It is all quiet this chilly sunny Sunday morning. A week ago, I was here on my own with four dogs while Steve and Sarah were visiting Julina in Indiana. Sarah and her dogs drove away yesterday morning and stayed last night in Aurora, Colorado. She will be back in Ogden this evening. While I don't miss the dog hair (Bones is the WORST at shedding), I will greatly miss having Sarah here. We have already started a list of things to do when she comes next.
Some of the highlights of this past week with her include the three of us going to the temple Tuesday morning, Steve and Sarah visiting the World Bird Sanctuary on Wednesday morning (this is becoming a yearly tradition), Sarah and I doing some painting together Wednesday and Thursday afternoon and all three of us heading to the Mississippi River very early on Friday morning to try to catch the sunrise and to see bald eagles. Beckie and Sarah went to Historic St. Charles together on Thursday and Sarah spent two times this past week with Emily and family. We watched "Rons Gone Wrong" together Thursday night. Below are photo highlights of our week with Sarah...
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| When Beckie came over to pick up Sarah. Sally has become her "baby" as you can see |
Brrrr - it was REALLY COLD Friday morning.
Here is Sarah ready to drive away with her puppers already loaded in the car
Melanie Johnsen turns 50 today and she came to St. Louis to celebrate with us Friday and Saturday. She brought a dozen gluten-free cupcakes to share and we enjoyed a delicious birthday dinner Friday night. We went together to the temple Friday afternoon (Sarah was with Emily so she didn't go) and we watched "Singing in the Rain" after dinner. Saturday morning, after Sarah left, we watched most of the "Music Man" before she needed to leave for Emily's for her Fiftieth Birthday Photo Session.
A few years ago, Sarah made us a cute nativity ornament on a tree cookie and I loved it so much I asked her to help me make a whole bunch for gifting next Christmas.
We did some watercolor, too.
Back in the summer, I bought assorted colors of polymer clay (Femo, Sculpy, etc) for a grandkid project and we didn't use it all up. I needed to make a carrot nose for a snowman pillow I sewed this past week so I just decided to use up all the extra clay to make things for the doll house and to make three little birds.
Finally, I had acquired two small lidded baskets over the past couple of months (the larger one was on the ground next to a trash can and the smaller one was at a thrift store). They were in great condition but had outdated pictures on the lids. So, I painted primitive sheep on them to match the other primitive sheep pictures I have in my kitchen. I am happy with how they turned out - and, because they were "primitive", there was a lot of room for mistakes.
All in all, a busy, satisfying week and going forward, it will be time to resume a weekly routine in a brand new year.
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