Happy 21st Birthday Aaron! Holly's Baby Shower, Champagne Sunday

Last Thursday we were able to get out to the BLM for a nice ride in the Can Am.  It's been too cold but it was a great day! 

It was a beautiful day and the sky was so blue! 

Friday I left for Antelope to spend the night before going to Holly's baby shower in Elk Grove. Russell and Lori had left for San Diego that morning for a few days to visit Jacob, Allissa and Aaron was going to be there too.

Happy 21st Aaron! 💙

Love those smiling faces! 💙 Aaron and a legal beer! 

I think they're all enjoying San Diego! 

Aaron and Burt! 😁

Allissa made some yummy treats for Aaron! 💖

Burt loves his daddy! 

Russell and Lori met Burt. I'm thinking it was love at first sight! 

 

Friday was Grandson Aaron's 21st birthday. He was going to spend the day and night with friends in Santa Barbara and head to SD on Saturday. 

John and Andrea had heard that I was going to be in town so they wanted to take me out to dinner and then drinks at The One Spot. They picked me up about 1800 and we headed for Old Town Pizza Roseville. 

After a delicious dinner of pizza, salad and wine for me we headed over to The One Spot. I finally met some people I've been wanting to meet. Jesse and Marci Walker. Great people as I knew they would be. 

We had a couple and then went back to Russell and Lori's place. I think it was about midnight when they left! It was a wonderful Friday night! 

Saturday morning I left about 0845 to pick up my sister Linda. We headed for Elk Grove for Holly's Baby Shower. It was held at the  beautiful Lamoure Vineyard! What a place. Holly's mom runs the place during her working hours. She took us on a tour after the shower but left my phone back at the venue. It's so incredibly gorgeous! 

The food was incredible along with desserts! We enjoyed watching Holly open her tons of gifts. Baby girl won't be wanting for anything for a long while! 

Mom to be, Holly! 💖

This was a nice surprise when I saw Ken's mom show up with Diane! 
She will be a first time Great Great Grandma at 98.  Diane across and my sister 
Linda 💗 I missed Adam's fiancee, Erin at the table. 

Chandeliers in the trees 💕

Our great granddaughter's name 💕💕

Around 1400 we left and I took Linda back home and I headed for home myself. Around 1830 I pulled into the driveway just in time for Happy Hour! 

Ken had a good day, he met up with our friends Joel and Randi to watch the Yerington250 at the BLM. It's a fun race to watch every year. 

Sunday of course was Champagne Sunday. We settled on ribs and potato salad that I threw together that morning. As long as he had the Pit Boss going might as well make it worth his while. :) 

Ribs, chicken and boneless ribs 

A lovely sunset last night 

Lunch out when Adam was in Arkansas 

Another week that has flown by once again. We'll be heading into April soon and a trip to Arkansas 💖

Happy Hour! Have a great night! 

Catch up...11 day vacay, Death Valley, Aaron visits Alabama, Burt! Russell's new ride, 2 Anniversaries

Well, Hello Blog! There really hasn't been much going on to talk about, but life does go on daily! 

Ken and I were able to get away for 11 days mid February. A wonderful trip to Death Valley and the surrounding area. Death Valley was perfect as temps were in the 70's and the sun shined the whole time! 

This collage is from February 18th. Our one and only snow and not much, but just enough to be pretty.

On the way to Carson City a different story. LOL. Winter wonderland. Ken's breakfast at Topaz Lake. The chicken fried steak was HUGE and hand made! 

                                        Some scenes of Death Valley. 

                              Where we were camped at Stovepipe Wells. 

                                       A busy row, ours really wasn't

Gotta love the traffic on our Nevada Highways LOL. 
Not all are like this, but this is out of Beatty headed to DV

We were able to enjoy two Champagne Sundays on our trip

The oven in the Mansion did an awesome job on our
Cauliflower crust pizza. 

Later in the afternoon we went across the street to look at the
store and the saloon. Both were way too expensive. You know the
bundles of 6 or 7 pieces of firewood you can get for $7.00 or so
most places (which is too expensive in our opinion) the store in DV
sells it for $17.50! A couple came by our site asking if Ken had an
ax so he could chop it up. Ken did and he gave him a few pieces
of our firewood we brought from home. They said the next morning
they had a nice fire. 😍

Our one and only. haha. It was fun though. 

We found our way home through Rachel, Nevada the Extraterrestrial Highway. I couldn't get a picture of the sign that states it as it's covered totally in stickers. Bummer. 

Rachel is a little hole in the wall that we've stayed at a few times on the way home from somewhere. They have 4 pull through full hook up spots for $30.00. You can also dry camp for $10.00 but we splurged. LOL 

We did stop in Tonopah, NV on our way home as it fit perfectly with lunch. We've been going to this Mexican restaurant forever. Still family owned. 

