Thanksgiving 2008

This Thanksgiving, we had two of them. We spent Thanksgiving at the retirement home that my husband's grandma lives out. It was fun. We had a chance to look at old family photo's and spend time with her. Then on Friday, we went down to San Jose where my father and step-mom live. We meet up with my brother and his girl-friend there.

A fun day!

Due to Tom working last Sunday, he was able to take today off. After we had to get one of Tom's tires fixed. We decided to go to the Jelly Belly Factory in Fairfield. We have been before. But it is such a fun place to go. It was busy. But it didn't stop us from being able to go on the factory tour. It is so neat to see how the jelly beans are made. Then we got free jelly beans. Then we had a late lunch. After that, we decided to go to the Nut Tree area in Vacaville. They have a cute family park there. We didn't go in. Since you had to pay to get in. But we got ice cream at a creamery and watched all of the action. They had some cute kids rides. We then went shopping. There was a Old Navy store. I got two sweaters each for $6.00 and a bag for $6.00. I got a Rachel Ray cookbook at Home Goods. We headed home. Then we went to Target and had dinner at Pei Wei. It was such a fun day.

Our 5th Anniversary

On Saturday, Tom and I celebrated our 5th anniversary. I can't believe it has been 5 years already. Since our anniversary fell between Good Friday and Easter, we decided to stay in town. So we went for Afternoon Tea at a place called Afternoon to Remember in New Castle. We had a full tea. So we started off with a sweet potato soup and black ham quiche. So very yummy. Then we had tea sandwiches and scones with Devonshire Cream and lemon curd. A couple of yummy desserts also. We were so full. So we were able to bring home some of our goodies. We also got a picture taken of us that was put in teapot frame. Which turned out to be a great picture of us. It was fun to have tea. When we were on our honeymoon in Victoria,Canada. We went to have tea at the Empress Hotel. Which was fun. So having tea together is special thing for us to do.

After tea, we decided that we didn't want to go home since the day was so beautiful. So we decided to go out to the outlets. We just walked around. I got a couple of kitchen stuff.
Then we had a couple of errands to do. So we did those and went home. It was a nice day. I love spending time with my husband. He is so much fun. I love him very much!!!

Spring Reading Thing 2008!

I am so glad thatI am able to take part of this opportunity to share my list of books that I would like to read.

1. The Postcard and the Crossroad by Beverly Lewis.

2. Desire by John Eldredge

3. Close Enough to Perfect. This book is a collection of 4 stories by different authors.

This is a short list for now. I will add more later.

Today, I picked up two book at the local christian bookstore. I got

1. Treasures for women who hope by Alice Gray

2. A walk with Jane Austin by Lori Smith.

I am so looking to reading A walk with Jane Austin.

A New Chapter in our lives!

I can't believe how long it has been since I last wrote on this blog. Life has been crazy. We lost my mother in law to cancer the day after my birthday. She was only 52 years old.The next day, we lost my grandfather. My grandfather was almost 98 years old. It was a hard time to have two deaths in our family. We are now the owners of the house that my mother in law lived in. I am so glad to be out of our apartment. We moved from a one bedroom apartment to a three bedroom house. Moving is not fun:) But now I have to unpack everything. But I can take my time.