64 posts from 2008

 Well this has been an exciting month.  My birthday falls in the middle and usually lasts all week long which I love.  It started at the beginning of my birthday week, visiting one of my best friends, Nancy.  She made me a birthday lunch of turkey sandwiches and delicious salads and fancy yummy cupcakes.  Then she gave me the cutest ceramic cupcake box looked just like one we had eaten.  Inside she had made a little sign that said Happy Dana Day ! with curly confetti and tucked in was the sweetest little bee pin, its body was made of pearl beads and legs of diamond jewels. I think it may be a spider though but very pretty, I'm afraid of spiders but this one is so pretty maybe it will help me think better thoughts of spiders.  The power of positive thinking I'm sure is what Nancy was hoping for me. Thank you Nancy ! Then after lunch we went to our friend Janets to her MK open house.  It was a great day. 

The next day I was treated to lunch at Applebee's with my sweet sister-in-law Lilly.  We like to meet up during our birthday week.  We usually share the oriental chicken salad and have something else too.  She gave me the cutest red purse.  It has so many pockets.  She had gone to a purse party.  We had a wonderful time chatting. 

The next day my nice mother-in-law took me and Dave out for lunch at LP's Kitchen in North Seattle.  It was small but very good.  They have seafood and greek dishes their.  It was so cold that day.  They had little heaters under the table.

My Wonderful Mom and Dad deposited $ into my checking account for my b-day and I went and had a manicure and a pedicure(those tickle) and had my hair colored and trimmed.  Felt very spoiled.  They also made me a card on the computer and it was so sweet they both wrote a nice poem to me. 

A big present for myself was I finally opened up my flower shop or actually my floral studio on my birthday !  I've wanted to do it for years but I have been for the last 2 months getting supplies, getting my business license and set to go.  I was just waiting for a wire service to accept me even though I don't have a store front yet.   Root Wire accepted me a day before my birthday.  They are small and I still need to be on a bigger service but for now they helped me get my business off the ground.  I also got 2 floral warehouses to accept me to and willing to deliver to my home anyways. 

Instead of cake my family gave me a weight watcher cupcake with a candle in it.  Then we all split it in 4 pieces.  The kids went to Treyvon's bowling party and we stopped in and wished him a happy birthday.  Then we went to another one of my best friends Lili and her guy our friend Brett's.  They made us dinner and dessert and we played a game called Buzz.  We all get controllers and it plays like jeaopardy but way more fun.  The next day Dave took me to see a movie and Chinese dinner.   

Then we have had one of the biggest snowstorms in 10 years !  It looks like a wintery marshmellow land.  It is an adventure to drive in. 

I drove over to pick Heather up on one of the blustery wintery days and drove her home from work.  She had been walking to work because they didn't have snow chains and her and Benito didn't want to drive in it.  I don't blame them, it was so hard to drive in and I barely got there.  I had chains but I almost didn't make it up their hill or out of our drive way !  They surprised me and gave me a beautiful pink sparkly poinsetta for my birthday too.

Ben's teenage sister buried him in the snow in our back yard.  We live in an area where its pretty flat not on a hill so we don't usually have enough snow for a snowman but the kids had enough snow for a pretty big snowman they are very proud of.  Pretty good for their first snowman with a lot of snow!

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The roads around the area of Seattle to Bellevue north and south, east and west have been crazy for all of the commuters trying to get to and from work.  Buses have been jack knifing and people abandoning their cars.
Today they even had two buses almost fall onto I-5. 
SEATTLE – Two chartered buses slid down an icy, snow-covered cobblestone street and crashed through a guardrail above Interstate 5 on Friday, stopping just before they would have plummeted onto the freeway 20 feet below.

Have a Wonderful Snowy Happy Weekend,
DD

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Check out my friend Nancy's blog she has some great pictures of the snow on her site: www.nannerfly.typepad.com

 

Three for Wednesday, December 3rd ...

Well its almost Thanksgiving so it is time to post my Halloween pictures! 

Heather loves Harvest cookies so she decided to make some before the party.  The cookies are pumpkin and chocolates chips with walnuts they are yummy !

Nancy is so creative, she made this cute Halloween wall decoration.  The little spiders in the web are red and sparkle.  I just love it!  If you click on the picture you can blow it up and see it better and if you click on the corner again upper left you can see the little red spiders.




Another tradition we do that most everyone does
is carve pumpkins.  Here are our creations this year.
 









 

 

     

 


                                                                                                                                                                                            

ps. I got this widget from my hubby Dave's www.virtualsound.com blog, he had some interesting posts and some good links for other info about the election. 

pps.A couple of the pictures I took were from our tv and the others from a news site.

ppps.  The only thing is I didn't vote for president because of the views of my Church and I was struggling deciding so I just didn't vote for president, but I am happy he has won.  This is a copy of the email that President Obama sent out to his volunteers across the country, before he walked on stage to give his victory speech.  I didn't volunteer but I did donate and I did send emails to Republican friends that were sending me smear emails, I'd send them them to Obama's site for the correct info but I was still excited to get his email.  Since this is part of the history we watched and I might lose my email account I'm going to save it here:

--- On Tue, 11/4/08, Barack Obama wrote:

From: Barack Obama
Subject: How this happened
To: "Dana Dawes"
Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 9:13 PM

Obama for America

Dana -- I'm about to head to Grant Park to talk to everyone gathered there, but I wanted to write to you first. We just made history. And I don't want you to forget how we did it. You made history every single day during this campaign -- every day you knocked on doors, made a donation, or talked to your family, friends, and neighbors about why you believe it's time for change. I want to thank all of you who gave your time, talent, and passion to this campaign. We have a lot of work to do to get our country back on track, and I'll be in touch soon about what comes next. But I want to be very clear about one thing... All of this happened because of you. Thank you, Barack

Paid for by Obama for America This email was sent to: niteowlmamaof3@yahoo.com To unsubscribe, go to: http://my.barackobama.com/unsubscribe

Well its happening the votes are coming in.  This is a historic day for the USA.  Either we will have our 1st African American president or our 1st lady vice president.  Its another first for our family Carina got to vote for the 1st time ever and what an exciting 1st time to vote for a new president.  Also it is Heather's 1st time to vote for a new president. 

Dave and Carina got up real early before work and school and went and picked up Heather and brought her with them to the polling station.  All 3 voted together.  Then Heather had classes at SCC and then off to work at Tulley's Coffee.  I went to the polling station at 4:30 pm.  It was busy but not the crazy lines I was seeing in other areas of Puget Sound.  It took 4 hours! in line at one place in Tacoma. Ben is busy eating a popsickle watching the US map on the tv turning blue and red and getting excited and telling us he is going to do a dance if his candidate wins.  LOL  His teacher has him so excited, its fun to see him so into it. 
Dave is on the computer telling me what the electoral votes are too and busy blogging away.