Today is #21 in Anniversary YEARS.

More to come later, I am off to shop today:-)
Today has been nice, but very crazy; let me share it with you:

We wake up to the radio playing "Keep On Loving You" by REO Speedwagon, I comment, "Oh, what a lovely song to wake up to on our anniversary".

A bit later I went in to check my email and Sam had sent me an ecard, how nice! I then responded back.

While packing his lunch, I decide to use a heart shaped cookie cutter to cut out the center of his sandwich. I put it in a snack cup by itself, his co-worker noticed he was missing the center.


While up at the computer scanning a wedding photo I see a delivery van pull in (flowers)...oh, and they smell so heavenly; I thought...then I said to myself, I don't know what Heaven smells like so I can't compare them to Heaven. I closed up the windows to capture all the fragrance I could possible muster out of these amazing flowers. When I got home from shopping my house smelled like a florist. (good)



The Schwans guy was coming today and I had plans to meet a friend and go to a new Premium Outlet Mall. I write my note to him, put coolers filled with ice out on the porch and speak to my neighbor about grabbing my food, if she sees it delivered. I get home a minute after he pulls away, she was already on the porch, how lucky was that!? The ice cubes that got spilled on the porch were not even melted much!

The trip to the shopping center was a crazy fiasco mess, road construction, heavy shopping traffic= just not a good mixture.

We met at Tim Horton's and I had a chicken salad sandwich and it was tasty, I'll be back.

Then onto the shopping center,lines were LONG, but bargains were great! Just one Yankee candle was $7.00 off a regular store price, I got 50%-60% off Carters brand clothes for the grand kids, (fall colors and style). This bib would be great for Harper, but I bought it for Jayde's birthday in October. I guess I had green on my mind. But I was thinking, Blake and Jayde would look fab in a photo shoot with their matching colors. Good luck with that idea, I know:-( Not so bad for Jayde, I don't know what will happen with Blake, he's very good in front of our camera, it's when he gets to the studio he turns to Mr. Unco-operative!

Back to the Schwans food, I take one item out of the carton to conserve freezer space and the plastic dish is cracked, therefore the cellophane is loose, I call em back and he brings me a new one, (he was still in the area).

2 days ago, I volunteer to watch Jayde for VBS Thursday night (since Sam doesn't want to miss VBS) we are going out to eat later in the week, I'm sure. My son-in-law was supposed to mow his dads yard for him tonight so I was keeping Jayde.

Jennifer calls and says Jim is not mowing after all tonight, he will watch Jayde instead. I quickly call Sam and tell him we could go out to dinner after all, *IF* he really wanted to change his mind, he said na, we'll go Saturday. He was picking up fast food for our dinner tonight.

I get to church and was not planning to say since I had originally planned to just bring Jayde back to my house and hang out, I end up staying, was bored but hung out anyway kitchen duty was light and mostly done early.

We get home from VBS to the house still smelling so sweet. Sam takes a bunch of pictures with me and my flowers. I'm holding up a 2 and a 1 for 21 years!

It was long, long day and at times very crazy, so hectic, I only had 2 hrs. of down time and had to finish this post on Friday.

VACATION JULY '08

This is the Canadian side
also calleld the Horseshoe falls.
View from our hotel window.

NIAGARA FALLS
I’ve been itching to visit the falls, it’s been years and years since I was up there. Sam said we could go, and then gave me the joy (sarcasm) of finding us a hotel. I asked what the limit was on room rate. He was more worried about finding a good hotel with an awesome view than cost. I was so excited to hear that.

We stayed at the Embassy Suites Falls view hotel http://www.embassysuitesniagara.com/ in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. We were on the 31st floor out of 41, and we had the most magnificent view and room ever imaginable.

We got there on a Sunday. Once the bell guy got us in our room, we just pulled the comfy chairs up to our way extra large window and watched and awed from the room with the view. (They mostly all had exceptional views). Eventually, we were able to pull ourselves away from the window to get unpacked and organized. Time to venture out. We then made our way down to the falls. It wasn’t exactly easy to get there, we walked because it was way too close to drive, but just the path we had to take was sorda a zigzag route. We had to go up to go around the corner to go down to the observation area. We even got kissed by the mist as we approached it. :-)

Sunday was fireworks night. We watched them right from the comfort of our room! After the fireworks was the light show. They have lights on both the American (Bridal Veil Falls) and the Canadian falls (a.k.a. Horseshoe Falls). The lights would change color and then various other colors would chime in and it was just great! Every night we enjoyed sitting in our comfy chairs watching the water, people and of course the lights. The light show is every night but if you’re planning to see the fireworks you best do a bit of research before you go. They are not every night.

The next day we went to Clifton Hill, toured Ripley’s Believe it or Not, a wax museum of famous actors/ actresses, entertainers and famous people. We even rode on a ferris wheel that was 175’ high!

We stayed 2 more nights and on our second full day we took a tour with a group of about 40. We were whisked to the front of the line for the Maid of the Mist, behind the falls tour, The Niagara Fury movie, The Skylon tower, and The Butterfly Conservatory. That’s just some of our highlighted stops. Every stop that included a line, we were at the front. I highly recommend going to Niagara Falls at least once in your life and go while you can still get around; there is a lot of walking.

This was a great way to celebrate our 20th anniversary; after all, we honeymooned there.

Here are some pictures we took:


I was so excited to see a black squirle because I saw one in my own back yard and when I came back with the camera it was gone. Black ones are not at all common where we live. Even the park ranger said he never saw one here.

I'm not sure what he is finding so funny. Is he trying to get rid of me after 20 yrs.?

They change the flowers on this working clock at the start of each season.

A magnificent view from our window of the American Falls.