Happy Tuesday!  We had two groups going this morning.  One group had fun working on an adorable snowman craft while everyone else sang along to all sorts of old-time songs and watched cute YouTube videos.  This afternoon was our ladies tea.  We all enjoyed each others company and of course the delicious treats!  After our lovely social, the residents had a good time with some fun trivia.  Jim Roth was also here today playing our favorite songs on the accordion!  It was a great day!  Please enjoy the pictures from today and yesterday!  
~Jessica 

SKOL Vikings! It was a football day for us here at The Fountains in the Willows. Our super group of highschool girls from Eastview hosted a football party for the residents during the Jaguar/ Patriot game. We enjoyed pizza, cupcakes, chips and punch. It was a wonderful time for all! Dont worry- we will have the Vikings game on at kick off. Hopefully they will win tonight so we can see them in our very own Superbowl, right here in Minnesota! We also enjoyed lots of individual time, nail painting and  Piano Music with Michelle.
~Melissa

It was a great Saturday here at The Willows in Lakeville today! Our day began with The Weekend Funnies, On This Day and an active Stretch and Flex group. Next, some residents and I painted and glittered our large popcicle stick snowflakes that we made earlier in the week. We have the largest hanging by the dining room with some other sparkly snowflakes- I suppose we are prepairing for our Winter Wonderland Snow expected Sunday night! We shall see how much snow we get! After lunch we enjoyed a great game of Bingo and a Coffee Chat Group with books. Enjoy the photos!
​~Melissa

Happy Friday!  The morning began with a little finish the lyrics and we all enjoyed singing all the wonderful songs!  After singing for a while, we exercised with the ribbons along to some great 40's songs.  It was a fun morning full of music!  We had our lunch outing to Teresa's Mexican Restaurant today.  It was so good and we all left the restaurant very full!  James came in to play the piano for us this afternoon.  He just keeps getting more amazing the more he plays!  The residents absolutely love his music!  After that, we traveled the world to Italy by watching a neat video about the top ten cities to visit.  We all wanted to go after that!       
~Jessica       

What a wonderful Thursday! Our day began with The Morning Funnies, "When your dissatisfied and would like to go back to your youth, remember Algebra". Lots of laughs from that one. Stretch and Flex was a welcome exercise. Next, we traveled to Gibralter and Patigonia through Expedias travel videos. After lunch we all enjoyed a fabulous performace from The Lakeville Senior Centers Red Hat Society. They kept us all entertained with song and some great jokes. Next we enjoyed some word games just before Music Therapy- Music Safari. What a day! Enjoy the photos!
​~Melissa

Happy Wednesday!  Our day began with a lovely worship service led by Pastor Mari and sermon from Pastor Violet Larson from Hosanna!  It was also so great to hear our Hosanna! Preschool friends sing to us!  Some residents also went to Mass after the service.  This afternoon, we enjoyed a few games of bingo and then had fun decorating for Valentine's Day!  It's hard to believe it's coming up soon already!  It was a wonderful day!
~Jessica   

It was a wonderful weekend!  Saturday was filled with lots of music!  There were a couple teenage girls that came from Hosanna! to play games and play the piano and sing for everyone!  The residents thought they were amazing!  We also had a big concert from a Dixieland band.  They were so great and we all had a blast clapping and dancing along to the fun music!  We ended the day with a sing along.  Sunday morning was spent singing hymns and having a good time with a mad libs story.  The afternoon was spent baking a cake and enjoying the movie, "On the Town" before the big Vikings game!      

Happy Friday!  It was a busy morning!  We had two different groups going this morning.  Some residents worked on painting giant snowflakes (check them out in the Bistro soon) and everyone else enjoyed morning funnies and exercises with the balloons and beach ball.  It was a great time!  Baking was this afternoon!  We had so much fun together baking delicious snickerdoodle cookies.  Lastly today, they watched a Frank Sinatra concert.  Can't beat that music! 
~Jessica   

Happy Thursday!  Since today is Grand Canyon day, we watched a couple fascinating videos about it.  The photography was amazing!  A couple residents shared with the group their experiences at the Grand Canyon.  Then we exercised by warming up with stretches and then moving on to the balloon toss game which was so fun!  We ended with some funny poetry that gave everyone a good laugh!  It was a great morning!  This afternoon, we worked on artwork and then enjoyed listening to Jennifer play a bunch of songs on the piano for us.  It was a great time!    
~Jessica