A couple of belated birthdays....

Happy Belated 31st Birthday to Adam Janssen (Sara's husband) on Wednesday!

Hope you had a wonderful day!

Happy 57th Birthday to Michael Onan (Connie's husband) on Friday!

We sort of 'celebrated' on Sunday night for the week's birthdays and anniversary.

Hope you enjoyed your chicken!

...and a bit of catch-up.

Also on Friday, we had our quarterly(?) girls'-day-out. As always, when the four of us get together, we laugh alot and just generally have a good time. Oh, and we usually have a good lunch somewhere, too. They took a chance on Applebee's letting us in (they did!) and we all ate too much - thanks for treating, Linda! But I am getting ahead of myself. I drove this time, to give Connie a break. Also, that way if we got lost it wouldn't be my fault, but the navigator's (who happened to be Linda this time). We must have made a good team, because we made it to Appleton just fine and met up with Alice at Linen 'n Things. Steve had swapped vehicles with her so that she had the Rav4, but he took the GPS out so she had to rely on her good sense of direction. That came into play later, when we were all riding in her vehicle, scoping out shops in Appleton. The one recurring theme of the day seemed to be that Linda wouldn't buy anything and would end up sitting on a bench/chair/or just standing by the door waiting for us to get through the checkout, and I always seemed to be the last one through, so they would ALL be waiting for me. (Especially at Barnes and Noble - I think I could spend a WHOLE day there!) Other than the little 'witch' incident, we all got along just fine. (ha,ha!) With all the Halloween decorations out in force, we were continually finding 'things' for each other....there were plenty of Christmas decorations out, too, but we just couldn't go there! WAY too early! Linda got quite concerned that we were going to be lost and gone forever (and that Tom wouldn't come looking for her) or at least end up in Green Bay, but Alice's aforementioned good sense of direction got us back on track, after a brief interlude. There may have been a few omigodwe'llallbekilled!'s but, thank goodness, we weren't! We live to venture out another day! Possibly we will make it to Door County one of these times - that was the original plan, but time strictures prohibited it this time. Dan just had the movie "The Goonies" on a bit ago, some of that sounded awfully familiar...I don't know if D/C is ready for us...