10/10/17....Went to our breakfast at Sullivan's, Stopped at Melissa's, took Kenzie to work, Got ready for small group, had small group

Nine of us showed up for our breakfast.  After breakfast, I went to Melissa's and dropped off popcorn from the movie last night, and also dropped off stuff Sue sent for Max and some candy Kim Reminder made.  Thought the kids would like it.  
I went to Kenzie's and gave her a ride to work.  On my way home, I stopped at Aldi's and got apple cider for small group tonight.  Came home and made chili.  Worked on kids lesson for my class tomorrow night.  Then I got stuff ready for small group.  After Vikki got out of work, she and the kids came over.   She and Isaac had some chili.  Peyton didn't want any.  They both had snacks here too.  I got lots of hugs from Peyton....she was really cuddly and sweet.  Got one big hug from Isaac.  Small group went great.  It was a good study on persistence and prayer.

10/9/17...Walked three miles, Took the car for an oil change, went to see A Question of Faith

Pretty flowers from Marie

Went to Sportszone and walked three miles.  Came home and got ready to take the car for an oil change in Bay City.  Blessed to have one free oil change left to use.  I called Kenzie to see if she could go get a sandwich with me, but she was working.  Went to Roy and Marie's to take them the questions I ran off for our small group.  They don't have internet so couldn't get them on line.  We had a nice little visit and she picked some pretty flowers for me.  So sweet of her.  Love hydrangeas too.  I am going to get some of this kind to plant.  Got home and did some things on my list and then Charlie picked us up to go to a movie.  We saw A Question of Faith.  It was a tear jerker, but was a very good movie.  Bill and I went to Logans for dinner after we got home from the movie.  He had chopped steak and I had salmon and a shrimp skewer.  We both had a huge baked potato, salad and roll.  It was so yummy! 

10/8/17...Went to church, went on a motorcycle ride to Gladwin, the weather was just beautiful and in the high 70's,

Ralph, Sabrina, Joaquin, Bill Smith, Rick, Rod, Mike, Bill and Phil before we took off

Nice ride and saw some beautiful color in spots

Our ice cream destination

Joaquin and Sabrina

Bill, Phil, Ralph, Mike, Joaquin, Bill, Sabrina, Rod and Rick 

My piece of homemade raspberry pie with ice cream.  They sure had big servings.  It was super delicious!

Bill's hot fudge sundae...looks like he is going after it with both hands

Some beautiful trees in Gladwin

My hibiscus tree is still getting blossoms and buds

Mocha on the front porch swing.  It was so nice out we sat out there for quite a while

Went to church and worship was awesome.  We heard a great message too.  Can't wait to study it more at small group and apply it in my life.  We got home and warmed up the rest of the round steak and mashed potatoes and ate. Got ready and left to meet everyone riding on our ride at Meijer.  

Ten of us rode.  What a beautiful sunny day in the high 70's.  There wasn't a lot of color yet, but we did see some beautiful colored trees in spots.  We got to our destination and the ice cream place was closed for the season even though on their web site it says they are open.  We were disappointed, but go on our phones and found some other names of ice cream places.  We ended up at another place that was closed.  We saw a restaurant next door and decided to go there for dessert.  They had great desserts and they were delicious.  We were all pretty happy about that.  We had a nice ride home.  Bill led the way as he wanted to try a different route so we could see more color.  We sure did see some nice color that way.  After we got home, I sat outside with Mocha for a little while to enjoy the great weather.  We watched a movie and I made popcorn for Bill.  I had trail mix for my snack.  

10/7/17..Got my hair cut, Went to Adam and Eli's soccer games, Vikki, Rody and the twins came over and Rody set up our printer, Watched the MI/Mi State Game

Jacob drawing at Adam's game

Eli is on the ball!!!

Adam playing soccer

Eli

Adam out on the field

Jacob is quite an artist

Eli practicing being a goalie with his mommy

Eli playing soccer

Eli playing soccer

Eli looking cute in his mustache sock

Beautiful colors on the way home from the soccer game

Isaac and Peyton

Bill brought me this nice bowl of fruit he cut up for me while I was watching a movie

Got up and made Bill and I oatmeal for breakfast.  I went to get my hair cut at Catherine's at 9.
After that I went to Adam's soccer game.  Adam and his team played really good, but the other team won.   Bill was with Charlie at the Northwood car show and called to find out what field Eli was playing on.  He came to watch his game.  The boys were so nice.  Adam went and got a pretzel for him and his mom and went by himself so I didn't have to go.  When Bill called, he wanted me to get him two hot dogs, so Jacob went and got those for me too.  Eli and his team played really good too, but lost.  Love watching my boys play soccer.  We came home and Vikki, Rody and the twins came over.  Rody set the printer up for us, and then I warmed up the round steak, mashed potatoes, corn, and rolls and we all ate.  The kids loved the sausage Charlie made for us.  (It is very good)
After they left, I tried the printer.  It is really a nice one.  So thankful that Rody helped us out again.
We watched a movie after they left.

