Shopping adventure, movies, we going to Brody's 6th birthday party :)

Happy 6th birthday to Brody :) We're going to Alyssa's and family's house this late afternoon/evening, for Brody's birthday party :) You all will be with us in spirit :) Earlier today, we enjoyed a shopping adventure at the dollar tree, we bought some cards, gifts, and stocked up on some treats for Tiger, and some snacks, and candy :) Holly and i bought some tortilla chips and salsa :) We're going to have some chips/salsa tomorrow, while watching football, in honor of my brother Charlie :) Chips and Salsa was one of his favorite gameday snacks :) we're continuing with the good care, eating well, keeping hydrated, and also taking things a day at a time <3 Everyone's comforting love, prayers, support, and care, is very uplifting, and comforting our hearts :) Thank you angel friends, so very much :) Jenn and family are having a lemonade stand fundraiser today, to raise money for Charlie's funeral, along with the gofundme. they had a really good raising day today,  everything is very helpful <3 my mom and dad went down there earlier, Holly ,and i ,and Tiger sent some money to the fundraiser :) Mikey, Hunter ,and Carter are very proud to be raising money :) Holly and i watched some movies earlier, and also gonna watch a movie tonight :) We're planning a football sunday, with foods, snacks, drink, and watching the games :) Thank you angel friends, for being here for us :) We appreciate you all very much :) Wishing everyone continued peaceful joys of the season :) We love you all bunches and bunches :)



Blossoming into the weekend :) Hi angel friends :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a peaceful day :) We think of you all often, and love hearing from you :) We enjoyed our friday evening dinner, and watched some youtube videos last night, and got good sleep :) Alyssa, and family are having us over this late afternoon/evening, for Brody's 6th birthday party :) You all will be with us in spirit :) Thank you angel friends, for your sweet happy birthday wishes for Brody :) he's been looking forward to his birthday :) i look forward to sharing about Brody's birthday in my journal tomorrow :) i'll take some pictures at the birthday party :) Earlier today, we went shopping at the dollar tree :) We stocked up on some nice items, including buying some cards, and gifts :) Holly and i put some movies on earlier today, and also gonna watch a new movie tonight :) We're keeping with our days, routines, and taking good time to talk, sharing stories, and memories each day <3 Thank you angel friends, for being here for us, and for the comforting love, care, prayers, and support :) it means the world to us :) We're very blessed, and thankful to have you all in our lives :)



Thank you angel friends, for your beautifully heart warming, and comforting comments :)Sending special thanks :) my family, Holly,and i are happy everyone enjoyed our baking friday adventure, our kitchen decorations, and our pictures :) it warms our hearts, and brings us joy, getting to share our baking friday adventures with everyone :) it was very special to us, everyone gathering yesterday :) We're so glad, and thankful everyone came over :) We really needed an adventure like yesterday, enjoying our favorite tradition, baking friday and being in the comforting moments, baking goodies :) The kids were very excited, for us to bake their favorite, chocolate chip cookies :) We're looking forward to many more fun baking friday adventures :) We're very blessed, and thankful to have the baking friday tradition in our lives :) next week, we're going to have the 17th anniversary of baking friday, with a special adventure too :) We love seasonal baking, and cooking :) There's lots of recipes, and we love trying new recipes too :) the chocolate chip cookies, and apple turnovers came out great yesterday :) we'll definitely bake some more :) After baking, the kids had fun playing outside with their friends in our neighborhood :) we're planning to bake an apple pie, and other goodies next week, for baking friday's 17th anniversary :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in this very special tradition with us each week :) We love baking friday :)



This morning, we were blossoming into the new day, and weekend, after getting good sleep :) There's been some nice sunshine in our area this week, it's refreshing seeing the sunny nature, and all of our nature friends visiting our yard, and the feeders :) lots of comforting nature, we love being close with nature, and seeing all of our flowers continuing to blossom :) it looks so nice, all of the colors of the season around our yard, and garden, with the cooler, crisp chilly mornings, it's feeling a bit like fall season is beginning to arrive :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, on the feeders, and in the bird sanctuary area for our nature friends :) They're enjoying gathering the goodies, it's been very nature active all around, seeing lots of birds, and also some squirrels visiting :) The sun was coming up, shining into our yard :) i love those golden sunny moments in nature :) it'sa amazing how nature shines, and brings a comforting peacefulness :) We have sunflowers, marigolds, poppy flowers, roses, morning glory flowers, plus some daisies and more blossoming :) We love our plants, and garden :) Holly and i look forward to tending our garden, the rest of the season, and many more nature walks :)



