Another Great Evening with Peter & Kaija

Peter & Kaija had family visiting from Kaija’s native land of Finland.  Elina and her daughter Anna-Sophia are lovely people and we enjoyed meeting them and spending a fun evening together.  They both speak 4 languages and are very well versed in English… wow!!  They enjoyed their visit by touring our area and of course… SHOPPING!!!

Anna-Sophia experienced the “shopping opportunity” at the local premium discount outlet malls, as well as places like Ross.  Here she is modeling just a few her great finds.  Of course she is beautiful (has done some modeling) with a great petite figure so she looked awesome in everything!!!

The Girls

The Boys

Pole Dancing is Fun

		You’re as young as you feel… VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

On March 11th a group of 14 women got together for a pole dancing class.  I work out with these ladies 3 times a week at Jazzercise and Joan in the pink is my GNO (Girls Night Out) buddy.  This class involved learning some of the basic moves on the pole.  Here is a video of Joan working the pole.

Joan doing her “thing”

It was a lot of fun and I can see how it would be a really good workout on a regular basis.  The instructor was very good and she made the moves look so easy, but it takes a lot of strength and coordination to make it all come together.  Personally at the age of 57, I felt great doing this fun activity!

Kathy’s Closet is Done!

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Our master closet project was a big one and it took a long time to complete both closets, but they are finally done.  Each of us designed our own closet and Hank did a great job with all the calculations and planning.  Good thing that he did his closet first and learned by his mistakes so my closet would be perfect… hee-hee-hee.

Almeida B&B’s Slumber Party

Five of my girlfriends drove up from the Bay Area to visit us for the weekend and we HAD A BLAST to say the least.  They were anxious to see our new house for the first time.  The Almeida B&B welcomed Sheila, Denise, Marcia, Julene & Cynthia.
Parker and Cha Cha joined in the fun too.

If this tells you anything, we started our party with wine and beer at noon, only then did we proceed to give them the official tour of our house.

After the tour we had lunch and hung out in the backyard and talked.

Parker thinks he’s a person… too cute

We decided to take the little guys for a walk and prepare for our next round… cocktail hour!

Here’s the gang from back to front on the left side.
Cynthia, Denise, Sheila, Marcia
Julene and Kathy are in the back

Hank was wonderful… he not only helped me prepare for the party, he was our bartender, server and dishwasher.  He’s a keeper for sure!

Cha Cha was in seventh heaven playing with Parker and experiencing all the news smells of a different house.

We also celebrated Julene’s birthday

A toast to the birthday girl

We enjoyed a great dinner of parmesan chicken with homemade marinara sauce, parmesan garlic bread, spinach salad, spaghetti

and of course lots of wine.

This was the menu for the weekend.

What would a girly slumber party be without dancing?!?!?!  Cynthia and Sheila were doing the “happy” dance.

A little hip action

Wow… I guess the Almeida B&B was a big hit with the girls… just check out the comments from our friends.  We think we’ll have to keep this B&B open for a long time…. who’s next?????

“What a wonderful weekend. Words can't express how thankful I am to you and Hank for spoiling us in such a generous, magnificent way.  Your home is beautiful.  I'm trying to get over getting lost but thankful you have enough bathrooms that I was able to find one in time”.
“THANKS to both of you for the warm, generous, fun hospitality! What a wonderful home you are creating. We all had a blast and look forward to Phase II Summertime Fun! You guys are the best! Parker says to particularly say Thank You for including him in the invite, too.”
“Many thanks to you and Hank for the wonderful time. You made this such a special and fun weekend. You have a lovely home that's as warm as the two of you. You are the best host ever. Now you have started something and we'll be back soon”.
“Thank you both for being so kind and generous! Letting me bring Cha Cha to the sleep over meant so much to me and John.  I am looking forward to the summer BBQ. Love you guys!”