These are great posts. Very enjoyable.

April Birthdays were celebrated at Rick's on Sunday April 7th.  We celebrated with good food, wine & beer, a jazz band & of course with each other!  It was a beautiful afternoon - spring is finally here and the showers held off until late in the day.  

The band was amazing - they played old classic jazz, Michael Buble and even took a few requests...inspiring a some of us more than others.

Ethan is the center of attention at get togethers lately. He enjoyed the birds, the ducks, crackers and the band! And we all enjoyed watching him... 

  

We are so blessed to have such a wonderful family!  My favorite times are those shared with all of you.  Thanks for a great day!

Easter Sunday

The girls on Easter...

What the LaRoy's have been doing :)

On Thanksgiving morning, we all ran in 5K at Idlewild Park.  First place won a Turkey, and first in each age division won a frozen Turkey pot pie!  We hope to make this an annual tradition.

Allison and I ran a Jingle Bell 5K with a group of her friends from Cross Country.  Two girls dressed as boxes, and two girls wore their pajamas.  One of the other mom's and me were elves.  Yes, she ran 3 miles in this box that Dave made.  We won the prize for Best Group Costume!

 Went to the holiday train show at the Cincinnati Museum Center. Christmas Morning at the LaRoy's

New Year's Day at Rick's house.  Ethan is so fun!!!

That's about all we've been doing...how about everyone else??

Thanksgiving 2012

We had the chance to get together for one of Bonnie's finest roast beef dinners, and to also celebrated Amy's birthday....

Nick was David Beckham, the famous soccer player, with faux-hawk (fake mohawk).

Darth Vader (aka Sean). Kiki didn't even recognize him!

Hannah, the Mime! She was great and it was her own idea!

As you can tell from the shirt...Allison IS the Center of the Universe!

Michael & Emily were too old to head out tonight! Just these four headed out for the night. Nick & Allison got to trick or treat by themselves (with each other) for the first year! Thank God for cousins!

Happy Halloween

Disney Wine and Dine half Marathon

Managed to complete the half marathon without too much agony. I was a little slower than I wanted at 2 hours and 39 min., but I really enjoyed it, and can't wait to do another Disney race. Dave's turn in two weeks with the Cincinnati Half Marathon!!

Ryle High School Homecoming

Tonight is Ryle's Homecoming Dance. Michael & Mckenzie are going together and Emily is going with her friend Foxx. Emily had dinner with her girlfriends before the dance. Michael had dinner with a large group of friends. Everyone looked amazing & they are all so excited!

Emily & her girlfriends.

Michael & Mckenzie & their friends.

Thanks to Em's GREAT hair stylist...Aunt Amy!

Emily & Foxx

Michael & Mckenzie.

Update for Grandma
We visited the eye specialist a week ago and Grandma does have the "wet" macular degeneration in her right eye. This is very diappointing news but it is treatable at this stage. The doctor has said that it is a very mild case and that hopefully she will respond to the treatments and they will be able to keep the disease from progressing. She had her first treatment yesterday. This involves getting a shot directly into the diseased eye. Of course they numb the eye but it is a very unsettling experience. The "shots" will be given once every six weeks for three treatments. After that they will run more tests to see if the treatments are successful.

We also visited her G.P. this week and he has recommended that she undergo physical therapy to strengthen her legs. She has had weakening of her legs for the past couple of months and hopefully this will help.
We go in next Thursday for an evaluation by the therapist and a recommendation on what may help her. Let's hope that she will be more mobile and move about easier.

Her birthday is the 29th of May and we will be having a little get together for her. She will be 94 years. old. Go Granny!!

I will continue to keep you all posted. If you get a minute, drop a line here to the blog or drop her a note.

bj