10/6/17...Made dinner and had Dennis and Amy and Dennis Watkins over for dinner and cards.

Bill, Amy, Dennis and Dennis Watkins

Browned the round steak and then got it going in the crockpot for tonight's dinner.  Peeled some potatoes and then had to leave to go meet Kim R. at Art Van's with Bill to pick up a chair she bought for her hubby's birthday.  He needs kidney transplants and has been feeling down so she wanted to cheer him up.  We picked up the chair with her and then took it to her house.  She lives just around the corner from us.  Her husband pulled in right before we did.  I went in the house to let her know we were here.  She thought we could get it in the house before Mark got back from Dialysis, but we didn't make it.  We all got it in and Mark tried it out.  He sure was happy.  

We visited for a few minutes.  Kim gave us some yummy cookies and candy she made.  She is always blessing people with her homemade goodies.  We stopped a couple of houses up the road at an estate sale.  This guy was a harder....there was so much junk piled up it was unbelievable.  We could hardly walk through the shed.  Bill found a Billy Goat Chipper Vacuum though.  He got an amazing deal on it so that was good.  He also bought some shelving for our attic.  I didn't want to go through the big barn because I had stuff to get ready for tonight's dinner.  He took me home and got the checkbook and went back and paid for the stuff he bought.  I baked an caramel apple dessert and finished peeling the potatoes.  Baked rolls too!  Everybody got here at 6 and we ate.  We had round steak in cream of chicken soup, mashed potatoes, corn from the garden, homemade applesauce, rolls and a salad.  We played cards after that.  Played a game called horsetails.  It was fun.  We had our dessert after that.  Had so much fun with these great friends.  

10/5/17....Took kids to school, Went to Aldi's, Melissa and Bruce came to pick up the kids stuff, went to officer's meeting for Faith Riders

Love this cute picture of Melissa and the kids after they Melissa and Bruce got back from Chicago!

Cute picture of Bruce and Melissa

Love this picture of Isaac, Jack and Peyton having apples and carmel dip

I got ready and then got the kids up.  Studied Max's spelling words before school.  Had him practice his memory verse which he knew and said right away.  Took them to school and then went to Aldi's to pick up some things for the dinner I am making tomorrow night.  Vikki E. let me know her dad has blood clots in the brain.  He can't talk or swallow.  Sure am praying.  

I picked the kids up.  Evan was really excited to show me where his Hoyt friend lives.  His class took a field trip to the nursing home and now he wants to go back and visit her.  He is so cute.  

Melissa and Bruce came and picked up the kid's stuff.  It was so good to see them.  Happy they are back safely.  Went to Bay City and took Kenzie out to eat.  All she wanted was a bagel and cream cheese from Tim Horton's.  That's what I got too.  We were freezing in Tim Horton's, so we went out to the car to eat them.  We went back to her place after that and then I took her to work.  Came home and got ready to go to our Officer's Meeting at Wes and Gayla's.  The meeting went really good.  

10/3/17...Took kids to school, Went to our breakfast, had first small group meeting

Max eating his pizza and some roast...he sure loves roast

Evan eating his pizza and a half hamburger left from last night.  He absolutely loves hamburgers!

Small group started tonight....great group of friends

Ralph, Nancy, Roy and Marie at small group

The kids got up and got ready for school and then had time to play the i pods for a little while.

They were very well behaved on the way to school.  I went to breakfast after I dropped them off.  There were a lot at our breakfast this morning which was nice.  After breakfast, I came home and went over everything for Bible Study tonight and ran off the copies we will need.  My friend Vikki, messaged me that her dad was in ER and they thought he had a stroke.  We sure are praying for him.  I called the girls to get them praying too. 

Baked a banana pudding cake for our dessert to have tonight.  I picked the kids up and we dropped Jack off at Vikki's.  He sure gives good hugs!  Evan and Max played with legos when we got home while I went through their school folder to see what they had to do and initial and sign what i needed to.  The boys took the gunea pig outside for a little while so it could eat some grass.

When everyone started coming for small group, I put the movie, Angels in the Outfield in for the boys.  They love that movie.  They sure were good and very quiet all during Bible Study.  The Mikayla's parents dropped Hailey off after her practice.  She got here about 20 minutes after small group started.  I warmed up some roast, carrots and potatoes for her and she ate and then sat in with the boys.  Small group went good and we all shared something about ourselves and got to know everybody better.  Great group of people in our group this year.  After everyone left, I told the kids how proud I was of the way they acted while everyone was here.  The boys really had the giggles after that...guess they had to let loose after being quiet for so long.  I listened to them say their prayers and tucked them in.