sunshine and warm

it's so nice to get a bit of fresh, warm air. it makes me hunger for spring. it's supposed to be in the 60's tomorrow and then snow and the 30's for sunday. it's been a wild winter. not much new here. kayla and i continue to work on the wedding, but it's fairly easy at this point. she's doing most of it and it's pretty laid back, so i hope it continues at this pace. hope you all are enjoying some spring weather in 'your neck of the woods'.

Bloggin' in. = )

Hi BD Girls,

It's  been a while since I 'blogged in.' (Looks like the rest of  you are at about my speed. = )  

I had a week away with  my hubby to beautiful, sunny, & crowded (St. Pete) Florida. We were visiting family - another birthday trip! - this time for Gary's brother. 

Hoping everyone is well. Still feeling strength and refreshment from our wonderful weekend, Cecelia! 

Praying for Brad & Lonnie's family. 

Blessings to all, Debra

pray for Lonnie's husband

Brad's mother died last night in Salt Lake City. She found out she had cancer just before Christmas and it was pretty far gone by then. Brad has gone already and Lonnie will leave soon to go to Utah. There are lots of decisions to make about his mother's estate and some past tensions among siblings that may make it an even more stressful time, so pray for them all.

Hello Everyone!
Been busy last 2 weeks trying to get 3 business cards and one spa menu done on a computer that was slowly crashing....now, $1,700.00 later, have new bigger,faster,better computer...but way behind learning new things and trying to catch up.(nothing new here!)

Will try to fill in some holes....yes Kat, send me all pics you have to: wattsdesigns@comcast.net
I can photoshop, and then resize anything that needs to be done, and send them back to you for the book.
Birthdays you're all missing from Colorado are: Kay- yesterday- Feb.21, Deb Strawn-Dec. 2, and Me-Nov.10.
Good job on the cleanse Cecelia! Dinner at Deb's next week is going to be SOOOO Good No?!!?
Off to look at the snap fish pics....
Hugs to all of you, Lonnie

cleansing fast

Hi Girls - Don and I have been on a cleansing fast. We just completed Day 7. It's called Master Cleanse and it involves a salt water flush in the morning and 'lemonade' made from freshly-squeezed lemons, maple syrup and cayenne pepper. Some of you have probably heard of it. Anyway, we're almost never hungry but it gets a little boring and I would just love to eat. We are hoping to make it 10 days and then we'll have 3 days to ease back into regular food. The plus is that I'm losing weight and hope to make some changes that will allow me to keep it off when we're done. The purpose of the cleanse is to flush out toxins. Don and I hope to do it once a year, just to keep fit. Hope you all are doing great.

Hello Girls!

Kathy, you have a great eye for special moments. Thanks so much for taking & posting pics! The tornado news continues to be disturbing - so much damage! Thanks for caring about your new friends here in TN. So sweet.

Cecelia, I hope the Broadmoor was amazing, and that your foot/ankle is much better. The weekend was so-o-o amazing - and with lingering effects. A friend at the Y told me there is a castle-like home (now-resort) that serves high tea in the Springs. Next time, eh?  

Deb, the chocolate pie recipe - did you find it? You can find it where I 'commented' on my on blog (mistake =). I'm getting it though.

My life has been filled with music since arriving home. Husband, Gary, and son-in-law, Josh, have been busy putting polishing touches on daughter, Sarah's 12- song recording project. (Only Cecelia really knows how l-o-n-g this project has been under construction.) So (glass of chianti in hand & reminiscent of the great weekend Cecelia so lovingly treated us to) here's to large and small victories and accomplishments. By tomorrow it will be done. Then Gary & I are off to St. Petersburg, FL for his brother's 57th birthday. Looking forward to family & FL sunshine.

Love to all, Debra

thank you kathy!

those pictures are amazing! it made the whole weekend come back for me. such great closeups. can't wait for lonnie to get hers up so we can see kathy some more.

don and i had our weekend at the broadmoor. it was very good, although too much food and wine. we think don actually got food poisoning on the last night - yuck. anyway, we are now on a fast, so looking at all that good food we had on our weekend was kind of hard!

i've never gone on anything like snapfish, so again, another new experience gleaned from the marvelous 8!

Kathy's pictures

Hi girls,
Aren't Kathy's pictures fabulous?! What would we do without people who remember their cameras? Look at picture #125 (in the slide show) especially--it's worthy of a big print. Also the ones of Cecelia looking like a model laying on the couch. I'll have you know I looked up "lying" and "laying" because I didn't want to publish a grammatically incorrect blog, and it says it is a transitive and intransitive verb meaning "to produce eggs." Well, I hope she wasn't.
Kathy, thank you so much for the album. It brings back such a good time.
Love to you all and an extra thank you to Kathy,
Debbie

snapfish pictures

My little lovely ladies,

I put all the pictures (note that they are redundant ones and unedited) on snapfish. Just go to ceceliabd.snapfish.com/snapfish. The password is 022008 (the month and year of the party). Lonnie, can you photoshop these pictures from snapfish? Let me know if this works as I am a novice at this. Well, it is 5:30 and I need to move this old bag of bones. Later, Kathy

slow as molasses in SD winter

Hi my little dearies,

First of all, Cecelia, I am still so awestruck by the dreamy weekend and humbled to have been a part of it. Your energy, creativity, thoughtful details, and of course the money it took to pull this together is truly mindboggling. It was the best birthday party I have ever been to including my own. It has been a wild and busy week for me so I am a bit late in joining in on the conversation here. I did toon my ear to the devastating news from TN, and since I have newfriends there , it took on a personal touch. I am so thankful you all are all right, but nonethess I suspect you are very much effected by this destruction being so close. I am anxious to try some of the new recipes you all have shared and am going to try to post a few pictures as well from time to time. I have not yet started on the book as it will take some focused time, but will let you know when I am done and I think you should be able to get them off snapfish.com. I will keep you posted. Oh, my birthday is September 10 (just one day short of the infamous 9/11) and let me recommend staying away from those rascally peddlers on ebay. You gals are the best! Kathy

edit on the roast

hey cecelia. yes, i do add a bit of water (maybe a 1/2 cup - unless i want lots of gravy then maybe closer to a cup) ... so sorry for the brain lapse on that one! enjoy your fabulous weekend.... will be praying for that foot/ankle.... did you get it checked out?

editing a post

hi guys - if you decide after publishing your post that you need to change it, click on the yellow pencil that appears under the post. you can change whatever you like and then repost. thanks for the recipes so far. i'm copying them into a folder called 'toila' where i'll keep birthdays and such.

don and i are off to the broadmoor this weekend for my second birthday treat. it's a rather fancy place and i think we will be on our feet a lot (doubt my danskos will look so hot with my black dress) - not sure how that will work with my gimpy foot. i really thought it was almost new but after some shopping yesterday, it was screaming a bit.

Cocoa Tofu Pie Recipe

Hi Everyone,

 Deb requested this recipe. It's just like chocolate mousse w/o the guilt. Hope you enjoy it. Love, Debra

recipe question

marilyn, do you brown the roast before you put it in the crock pot? Any liquid added? I was telling Don about this tonight so I'm glad you sent it.