Happy Saturday! :) Dollar Tree Shopping Adventure, Popcorn Movies Party! :) Cool day! :)

Happy Spirit Soaring Saturday!!! :) Popcorn movies party, dollar tree shopping, and football! :) We're enjoying an awesome, and spirit soaring day! :) We love the weekend's :) We're very happy and excited! :) There's lots of great things going on, and many special memories being made :) the month of January is in full swing :) my mom, dad, brother Charlie, Holly, and i enjoyed a great time shopping at the dollar tree :) our first shopping adventure of the new year :) We got some awesome items :) We stocked up on writing supplies, we got 4 packs of cards, and over 100 stickers in a pack :) we also got some foods, snacks, a cool new snacks tray :) i bought 2 cool figurines collectibles for Holly's for her table, for her upcoming 3rd anniversary of living here with us in CT :) i also bought 2 cool, figurines for my writing area, a VW Bus, and Beetle bug car, and also bought some coin rolls wrappers for my coins :) it was so much fun shopping :) Holly and i wore our new ,N95 masks :) we all felt very safe in the store, it wasn't busy :) my brother Charlie went into shoprite grocery store with my mom and dad, and Holly and i waited in the minivan, talking about all of the cool items we bought :) We brought Charlie home, and then made our journey home :) it was so nice going out to shop, we're very happy and excited about the nice items we bought :) Holly and i are having a popcorn movies marathon party today :) We love this very special weekly tradition :) We've been watching some awesome movies, having foods, snacks, and drinks :) We picked out a new movie to watch tonight :) Cheers! to the awesome spirit of January! :) it's a double football weekend, with 2 games today,and 14 games tomorrow :) We've been checking in on the first game today :) We're gonna have a football party tomorrow :) it's a big finale of the regular season, lots of playoffs spots will be settled tomorrow :) We got pizza bites, snacks, and drinks for our gameday party :) it's gonna be awesome!!! :) the playoffs start next week! :) The winter season has settled in. We're all keeping warm :) it was a big snowfall yesterday, lots of winter wonderland sights all around :) We've been putting extra goodies outside for our nature friends, including dried corn and sunflower seeds in our backyard :) We love seeing our nature friends enjoying the goodies :) Holly and i are looking forward to lots more nature walks :) i'm so excited to organize my coins, including using the new coin rolls wrappers i bought today :) i may order a few more coins soon too :) i've been browsing ebay and amazon :) Thank you angel friends, so very much for sharing in, and celebrating the season with us :) You all make each day very special, and memorable :) Enjoying an awesome, spirit soaring day, with family, friends, nature, movies, shopping, and the wonderful spirit of the season :) Tonight, the popcorn movie party is on!! :) woot!! :)



Happy Weekend Smiles! :) Hi angel friends! :) hot tea cheers! on this spirit soaring! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, keeping warm, and enjoying a wonderful day :) We love the weekend's, and the awesome spirited joys of the month of January :) There's lots of great things going on, as the new year has been settling in :) We're all keeping warm :) it was a big snowfall here yesterday, lots of beautiful winter wonderland sights all around :) We're having some nice hot drinks today, and celebrating spirit of the season :) my mom, dad, Charlie, Holly,and i had a super fun time shopping at the dollar tree earlier today and my parents and brother went into the grocery storetoo :) We bought some great items, including foods, snacks, writing supplies, and more :) Holly and i are looking forward to writing some cards to mail on super wednesday next week :) We're having a popcorn movies party today too, and checking in on the football game :) Lots of great games, leading up tothe playoffs next week :) We're enjoying a very special time settling into the new year with everyone :) Wishing everyone continued peaceful joys of the season :) Sending lots and lots of love, and our most warmest caring happy sunny friendship hugs, from our hearts, and home to yours :)


Thank you angel friends, so very much, for your beautifully heart warming comments :) Aww! :) We're very happy, delighted, and thrilled that everyone enjoyed our snow day baking friday adventure pictures :) That warms our hearts, and brings us smiles :) Holly and i had a nice time baking the cookies and muffins, and we all enjoyed the snow day yesterday :) Holly and i are very happy everyone enjoyed the picture of us outside in the winter wonderland, and our kitchen decorations :) we love these very special, spirited fun times and sharing in these times with everyone :) Lots of great memories being made :) We look forward to the kids helping us bake next week, and many more super fun baking friday adventures :) Holly and i recieved a cool surprise from my mom and dad :) They went to great oaks pizza place, and treated us to a nice cheese pizza :) it's very nice, and sweet of them :) we thanked my mom and dad :) Holly and i enjoyed our pizza, and watching most haunted new episodes last night :) it was a great friday, evening and night :) We all got good sleep last night :)



