Hanukkah Party

This past Sunday evening, Bill, Sandy, Ian, Chelsea, Faulkner, along with Jeff and Jennifer, made the drive down to good old Greenville to attend our very first Hanukkah party. We had a blast! We had lots of good conversation, plenty of laughs, a couple of games of dreidel and way, way too much food to eat! The only bad thing about the whole evening was that it did not last long enough.
Hopefully, this was the first of many more gatherings to come!

A Week of Birthdays!

Clemmie and I both had birthdays this past week. I turned 45 on Tuesday, while Clemmie celebrated her 11th birthday on Saturday. Both of us had extra special birthdays this year, thanks to our family and friends. On Tuesday, Bruce took me to Montgomery and we went to the Eastbrook Flea Market and then he treated me to a steak dinner at Longhorns. On Thursday, my sweet friends, Jen and Sandy, along with Ian, Faulkner and Chelsea, treated me to a terrific lunch of homemade chili and birthday cake and ice cream. After lunch, we played two rounds of "Apples to Apples". I had so much fun and also received a beautiful, soft and cuddly, brown blanket for a present, as well as, one of Chelsea's handmade cards.
On Sunday afternoon, the Cauthens, Jennifer, Sarah, Zane, Madeline and Adrianne joined us at the Brunswick Lanes for an afternoon of bowling, in celebration of Clemmie's birthday. Clemmie had a great time and I think that everyone else did as well. She also received some wonderful gifts such as a very soft blue blanket, a manicure set, and a Taylor Swift CD.

It was a really terrific week of birthdays at the Croley house. Now to prepare to host my first ever Hanukkah party!!

Shavua Tov!

Gingerbread houses and cookie swap

Clemmie went to bed last night with a sore throat and woke up this morning still feeling bad. By lunch time she was feeling a good bit better, so I took her to her CHEF 4H cooking class @ 3:30. They had a cookie swap.....Clemmie took chocolate chip cookies that she made.....and they also made gingerbread houses. Go over to Clemmie's blog to see some pictures of her house. The link to her blog is http://rubyrose-naturegirl.blogspot.com/ I know that I am her Mom, but her gingerbread house is too cute!