A Birthday and Updates ....

Last night we celebrated my friend, S's, birthday:

It was a big one:

And there were a lot of people there to celebrate with her:
We all had a good time. Her husband, S, rented a bus to drive most of down into the city. We went to a fabulous restaurant and I'm sure entertained everyone within ear shot, which would've been the entire restaurant!

Thanks, S, for such a fun evening and Happy Birthday, S!!

Today has been a quiet day. I spent a good portion of it paying bills and puttering around in the study, after church.

That was one of Jim's favorite activities ..... "puttering".

I'm missing him a lot today.

Heck, I'm missing him a lot every day.

I miss his puttering.

Here are some pictures from Minnesota:

This one isn't very good, but I was trying to get a picture of the dog, Peanuts, eating peas.

I know!

This dog would eat anything. I've never seen a dog eat vegetables before. Wish that would've worked as easily with my kids. :)

If you look closely you can see that these leaves are covered with frost. I haven't seen frost in the month of November in years and years. It was in the 20's that morning and I was cold.

This is the beautiful sunset at one of the many, many lakes:

I thought the water looked gorgeous with the reflection of the clouds:

And here are M and I at the Mall of America, right before going on the roller coaster:

And this is our friend J, who lives up there now (Hi, J!):

And there we are on the front row!!

This is the loop we went around:

Here's where we went straight up and then straight down -- it was a blast!

This is an apple orchard at a restaurant where we had lunch (note the apples all over the ground under the trees):

This is M and her mom:

And here is the finished quilt, now on my bed (I flipped the bottom left corner so you could see the backing):

I love this quilt more than I can say and sleep under it every night. It's like having part of Jim to snuggle with (note the Rolling Stones t-shirt on the edge):

And since some of you have asked, here's the update on my bathroom:

We took out the middle mirror and are building in cabinetry:

This is the bridge over my tub, complete with steps (which will not be there later):

This is the extended shower (well, it's where the extended shower will be .... some day):

So there you go.

Some updates.

A birthday.

Some memories.

Speaking of memories ..... here is Jim .... in that Rolling Stones t-shirt:

G'night, Peeps.

And Happy Sunday.