Chase and his wife did a Q&A with the crowd! Chevy Chase is 81 years old!! How did that happen. This was our Christmas gift from Stacie, this year. It was a fun night out. We wore our Christmas Vacation shirts that I had made in 2017.
Day 349, Saturday, December 14, 2024
We had a wonderful family Christmas at the Moose with the Smith side! Santa was a hit with the kids. We ordered food from Jimbo's Jumbo, had a gift exchange and watched the 4 great nieces and nephew rip through presents!
Day 348, Friday, December 13, 2024
We got to the airport about 6:30 a.m. for our 8:40 a.m. take off. Let me tell you that was the most disorganized check-in I have ever see in all my flights. We barely made it on the plane before the doors closed!! There was snow on the ground when we got home. I had my sandals on because I shipped our wet tennis shoes home with the shells! Jim got the car and I picked up the luggage.
Day 347, Thursday, December 12, 2024
We went to Fisherman's Village. This is a nice little harbor still in recovery mode from hurricane damage. The harbor is still not usable. There were many little Christmas venues. It was super windy and most of the seating at the restaurants was outside, so we didn't eat lunch here.
Day 346, Wednesday, December 11, 2024
This morning we stopped at Sanibel Island. The island is still recovering from 2 hurricanes within a couple of weeks of each other. We were not able to go past the guard on the beach in front of the lighthouse. We walked down the other side of the island. It looked like it was going to rain and so it did. For about an hour. That huge beautiful shell in my palm is a shark eye, that was occupied by a hermit crab, so it had to stay at the beach!
Day 345, Tuesday, December 10, 2024
We got to the dock in Goodland at 6:15 a.m. The sun was just starting to rise. We took a boat out to Kice Island and walked about 2 1/2 miles looking for shells! We were on the island for about 4 hours. We got loads of shells! It was so much fun! I can't wait to do this again!
Day 344, Monday, December 9, 2024
We are on our way to Marco Island, Florida. We have a shelling cruise booked for tomorrow morning to shell at one of the 10,000 islands.
Day 343, Sunday, December 8, 2024
Jim and I went to the Peoria Riverfront Museum Christmas in the Village this evening. It was really nice! We have never gone before, but will go back again, I am sure.
Day 342, Saturday, December 7, 2024
Stacie and I went to an auction type fund raiser at the moose this afternoon. The Women of the Moose sponsor this event to help less fortunate families in our town.
Day 341, Friday, December 6, 2024
I had my mammogram this morning. I got the results, no changes since last year, no cancer and my breasts are mostly fatty tissue...how rude!
Day 340, Thursday, December 5, 2024
We watched the Great Christmas Light Fight! On my, there are some pretty awesome, over the top, and beautiful light displays around the country. East Peoria actually won a couple of years ago.
Day 339, Wednesday, December 4, 2024
We went to eat lunch at Kelleher's in downtown Peoria. They have an entire room decorated for Christmas events.
Day 338, Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Jim is trying to get more steps in his day. Tonight he went for a walk at Wal-Mart. He kept sending me pictures. Oh, boy!
Day 337, Monday, December 2, 2024
We had our Christmas party at Jason's Deli. Very small group, but still so much fun. Merry Christmas, friends!
Day 336, Sunday, December 1, 2024
We went to see the movie "Wicked"! It was really good. I love the music, sets and colors!
Day 335, Saturday, November 30, 2024
Stacie came to Take Two this afternoon during the Christmas Open House. I was the door greeter, Totes flyer, treats and drawing supervisor! LOL
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