Who doesn’t love chocolate covered fruit? We know we do! Yesterday we spent the afternoon making our own sweet treats and we even made some to hand out to some of the staff. Happy Friday!

One of Kary’s favorite things to do is makeup. She loves spending her mornings getting ready, and takes so much pride in how she looks. Here she is practicing on her new mannequin, making sure it’s nothing short of perfect!

There’s nothing like a cup of coffee and a word search on a Sunday morning! Gwen loves her coffee and word searches!

Happy County Fair Day!! We had our own fair in our living room this morning filled with many different games, prizes, popcorn, cookies, cotton candy, & snowcones!! Safe to say we had more than enough sugar today.. and all before lunch. After dinner, Tim the Tune Man came to perform for us. Huge thank you to our volunteer Trisha for helping out this whole thing together/coming in to help the day of, and Vitas Healthcare for providing us with the cookies for today!!

We are starting up cooking classes twice a month & the first one of August was no bake peanut butter chocolate cookies!! We made the batter together, scooped them out on to trays, and once they set Makenna and Trisha delivered them to enjoy in their rooms. We made so many, that most of the other residents and even staff got to try some too. Happy Thursday!!

We recently had a huge celebration here at our branch... Carol and Burley's 70th wedding anniversary! They had a wonderful lunch with all of their family downstairs, and then came up the stairs to a surprise in the living room of all their friends waiting to scream Happy Anniversary. We asked them their number one piece of advice on how to maintain a relationship for that long and Burley's response was, "My grandfather always used to tell me.. If you want to get the honey, you can never make the Queen bee mad" We wish you so many more wonderful years together and are so happy we got to be a part of it!!

We also made beautiful bouquets and then played a few games of Family Feud after. Our other wonderful volunteer Laura came into help us with these as well!

Everyone say hello to our newest volunteer, Trisha! Trisha used to work with us a couple years ago and she just recently started coming back to hangout with us again. A couple residents remembered her but the ones who just met her, love her just as much already! She came in to make jewelry with us since she owns her own jewelry business!

Our wonderful resident Patricia made Haley our family advocate a gorgeous blanket. Patricia said she makes blankets with colors that represent that person. She spends a lot of her days making blankets and we cannot be more grateful.

Our big helper Maxine came to Haley’s office to help organize papers! She is a big help, and keeps things organized. Maxine loves to help in our offices. She helped her husband run a business and then was a bookkeeper until she was 80 years old for her daughter Janet. She is a huge help and we love when she stops by.