they say the funniest things

My peeps, that is. 

For example . . 

The other day we were playing a game where I say the beginning of a popular phrase and the residents, as a group, finish it.  Things like "Practice makes _________" (perfect), or "A friend in need is __________" (a friend indeed).  Lots of good old ones I've never heard before and that I can't think of right now. 

One of them is "Time is _________."  The answers are "the best healer" and "of the essence."  

We have one resident who is tiny, so cute, and from the east, with a thick eastern accent.  She is from a town called "Cutler" but according to her she is from "CUTluh."  She answered "Time is _______" with the word "skass."  I'm thinkin "Skass?  Time is skass? What the heck?!"  I repeated it back to her and she said, "Yeah, time is skass!"  I said "Oohhh, okayy" and moved on.  Then one of the managers came into the room just to listen in and I said "Hey, listen to this - I just learned that 'time is skass' . . ?"  She said it a couple of times and thought about it and then said "Scarce!  Time is scarce!"

That gave us a good laugh.

Yesterday we were talking about travel and I asked the residents to think back to the first time they took an airplane.  I'm not allowed to say "Do you remember?" but I wanted them to think about it.  

I asked one gentleman where he flew the first time he took an airplane trip and he said "TO THE AIRPORT!!"  Oh dear goodness he thought he was so funny!  We all did.  Another good laugh.

They are hilarious.

what we did in March

Did I really not blog all of March?  Geez lou-eez.  I'm not even sure anything happened!  Let's see.

Oh.

BEN TURNED TWENTY-SIX!

His birthday was on a Sunday and I was still feeling crummy from surgery, so we decided that we'd throw a little party the following Sunday.  But in the meantime . . we ordered a custom cake from Coldstone and paid for it online to eat on his actual b-day.  I was going to pick it up on Sunday after Church (already paid for, not breaking the Sabbath, right?!).  We ordered a "Petite Cake" for $8.

I went to pick it up after Church the next day and they hadn't made it.  The poor girl working called her boss and then told me they could offer me a "Small Cake" and a six-pack of ice cream cupcakes.  Well, all of the "Small Cakes" were Devil's Food and Ben doesn't like that so I asked if I could just have a refund instead.  She called her boss and then told me I could just take any cake I wanted.  So, I took the biggest one they had!  Normally $40 and we paid only $8.  And I wrote the birthday message on it myself when I got home (so ugly!).

 We had a great party for Ben with some friends the next Sunday.  Homemade treats this time.

My parents visited us for dinner and ice cream as part of Dad's birthday celebration.  Have I mentioned that I love living so close to my family?!

We went to the Creamery . . but are you surprised?

And we went to see "Lamb of God" on Easter Sunday.