This morning, we had an awesome new day, rising and shining :) we love blossoming into the weekend's :) i was up early this morning, enjoying some nice time here on DS, writing to friends, and also had the coins collecting with Mike show on :) i love tuning into it each weekend :) i began to get ready for my early morning nature walk, i bundled up warmly :) it got very windy, cold here yesterday after the snowfall. it feels like classic winter time. i gathered a big bowl of goodies, and went outside for my nature walk :) a very special thank you for Holly :) She put some salt/ice melt on our stairs that leads to our backyard :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, bird sanctuary area for our nature friends :) i saw some bluejays, and other winter birds :) We love helping our nature friends, especially during these colder times of the year, with the wintery weather. the goodies helps them :) yesterday when Holly and i went outside, we put lots of sunflower seeds, and dried corn in our backyard, for the birds, and squirrels :) it was about 17 degrees here this morning, very cold. We're all keeping warm ,when i came back indoors, i made a nice hot tea in my winter holiday cup that Holly gave me :)



it was a sweet spirited early morning :) We enjoyed a nice breakfast, and having hot teas, orange juice, and water :) i'm also having some iced coffee today :) Holly and i made a nice list of some items we've been wanting to buy, at the dollar tree :) all throughout the week, we've been looking forward to shopping :) it's been a really nice stretch of days, and blossoming into the month of January :) we love the spirit of each month, and season :) Holly and i are so proud of the nice organizing we've been doing throughout the week, including getting our home and living room situated for all of the new year's times :) i love my writing area, i've been continuingto add to it :) it's so much fun to decorate :) Holly and i enjoyed putting our new 2022 calendars up, and i also put my new Washington football team autographed picture Judy (Ladybug7) and Denny sent me, on my wall next to my collectibles shelves :) Holly and i are adding more to our hallway area too :) my mom came downstairs here, and saw my writing area on thursday :) She loved seeing it, and got to see our cat Tiger :) Tiger remembers my mom, when my mom was sitting outside in the sun during spring and summer, Tiger use too go right up to my mom and my mom would pet her :) Awww!:) our cat Tiger, and all of our pets are doing well :) Tiger's been enjoying her fleece blanket we have for her :) She's a super cool cat :) As the morning continued on, we began to get ready to go shopping :)



Saturday Shopping Adventure at the Dollar Tree! :) my mom, dad, Holly, and i were all set, to shop :) Holly and i wore our new, N95 masks :) earlier my brother Charlie called, and said he'd love to go shopping with us :) we enjoyed a nice car ride into our city ,and picked my brother up at his house :) We drove over to the shopping center :) Charlie went into shoprite grocery store, and my dad went into the rent-a-center place to pay the bill :) he met up with my mom, Holly,and i in the dollar tree a bit later :) Holly got a shopping cart,and my mom, and i got shopping baskets, and began to browse around :) we love the dollar tree, and browsing around : )They have Valentine's day items, and lots of new year's items :) they have some cool garden supplies, including garden seeds, and figurines :) i told Holly to select 2 cool ones she'd like, she selected a nice sandcastle decorative, and another figurine decorative for her table, as a special gift for her upcoming 3rd anniversary of living here with us in CT :) She's so happy! :) i also bought 2 figurines, a VW bus, and a VW beetle bug car for my writing area :) Holly bought a cool new snack tray, for our party's :)



We were having lots of fun browsing around ,my mom and dad were finding some nice items too :) i bought 4 packs of greetings cards, and a pack of over 100 stickers, writing supplies :)i also bought a bag of coin rolls wrappers, for my coins :) We continued to browse around,Holly bought some crafts items, we also bought some foods, and snacks, including tortilla wraps, wheat crackers, and more :) it wasn't busy inside the store, we were doing so very well, and felt safe inside the store :) We browsed at the dvds, and then made our way to the checkout :) my mom, dad, Holly, and i checked out together :) it went really well, and smoothly :) after were all set, we walked outside and felt that great sense of accomplishment :)We rocked it, with an awesome shopping adventure and experience :) We're very happy and excited about the nice items we bought :) we put our items into our minivan, my mom and dad went into shoprite groceries store, my brother Charlie was finishing up shopping :) Holly and i were talking in the minivan about the nice items we got :) my brother Charlie came back to the minivan, and my mom and dad finished shopping :) we brought my brother Charlie home, and then made our journey home :) our cat Tiger was very happy to see Holly and i when we returned home :) Awww! :) it was so nice shopping today :) We're very excited, we got some great items :) We're looking forward to going shopping again, most likely in a couple weeks as we get closer to february ,for Valentine's day shopping :) i took some awesome pictures of the nice items we bought at the dollar tree :)



Popcorn Movies Marathon Party!!! :) a very special weekly tradition Holly and i love very much :) We love watching movies, and having some popcorn :) before shopping today, we began our movies marathon, and after shopping we put more movies on :) Holly and i selected some great movies, and picked out a new movie to watch tonight :) We've been having some foods, snacks, and drinks, while watching the movies :) we love our popcorn tins :) i'm so excited and thrilled for my new dvd to arrive, that i ordered on amazon :) it'll be arriving this upcoming week :) Holly and i are looking forward to lots more popcorn movies marathons,all throughout the month, and new year :) We have so many favorite movies, and lots more movies we want to see :)Cheers! to popcorn movies party day! :)



