Let's go cruzin my birthday is not over yet!!!

Gordon and I are getting ready for our early departure tomorrow morning. We will stay with friends over night then on to San Diego to meet my sister, Lana and family. After two days in San Diego we are off on our Cabo "birthday" cruise.

We will be staying with Dorothy and Chuck Adams after the cruise to have dental work done then home again.

Thank you to our friends and family who are staying in our home while we are gone. This takes a lot off our minds.

Not sure when I will be blogging again....BUT I am taking my laptop....

A walk in the marina!

We love our walks. We see so much and today was a really nice day. We walked for miles. We are happy to be in such a pretty place.

A special day!!!!

Yesterday was a special day at St. Bede School where our two grandson go.
We were invited to attend as special people in their lives. It was very fun. The lady on the left is MaryRose, our daughter-in-laws sister - Amar) then grandson Derek, Shelly (MaryRose's daughter) Gordon, me and grandson, Dylan .

Another Birday Celebration for Gordon!

Miriam and Brent (daughter-in-law & son) took us out to Thai food. It
was very good. Then a cute cake with a few candles. Very fun and
thoughtful.

Harvey Milk Movie!

Gordon and I went to Castro Street to see Sean Penn who is making the
Harvey Milk movie. The whole street is being transformed to the earlier time
when Harvey Milk was living here. The old cars were brought in and the stores
are being made over to look like the early 70's.

Buca di Beppo!

Amar and Kevin bought us a gift certicficate for this restaurant. So we went with good friends Juanita and Gene. We had a fabulous dinner. This was for my and Gordon's birthday!
Thanks Amar, Kevin and boys.

Sunday!

We started our day going to church with Juanita and Gene. It is huge and the best service EVER! The church is called Jubilee.
After church we went to Santana Row a street full of stores and restaurants. I have been wanting to go there for a long time. Juanita and I want to go just us girls so we can browse more.

Walking throught San Francisco.

When our last guests left on Wednesday we decided to take a long walk on Thursday and we did. We left our house at 10:30 AM and got home at 4:30 PM. We took the underground muni got off in an area we wanted to see and walked for hours. It was great.

She's coming home!!!!!

This picture is for Jeannine's friends at her work. She is on her way home as you read this.
She was so much fun and we really enjoyed her. Now you get her back.
Bye Sissy.

SURPRISE!!!!

Oh yeah, as Gordon sister came in with the cake and we are all signing Hiappy Birthday Gordon still does not know it is for him .....his birthday is two weeks away but we wanted to celebrate with his family being here and it worked out perfect....

Two beautiful faces!

Grandpa Gordon loved the card our grandsons, Derek and Dylan made for him for his birthday.

Karoke anyone?

Amar, (left top) brought her small karoke mikes and we had fun listening and signing the night away. They all scored pretty good scores. Miriam and Brent (right top) Juanita (bottom left) Gordon and Kevin.

THIS WAS A REALLY FUN FAMILY NIGHT AND SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR GORDON.....his birthday is not until Jan. 25th.

What a fun, fun day & evening.

We had a wonderful dinner. Miriam and Brent made Paella. It was so good. Jeannine made the best meat balls in world and Carol made the best spaghetti
sauce and Monte made the very best salad dressing ever. Juanita brought a raspberry cheese cake that was sooo good. Amar and Kevin brought a BIRTHDAY cake for Gordon. This was a big surprise because we had a family dinner just to get all our family together to meet Carol, Monte and Jeannine and meanwhile we thought we should have a surprise birthday party for Gordon. He was so surprised and that made it more fun than ever...

Family!!!

What a great time we had with our dinner with our family. I just love
the way all the ladies help me out so much. Setting tables, making and
serving dinner. It is a piece of cake when everyone chips in.
Jeannine, Carol, Monte, Brent, Miriam, me, Gordon and Garrick.
Thanks for helping.

True Love Documentary!

This is Ted and Greg who are independent film makers. They are
doing a documentary called, "True Love". They came today and film
Gordon and I for the documentary they are doing. We told them that
Gordon's cousins Carol and Monte have been for 52 years and we thought
they would have some real input in the documentary and Ted and Greg we
so happy to added them on board. Now I hope we don't cut out. It should
be out some time this year.

The painted ladies!

These are the famous houses in San Francisco called the ladies painted.

A trip to Muir Woods Monument!

A great day with our New Jersey cousins.

China Town!!!

We never get tired of going to China Town. Monte took us out to lunch. Food
was good and recommended by a friend. We love Sam Wo but it was closed.

The Heart!!!

This is the heart that everone loves to pose in front of.
Cousins, Monte & Carol, sister, Jeannine & Gordon! We had
a good time on the Bornkamp tour.

The Pacific Ocean!!!

We went to show our cousins and sister the west coast. They are from
New Jersey.

The day at the De Young Museum!

Sister Lana, Gordon, me, cousins, Carol and Monte and sister Jeannine!

The picture in the back ground is a map of San Francisco.
We had a great day!!!!

There here!!!!

We picked up Gordon's sister and cousins today. They will be visiting
for one week. (not long enough) Gordon took us sight seeing today and
when we got home my sister Lana, had dinner ready for the second day
in a row. I love our visitors.
Carol, Gordon's cousin is in the red jacket, her husband, Monte in the black jacket, Gordon and Jeannine, Gordon's sister. Lana is in the bottom left picture in the denim.

Continued!!!!

Thank you my sweet daughter and Charlie I love the gifts.

Another birthday party!!!

Gail and Bob had a wonderful gumbo/pasta birthday dinner for me and Gordon. The cake was so cute and really, really good!!
And the present was like something I have never seen before. It is like a vase for voltage candles BUT it is made of bees wax. They
got this gift for me months ago in South Carolina....
Gail who is a wonderful singer made up a song for me and sang it to me.
I am so blessed with wonderful friends. Thank you Gail & Bob!!!

More birthday presents???

Boy this is fun. More flowers and presents form son and daughter-in-law, Brent and Miriam.
I love all the flowers and thanks for the gift.

Thank you sissy!!!!!

My dear sister, Jeannine (Gordon's sister) sent me two dozen beautiful roses and a box of candy.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING ME FEEL SO SPECIAL...

Jeannine will be here for a visit on the 9th. We cannot wait!!!!

Dinner and Dancing!!!

I am so happy....I had one of the best days EVER!!! Dinner at Olive Garden with Juanita, Gene, John, me, Cathy and Gordon!!!!
We danced the night away. THANK YOU MY FRIENDS..... for a great evening.

IT'S MY 60th BIRTHDAY!!!!

My birthday was very special. I have celebrated my birthday for the many years in the desert with our Boomer RV friends. But this year was different, we are in our house and not able to be in Yuma. But I got to spend my birthday with Boomers Cathy & John and good friends Juanita and Gene. I had an awesome time. First dinner at the Olive Garden and then dancing at the Saddle Rack. What fun I had.

We were not prepared!!!

We went to pick up Maggie, (our rv) from the consignment lot when we got hold of rv friends Cathy & John. Cathy said," come stay at the Elks next to us for a few days and we will celebrate your birthday with you. " We and mean I said AWESOME!!! But of course we did not have a thing in our rig. So Cathy put together a basket for us. Coffee, mugs, thermos, coffee maker, sugar, milk, tooth brushes, tooth paste and I don't know what else. Good friends seem to always come through. THANKS!!!

Guess who won???

We love being with our grandson Junior. He is a good Sequence player. He kept beating us.
We got him some card magic tricks and he is quite good.
Grandpa Gordon and Junior learned a trick a day. Junior is such a good boy.