It's M&Ms Birthday Party!

We finally got to celebrate Megan and Michelle turning 22. Michelle and Terry are here for a couple days. And here is what I had waiting for me on the table when I got home from school!

Beautiful flowers, jack-0-lantern earrings, black licorice gummy bears, a rock scker and jelly beans...mmm thanks Bopper!
We were going to have stuffed salmon, but when Michelle opened the oven door, it smelled like the fish we used to disect in HS biology class...ewww. So, we went to Red Robin and pigged out.

We got back to the house to have the birthday cake which is actually pistacio pudding pie that bopper made.
And in the window, you will see the HAPPY BIRTHDAY streamer that we have had since about 1991. Wow.
What the heck is in the picture?
Oh, well, you gotta get a little goofy once in a while!
Presents, presents, presents...
Beautiful oriental vase to go with her oriental living room stuff...

Terry was a little more interested in reading the magazine...
Megs relaxed with her new footstool!
We had a wonderful evening and of course by the time it was all over...
George was exhausted.

Love ya girlies! Happy birthday!

Just take a look

at how talented Bob the Bear (esquire) is!
You are amazing! If you want to see who everybody is, just go HERE.

Oh, and Dilly colored Meanie, so she is pretty dang talented, too!

When we floated,

I took a ton of pictures and rather put them in order, I just posted them all and will explain what they are as the post progresses.
I'm too grouchy to get too creative.

Anyway, this is where we stopped along the river to eat lunch...Gus thought this giant dead tree was his stick.
These are the Crazy Mountains with some pretty colors in the foreground.


Look closely on the grassy hill, you will see the antelope (fastest mammal in North America) looking on...
Pretty cool seeing the wild turkeys along the shore, as well.

Wind power....

We stopped for a break. Scott and Gus are squatting on a rock ledge going out into the beautiful water.

Fall colors coming out in teh bushes on the rims.

Distant look at our lunch stop spot.

Here's the lunch I packed for us.

Colors...

Gus Bob...

Gus Bob at the helm...

Putting in...

on a lovely day.

It was nice and relaxing. We floated for 5 hours. The water is quite low, the colors are beautiful and the smell and sounds were incredible.

Today, I baked

banana bread with chocolate chips and nuts, banana bread with chocolate chips and no nuts, pumpkin pie desert with cinnamon chips on top and i wept as it just made me miss mom so much. Before she departed from our life, it always made me feel closer to her when I baked....reminded of so many different memories of her cooking. Today, it made me miss her terribly. I always miss her terribly.

She is all that is sweet and good.