Once we got home our calendar that we thought was empty for the month of March has started filling up! Grandson Aaron turns 21 on the 20th. He won't be home though so we won't see him. 

He did spend a week in Alabama with his sweetie Kenna. I love when I get pictures! 

The 20th is also Holly's baby shower so i'll be heading over the hill that weekend for that. In two months we'll be great grandparents! 💗 So excited. 

Bryan and Cheryl celebrated 27 years of marriage on the 4th of March. Eric and Christina celebrated 24 on the 9th! 

                     

Eric and Christina went to Half Moon Bay for the night 💗

Jacob and Allissa added a new member to their little family. We welcome Burt! He's adapted so well and obviously is so spoiled already! 💙 He ruptured his ACL somehow and is awaiting a surgery date. 

Burt! He's so cute! 

Not loved at all! :) 

                                Can't wait to meet him in person! 💙

                      Adam and Erin had a nice trip up to Humboldt County CA

He's in Arkansas working for two weeks then he'll get to spend a few days with his parents before coming home! I know 3 happy people and two dogs that will be excited. 

Russell got a new to him 2016 Harley Street Glide with just over 
10,000 miles on it. He knows the history and who he bought 
it from. Thinking he and Lori will enjoy it! 

End of the month we've got a 3 day camping trip to Plymouth, CA where John and Karen are camped. Adam and Erin only live a few minutes from them so we'll finally see where they are living. Should be a fun weekend! Hopefully the weather holds as we had to cancel earlier plans for there. 

The winds are howling here but temps are warming. 

There's the catch up in a shorter version. I've got to get better at this! 

I do know it's just about Happy Hour so I'll close and get out to my sweetie🍺🍷

 

Happy 21st Birthday Mason!

Mason and his sweetheart, Chloe 💖 
Happy 21st Mason! 

 Friday morning we were at Ken's appointment at 0800. It went very quickly and we were out of there. We'd eaten hard boiled eggs and toast in our room so no reason not to get on the road to Sacramento. 

We did hear the next day that his ejection rate has stayed steady for the last 6 months at 45 to 50 percent. Much better than a few years ago before the ablation! Thank God! 

We had decided rather than spend Saturday night we'd just stay Friday night at Russell's and then after pizza on Saturday we'd head home. 

When we got into town, we stopped by Russell's and dropped off our baggage. Russell and Lori were at work. We had left over Chinese from Thursday so made that our lunch. YUM. 

We went over and spent a few hours with Ken's mom and Diane. It was a nice surprise for Grandma. A good visit for us. 💖

Once we left Grandma's we headed to Rocklin and Russell and Lori's favorite place, The One Spot. We hadn't told them we were coming in on Friday and they had other plans so we didn't see them there. We still enjoyed ourselves though. We met the owner's father so we had a nice visit with him. 

We left and were headed back to Russell's when we heard from them, but it was time to get going. We prefer not to drive in the dark if we don't have too. 

We ordered pizza for dinner and they came home a little later. Had a great visit with them and Lori and I went to bed before Russell and Ken. 

We left about 1030 on Saturday to head up to Auburn and be at Old Town Pizza at 1100. A very enjoyable visit with everyone and the birthday boy. Hard to believe our baby grandkids are 21! Aaron in March is the last one!

It was cute, when the server first asked what he wanted to drink, he said "water". Haha. Well. he didn't know what to order as the server was at the table pretty quickly. 

Christina (his mom) asked the server, "Aren't you going to card him? He wasn't as he figured it was a 21st bday. He said, well I have to now! LOL.  

There he is enjoying his first beer at a restaurant. 💙
The day continued  and ended with Chloe throwing
a party for him at one of his friend's house. 

It was a nice turnout of people for the beginning of Mason's
day! 

Holly the cute blonde looks adorable pregnant. Our great
granddaughter is really growing. May 8th is the expected 
date 💕

John and Karen (end of table) came from Plymouth, where 
John is working to surprise Mason. 💙

WE finished near 1330 and after hugs all around we headed towards home. About 3 1/2 hours later we pulled into the driveway. 

Of course, Sunday morning brought Champagne Sunday. I made a quick potato salad and we had some boneless pork ribs that we like for brunch. Turned out amazing! 

We had one day last week with no wind (a bad four letter word
out here) so we enjoyed a nice outdoor fire instead of the
outdoor kitchen. Can't say the same for today. 

Ken's been working on the Mansion last few days. Always something. Hoping to get it going so we can go somewhere soon. 

Getting close to Happy Hour so I'll get this posted! Have a great evening!