Memorial Day

We started out our Memorial Day with corn husking contest!!

these ladies busted through two cases of corn in fifteen minutes!!!

WAY TO GO LADIES

American Legion came and did a marvelous Flag Ceremony for all the residents it was followed by a prayer.



All the residents and staff having a great Memorial Day. It truly was a great day. We had a wonderful BBQ in the afternoon and Apple pie with ice cream.

Iris Trip

On Friday May 18th. Residents and I went to Keizer Oregon to have a look at the blooming Iris's. It was a nice scenic drive there and when you get off the bus all you see is just fields of Iris's. They had a section where we could walk and see all of the flowers they had and see all the different names. It was a very nice trip and the weather was perfect.

Museum of Natural and Cultural History

 Betty and Marjorie showing their excitement for our tour of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History. This museum talks about our history of Oregon and how the culture started and grew to today. Very interesting tour we all enjoyed.

Hal and Mary with our tour guide Rebecca watching Cynthia trying to create the big earthquake.This was a fun experiment where you turn a handle to see what earthquakes can do on different surfaces carpet, rock, pavement and a soft padded area  

Betty here is reading on how tribes made houses and create there fishing traps and how the prepared and took care of there village they lived in at this time.

As we finished our tour one of the last stops was pictures from Galaxy. All the pictures were so extraordinary they took our breaths away. This truly was a wonderful learning experience.

Mother's Day Mary Kay

 On Friday May 11th we had Alecia a consultant from Mary Kay come by. She did complete free full facial for all our women in the community. They also did a microbrassion facial and a satin treatment for your lips.  Alecia also brought roses for all the women that joined in on this fun event plus  gave women who didn't even participate roses, she truly was a diamond and treated our resident with such love.

Circuit class

On Wednesday, I hold two Circuit Classes. One in the morning at 9:30 and another at 1:00 pm. If you ever been to Curves, you would enjoy this class. We set up chairs in a circle. We have three stations as above and then we throw in at other stations heel drops, side leg lifts, marching in place, back leg lifts, squats any variety that they are willing to do. I play some music in the background and I time them at each stations, it is 45 seconds. We go for at least a hour then take a sit break and drink some water and discuss how they felt the class went.

Friday's at Garden Way Retirement are special for residents, we always have our trip day on Fridays. Whether its going out to a restaurant for a special lunch or going out to the community and seeing what is out there. Friday the 4th, we went to the Village Table in Veneta. Group of residents and myself went. It was a resident's family owned business. Marie has different vendors that put displays in her shop and Marie sells it for them, plus she brings her own garden grown vegetables, herbs and flowers to her shop to sell also. Marie has a variety of different items and a very smooth relaxing feeling in her business. All the residents had a great time and enjoyed learning what the Village Table provides to their small community.