Happy thursday! :) a sweet relaxing day :) getting ready for fun baking :) coffee cheers! :)

Happy Thursday! :) We're enjoying a nice relaxing, and peaceful day :) it's been a great stretch of days, with lots of spirited joys, from nature, adventures, our weekly traditions, and counting down to the divisional round playoffs football games this upcoming weekend :) We look forward to having some football party's :) There's 4 big games coming up :) woot yeah!!! :) We're enjoying the day, with some nice phone calls, organizing, and ggearing up for a super fun baking friday adventure tomorrow :) During the evening yesterday, my niece Alyssa treated us to a nice dinner, from the Chili's restaurant :) it was so nice, and sweet of her :) Holly and i had pasta with shrimp, salad, and tortilla's :) it was really good :) we thanked Alyssa :) it was such a nice treat :) We watched ghost hunters, and got a good night's rest :) We're all keeping warm, it's very cold weather outside, but thankfully it's gonna be getting warm outside this weekend, in the 60's! :) We're gonna go shopping at the dollar tree on saturday, writing cards, letters, and we're gonna watch the big football games this weekend :) Holly's Ravens have a game on saturday night :) Tonight, Holly and i are gonna have our popcorn movie party :) We're gonna watch a movie :) a classic, Ninja Turtles movie :) my mom and Holly are both feeling better :) We're so glad, and thankful :) lots of great joys,as we continue to blossom more into the month of January :) We look forward to upcoming birthday's, anniversary's, and lots more :) my mom's and dad's anniversary is on January 16th, along with Holly's 1st anniversary of living here with us :) we look forward to all of the celebrations :)We did some organizing today, including adding a cabinet to our living room, for our dvds, video games :) it's awesome! :) Enjoying a sweet peaceful day :) Tomorrow's baking friday! :) calling all cookie monsters! :) cookie monsters unite! :) it's almost time to bake! bake! bake! :)

Hi angel friends! :) Cheers!!! and happy friendship smiles :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, keeping warm, and enjoying a great day :) it's a wintery cold day here, with low temperatures, but thankfully warmer temperatures coming, and a great upcoming football weekend :) we're 2 days away from the divisional round playoffs games beginning :) 4 big matchups, and 4 teams advancing to the championship sunday :) it's gonna be very exciting :) it's been a great stretch of days :) we're having a nice relaxing, and peaceful day at home today, and looking forward to lots more special times coming up, to share in :) We've been hearing lots of happy birds singing outside our windows here :) the birds love gathering the goodies i put outside for them :) We're so happy and excited about lots of great things :) my mom and Holly are both feeling better :) We're so glad, and thankful :) Thank you angel friends, for your wonderful well wishes, and prayers :) We're gearing up for football weekend, writing, shopping, and also counting down to birthday's, anniversary's, and lots more, including a super fun baking friday adventure tomorrow :)

Sweet Joyful times! :) During the evening yesterday, we were all hanging out, and talking about the day :) my niece Alyssa mentioned she'd like to treat us all to some nice foods, from the Chili's restaurant :) it's very nice and sweet of her :) we all picked out some nice foods :) Holly and i got the pasta with shrimp, tortilla chips with salsa, and a salad :) We all enjoyed our dinner :) it was really good :) we thanked Alyssa for the nice dinner :) last night, Holly and i watched ghost hunters :) We've been enjoying the new episodes of ghost nation, which are the original ghost hunters members :) We're on episode 3 of the 1st season :) We all got good rest last night, and are keeping warm, as it got very cold overnight. i made a nice hot tea for Holly this morning, and i'm having iced coffee :) Cheers! :)

This morning, we had a beautiful new day, rising and shining :) i bundled up for my nature walk, and gathered a big bowl of goodies, for our nature friends :) i went outside for my early morning nature walk :) i saw some birds, and the sky looked wintery cool this morning :) it was very low windchills in our area. we're so glad, and thankful the weather is gonna warm up this weekend, into the 60's :) it'll be amazing, that's very warm, for this time of the year :) i'm looking forward to many more nature adventures, as the days and weeks continue :) we've been hearing many birds outside here :) we love the nature activity :) it's a great joy :) Holly and i have been tending our bamboo plants indoors here, we love our bamboo plants :) we water the plants about twice a week :) We're looking forward to the spring gardening season :) we had such an amazing season last year, and we can't wait to garden again :) it was a nice early morning, as the day was blossoming :) we enjoyed our breakfast, and spending some nice time here on DS, writing to friends :)

