August 9, 2016
Yesterday was Liz's 34th birthday!
Over the last weekend, we had an incredible time celebrating this wonderful lady.
Back in September for Danielle's wedding, the 6 of us (Liz, Noel, Amy, David, me and Michael) rented a house in Oregon together, realized that we all get along pretty well in a close environment and in fact have a lot of fun together. So when Liz started thinking about her birthday and options that wouldn't tucker her out too much, in case the medication hit her harder as it went on, she remembered all the fun we had together for Danielle's wedding as well as how much fun we had for Amy's bachelorette party in Temecula and put those two ideas together. We originally had been trying to get Danielle, Angela, Matt, and Amanda all down for the celebration but it was not in the stars.
As our birthday gift to Liz, Amy and I rented a house out in Temecula Thursday through Sunday that was lovely and spacious, with a pool that made you feel like you were taken away to the tropics. We spent the weekend in the pool or playing board/card games in the house and only ventured out into the city once to go wander around and grab an early dinner at Devilicious Eatery (super yummy!) before all the rest of the normal weekend Temecula crowd got in.
We all had a great time taking turns making breakfast, lunch and dinner for each other over the course of those 4 days and spending good, goofy, quality time together. The days went by in a flash, so I think we're going to have to plan another one soon. Maybe Big Bear in the winter?
Earlier in the week, Michael, Liz and I entered a week long scavenger hunt called GISHWHES (Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen) with 12 other people and during our celebration weekend we completed a few of the scavenger hunt items as well. It was fun cutting out magazine pictures and words to form a collage of things we want more of in our lives but that money cannot buy. We also made Liz a human collage of things that make her uniquely her.
Another interesting update, is that Liz is back to work for a bit. She is working from the office on Monday and Tuesday, off on Wednesdays for treatments and working from home Thursday and Friday. She doesn't have her full workload back but she has said that it's been a nice change of scenery and made her feel good to have something productive to do with her days.
Here are a few pictures from our weekend and our scavenger hunt.
Pool time!
Games!
Circus Animal Cake!
A special surprise arrived from Danielle and Angela on Friday!
Scavenger Hunt Stuff
#Make a collage from magazines of the things which cannot be bought or sold that you would like more of in your life.
#Turn yourself into a collage (you are the pasteboard on which the collage is affixed), comprised of all the things you love that, combined, help make you uniquely you.
#There’s one thing everyone has always agreed on: you have mad artichoke-repurposing skills.
Good old relaxing time.
Packing up and saying good bye.
