24 hr Salem trip

On Wednesday I decorated a bit for fall and made pumpkin cream cheese muffins, they are amazing, and even though they have three different parts you have to make, which usually is a turn off for me, I would totally make them again!  Other than cooking and a little decorating, we spent all day lounging in bed, enjoying the warmth of the fire, and relaxing.  I loved every minute of it. 

On Saturday morning at 7:45am my mom, Paul, and I left for Salem to go celebrate my grandpa's 90th birthday.  We had told him we are coming, but due to his dementia, he was surprised and quite happy to see us!  Paul watched the UW vs University of Oregon game while wearing his UW sweatshirt in Oregon with a bunch of 80 year olds.  The lady in pink said "there is an enemy in our midst!" and actually knew a lot about football and talked a lot of smack during the game.  Sam is the one on Paul's right, and he is an awesome artist, was a dentist, and used to fly planes.  He grew up in Rhode Island and has an awesome accent. Look at his artwork!  Sam turned the football game off when there was three minutes left, then turned it back on and said, well that still isnt the show I want!  Haha, Sam loves Spongebob.  

Paul and I get along so well with the elderly crowd, it's awesome! 

At 5:30  we had a birthday celebration of pizza and applesauce cake for Pop and it was oh so fun.  When he saw "happy 90th" he said "well that is an imposing number isn't it" But then he said he next goal is to make it to 100!  He was so happy to have us all there and said so many times, it was so sweet. :) 

We also went to go visit my Grandpa Bob who just moved into a retirement center because of how bad his dementia is getting.  He has a very nice one bedroom, and amazingly enough my two grandpas only live less than 10 minutes apart now. :) It's funny how different they are.  Grandpa Bob could talk for hours straight without a break and Pop only really talks when you ask him a question. Otherwise Pop prefers to just listen. 

Also we hung all those pictures in Pop's room and there is a lady across the hall who brags about how good her hearing is.  She kept saying there was way too much banging and that we were way too loud and complaining.  Apparently the nurses said this was good motivation for her to move back to her independent apartment. Haha, silly lady.  I was to be pleasant in my old age, not the town grump. 

Grandpa Bob!  If you think of it say a little prayer for him.  His dementia isn't pleasant like Pop's.  He is paranoid and struggling more with depression and it is so sad.  It was nice to visit, but we live so far away so visits are few and far between.  

I love me some grandparent time.  So crazy to think that next time I go visit I will probably have an infant!