June Meeting of the Chickadees

Our meeting was at a lovely little church in Omega.
We all received a pinwheel as a favor.
We played a game where we tried to guess what the menu would be....
Then we had a delicious meal featuring pulled pork.....it was yummy.
I thought this was a very creative way of wearing a "red hat"...
Mom won one of the door prizes....a fuzzy picture frame.

Chickadees Crazy Easter Hat Contest

The Red Hat Chickadees met at the Five Brother restaurant in Salem, IL, and we were all sporting our own Easter hat creations...



We had a nice group of ladies in attendance.
The tables were decorated for Spring and Easter, and we all had hand made candies by our plates.




We had a pink hatter that came to the meeting too.

This meeting marked the 6 year anniversary of the start of the Chickadees Chapter of the Red Hat ladies. Our Queen mother made a collage of events and places that the Chickadees had attended. Looked like lots of fun.




Queen Mother, Mary and Janet.
So, we had a birthday cake to celebrate the occasion.

Then came the hat contest. The three finalists were voted on by applause by the customers in the restaurant.
And the winner is.......our Queen mother, wearing a decorated Easter basket on her head.

At the end of our meeting, it was an emotional moment when we were getting ready to say the pledge to allegiance and three soldiers arrived just in time to join us. Afterwards many of us talked to the soldiers, telling them about our loved ones who have been to Iraq and Afghanistan and letting them know we appreciate them keeping our country safe. It was a wonderful end to the afternoon.

Here's a short video of our Easter Hat parade...If you hit the HQ button at the bottom of the video, the picture will be much clearer, but a little out of sync..

You're never too old to blow bubbles

The Red Hat Chickadees met at Sharon's Restaurant in Salem. The theme was, of course, Valentines day....
There was a nice crowd and the food was great.

A fun poem was read by Betty Foster. Our hostess for the day, was Mary Albert, far right in this picture.
The tables looked lovely.

We played several games. One game we were to take a number of candy hearts out of a bowl and we had to tell one thing about ourselves for each heart. This was very interesting and a clever way to find out things we didn't know about our Red Hat sisters.
Terri Doughty is demonistrating how to blow bubbles with one of our gifts we got from our wonderful hostess, Mary Albert. Mary was assisted by her daughter.
The lovely Janet Pratt, with a gift she received from the Chicadees.
Mary Knight caught on the to bubble blowing pretty quickly,

and so did Sheila Halterman (me)...hee

It was a very fun and rewarding afternoon to be with our sisters and friends sharing good food, good conversation, fun and of course, the bubble blowing.....because you're never too old to have fun!

Ramblin' Roses join the Chicadees for Christmas party

Red Hat Fall Fling

Ramblin' Roses do the Electric Slide (well, a couple of us, at least)

Here are Janet and I doing the Electric Slide at the Fall Fling. The video is kind of grainy due to too much light coming in the windows, but you get the idea.

Non-Golf night with the Red Hat ladies,

Golf night??? Leave it up to Janet to always give us a chuckle and make the night extra fun.
Sandwiches at the Mini-golf ice cream shop. Then we were supposed to play golf.
We had a great time just visiting, and decided to skip the golf night and relax.
Bonita brought wedding pictures from her daughters wedding.
Our group was a little small tonight, but summer is always a busy time for many of our ladies, and work schedules have been a big problem too.
Well, I just had to try on Janets golf attire....I think it looks better on her.

As we were leaving, some guy buying ice cream, wanted to know how much it would cost for him to wear Janet's hat.....well, doesn't he just look dapper??...........NOT!
It was a fun night, as always. Oh, and the ice cream was good too!