Wisconsin Road Trip

I drove to Appleton, WI last weekend and stayed with my friend Wendy. She moved a year ago to be closer to family and I wanted to spend some time with her.
She is in a lovely townhouse with a great club house, pool and wonderful, caring neighbors nearby.

We toured downtown Appleton, the river front and Lawrence University.
We broke the tours into two days and didn't do a lot of walking since Wendy recently fell and broke her heel (Can you say OUCH?) and then a few days later fell again and broke her left wrist (another big OUCH). She gets around quite well on a scooter outside and inside too.

The weekend was spent at her house, eating, making cards, watching movies, and being entertained by friends that stopped by.
It was my kind of girl friend weekend - lots of time to chat, catch up on news, and relax.

Thanks, Wendy. I had a great time.

Wendy (above) and me (below) with a bear. We had lunch at Good Company.
Note to granddaughters - M and L: this bear has glasses just like me!


Campus tour:



The flowers were beautiful all over campus.


Wendy's house (my car is in the driveway):

A baseball game on Sunday evening - Wendy's son Paul is in a league.



Monday afternoon and time to get on the road again. Happy travels, until next time.

Happy Birthday Evening

Our family met at The Good Earth to celebrate my birthday. I received gifts from my family and a chocolate ice cream from the restaurant.
Good food, fun evening, time with family = priceless.

From One Cube to Another

Our office staff moved over the weekend. We packed up our PCs and paperwork on Friday.
We unpacked in the new office space on Monday.

I'm all packed up for the movers.

Settled in the new office already:

Some other sights around the office:

At some office cubes near me:


Now we can get back to work!

All in the Family Genes

Passing on the genes within the family is an interesting adventure. Our children's children, better know as grandchildren seem to show signs early on (either in looks or personality) that they belong to your family.
As our first granddaughter grew from baby to toddler most of us agreed that she looked a lot like her mother.

We also thinks she looks a lot like her daddy.

One year old M.

And the little girl in the corner is M's mother.

Granddaughter #2 looks like her daddy's mother (me) and sisters.
One year old cutie L.

Grandma Jan and sisters - the younger version:

Check out WE Holman blog here for more cute photos of L as compared to G Jan and sisters as E points out.

Lunch with My Daughters

Sarah, Becca and I met for lunch at the Good Earth today. We all love their food. I always have the Cashew Chicken Melt. It's the best. My currently veggie daughters had the Ginger Carrot Soup with a wrap or a veggie burger. Yummy.
We posed for a few photos outside after lunch in the nice, warm spring weather.
The photos are so fun, I had to share them all! What did you do out in the sun today?

Easter Sunday Family Time

Sarah and Becca came down and fixed lunch for the four of us. We had bean dip and chips along with grilled veggie sandwiches.
They even brought their grill to fix the sandwiches on.
Great dinner! Fun break! Thanks girls.




The finished product - YUMMY!

Blog Worthy

A New Car:
We found a car. Bill and I bought a second car (2006 Toyota Corolla).
We made the deal - just in time since he will be going in one direction, while I will be going in another to work on Monday.

Happiness - a car to get me to work and back.