10/31/17

Finished Project / Halloween 2017


I've been saving Halloween fabric for years and finally finished up a quilt as you go strip table runner.  Wow, can you say procrastination!  Halloween was quiet this year  We again only had the 5 kids who live behind us come to the door.  The senior center had a party for the seniors so Gma and I dressed up.  They had lunch, door prizes, and lots of games.

10/18/17

A Baby Shower - at a Brewery!

At the end of August while Lisa was in town and Meredith was still in town we had a baby shower for Valerie and Eric.  We reserved a party room at New Terrain Brewery in Golden and it worked out really well.  Lisa and I made all of the food...............Chicken salad, Egg Salad, Pasta Salad, Fruit Salad, and 4 varieties of bar cookies.  Beer and Kombucha were available from the brewery.  Val and Eric received lots of great gifts and it was a fun time.  We played a few games and the most popular one was trying to get a hot dog tied around your waist into a bottle on the floor.




















 It was wonderful that Dani and Blakely were able to come from Salt Lake and that Disa was able to come from California.

10/5/17

Gma turns 92!

Grandma turned 92 on August 25th and wanted to have a quiet birthday this year.  We decided to give her some birthday experiences.............the year she turned 90 we took her on a train ride in the Royal Gorge.  This year a couple of weeks before her birthday Valerie and I took her to see the Zoppe Italian Family Circus where she was treated like royalty and had a front row seat!
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Click above for the last time we went to see the circus.  The baby is now a little boy and has a big part in the act as a clown dressed like his dad.


Lisa came for the weekend of Gma's birthday and we went to the zoo to see the giraffes.  The Cheyenne Mt. Zoo is great but a little hilly.  The giraffe exhibit is one of the best and close to the entrance.  We also drove thru the zoo and up to the Will Roger's Shrine.  The views were beautiful and the music plays about every 15-30 minutes.

Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun, also known as Will Rogers Shrine, is a commemorative tower and chapel on Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It is named for Will Rogers, the American humorist, who died in a plane crash in Alaska in 1935 during construction of the shrine. It is also a tomb for the remains of Spencer Penrose – who built many of the city's prominent properties, including the neighboring Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and The Broadmoor resort – and his wife Julie. Completed by Penrose in 1937, the shrine is a 100 feet (30 m), five story observation tower that overlooks The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, and Garden of the Gods.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994 for its artistic and architectural qualities.Image result for will rogers shrine
 We went out to dinner later, Stan and Bea took her out to dinner later in the week, and she had a birthday massage for the Banks'