I guess when you are having fun and having surgery it goes pretty fast.
Hayden, Shirley Owens (our sister-in-law), Spencer II and JoAnn had birthdays this month along with George (Washington) and Abraham (Lincoln). With Valentine's Day thrown in the mix too, lots was happening.........so time flies, ready or not.
Last weekend Dewey surprised me with a little weekend trip to Portland, Oregon for my birthday. We stayed at the Hotel Monaco.
It is a lovely, small, boutique hotel that is pet friendly so Buddy got to make the trip with us. He had fun meeting some dogs there. There was even a sign welcoming Buddy and all the other dogs staying that night.
They have a Golden Lab who is the pet relations director and greets all the four legged friends who arrive. Unfortunately, we were there on a Saturday and Art (the Lab's name) takes the weekends off. Apparently he works a 40 hour week so he gets to rest on the weekends. Hotel Monaco even have goldfish they will bring to your room if you are lonely and need some company during your stay with them.
Delivered to the room for Buddy was a huge pillow for him to sleep on, a basket filled with a big organic dog bone, little red doggie bags for his poop when taken for a walk , "Fido" (a dog magazine for us to read) and two big silver dishes for his food and water. We were really impressed.
With Buddy at our side, we ordered room service a lot.
Room service, a vast menu, and Dewey ordered a hamburger. The french fries were amazing though, as was their signature, gourmet, "Mac and Cheese".
Later we had a chocolate plate and another "amazing" dish, an upscale version of "Boston Creme Pie".
While we were there the ATLANTA HAWKS were staying there and the next day the LA CLIPPERS showed up. Dewey talked to one of the HAWKS in the elevator. He was surprised at how nice the guy was and later found out he was the coach. It was a relaxing weekend for us.
Here's Jody in a leopard skin robe (Dewey's was a tiger).
On our way back home we thought we would drive to Mount St. Helen's to see it up close and personal. We drove a long way and after about an hour we finally pulled out the GPS and realized we were no where close to seeing it "up close"--in other words we were lost.
Lost in the woods.
I guess we should have pulled our navigational system out when we started on our little adventure. At least the mountain wasn't moving through time and space and our noses weren't bleeding (for all of you "Lost" aficionados).
My birthday was fun. I heard from all my children. We went to Chili Thai and had a fabulous meal.
Paul was with us so I was happy to have one of my children here. Sometimes it's just Dewey and me so having another member of our family with us was great.
I got some fun gifts.
I know, you're thinking diamonds and a ....................Rug Doctor? I've been begging for a Rug Doctor for a long time and I know some would think that would not be a cool birthday present for a 62 year old woman but I was ecstatic. Dewey got it for an exceptionally good price at Costco and so I got one. Don't worry, I got flowers and personal care products (thanks Devin and Carl!) and walking shoes and bookends and the things I wanted and needed too.
Brian and Flora's flowers!
It was a wonderful birthday. 62 isn't so bad. I guess in some circles I am now considered a Senior Citizen. That's not so bad either. Discounts here and there.
On Thursday the 26th I had some oral surgery. Our Stake President is my oral surgeon and is very good. I had a root canal several years ago and a crown and something inside went wrong over time and I had a serious low grade infection eating away at the bone. It is probably one of the reasons I have felt so icky for so long. Anyway the tooth was extracted and the infection cleaned out and now I am on meds for the pain and of course antibiotics. I'll be better in no time. I'm probably going to get an implant.
My son-in-law Carl had his gall bladder removed this month. He is doing good. I don't have a gall bladder either--another thing Carl and I have in common! Of course the number one thing we have in common is we both love Devin.
We had snow Wednesday night the 25th. It was cool. I love it when it snows here. It melted by noon Thursday but it was beautiful to wake up to.
I even worked on a puzzle--valentine candy themed.
There's probably more I could go on about but this is getting a little lengthy.
It has been a good month but too short, but then that's February. Every year February is too short. It probably has a complex and is teased by all of the other months.
Dewey found a very reasonable flight and we left on Saturday morning the 31st and flew back home on Monday morning February 2
Devin had a cute game to play (we had to guess the dates of all the "1st" pictures of Hayden--her first trip, tooth, etc.). I won (I had an advantage) but I deferred to the second place person. She got the candy bar. We also had to guess how many M&M's in the jar. I didn't win. She got some cute presents.
Paul picked him up before we got home. I called to see how he did and if he liked the other dogs. They said that little dogs usually don't play--they just hang out. I can just see him hanging out and watching the big dogs play.