The most colorful flowers!

Someone brought me flowers. They are cheerful and bright and amazingly colorful. Thank you my visiting teacher! What a thoughtful and loving thing to do!

Addie Kay

I wanted to highlight Addie Kay before the new baby arrives in three weeks. Once her baby sister is here, we most likely will post many pictures of the new baby, but for now our one and only granddaughter deserves the spotlight by herself.

Addie Kay we love you. You have brought so much joy into our lives! We want the very best for you.
We adore you!

Fireman's Memorial 5K run

Last Saturday, my friend Johna and I ran a 5K together. We've exercised together at the YMCA for years. We've done a 5K and a triathlon together. We've been training, and I felt prepared for it, which felt good. It feels wonderful to set a goal and accomplish it!

Our son-in-law Marc also ran the 5K, and Kimberly, a friend of Marc and Laura Lee's - who just had a baby 6 weeks ago - decided to run it on a whim. She borrowed some of my shoes and was off! I could never have done that, even in my young days! Kimberly is in the white shirt behind me, and Johna is in the blue shorts beside me.

The rain poured at one point, but it was fun to run in the rain. The temperature was nice and COOL, which both Johna and I were extremely grateful for.

I'm off to Zumba class now which Johna teaches. I love exercising and am grateful God has answered my prayers and allowed me to keep going, even with some knee issues.

Hanging out at Marc and Laura Lee's home

We love to visit Marc and Laura Lee, and we love to have them visit us. Here's some fun pictures of our stay there.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - where I lived and went to church, 1972-1974

In brainstorming all the things we could do, I suggested we go to the Pittsburgh area to see my old home. We looked it up and it was only three hours from Columbus.

We headed out and got caught in a very bad hailstorm in West Virginia while Tanner was driving. Other than that, everything went smoothly. It brought back many great memories for me, and I'm glad we took pictures. We could not find my old middle school, or dance studio. We did find my home, and church and the high school I would have attended.

I have had a lot of insights lately, because of this visit. I've realized that the memories we have need to be recorded, documented, written down, and SHARED!!! The blog really provides a wonderful way to record the memories, as they are happening. I realized our memories can be lost in one generation (For example, I rarely talk about my Pittsburgh years, but there is so much to tell, and so much I learned while there).

Anyway, it was something I'm grateful we could do together!

The Columbus Zoo

Another mini trip we took was to the Columbus, Ohio Zoo. William had to stay home and help with business issues. We had fun! It's been a very long time since I've been to a zoo. I was quite impressed with the zoo in Columbus!