Very Pleasant-Restful Weekend

We started the weekend attending Newbury Park 2nd Ward where Dan gave a great talk in Sacrament Meeting. Dan's parents, John's family and Carnell came over later for dinner and celebrate Mel's Birthday. Look carefully at this amazing cake...cupcakes with a frosted top.

Brooke and Ashlyn were busy helping Mel decide which gift to open first. Mel had told the family all she wanted this year were GAMES. There are some amazing games out there for children 3 to 8 which teach the importance of sharing, not always winning, recognizing words, numbers and just plain fun. We spent Monday playing games from 6:30 a.m. until noon. Zingo is one of the favorites so far, as even Chelsea can play that one and yet geared for older ones as well.
Grandpa and Grandma Clinger made sure Mel was up on all the new styles. Mel does like clothes and she received a bundle. She will be the best dressed girls in pre-school. Right away she had to put on her new nightgown...very cute.
As stated earlier, we spent a good part of Monday and also Tuesday morning playing many of these new games for children: Uno, Clue, Monopoly, Princess, Zingo, on and on. Spencer would get up early each morning, get dressed, clean his room, eat his breakfast and we ready to play by 7 a.m. Christian came over Monday and enjoyed playing with Mel too.

Around noon on Monday Marv and I headed over to Carnell's house to clean, get bills paid, and found out Carnell had broken a tooth and a cap on another tooth. We were not able to get him in to the dentist until early Tuesday morning, so we ended up spending the night with Lisa's family. ENJOYED totally a nice dip in the spa before dinner. We wanted to go to a movie that evening, but nothing of interest was playing...so Lisa prepared a lovely Samon dinner, provided a movie and pop corn for us. The next morning I played games and got ready for the temple as had to be there by 11, while Marv took Carnell to the dentist. Had a very nice day at the temple and was able to get caught up on several Volunteer responsibilities. Marv was on the later shift this day, so I went over to a friends apartment for some homemade soup, corn bread and our oranges for dessert [her husband was also on the later shift]

Tonight we meet up with some other friends to go out to dinner and just socialize. Thursday John and Marrianne are coming to the temple to do a session with Marv and I get to play with the grandchildren. We will most likely stay in Santa Monica this coming weekend...waiting for exciting news from Colorado as the twins are due any day now. Maybe they will be born on Heather's birthday next week....happy birthday mom....hahahaha