Hello! Hope everyone is having a fantastic holiday weekend!! Well, today's the day,"Small Business Saturday." The day we focus on shopping at those cute little stores that we have in our towns and cities. The benefits are many-- Shoppers can find a variety of unique gifts. Those that the gifts are for receive a special gift. Shopkeepers profit and many gain new customers. Enjoy your shopping. Hope you find a lot of fun goodies!! ~Keep on Dreaming~
Here we are the day before"the big day." Are you ready? We are. Mr. Ken and I will be at home tomorrow and enjoy hanging, eating AND locating Christmas decorations Wishing you are yours a day filled with FAMILY, FRIENDS, FUN, FOOD AND MOST OF ALL FELLOW- SHIP!!! Why did the turkey cross the road twice? To prove he was not a chicken. What do you call it when it rains turkeys? Foul Weather Happy Thanksgiving!! ~Keep on Dreaming~
Hello!! A friend of mine posed this question on Facebook today. Name a game or games that DO NOT require a power source? My answers were: UNO, FARKEL and SCRABBLE Do you have family coming for the holidays? Set out some games and have fun! Start a new tradition. ~Keep on Dreaming~
Hello!! Have you ever wondered why Thanksgiving is on a Thursday? Yes? No? Well, for those of you who have I have that pertinent information for you. Back when Washington was President, he declared November 26 as a "Day of Publick Thanksgivin." But then in the years to follow the holiday was announced by president- ial proclamation an celebrated on different days ans months. In 1863, Lincoln made his Thanks- giving proclamation, the last Thursday of November became standard. Roosevelt had a double Thanks- giving problem. In 1933, there was a five Thursday November and retailers were up in arms,wanted him to move Thanksgiving up one week. He denied this request and Thanks- giving was was on the last Thursday of the month. Roosevelt was President in 1939 when it happened AGAIN! Retailers asked for the move again and he agreed. After much moving around, finally in 1941 Congress passed a law making Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday of November. Who knew that??? ~Keep on Dreaming~
Hello Everyone! Well, the "BIG T" day is just around the corner. Two weeks from tomorrow!! Are you ready? With that in mind, I thought we would talk traditions today. I found some very interesting ones on the internet. 1. Have a Paintball Tournament the day after Thanksgiving instead of watching sports. 2. A Spoon Contest--balance a spoon on your nose. 3. Turkey day PJ's. Wear your PJ's while celebrating. Invite your guests to wear theirs too! 4. Christmas crafting. Start on those Christmas presents while visiting with family. 5. Instead of turkey as the main entree some serve chicken, pizza, Chinese take out, ham, prime rib, crab legs or some make RESERVATIONS. What are your Traditions for this special holiday? We are pretty "traditional" for Thanksgiving. Some years we host--making the turkey and mashed potatoes and others bringing the rest of the goodies, some years we head out to one of the brother's home and bring our contribution. Mr. Ken and I will have a small dinner on Thanksgiving day with ham and all the fixings and yes there will be pie! The day after, we are off to Mr. Ken's brother and fiance's for a family meal and we will be bringing the veggie platter and rolls. When we host, it is usually buffet style due to the amount of people hanging out. Paper plates help with the clean up. We also have done the going out thing too, the meal was good BUT I missed the leftovers!! ~Keep on Dreaming~
Last Sunday was a BIG day here! We went to Granite City for a delicious brunch...oh was it yummy!! There was a specific reason for brunching as you will see. (Sorry lost the dang picture!!)
Those crazy kids are taking selfies again!
Someone had a birthday and raked in some really good loot!
Here is the yummy birthday bundtlet cake. It is made by a company called "Nothing Bundt Cake." These are soooo moist and yummy.
The other excitement of the day was that the Kansas City Royals won the 2015 World's Series!!!! Such fun and we are so proud of our Boys in Blue!!!
This turns out to be the final score in game 5 of the series. Of course it had to go into extra innings!!
The exact time of the WIN and it is still my birthday! So nice of them to win the World Series on my big day!!!
News after the game!!
Boys arriving home the next day.
Parade day! Mr. Ken works at the courthouse in downtown KC and the parade route just happened to go right by his office.
An exciting time for Kansas City!!!
We were able to get a really good spot right his office building. Here we are waiting for the parade to begin. I did not have school and as far as I know no one had school that day, so I went to work with Mr.
Waiting with a few of our "closest" friends.
The parade begins with a giant replica of THE trophy.
Here's Slugger! Our mascot.
Kansas City Mayor Sly James.
Dayton Moore, Royals General Manager.
The players....
This takes some explaining. Our third baseman's name is Mike Moustakas but the fans have shortened it to MOOSE. Well this guy above has an authentic moose rack (as you can see) that he brings to all the games, so of course he was part of the parade.
This is THE Mike Moustakas, he raised his hand just as I snapped the pic.
Our All star MVP pitcher for the World Series Sal Perez--Salvi for short.
Our coach Ned Yost and THE real World Series Trophy. The team headed down to Union Station after the parade for a rally--we did not do to that wildness. According to city officials between the parade and the rally an approx 800,000 people were in attendance for the fun!!! Now that my friends is A LOT of people. Wow!!! A fun day for the city and for all of us that live in the metro area. We all love our boys and are so excited to have the World Series Trophy here!!! Told you it was a BIG post. :) ~Keep on Dreaming~
Hello!!! Just popping in quickly to say "I am still here!" Lots of fun stuff going on here and so many things to get caught up on. Needless to say that I am tired and not up to a full post BUT I will be back with a BIG post on what's been going on here!! ~Keep on Dreaming~