Today's a cool relaxing day at home :) i called some friends, and also been thinking of the journey of the past year :) last on January 9th last year, it was the day when things really began to get going, with the plans for Holly to move to Connecticut :) i remember it like it was yesterday :) The day last year,on January 9th, really set in motion, the whole process of getting everything ready, for Holly's move, including beginning to clean, organize our downstairs here :) we're very happy and excited :) January 16th, is my mom's and dad's anniversary, plus the 1 year anniversary of Holly living here with us :) it's been an incredible year :) Holly said, on January 16th, lets have some powerade and BBQ potato chips :) those are the 2 items we brought with us, when we traveled to Maryland :) We were having some BBQ potato chips and powerade on the way home :) so many times we cherish, from those days beginning January 9th last year, and a week later, our trip to Maryland, and our trip home :) we talk about it often :) we'll always remember those sights we saw, including driving across the George Washington Bridge, seeing New York City at night time, all of the buildings glowing, it was amazing :) We're remembering all of the times of last year, and looking forward to a very special January 16th, celebrating :)

Today, we've been hanging out, enjoying some sports radio, football talk, some organizing, and getting ready for the upcoming days, baking friday, weekend adventures, and football party's, and lots more :) i'm so happy and thrilled about the cards, letters, and treasures we mailed yesterday, and looking forward to lots more writing times :) i'm gonna be writing some more cards, and letters, as the days go on :) my writing area is looking awesome :) i displayed some more cards, in the front area of my writing area :) it's so much fun decorating it :) i'm very heart happy, everyone is enjoying seeing my writing area :) my mom came into our living room to look at my writing area, she loves it :) i'm pumped up and excited for more writing times, and many more super fun post office adventures :) it was so neat, and cool to see the ducks in the peaceful pond, and the snowy wintery nature scenes :)

We're enjoying a nice relaxing, and peaceful day :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, and are in great spirits :) There's lots of great things going on, as the month of January is in full swing :) it was so nice, enjoying some phone calls today, and looking forward to the upcoming days, and football games coming up :) We've been enjoying some nice foods, snacks, and drinks :) with the football games this weekend, including the Ravens vs Titans game on saturday night, Holly and i are going to have our popcorn movie party tonight :) We're going to watch the original, ninja turtles movie :) i remember seeing the movie in theaters, with my family, back in 1990 :) it was such a cool experience :) Tomorrow's baking friday! :) We're looking forward to baking some goodies :) it's gonna be an awesome adventrue, and big weekend coming up, with shopping, football, and writing :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us :) You all are wonderfully nice, sweet, and very caring :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) big gorup warm caring happy sunny friendship hug :) There's many more great things, and special times to look forward too, with family, friends, nature, and the wonderful spirit of the season :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, It's a nice relaxing, and peaceful day :) enjoying some phone calls, nature, and writing :) We're looking forward to a super fun baking friday adventure tomorrow :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)
my mom says hi :) She says, "i hope everyone is having a nice day" :) awww! :) We love you all very much, our sweet dear angel friends :) we hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a peaceful day :) We think of you all often, and are so happy, thankful, and blessed, to have you all in our lives :) it's an awesome day, with some organizing, relaxing, and enjoying the sunshine :) We're looking forward to many more special times to share in :)

Happy nature smiles :) hi angel friends! :) i'd love to re-share some nature pictures :)

Remember the incredible Journey! :) Hi angel friends! :) today, January 9th, was the day last year, when things began to get rolling, with the plans for Holly to move here with us :) it was a wonderful day, and the week leading up to her arrival here with us, on January 16th :) my mom, dad, and i had a very special journey that day, to Maryland, and picking up Holly, and we enjoyed a very special journey home, seeing so many amazing sights :) we've all been talking about the year, and the incredible joys being shared :) January 16th, is my mom's and dad's anniversary, and Holly's 1st anniversary of living here with us :) We're very happy and excited to celebrate :) i'd love to take some time today, to re-share some of the adventure pictures, and will share more on saturday, and days ahead, leading up to January 16th :) We're very happy Holly is here with us :) Thank you angel friends, for being here with us,  on this incredible journey :)

This picture, we were just beginning our journey to Maryland :)

huge clock tower we saw in western, CT :)

crusing across the tapanzee bridge, across the Hudson River, in New York :)

seeing the meadowlands, New Jersey, where one of our favorite shows was filmed, the Sopranos :) in this picture, the Bridge that "Tony Soprano" drove across in the opening credits :) 

entering Delaware, the Memorial Bridge, over the historic, Delaware River! :)

heading to Baltimore, Maryland! :) we were getting close! :)

M&T Bank Stadium! :) where Holly's Ravens play :) 

heading home to Connecticut, in New Haven, we drove  across the Q Bridge (Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge :) it was lit bright with the blue lights:) we were about 1 hour from arriving home :)