We're enjoying a great day! :) Shopping, Popcorn Movies party, spirited times being shared! :) We love it!!! :) my family, Holly,and i are doing well, healthy, and in great spirits :) it was so much fun shopping at the dollar tree today :) We're very happy and excited about the nice items we bought :) We're looking forward to writing lots of cards with our new writing supplies :) Holly and i are enjoying our popcorn movies marathon party :) We've been watching some movies, and looking forward to watching a new movie tonight :) The Popcorn movies party is on!! :) woot yeah!! :) There's lots of great things going on :) Tomorrow's football sunday! :) We're going to have a football party, and enjoying some foods, snacks, and drinks :) it's a big football sunday, with lots of great games leading up to the playoffs beginning next weekend :) There's lots more great things to look forward too :) You all warm our hearts, and brighten our days :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us, for your wonderful love, care, support, warm well wishes, and for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our very happy hearts :) Big group happy sunny warm caring friendship hug :) We wish everyone, a nice peaceful evening and night :)



-never lose hope :)



To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, we're enjoying a great day! :)we love the weekend's :) mom, dad, Charlie, Holly, and i enjoyed going shopping today at the dollar tree :) We bought some foods, snacks, and writing supplies :) it was so nice shopping :) Holly and i are enjoying a popcorn movies marathon :) Watching some movies, and picked out a new movie to watch tonight :) We're going to have a football party tomorrow :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)



my mom, Holly, and family says hi :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, keeping warm, and enjoying a great day :) We think of you all often :) We love you all very much, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We're enjoying a very special time, blossoming into the new year with everyone, sharing in the great times of the month of January :) There's so much more to look forward too :) Thank you angel friends, for brightening our days :)



Happy Shopping Smiles! :) it was so nice going shopping today at the dollar tree :) We're so happy and excited about the nice items we got :) We love the dollar tree, they have so many cool items :) it was great browsing around :) our first shopping adventure of the new year :) We look forward to going shopping again in the very near future :) we're gonna go shopping for some Valentine's day gifts, candy, and treasures in late January/early February :) i'm very excited to share pictures of the nice items we bought at the dollar tree :) a great shopping adventure! :)



Writing Supplies :) i bought 4 packs of greetings cards, and stickers :) We love stocking up on writing supplies :)
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i bought these 2 nice figurines collectibles for Holly :) a nice sand castle, and beach house :) her 3rd anniversary of her living here with us in CT, is coming up on January 16th :) Holly loves displaying figurines and collectibles on her table :)
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VW bus and VW Beetle bug car :) i bought these 2 nice collectible figurines for my writing area :) i'm a big fan of VW buses and cars :)
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Snack Tray :) Holly bought this nice snack tray for us, for our party's :)
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Foods and Snacks :) We love buying some foods, and snacks at the dollar tree :) they have lots of selections :)
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Coin Roll Wrappers :) i bought a bag of these nice coin roll wrappers for some of my coins :) i'm into collecting certain years of coins, and varieties of coins ,like the new Washington crossing the delaware quarters, and the bicentennial quarters :)
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Red Bird Peppermint candies and peppermint candy :) Holly and i bought these nice candies, we love adding the candies into our teas :)
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Some more pictures from yesterday's snowfall :) 


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Replies

CoolGal
CoolGal

Hi Chris Glad you and your family are doing well and enjoyed shopping. Its great you and Holly and family had fun shopping and got some great items. Its nice your brother came with you today too, I know you'll enjoy writing cards this coming week Holly and your collectible figures are nice and will be great additions to your decorations, The snow looks pretty there in your photos. Thanks for all my nice hugs today Enjoy a good night Hugs to everyone-Stephanie
gratefulgrandma123
gratefulgrandma123

That's so nice u had a fun time going to the Dollar Tree & got lots of nice items & saw lots of nice items. It's so nice that you had Holly pick out two items to celebrate her living with you for 3 years. She picked out nice things. I'm very glad u got to go out & have fun & go to the Dollar Tree. I hope u all have a nice evening & stay warm. Hugs & love FF
gratefulgrandma123
gratefulgrandma123

I forgot to mention that the snow looks pretty in your pictures & it's nice that Charlie came with you all to the Dollar Tree & how u put mints in your tea. Hugs & love FF
bluemoon29
bluemoon29

Sweet journal filled with joy:). Thanks for sharing! I can’t believe it’s been 3 years since Holly moved in! Happy anniversary! I love the way you all embrace life and make every minute count:).
JeanCarlin
JeanCarlin

Hi Chris, i’m glad the snow didn’t stop you from being able to do your shopping at the dollar tree and I’m glad that you had a fun time and got some cute things to display
Your pictures are very beautiful!
Hugs Jeannie
Lilysawyer
Lilysawyer

WOW you made out like a bandit at the dollar store! ew all that snow. no thanks you keep it.