Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! It's been busy around here at Country View with Christmas activities! We had the Holiday Walk at the Flint Cultural Center, our annual Christmas Party, Christmas photo day and gift making day, rides to see all the Christmas lights, Christmas Karaoke sing a long and of course shopping, shopping, shopping! Happy Holidays from all of us!

The cookies in a jar we made for presents! Check out the recipe in the Newsletter!

The cards we made and sent out to the families!

Christmas Party!

We had our annual Country View Christmas party on Friday the 9th. Our theme was Candyland, the activity room looked beautiful! It was so nice to see all the families and friends for Christmas! The food was delicious, it was catered in by Elegant Catering. We had an array of food like roast beef, ham, macaroni and cheese, taco salad, red skinned potatoes and much more! Yum! The Christmas music was provided by Mike Beckman who played the guitar and sang some Christmas songs while everyone sang along. Later on we had a special visit from Santa himself! He even brought gifts! It was a great time, hope to see you next year!

The party starting!

Christmas music

The Country View Christmas tree!

Sharon's birthday was today! We sang to her!

Eileen's family

David receiving his gift from Santa!

David and Santa


The kids were lining up to see Santa!

Donna and Santa!

Happy to see Santa!

Christmas Photo Day!

Today was Christmas Photo Day! Every year we take photos to send in our Christmas cards to the families and also to use in an ornament. Everyone's photo turned out great! Here are a few...

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Christmas Party!

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Baking Day!

Today we made french vanilla cakes. We had a fun time beating and mixing everything and the best time was tasting of course! It was a great after lunch treat!


Donnie loved the mixer!

Before...

Marion reading instructions to us.

The chocolate one!

The vanilla one! YUM!

Crafts!

Today we made a fall craft and did a little bit of sewing!

Marion with her finished craft.

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Halloween Party!

Our annual Halloween party was Friday and it was the biggest yet! The activity room was transformed into a zombie world with a "Costume Idol" stage mixed into it! The food was outstanding, thanks to all that brought a dish! We had games to participate in all over the room like the Creepy Feely game, Candy Corn Guessing game, mini pumpkin decorating and even a Scarecrow decorating game, caregivers VS management! Caregivers were the winners by applause! Everyone looked great in their costumes, it was hard to tell who was who! We had the contest but everyone was a winner and received a candy bag to take home! It was a great time, looking forward to the Christmas party coming up before we know it!

Winners:

Kids

Best – Gangster but they call him The Mask

Funniest – Peas in a pod

Scariest – Glow in the dark skeleton

Original – Statue of Liberty

1^st – Mad Hatter

2^nd – Lady Bug

3^rd – Iron Man

Adults

1^st – Marion – Venus

2^nd – David Mantei – Hippy

3^rd – Sharon – Clown

Pumpkins

1^st – Angry Bird - David

2^nd – U of M smashing MSU - Randy

3^rd – Rosy the Hairdresser Pumpkin – Marion

Costume Idol stage

The judges

Some of the pumpkins the residents did for the contest!

More pumpkins, so unique!

Scarecrow contest!

The winner is to the left!

A scary story told by a scary figure.

Decorating mini pumpkins.

The hosts - Mustard and Ketchup!

Ruth the angel

Randy AKA U of M doctor, Dr. Randy

One of the many neat desserts, Jello hands and brain!

Crafts!

Today in Arts & Crafts we made a Halloween decoration for the doors of a Halloween cat. They will be hanging up at the party if you want to check them out!

David hard at work.

Diana with her finished piece.

Nancy

Sharon with her cat.

The finished piece.

Check us out on www.manta.com!

Hayride!

Over the past few days, we have been making trips to the Montrose Orchard! The first day was a little warmer then the other but there was no rain so that was ok with us! After the hayride we had some donuts and cider which is always a plus! Can't believe it's that time of year already!


One of the groups before the hayride.

Beautiful day for a hayride! Look at all the apples!

Donnie thinking about donuts. :)

Another group on the ride.

One of the decorations by a pretty fall tree along the way.

Getting ready to start the ride.