It was a peaceful early morning :) We enjoyed our breakfast, and having some hot chamomile tea, water, and grape juice :) We've been eating very well, and keeping hydrated as we've been getting our full health back :) Holly and i have been looking forward to going shopping at the dollar tree :) We missed shopping last week, and there's some nice items we want to buy :) We love browsing around the store, and seeing seasonal items they have :) we were getting ready to shop this morning :) around mid-morning, we were all set, and ready to shop :)



Dollar tree shopping adventure :) We enjoyed a nice shopping adventure at our dollar tree :) You all were with us in spirit :) our store wasn't busy when we arrived there, and we got our shopping carts, basket, and began to browse around :) my mom and dad met up with us after going into the rent-a-center place :) our dollar tree is adding more fall season, and halloween season items : )We love browsing :)We bought some birthday cards, gifts for Brody, he loves dinosaurs :) we found some nice gifts for him :) We also browsed at the writing supplies, mailing supplies, we bought some treats for Tiger, she loves her temptations treats :) We browsed around the foods, snacks, and drinks aisles :) We bought some snacks, including tortilla chips, pretzels, pringles, plus some nice candy :) Holly and i love stocking up on some of our favorite snacks, and candies :) We continued to browse around, and the went to the checkout :) it went smoothly at the checkout, we checked out together :) a really nice and easy, shopping adventure :) We're happy about the nice items we bought :) Tiger girl loves to welcome us home when we arrive home, Holly and i love to show her, the nice treats we got for her :) it was nice shopping :) We're so glad and thankful our health has improved, and our energy is up :) We're looking forward to going shopping again soon :)



my family, Holly, and i are continuing to do ok, and taking things an hour, and a day at a time <3 it was nice shopping earlier today :) Holly and i are enjoying some movies, and picked out a new movie to watch tonight : )We've been keeping with our daily routines, and also taking good time to talk, sharing memories, and stories of my brother Charlie <3 we all are coping from day to day. my mom and dad are discussing plans, for Charlie's service/memorial, funeral, and taking the weekend to get the official plans set. i'll keep everyone updated. Jenn and family had a funraiser today, lemonade stand by Charlie's house and the fire department, to raise money for Charlie's funeral expenses.



We all have been coping best we can. it's been a whirlwind of emotions, with lots of feelings. grieving the passing of my brother, and also having birthday's this month, we've been being good, and gentle to our hearts, and spirits, and allowing ourselves all the time we need. Everyone's continued love, care, prayers, and support is very comforting, and uplifting <3 we deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, we're with you all :) Big group caring, comforting friendship hug :) You all will be with us in spirit this afternoon/evening, at Brody's birthday party :) my mom, Holly, and our family says hi : )We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) Sending our love, and our warmest caring sunny friendship hugs, from our hearts, and home to yours :) Wishing everyone, a peaceful evening and night :)


It was nice shopping at the dollar tree today :) it's our favorite store :) We stocked up on some nice treats for Tiger, plus some snacks, candy, cards, and more :) We love browsing around the dollar tree, and seeing their seasonal items :) They're adding lots of fall, and halloween decorations :) we look forward to going shopping again very soon :)


gifts for Brody :) 


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Some more nature sights, pictures, from the week, including a few new ones :) we love seeing our nature friends visiting our yard, and the feeders :) it's peaceful nature, that's very comforting, and uplifting :) Holly and i are looking forward to many more nature walks,and tending our plants the rest of the season :)


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we love our flowers :)


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Replies

CoolGal
CoolGal

Hi Chris Glad you Holly and your family are doing ok and enjoyed shopping. So nice you found some great items today. Hope Brody and all of you enjoy the party this evening. Happy to hear your mom and dad and family are ok and getting through the days together. I enjoyed seeing your photos of the birds flowers and feeders They are amazing. Thanks for all my nice hugs today. Have a good evening. Hugs to all-Stephanie
JeanCarlin
JeanCarlin

Hi Chris, I’m glad you and Holly enjoyed a nice shopping trip to the dollar tree and were able to stick to your usual routine. It’s nice that you brought some tortilla chips and salsa for the games today in honor of your brother. It’s nice that Jenn‘s family is having, a lemonade stand fundraiser to raise money for Charlie’s funeral, I hope everything works out .
I’m glad that Brody enjoyed his birthday party and it looks like he got some really cool gifts from you and Holly.
Thanks for sharing so many nature pics. I think it’s really cool that you keep seeing the cardinal, that’s always a good thing.
I wish you and your family a peaceful easy Sunday, hugs Jeannie
Lilysawyer
Lilysawyer

Hey Chris. Happy Birthday to Brody! I am glad you did some shopping at the Dollar Tree. I love the birds and the feeders you put up that belonged to Charlie. I hope you have a wonderful Sun. Hugs
bluemoon29
bluemoon29

Have fun at the birthday party!! Happy birthday Brody!

Happy shopping day:). I’m glad you’re getting back into your routine.

Thanks for the beautiful nature pics.

Sending love to you all.