Catching up with Friends

Sunday evening before Christmas I went and visited Mary (Bishop), Brian & Evan Warner. Evan was a cutie. We played with his playmobile dophin set and watched Dirtiest Jobs.
He also showed me his candy train that one of his Aunts had made him. I think my nephews that love trains would like this idea of making a train you can eat.



Mary made wonderful potato soup for dinner. YUM! Going home that night was not pleasant. It was 0 degrees with a -22 degree windchill. Brrr.... Thank God for electric seat heaters. I needed it that night.

Monday night I went to Canal Fulton to visit Sandy (Scaffidi) Zdelar. Chrissy was supposed to join us but one of her sons was sick and needed medical attention.

Sandy and I went an got something for dinner and then went back to her place and talked well into the midnight hours.We could have talked until sunrise but work awaited the next morning. It was fun talking with everyone. I look forward to seeing a few others before I leave Ohio the weekend after New Year's

Shopping with Grandma

I've been so busy with activities that I haven't kept up on everything this week. The Saturday before Christmas Mom & I picked up Grandma to go do some errands and shopping. After we got her hair done we took her to Bob Evans to eat. For our longer walks into the stores we borrowed a wheel chair for Grandma to use. Everytime we got it out for her to sit in she made funny noises and asked if one of us could have warmed it up first laughing the whole time. It was bitterly cold that night.

Once in Walmart Mom parked under the heaters in the doorway to get them warmed up. Then we headed toward the Christmas Tree for some last pictures of our shopping trip.



We had a good night of shopping and by the end of battling all the crowds everyone was very tired and ready for bed.

It's A Wonderful Life of Riley

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Fun Friday with the Becker's

While I've been in Ohio, I've been having a great time catching up with many friends. It started with a reunion of sorts with many of my high school friends that have found each other on face book. I've had dinner with one friend and have others scheduled. Tonight I was invited to attend a christmas party with my friend Janice (Pierce) Becker and her husband Andy. I had a great time of fellowship with Janice & Andy as well as other families in their Bible Study group.

Of course there was loads of food. The wedding soup that someone made was incredible. Janice led us in singing some Christmas carols accompanied by an awesome violin player.

Later we played some games and watched a video of pictures from their activities throughout the year.

Once everything was cleaned up, packed up and in the car I think Andy was ready to be the class clown since he probably ate alot of the candies that he made for the party and was on a major sugar high. It was great seeing them and I look forward to getting together again soon.

Meats & Sweets

I went to Norton tonight to have dinner with my friend Chrissy. We had a great time catching up on everything. On the way back to her house I noticed this sign on a store at the end of her block.
It just caught me as funny with this very strange combination. "Would you like some cookies, strudel & fudge to go with your pastrami & sausages?" Just thought I'd share.

Snowball Fight w/ Jared, Justin, Sebastian, Sandra & Me

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Thanksgiving at the Beach

I spent my Thanksgiving at a friend's beach house in Fenwick Island, DE. We had a great time with their family from DE, PA and some of the cousins that came down from Boston. Instead of Brenda cooking for everyone we went out to a nice restaurant for dinner. We had quite the crew.
After dinner some of us went over to the beach to play football. Well, I didn't play this year because my knee isn't up to it yet so I took pictures.
I was a brisk 50 degrees for game time. The water was very, very cold - no swimming today.
We didn't have alot of time to play since we didn't get home from lunch until 4:30.
Here's the crew as the last of the sun was setting behind the houses.
After the game we enjoyed visiting and some of us girls rested up to hit the outlets for Midnight Madness. I have more pictures to post of our fun time shopping.

Skywatch Friday

Angie sent me this link to post on Skywatch Friday http://skyley.blogspot.com/. These photos are from my trip to Vegas. The sky that night was beautiful.

Where has the summer gone?

I can't believe it's almost Thanksgiving. I'm glad I had time to enjoy some sunrises and sunsets over the summer. This first sunset is at Lake Anna in Bumpass, Virginia.

This is the sunset at Norfolk Harbour Days taken off a friends sailboat.

I need to get out and rake leaves and do last cleanup in my flowerbeds. Uggh! Anyone want to help?

The Long, Long Wait.....

Well, I thought that I would go vote mid-morning between the morning rush and the lunch rush to try and not get stuck in line. It didn't work that way. I ended up standing outside, in the rain, for 1 1/2 hours. The picture above is down the side of the school building. I turned the corner and could finally see the entrance. Maybe, just maybe, I'm getting close.


Oh, the disappointment. The lines wound around the hallway for another hour before alas I finally got to cast my ballot.

It was frustrating to be in line and people with names starting with I thru O were in and out in 10 minutes. They only had three tables A-H, I-O and P-Z. Guess which line was the longest? Of course the P-Z. I hope they come up with a better method of using their resources next time.

I complain but I would do it again to excercise my right to vote as a citizen of this great country. Don't forget to go vote today!!!

Relay for Life Photo Contest

I received this email from the Relay for Life contest today. "Congratulations on winning the RelayForLife.org/SharingHope.tv Photo Contest. Your photo was selected as the winner from a vote of RelayForLife.org users and volunteers from around the world." How cool is that. Here is the link to the website. http://www.relayforlife.org/relay/node/4483


I won a new Flip video camera. Yeah....Now I just need people that will let me video them.

Here's the link to the other Relay photos on my photo website.
http://www.pbase.com/criley/relay_4_life

Featured on American Cancer Society Blog

I had uploaded some pictures to http://sharinghope.tv/ for a photo contest that some of my relay for life teammates told me about and the one with a poem I wrote was featured on their blog. You can view the blog at http://sharinghopeblog.org/. The rest of the photos from the Relay's that I participated in can be viewed at http://www.pbase.com/criley under the Relay for Life gallery.

Vacation at Lake Anna

I just returned from spending the last 2 weeks at Lake Anna in Bumpass, Virginia. It was a wonderful time with great weather. I'm working on getting pictures posted on my new photo website at www.pbase.com/criley under the Last Resort gallery.

Here are some pictures of Kathy and Tawnya in the tube.

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