Deegan's Birthday Sleepover

This is Deegan Cole Arnold. He just had his birthday and he turned 5. We picked him up Sunday for his birthday sleepover. Grandpa popped us all some popcorn and we watched "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" and "Frosty the Snowman". This was a great way to start the sleepover.Deegan making himself comfortable to watch the movie.
On Monday, I invited Kaden, who is Deegan's cousin, to come over to play. They had such a good time together. We played games, read books, watched movies and had lunch together. This was a fun time!
When grandpa came home from work, he took us to McDanold's for dinner. Then we went to Fat Cats to play some miniature golf. These are Deegan's treasures from tonight. His happy meal box, a bacugan, and tickets from Fat Cats!
Deegan loves to get bubble baths. Don't you just love his beard?
On Tuesday, he wanted to have Lunch in a Pumpkin. So he helped me make it. It was delicious! We just love to have our grandkids come to our house!

Books

I just finished this fun book. It is the third in the Flavia de Luce series. I really enjoyed these books because I really like the heroine, Flavia. She is an 11 year old detective and her passion is chemistry. I would recommend reading them. Start with Sweetnes at the bottom of the pie.I also read the book "Sea Biscuit". I have never heard of this horse, but it is a true story. I watched the movie afterwards. It could be slow at times, but I enjoyed the story.

My Twin Sister

This is my twin sister, Kathryn. She lives about 45 minutes from me. It has been nice over the years to be this close because we have been able to enjoy each others families often. The funny thing is that we have caused a lot of confusion and rumors in our communities over the years because people get us mixed up all the time. We have had a lot of laughs because of this. I think we need to write a book to document all the fun!Another good thing about her is we turned 50 together. It is nice that I didn't have to do it alone. The down side is that, certain funny people have brought to our attention that together we are 100 years old. I am still sticking with the idea that 50 is the new 40.

My Birthday - The big 50! 11-7-11

I can't believe that I am 50 years old! I have decided that it is the new 40. Somehow this helps me accept it. Chelsi and Clinton put together a nice birthday dinner for me on Sunday. Clinton cooked roast, mashed potatoes with gravy, and mixed vegetables. My Sisters-in-law brought the rolls, salad and green bean casserole. It was fun to have so many family members show up to help me celebrate. Chelsi asked me what kind of cake I wanted. I told her the Banana Split Cake. It looks fabulous and tasted delicious! She said she would not put 50 candles on the cake because she was afraid of all the second hand smoke that we would all have to breath. Ha Ha , she thinks she is so funny. She also is very worried that I might break a hip in my frail state. She better think again, because if I ever get a cane I will probably have to hit her with it!
Monday was my actual birthday. Courtnie, Kaden, Emma and Kimberly took me to lunch. The kids were really surprised that I did not choose to go to McDonald's. I chose to go to Millhollow instead.
The highlight was the detour to Florence's Chocolates. I just love dark chocolate! I enjoyed every one of them!
Later in the day my friend Angie Lewis took me to Cold Stone, my favorite ice cream place, for a delicious treat! The pumpkin ice cream with pecans and drizzled chocolate was to die for!
You can see how happy this makes me! Then we went to Plano to work on our ceramic projects.
Tonight Clinton took me to the movie "Footloose". We have been trying to go for quite sometime. This actually ends my week long birthday. It has been a very fun week!

Disneyland 10-30-11 to 11-3-11

I am turning "50" this year. I told Clilnton that I wanted him to take me to Disneyland for my birthday. So he did! We had a blast just being a kid again and doing something that makes me feel young. When we got to California, our first stop was to Joe's Crab Shack. Good place to eat.
Later that evening we drove to Newport Beach. We saw the tail end of the sunset. We also took our shoes off and walked along the beach. This was a fun thing to do.
Day 1 at Disneyland: we visited the Haunted Mansion and Splash Mountain
We took a walk through Tarzan's Tree house, went on the Jungle Cruise and one of my favorites Indiana Jones Temple of Doom!
Just for kicks we visited Fantasy Land and rode the Carousel, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, and walked through Sleeping Beauty's Castle.
Since it is Halloween today we got our picture in front of the Pumpkin Mickey. The park closed at 6:00 pm tonight. We decided to go have a nice dinner at McCormick and Schmick's. It was fancy and the food was delicious! We also went to the movie "Money Ball". We really enjoyed this movie.
Day 2 at Disneyland: We rode the Matterhorn roller coaster, the Submarine Ride, the Monorail and another favorite Star Tours.
Luckily we saw my favorite Disney Character! Tigger and I posing together.
We rode the raft over to Tom Sawyer's Island. Clinton coming out of the cave. By 4:00 we had seen and done everything we wanted to do, so we went to Newport Beach again for a picnic and a sunset.
We got to watch the whole sunset this time.
Our picnic dinner.
These birds were pretending not to see us, but they kept getting closer to try to get our food.
Day 3 California Adventures: I just had to take a picture of Clinton in front of this airplane. Then we rode the Soaring Over California Ride.
We just loved the Tower of Terror Ride! We rode it twice!
It was pretty scary! I loved every minute of it. Another favorite ride was the Toy Story Ride. You got to shoot at all of the different targets. It was so fun, we rode it twice too! The Grizzly water ride was awesome too.
We got lucky again and found Sully for this fun picture. When we were finished at California Adventures we went to down town Disney for souvenirs. I got a really cute Mickey Jacket and a Mickey and Minnie Salt and Pepper Shakers for my collection. This has been one great birthday present! We had a great time together doing something so fun!