Chili Cook-Off

If there is one thing we love more about the cool, crisp air during Fall, it's the fact that it's time for chili! We pulled out our scarves, boots, and sweaters in preparation for our 3rd annual chili cook-off (ignore the fact that we weren't wearing scarves in the picture...they were on in spirit).

We were fortunate to have the Louisville Fire Department here to judge which chili was the best. Hats off to the Family Hospice team, who won by leaps and bounds this year for the best chili. Voting was based off of 5 criteria: smell, thickness, color, flavor and aftertaste. The next highest vote was 12 points behind the winning chili (if that tells you anything about how incredibly good it was).

Our winner received a fantastic give away, which included a gift card to Lulu's Barbecue in Downtown Louisville. Please make sure to join us next year for one of our favorite annual events!

Enjoying the Chili Cook-Off festivities

Scoring and the Scores

Taking Time out to play ball during the serious business of chili taste testing

Staff enjoying the fixings

Some of the chili was HOT!

The Wining Team with the Louisville Fire Department

Roald Dahl's Fancy Fictional Friends Celebration

Roald Dahl is a beloved children's writer who would have celebrated his birthday on September 13th; he would have been 97 this year. He blessed us with stories such as Matilda, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and many other wonderful children's stories.

In honor of his work we decided to host a special event here at our community because by our standards Roald Dahl is one of the best writers EVER, and that is noteworthy and that deserves to be celebrated! He created fictional characters; who not unlike the BFG, have stayed our friends since we first read his stories.

The best part about his works of fiction is that there is always a lesson to be learned,  and a way for us to sympathize with the protagonist. His stories are as relevant today as they were when they were first written, they have a sense of timelessness that can always be applied to current times.

To honor his works we decided to focus on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, there was a special surprise visit by Willy Wonka himself...and naturally he gave away caramel apple suckers...he owns a candy factory, how could he not share some of his candy with the residents! He also graced us with a wonderful performance about "Pure Imagination." Next up we met Veruca Salt who showed up to perform her infamous song "I Want It Now," some things in life don't change, and Veruca's outlook on getting what she wants is certainly one of them! We ended with the Oompa Loompa's dancing around the room. Many of the characters from this story were there with the exception of Charlie, who is now  much too busy with running the factory, in his absence he was able to send some Oompa Loompa's, which is much appreciated!

Our residents were able to socialize with Mike Teavee, Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde, Veruca Salt, Willy Wonka, and some Oompa Loompa's.

Please feel free to stop by for any of our future events. At Juniper we really believe in celebrating life in all of it's seasons, and hosting events like these is one way to do that! Our next event is Friday, October 18th at 2:00PM...it's entitled "Apple of Our Eye." We will be celebrating National Apple Month and we will have a lot of fun things to do (such as eating caramel apples, yum!)

Willy Wonka, excited to share her latest invention!

Veruca Salt and Violet Beauregarde share their
experienceson the tour at the Chocolate Factory.

 

 

Oompa Loompa's perform their skit...dancing, and singing
is a side talent and helps make working more fun!

 

 

Mike Teavee speaks to the residents about playing too many
video games and how he has kicked the habit of being so lazy.

 

 

Augustus Gloop talks about how he likes chocolate TOO much.

 

Group Photo...excluding Veruca who decided she did not want to
be in the photo...she either wants it now or she doesn't!

 

It's All Fun and Games at a Carnival!

We kicked off National Assisted Living Week with a Carnival..even though it was raining and we had to move things inside, we still had a great time. We were of course disappointed that due to the rain we had to forgo the Giraffe Bounce house...but there will always be next year!

We had clowns making balloon hats and dogs, we had a Conk the Crow Game, and Balloon Blowing game, and many other Carnival Favorites. Some of our Fellowship Residents got in on the action too by wearing some of their very own clown attire. And who has a carnival without having cut-outs to take pictures with (not us...and any good carnival worth it's weight will have these too!)

Cotton candy was of course a must for the Carnival...this year we splurged and got Lemon Lime and Pina Colada flavored cotton candy on top of the traditional pink & blue flavors. There was also some elephant ear, and other carnival food to be enjoyed (and isn't carnival food some of the best food around...unhealthy, but delicious!)

Please feel free to stop by for any of the events that we host at the community. We love to make our residents smile, and hosting events like these are one of the ways that we are able to do that (we did have to also forgo the Pie throwing contest...but we'll find time to do it again soon!)





Jillian and Bill getting ready to check out Carnival Games

  

A Seriously Sad and Happy and Glad Clowns

Cut-Out Photos are so much fun!

 

Balloon Game...who will be the winner?

Funny Faces (clown paint not necessary)

The Crowd Approves of the Carnival!

Carnival Fencing...why who wouldn't want to get in on that action!

A Crowd of Clowns spells T-R-O-U-B-L-E.

 Games are all good and fun as long as nobody gets hurt (and nobody did!)

Group Photo of Seriously Silly Clowns

13th Anniversary Party Fun!

This year our company celebrated it's 25th year in business, we combined this celebration along with our celebration as a community for being in Louisville for the past 13 years.

We believe in celebrating things right, so we planned a Fiesta with a Mariachi Band, Mexican Food, Margarita's, and of course ending the festive evening with a piñata. The Papel Picado was hung high, the tent was up in the courtyard, and one of the Council Members came to read the proclamation that the Mayor of Louisville wrote.

Our residents were given flowers for their hair and the staff wore shirts reminiscent of Mexican Wrestlers...we had many visitors and overall a really great time...please feel free to visit us any time and especially during any of our fun events!

 

 

 

Fly Me to the Moon!

We would love to be flown to the moon, unfortunately we do not have the resources to do that. However, we did want to celebrate landing on the moon, way back in 1969, because that was a pretty big event, and worthy of celebrating...not to mention the fact that outer space is the final frontier, so we decided to put together a little event, and of course our theme music was none other than "Fly Me to the Moon!" We danced, ate astronaut ice cream, and had a great time.

Please come by to see us for any of our fun events. We love celebrating with our residents, and we believe that we can nurture the spirit of life with these events as well as day to day living. Come by to see what makes us special!

Superhero Slurpee Salute!

IT’S A PERSON, IT’S A VOLUNTEER, NO, IT’S A SUPERHERO!! WE were able to salute our local superhero volunteers with National Slurpee Day and a BBQ! True to the Juniper spirit we will celebrated our volunteers, a.k.a. our local superhero’s, in style and since we want to get in on the action, we will also dressed up in superhero costumes, albeit not quite as authentic. We had a great time and the firemen even brought their truck and we had some nice opportunities to get some pictures.

 

Come join us as we celebrate the true heroes of our society, we celebrate them twice a year with specific events for them...Our next one is in October, and we will be doing a Chili Cook-Off in which the Firemen vote on the best chili!