Elainie had a family birthday party on Nov. 4th, then a friends party on Nov. 17.

 I've made a photo album that includes photos of her cake from her famiy bday party and the rest are from her friends bday party.

The kids came over for snacks, then we took them to the Middle School for fun night.

After we picked them up, they made home made pizzas, played tag outside, sat around the bonfire to roast marshmallows for s'mores, then watched Elainie open her cards and gifts. I think they all had a pretty good time!

Elainie was really happy that so many of her friends showed up!

 

Included in the photos are:

Megan B.

Megan M.

Spencer L.

Carina K.

Audrey

Chelsea R.

Cassie S.

Adrianne M.

Jess

Pierce

Austin

Josh

Nick

Amanda

Sierra

John

Chris

Olivia

Elainie and Alexis

 

Enjoy the photo album!

Me! Who did you think?

 

On Friday I got my hair cut. I went to Salon 908 where Kelley Howard did a most excellent job!

It's whispy and fun... and straight ... perhaps makes me look a lil younger. (I wish...LOL!)

 

Then I worked PRN for NC that night. It was a good night. Well, I got to talk to alot of my old resident friends that should've been sleeping but we had some good chats. It was fun!

 

When I got home Sat. morning I went right to bed and slept until 2:00pm, when Jason woke me up so we could hit the road. Sioux City... Tom and Jennifer Murphy's big party. We got there around 6:30pm and we ate tacos that Jen had made. They went through some packs of beer and margarita mixes. There were quite a few people there and everyone had a great time. Especially Tom. Man can that guy tell stories all night long! Of course, Jason had to warn them all that the stories Tom told about them in high school... only half were true and it was the half that seemed extrememly exaggerated that were the true ones! Then there was Andy, Tom's room mate at Wayne... poor guy! He had to live with Tom for awhile! The stories they told! Some I had heard before... whenever Tom and Jason get together they tell a lot of the same stories. But they are always funny!

 

We went to bed around 1am. We got the luxury suite at the Murphy's Palace... the trophy room! One of the upstairs bedrooms is reserved for all Tom and Jen's trophys and collector cars. See, Tom has a Chevy Chevelle and (sorry Tom) an old truck and Jenn has a 2004 Chevy Monte Carlo, Dale Earnheardt Jr. Edition that they take to auto shows. They do very well. Plus the room is filled floor to ceiling with collector cars. So, we were honored to be allowed to sleep in the Trophy Suite at Murph's Palace (*****).

 

We woke up in the morning and the four of us went to a Chinese restraunt for lunch. It was really clean and nice, and the food was good. Then we went to Tom's parents house to visit them and his younger brother's family who was also there. Then we headed back home and arrived back around 5:30pm.  We will have to get together more often. Always a blast!

Anyway
Martina McBride

Verse 1:

You can spend your whole life building
Something from nothing
One storm can come and blow it away
Build it anyway

You can chase a dream that seems so out of reach and you know it might not ever come your way, but dream it anyway

Chorus

God is great, but sometimes life ain’t good, and when I pray..it don’t always turn out like I think it should…but I do it anyway, I do it anyway

Verse 2

This world’s gone crazy and it’s hard to believe that tomorrow will be better than today, believe it anyway
You can love someone with all your heart, for all the right reasons, and in a moment they can choose to walk away, love ‘em anyway

Chorus

Verse 3

You can pour your soul out singing a song you believe in, that tomorrow they’ll forget you ever sang, sing it anyway….yeah sing it anyway…..yeah yeah

I’ll sing, I’ll dream, I’ll love…anyway...

(I guess I'm not too certain about the chorus and the line that comes after When I pray... but it's what I've remembered so far.)