January Weekends:

So hard to believe it's the first week of February and I haven't blogged about January yet.
1st Weekend:   Dwayne and I went to church and then to Jefferson City to eat at Chili's as I had a gift card for there.  We stopped by Menard's, at least I've found a store Dwayne will shop with me at.  lol
We drove the back way to St Elizabeth and visited with April and Mike for awhile.
New Year's Eve and New Year's Day weren't too exciting.  Dwayne cut wood and I just watched TV.
I did go down to Tony's on New Year's Day for a drop-in.  Lizzy had planned the day, they had snacks and just a time of visiting.
2nd Weekend:  April was getting her car serviced at Weidinger's so I met her there and we went to St. Roberts to shop.  We had a few things to take back to Maurice's and things to pick up at Lowe's.  We were going to eat at a Korean Cafe' I saw advertised but it was only open Monday thru Friday.  (I did get to try the cafe out last week with Sheila and Liz).  We were getting a little worried on trying to find it, the road was getting narrower, businesses a little shadier and then a dead end.  April is like, "Where are you taking us?"  As we were turning around, I saw the little cafe in a row of shops.  Much smaller than what we thought it would be.  We wound up eating at Culvert's.  We had never ate at one before and it was very good.  I had the pot roast sandwich and it's the best and most moist roast beef sandwich I've had anywhere.  Their fries were also very good.
That Sunday, April came over and we went to Mom's for the January birthday's.  We celebrated with cake and ice cream.
3rd Weekend:  I begged (really, I did, I wanted to get out of the house) to tag along with April on her weekly shopping trip to buy groceries in Jefferson City.  I got a really good deal out of my Christmas present from April.  The two sweaters she gave me for Christmas were too big and they didn't have any other sizes.  I took that money and we went to J.C. Penney's.  I usually always find tops/sweaters in my size there.  They had a great clearance and for the money April had, I got one sweater and four tops.  Totally lucked out there!  We tried a few more shops and then April had her rings cleaned and inspected.  Off to Kohl's we went.  I found a purse I liked and that was about it.  Ate lunch at Chili's with the rest of my gift card.
4th Weekend:  Dwayne and I went to St. Elizabeth and met up with April and Mike to head to Jeff City.  We ate at Longhorn Steakhouse and it was very good.   The only store we went to was Menard's as we were on a mission to get counter tops and tile for their kitchen.  (and we DO NOT want to shop anywhere else with them ever again...............  Remember Christmas Shopping Trip Disaster???????  lol)  We had quite the time with getting the counter tops loaded, uh maybe some customer service would have helped out in that area.  April picked out the tile, grout and all the goodies we needed to re tile the back splash in her kitchen.  Dwayne and Chad worked on that last week.  I still haven't got over to see it yet.  Pretty excited to do that this coming Sunday afternoon.
Intermingled with the exciting weekends, I've been sick off and on all month.  I've missed at least two Sundays of church.  I am so planning on getting back to church Sunday.  I've even had a couple people calling to check on me.

I am so grateful for my family and the times we have together.