Visiting Great-Grandpa

Claire and I visited her Great-Grandpa at Timbercrest for lunch on Friday on our way to Valpo. She ate well here, too! She dined on applesauce, cottage cheese, ice cream, and pudding.
All of the other little old ladies loved seeing Claire, as well.

She enjoyed scribbling on the menu and placemats. You can order what you want to eat off the the menus, and then they bring it out.

She has changed loveys from her pink carebear to this baby doll. I kind of miss the carebear. It was smaller and easier to wash!

Thanksgiving 1.0

Early Thursday morning on Thanksgiving Day, we ventured up to Timbercrest to visit my Grandpa and Grandma...err...just my Grandpa. I keep saying that wrong! Here is a wedding picture of them almost 59 years ago:
I wanted to take a picture of Holly and Mark. I told them to put their head together. This is what I get:

Well at least you can see their faces now:

Me, Josh, Claire and my Grandpa Vernon.

Holly, Me, Claire, and Grandpa Vernon

We then ventured down to the cafeteria for some pressed-formed turkey and instant mashed potatoes along with some burned pumpkin pie and some jello salad with bits of pineapple and cream cheese in it that absolutely made me gag. But it was only Thanksgiving 1.0. HEY! I copyright that! How does copyright stuff work on a blog anyway? I call leftover food 2.0, 3.0, etc. to make it more appealing to Josh! :) Computer boy!

Visit to Timbercrest

So this past Sunday, Josh went to a Colts game with Alex. In the new stadium. And the Colts won. And he got sunburned since the dome was open, and he's pasty. Poor Joshie :( I'm sure he had a lot more fun than if he would've come with Claire and I to visit my side of the family.
I trucked on up to the Fort Wayne area to visit my Grandparents, Claire's GREAT-grandparents, and have Claire meet her Great-Aunt Winnie and Great-Uncle Bob for the first time ever! My Grandparents live in a retirement village called Timbercrest which is in a little town outside of Fort Wayne. According to the GPS it's only 86 miles from here to there.

Here am I holding Claire and trying not to notice all the bees flying around the flowers. Yikes. Winnie and Bob match...how cute!!

Here is Winnie and Vernon. Winnie looks like my Great-Grandma Adeline, who passed when I was in 8th grade, but I can remember pretty well.

We are in one of the lounges in Timbercrest. We decided to go down there because their apartment was totally not baby-proof. She was pulling all their books and CDs off their shelves. She's our little destroyer.

L-R seated: Bob, Winnie, Vernon, LaVerne. Standing: Arlene, Maria and Claire. Good job to my dad...I don't think he was in a single picture all day, although he took several, like this one!

Ahh. I did capture my dad on the video camera.