Recitals

Two weeks ago we were at one of our granddaughter's dance recital, today we were at the oldest granddaughter's violin recital and two weeks from now we have #3 granddaughter's choir AND dance recital to go to!  The kids work so hard all year and they really do a good job so we're really blessed to be able to go see them...even if it does mean running all over the place!

Victoria Day

We were at one of our parks for a few days and on Saturday they had a "tea party" in honour of Queen Victoria, complete with games, tea, goodies, candy and of course a birthday cake.  Afterwards we played bowling on the Wii game...I even won...in real life bowling I usually end up throwing a lot of gutter balls, but not this time...I could get hooked on this Wii!!!!  Our friends R&F were also there and we had such a great time we decided to meet at Silver Reef Casino on Monday for their seniors buffet.

Yesterday morning I went to my last Ladie's bible study for the year then after supper I went back to the church to watch our youngest granddaughter practice for her choir performance then stayed for our "Women 2 Women" ministry.  One of the ladies was showing us how she makes bread, buns and even coffee cake from a yeast dough.  She also had an assortment of jams there that she had made so she told us how she does them....she cooks them in her crock pot, uses no pectin and very little suger...wow...my kind of jam.  When I got home last night I scouted out some fruit from my canning room and set up my little slow cooker and let the stuff brew all night.  Today I made the jam...turned out good...now what else can I make jam from????

Mother's Day

Hope all you Mothers out there had a great Mother's Day...I certainly did!  Last year Mother's Day was bittersweet because we thought it would be the last Mother's Day with my Mom.  Mom's doing well.  Don't know if it's all the carrot juice and supplements she's been taking or what, but whatever it is, it's great that we still have her with us...everyday is a blessing!

After church we stopped to see Mom and #1 daughter also stopped by.  Came home for lunch and #2 daughter called and so did our son.  Our friends called and invited us up for pizza and coffee, so we went up there and had a lovely visit.  They're upset because they were supposed to go away but someone tried to break into their motorhome by putting a crowbar to the door.  They sure wrecked up the door, didn't manage to get in but in the process broke the door handle as well.  Now no one can get in or out of the motorhome and ICBC has to send someone out to make the claim and arrange for it to be fixed, because you can't get in to drive it to the center.  Apparently it'll take 8 weeks to order a new door, so it doesn't look like they'll get out anytime soon!  It's when I hear things like this that I'm so grateful that our trailer is in the shop, out of sight and unaccessable to those who think only of them selves and destroy property...for what?...a few dollars, if that???

Date Night

B and I went on a "date night" tonight.  Today I noticed an ad in the local paper that the casino is having "date nights" every Thursday evening in May.  You get a 2 for 1 meal and a $10 slot play, so we decided to check it out.  It's held in the lounge and there's a special menu which gives you a choice of one of two salads, one of four entrees and one of two desserts.  We both had Ceaser Salad, B had the steak and I had the wild salmon fillet with dill sauce and we both had the black forest cake...all this for $25...and we got to watch the Canucks on the BIG BIG screen TV!  It was fun and the food was done to perfection!  A couple of times we got so excited about the Canucks, I was afraid we would choke...but we didn't...just really enjoyed ourselves.  Then we went and cashed in the coupon for 2-$5.00 slot tickets...only problem was the slot tickets went through the machines really fast!!!

Soul Surfer

A couple weeks ago we had a 2 for 1 movie pass so went to see "Paul".  It was a funny movie and could have been very good, but why does Hollywood think that movies are better when there's lots of swearing and leud sexual comments in it???? 

We still had another 2 for 1 pass which will expire tomorrow and since the Canucks are playing; and we can't miss the game, so we decided to go to the movies tonight.  We opted to see "Soul Surfer".  What a great movie!!!  Based on a true story of a teenager who loses her arm to a shark while surfing and how she deals with it and makes a comeback to the surfing that she loves so much.  Guess what???...no swearing, no great sex scenes...just a very heartfelt story!  We were at the early show so there was only one other family of four in the theater...when we were camping on the weekend there 8 of us in our daughter and son-in-law's trailer watching a movie, and again the next day watching the hockey game...quite a difference!

Happy Easter Everyone

Hope everyone is having a great Easter Sunday.  We're at Cultus Lake.  Our daughter, son-in-law and grandkids are parked a couple sites away from us so we've been spending some quality time with them...it's been great!  Weather has been great the until this afternoon when it started to rain...but it's not raining that hard.  We will get together tonight and have Easter dinner together.

Nature's Remedy...Chicken Soup

There's been so many colds going around and we've both been feeling sluggish and not up to par lately so the other day I took a stewing chicken out of the freezer and made a big pot of chicken broth, then used the meat to make chicken chow mein, then put some meat in the broth along with some veggies and maccaroni...soup and chow mein was supper last night.  Tonight I took the rest of the chicken, some onions and celery and cooked that up in alfredo sauce and served it on noodles...yummy!  The only problem with all this cooking is the MESS IT MAKES!!!  I've washed more pots and pans in the last couple of days!!!  But at least I've got enough so I don't have to do much cooking for a couple more days!

One of the motion sensors on our alarm system has been giving off false signals.  This invariably happens when we're away and our daughter has to come down and check things out.  I finally got around to contacting the alarm company and today the technician came down and replaced all three motion sensors...hopefully they'll work properly now!

It was sure nice to see the sun today.  B even cut the grass yesterday and today for the first time this year.