The highlight of the week for some of our residents is Bingo. It starts in the morning asking to make sure we are going to play! To see the joy on their faces and the excitement in their voices, when I say, Yes!! It makes my day. We try and play twice a week, on Mondays and Wednesdays so if your in town stop by. We would love to see you!

Oh my... His an outing we did back on September 9th. It was a warm Saturday morning and Hannah and I took a group out to Ada Hayden, to see the Monarch Magic!! We had some lessons on, Monarch Butterflies - the wonderful lifecycle of the monarchs. Native Bees - the diversity of the bees, how to tell a male bee from a female bee and that male bees don't sting. Pollination -we experience the life as a bee as they visit flowers to get food and learn how pollination works. Habitat - Used a map to look to increase habitat while learning about agriculture. Pollinators - the role of pollinators and their importance for our food supply. Dick, stopped and talked to every kid he saw, and young adults going fishing. As he said. " you always have to make new friend and put smiles on everyone's face!" this was a wonderful day!

Harl and Jean likes to challenge me in word search!

Look at that big smile on Vergil face. Hanging out with his son today. I do believe they went to Culver's for lunch today. What a wonderful day.

Today was National Peanut Butter cookie day! So, we made some yummy peanut butter cookies and played yahtzee! Harl was in charge of make sure everyone got their turn and counting the dice. I do believe, Harl was the only one that got a Yahtzee!

We had a special guest today, Tom Hofer. He entertained us all with his wonderful music! There's something about music that brings us all together!

No candyland for us today! Russell and I went outside and cleaned up the flower/vegetables garden. We have one tomato left, will see how it does! Russelldid an excellent job pulling all the dead plants and ended up with four small carrots, he's going to save for a snack later. I also showed Russell how to make rock statues.

With the nice weather we had outside yard games, and some just soaked up the sunshine! There's something about being outside that brings out the kid in all of us, big smile, and laughter with in. Enjoy the rest of the warm weather!!

One of our first outing for the month. Went driving around Ames looking at our favorite parks. More to come on mine and Beth's favorite parks. After the ride we came inside for a cool popsicle.