STAMPING WITH THE GIRLS AGAIN

On Thursday, July 23rd, we went to Lois' home and stamped.

Donna's card

Rhonda's card

Tim Holtz's Crazy Birds

NYC

Finally took the time to do my hair because I was going to NYC Baby!!

Me and Susan Garry on the train!!

The ticket puncher guy!!!

Waiting in the ticket room at Grand Central Station!  Beautiful murals.

Me, Sue Keown and Susan Garry eating dinner at Carmine's!

 We went to see a play called "Hand to God"

BLEAH!

Got home about 1:30  we were pooped!!

HILL REUNION 2015

Because of my gimpy knee I was not able to take but these few pictures. 

Thanks Martha Hill for sending me all your pictures!! 

Jack and his cousin Martha.

Shadow sleeping on Martha's feet.

Reunion sign!!

Jack and Rebecca

2 guests and Lorna

The whole fam damily!

Johanna and Nancy

Uncle Al & Bill

THIS WEEK.............

Sunday.............

Met up with Susan and we went to the movies, saw Love and Mercy about Brian Wilson,  I did not like it.  Sad and bounced all over the walls.  Could have done a much better job.  We went to dinner at the local restaurant called Charcoal Chef, average age.....92!  Heard they have the best cocktails in town!!  

Monday..........

Had a wonderful dinner with Cheryl and Herb Carlson (a Taft classmate from '61), we've be getting together every year for the past 10 years!  They always find great plays or musicals for us to see, but this time with my knee we stayed close and went to dinner at San Remo.  It was excellent and a great time was had by all.

Tuesday..........

Trivia night with Jake & Jordie Smith!!

Love this one of them smiling!!!

We met up at T.G.I.Friday's and ate then moved into the bar to play trivia!  We had a blast!!

Trivia question:
What movie is this quote from? "With great power comes great responsibility"
Our brainy friend, Jake Smith, says "Frost/Nixon"
and the answer was: Spiderman!
LOL we had a great laugh at that one.

Wednesday......

Went into the common room to watch "Jeopardy", then "Big Bang Theory"  Jack gets a call about 8:20 asking where he was.....he was supposed to be teaching "Math Lab"!!!  Ruht roh!

Thursday.......

Lois picked me up and we headed to her house to stamp with Rhonda Gillis Sands and Donna Watson-Gourley.  As always we had a blast, laughed, snorted, ate lunch and stamped!!!

Later that evening I had Elle and Matt Clifford come over to stamp with me!  We had a blast!!

 It was a CIRCUS, but not MY monkeys!!!

SO THIS IS WHAT I'VE DONE SO FAR...............

Hurt my knee pushing furniture and now I'm paying for it!!

After Chiropractor giving me ice pads, ortho giving me a shot, I'm doing better.

We had 2 x-rays and one MRI.

Yup torn Meniscus, Arthur(ritis) and a piece of bone hanging from my femur!

So this is my leg getting iced (iced baby)

But if you want to come play, come pick me up and drive me where I dont have to walk too far and we can git 'er done!

My buddy Susan Garry came over and helped me unpack and put things away!

I'll forever be indebted to her!

Me and my Shadow!

Then.........
one day Susan Garry took me to the movies, $2.00 Each to get in.  It's our favorite theatre!!  Then we tried the famous Frankies  Hot Dogs...everything was FRIED, but I abstained!!  Had a hot dog and a Mr. Pibb and I wasn't affected at all!!

Then........
Sue Peck came by and we tried a little restaurant but it was horrible, then we came back and chilled and waited for Susan to come by and the 3 of us headed out to dinner and ended up at San Remo's Italian Restaurant.  It was delicious!  The girls had Tiramisu and it was huge!

Then.......
Stamping, but I've already posted those

Then......
Patti Owen Taylor, my shy quiet librarian friend, wanted to go to the Casino again this year!  Well being the good friend that I am, I went with her! LOL  I limped around to find the Keno area and Patti went into the "non smoking" area.  We've got our system down pretty good now!  We had lots of laughs and had a great time.

More great plans to be filled in as they are done!!

SUMMER READING..... SO FAR!

This author is fabulous!  

I love all her books, wish she would write more!!

They are magical!

It was OK, but they kept repeating memories and I just wished they would have gotten to it!!

Almost finished with this page turner!  Can hardly put it down.

STAMPING WITH MY FRIEND LOIS

Didn't she do a great job??

This is her stamp set, so I borrowed it to make this card.

She made one of her own, but still had to tweek it!

CRAZY STAMPING!!

Made some thank you cards and sent them out!!

Using only the New In-Colors!

This last one is a twist on the Boke Technique...I added dots inside of dots.  

They ended up looking like boobs, which a lot of my friends are!!

I'M THE BIRTHDAY LADY!

I made lots of cards for July birthdays!  Here are the samples of some of them!

WHAT IN THE WORLD HAVE WE BEEN DOING???

STAMPING

With Donna Watson-Gourley, Lois Lavigne and Rhonda Gillis-Sands