Off to Whistler for the weekend with Chris and family.

heading south this weekend...........2 nights! love Seattle!



Becky Boo and I are hanging out while the crazy ones go to see a football game. We aren't the football watching types. BB is great company. When her mom bought her this football jersey she turned around and glared at her. She's more the princess type.



She doesn't hold a grudge long and she does love her Moms (and her aunty j). She'll have her pram for riding around in which is great because then I can take her shopping.



We're going to see Jennifer Knapp on Sunday evening while we're in Seattle. Looking forward to it!

always a good time...........our annual girls weekend with BB. there were probably at least 23 weddings going on in the little town judging by the blur or white gowns going back and forth on the promenade.........through the lobby of the hotel.......around the gardens of the resort...so much fun to watch and dream...........









we bought bathing suits and BB bought a quilted jacket.... i don't know if that reflects where we are in our lives but there you go....



bright and sunny saturday with a clear night after a very big dinner at our fave restaurant for a star-lit walk on the promenade.....good times.



Chris and I enjoyed the hot mineral pools and watching people from around the world join together in a collective 'ahhhhhhhh' when they enter the warm healing springs.

one of our very favorite places to go............Harrison Hot Springs. love it there.




heading there this weekend with Bad Betty. always a good time. seeya next week.

S'mores

Last weekend we went to our little trailer in the woods, what a blessing that place is! It's looking more and more like us as we finish little projects in and out of the trailer and property.





Our friend D came down on Saturday and spent the night. She had been longing for s'mores the last time she visited and we had a camp fire. We talked about how much fun it would be to cook some up and left it at that.









In the meantime I was walking through a giant box store looking for something completely unrelated (canning jars) and guess what I found? A S'mores kit! How cool is that!





We told D we had a surprise for her next visit and wouldn't let her know any more details. Isn't it great how a little gift like that can bring so much laughter and good times?






It started to rain as we were getting ready to light the fire and being the girls that we are we didn't want to sit out in the rain. yuck. So we did the next best thing and brought the fire closer to the trailer. It helps when the fire pit is portable.






Can you see the palm trees? Aren't they the best? No idea who picked this thing out of the catalogue.......LOL.

It was a fun night and a great memory for good friends.

And that was all she wrote.

We had a really fun weekend and have just returned home in time for Chris to get to bed on time and for me to sort laundry and get caught up on FB updates. I've downloaded a bunch of pictures but I think I'll just say this for now...........this salad is the best.

It's in Seattle at a Mexican Cantina that I've discovered on one of our frequent trips to Seattle and I love it. I am the world's slowest salad eater so I can never order one when I'm out with friends (or partners) (or partner's friends) so I savour the time I go to Seattle and order this salad just for me. It takes me 45 minutes to eat it because there's so much to it. And I have a lime margarita to wash it all down. Oh ya, it's good. It's very, very good.

And that was all she wrote.

I Did it!!!!!!

lots of prayers, lots meditation and medication, bigger machine, nicer tech and the knowledge that Chris was just outside the door within screaming distance.......made it all worthwhile.

off to try this again............

My buddy WD had a friend call and invite me to his 63rd birthday party. WD can't talk so other people have to speak for him. He can't walk so someone has to push him around in his wheelchair. He can't see so others have to describe stuff for him and guide him in the right direction. WD has no teeth so his food has to be pureed for him. He shakes a lot because he has cerebral palsy. He grunts a lot because it's his only method of communication. WD is my friend. He holds my hand and kisses my fingers and I tell him I love him. He smiles when he hears my voice. WD fills my heart with joy when I see him.

When WD goes to church he leans on the shoulder next to him and relaxes as hears the Word of God preached and the songs of Jesus sang to him. He responds to the Holy Spirit and reaches for the hand of the one sitting close by.

WD, 63 years ago they gave you up to an institution that didn't care for you very well. 20 years ago a new group home opened and it began a whole new life for you. You began to have adventures. People grew to love you and all of your shenanigans. You grew to love people around you who cared for you.

Happy 63rd Birthday WD! You are the best. I love you.

Years ago my parents bought a RV in Washington a couple of hours from the border. They loved their place and owned it for 24 years. About 4 miles away from the Campground was a small town that had several churches. Population was about 700 but it had a Presbyterian, Community, Lutheran, and a Catholic church. None of the churches had a big attendance but they all managed to keep their church doors open and my parents enjoyed worshipping at the different churches.

Then along came an Assemblies of God minister full of vision and big dreams for the small town. Meetings started up in the elementary school and my parents started attending church there. My dad passed away a few years after the church began but my mom kept going there while she was south at her trailer.

The church grew in numbers as well as the Pastor's family. The population of the town stayed about the same. It's still a very small town but with a very big heart.






Every year my mom would arrive in the spring and leave in the fall and was a regular part of the Assembly of God and the Pastor would announce "it must be Spring, Betty's back."






It's now almost 25 years since the Pentecostals came to town. They have the biggest church and the largest church population. They moved into their own facility, remodelled it and did all of the renovations themselves and paid it off!





Pastor Bruce and Charlotte now have 5 children and yesterday celebrated the first wedding in their family. We were invited to join in the celebration so we did. It was a simple, old-fashioned kind of wedding but a real spirit of love and joy in the air.