I want to share the past week with you'all.

Soon I will start writing a kind of series of stories but first I want to share how I just spent this week with some of my mostest favorite peeps.

It is startling how different our time together was but how much the same it is when it comes to sharing special time with ones you love.

On Monday night Suz arrived at my house around 8:30pm. She bravely drove down from Payson after her grueling kick boxing class. She is one lean mean kicking machine. I have had the honor of watching a couple of her classes and let me tell you, they are intense.  We stayed up for a while and talked then off to bed because we had a BIG day ahead.  When Suz and I get together we manage to cover an amazing amount of ground in a very short time. I may forget a few stops or even the order in which we traveled but you will get the idea.

So first stop was my cardiologist appointment. The arrival time needed to be around 7:00am. So we were out the door by 6:30am. Of course I had already fed the horses and cleaned poop.  We left the doctor's office, which was at Broadway and Power. We headed down the street to the Village Inn for a yummy breakfast, then on to Target at Power & Ray. After we couldn't find exactly what we needed we went across the street to Wally World. Better known as WalMart.  Had zero luck at that one.  We went back to my house to grab a cheese cake from the freezer. Suz makes the most amazing cheese cakes. This one was headed to a friend at the Superstition Ranch Market near Meridian and Main.  Before we went there though we stopped at the WalMart just North of my house. Found what we needed, and of course some items we didn't need but had to have.  On to the market.  On the way to the market Suz's husband, Glen, called and was meeting us at the market.  We shopped and delivered the cheesecake and then headed back to my house to unload all the fruit and veggies.  Whew !!!! I am tired all over again. Unloaded groceries then off to Kohls with our 30% coupon. It was Suz's Bday and she had a coupon for free food at Famous Dave's Barbecue. Gotta love those coupons.  We still had errands to run but Glenn wasn't really interested in tagging along so we stopped by my house again and dropped him at his car.  Off we were to the Michael's at Power and Ray. Sound familiar?  We had gone full circle from this morning.  Done at Michaels we headed to the house again to feed critters. It was going on 3:30 by now. While I fed the dogs Suz started cleaning and cutting her rhubarb. She also makes 52 different kinds of jam. She is multi-talented, and can multi-task like no body's business. Then we both went out to feed and water the horses. Back in the house and now she is cleaning apricots.  Our other BFF Michelle comes and we have a little Lemon Chello. It is a yummy lemon wine. Michelle's Bday was the 6th and Suz's is actually the 8th so were were going to dinner to celebrate. We left for Carrabas about 10 minutes to six. Gary met us there for dinner too.  After dinner we walked across the parking lot and enjoyed some gelato.  I guess it is around 7:30 or 8:00pm by now.  We needed to get to bed so we could be at Kohls by 8:00am because we both had $10 coupons to use. We earned them on our earlier visit today. Heaven forbid you should let a coupon go by. In the morning we went to Einsteins for a quick bagel then Kohls. Suz needed ice so we stopped at a Circle K and headed for home. We packed her car with fruit and veggies and the ever precious purchases from yesterday. She had a very full little Mini-Cooper.

I then had already packed for my next adventure. Gary needed a ride to Phoenix so we left around 9:00am. I dropped him off and headed for the West Valley.  I was on my way to see Judi and my beloved girls Cami and Maddie.  Judi's husband and son were in California so we had two days of just the girls. I was very excited to see them. They are like my adopted grandbabies. I arrived around 10am.  Judi and I used to do the same thing Suz and I did.  Now Judi does a lot of running with the three kids and has a very busy schedule. Our favorite thing to do together now is just hang.  Spend our time just gellin and talking and spending quality time with the girls.  We did head over to Judi's very special friends house to go swimming. I love Gaye too. She is so sweet and warm. We clicked the first time we met I think.  We hung around the pool for quite a while just relaxing and catchin some rays.  After that we went back to Judi's house.  Cami, who is seven, called a friend and asked if she could come over. So that meant it was just Judi, Maddie and me.  We headed off to one of the yummiest places to eat. Blu Burger.  Yum !!!!!!  Judi lives basically at Camelback and Jackrabbit and we went to somewhere north of Westgate. Judi said we were on the edge of Peoria.  I have never been to Peoria so now I can claim I was.  I know, it's not that exciting but it is always fun to go to new places.

Is this a boring blog?  I hope I am not boring you all. It will be nice to have this in writing so I can go back and read it later. It will mean amazing memories for me. If you can't hang I will understand.

After dinner we went back and picked up Cami.  We went back to the house and did a little more relaxing. I finally gave in and went to bed at 9:00. Me being the early riser woke up at a very late hour for me 7:00am.  It felt good though.  Nothing to feed but me!!!  I made some coffee and sat out on their back patio.  It was there I wrote the intro to my next set of blogs.  There were birds to watch and I big crane hauling trusses around for the new houses being built behind their house.  Judi and the girls woke around 9:00ish. We then did something I rarely do....NOTHING !!! we just relaxed, made a very healthy and yummy breakfast, watched Marmaduke, made a yummy healthy lunch.  Judi needed to take Maddie to the dentist for a filling.  Her appointment was at 1:10pm.  Cami and I just stayed at home and watched a little more TV.  At this point I really have been on the couch most of the day.  I loved it and needed it.  When Judi and Maddie came home we packed up our swim stuff and headed for Verado to get some gelato. My second round of gelato in just three days. Yum again!!!  Maddie was so funny. Her mouth was numb from the dentist. When she smiled she had the cutest crooked smile. Maddie is almost five.  She requested chocolate gelato.  Oh my !!!  We had the gelato experience. There was chocolate everywhere. It was fun!!!!  After our tasty treats we went back over to Gaye's house for some more swimming.  I got in the pool and did some moving around. After a day on the couch I felt like I needed a little exercise.  Gaye made us a wonderful dinner too.  After dinner and strawberry shortcake for dessert we went back to Judi's.  Judi's husband and son were coming home that evening and Judi had to drive to the airport and pick them up.  Their plane came in around 10:00pm.  I stayed home with the girls. I went to bed around 10:00. I was tired but in such a relaxed way. It felt so good.  In the morning I got up at 6:30. I got dressed and went out on the patio again.  Tim came out when he saw me and we chatted for a few minutes.  I went in and made a big strong cup of coffee.  Pretty soon everyone was up.  I planned to leave around 11:00ish so we had a few more hours together.  I had recorded the movie Eat Pray and Love for Judi and I to try and watch.  With three kids in the house we knew it wasn't going to be easy but that was our goal before I had to come home.  We did it !!!!  There were a few interruptions but the movie ended just about 11:00.  Off Judi went dropping kids here and there and I drove home.

Wow !!! Talk about a vacation.  I really had so much fun. Running and running with Suz then chillin and swimmin with the girls.  Lots of memories made in just a couple of days.  Thank you Suz and Judi. I am so blessed to have both of you in my life. Love you!!!!