Busy week-end

Friday night was the Eastampton Ladies Night Out fund-raiser. (I didn't win ANYTHING. :-(

After I got home, I grabbed Tom who hobbled with me to Prospectors to hook up with Teri, up visiting from Virginia.

Saturday I volunteered at the Burlington County Earth Day Celebration in Smithville Park.

Saturday night it was back to Prospectors to dance with Teri (sans Tom this time).

Today is Sugarfootin' Sunday and I am back to Prospectors one more time. At least, that's the plan for now.

I had a couple of days of post tax season work, but don't seem to be on the schedule for any more. Hmmm....

Tom is getting better, but still taking the pain pills, Zoe's birthday is coming up, so is Isaac's, and Jackson is graduating!

In other news, I heard through the facebookvine that Kim is  moving (moved?) to Florida (and Margie's house may be sold soon.)

Tom has a new knee!

Tax season is over and Tom had a birthday and got a new knee.

Very hot news indeed. I was able to stay with him in the hospital for the whole 2 and a half days he was in there. Everyone was so very nice!

 We are home now and I am with him constantly helping him and making sure he doesn't fall or get infected. So far a nurse and a physical therapist have been to the house to check him out. He will be having home visits for the next two weeks, then out-patient stuff.

 On a totally new topic , here is a video I love (and it reminds me that I want to get a copy of the Jeff tape singing Bye Bye Blackbird to Hannah from Bradley now that the vimeo he made for the memorial celebration is no longer available). (I saw this first on Facebook and pulled the embed code from youtube....this dad was calming his daughter who was being kept up by fireworks, it explained.)

Free...well not quite...

It's beginning to look like the end of March...where does time go? I mean really.

 So, we went to Dr.Dwosh the other day and now that adds surgery/procedure number three to Tom's list of medical things to plan out, timewise. We already lost the Myrtle Beach vacation time due to knee replacement surgery mid April and probably won't be able to make it to Hannah's wedding either :-( But if Tom is relieved of all this pain he has been suffering through, it's worth it. We have to call the throat surgeon Monday to see about that one and the timing thereof.

 So I spent all morning working on a "free" photo book from Shutterfly and when I was finally finished, it was more than I eexpected (of course!) so I tried to back out to a different version and it looked like I lost all the accompanying verbiage (and format). I was starting to be very unhappy....but then I figured out how to get it back and paid the extra part, begrudgingly (It's still a good deal, really..) Here is my finished project (with, I'm sure advertising for others to do it too!)(Sorry about that).

Click here to view this photo book larger

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Working on it brought back a lot of good memories....and also brought to my attention how hard it would be to find any one specific photo from ALL the gazillions I have all over my computer and the internet. Hmmm.........

Love Story Comeback! Whoo hoo!

Meg and Robin are coming back to Prospectors tonight for a re-teach of the dance they choreographed for Taylor Swift's "Love Story".
Here is the video Ken had up on YouTube for it:

March 2014- Welcome to Medicare!

You know you're old when......
Medicare. Really?
Now I guess I'll be deluged with EOB papers like Tom has been for the last year. So confusing (but so grateful to have the health coverage we do!) Speaking of which....
Tom apparently got the word on his appointment for knee replacement surgery....two days before his birthday and just in time to thwart our planned Myrtle Beach vacation in early May and threaten (if not end) our plan to attend Hannah's wedding in Arkansas later that month. The good news is...he'll stop having all this pain and be able to walk, bowl, golf, dance, exercise without worry. (Ideally he'll be fine for stomping all over Nashville for Fan Fair 2014).

I am heading out today to first the DKG annual Combined Meeting and then out into the cold for the Mt. Holly St. Patrick's Day parade event for HR Block marketing purposes.

They are calling for yet another big snow event on Monday. (This is like the 15th one this winter season!).

So since I posted last a lot has been going on. The highlight was the trip for Sarah' wedding, a very happy event which included not only shmoozing with the Goff's and assorted new friends, but also hooking up with Austin based Dittfurths (whom we met in Hawaii five years ago), the Ross family (finally met the boys and also learning that both Samantha and Bradley are expecting new babies this year), and having lunch with Roxanne at the Atlanta airport during our layover there. (Her wedding is Oct. 18th in Atlanta.)

With Roxanne in Atlanta

With Samantha and Harlan in Austin

February 2014!

I guess I've been too busy with taxes and more to write in awhile and I am heading out there again soon, but I wanted to share this tear-driving video I just saw on facebook- a beautiful bride singing down the aisle to her groom. I dare you not to cry watching it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUrqEoeJ1DA

Things are going along well with us for the most part. Tom and his health issues go on, but we are still dancing and enjoying life.

We are dining with The Brunch Group tonight and I am looking forward to squeezing in a lunch with Gee Gee on Tuesday. (Is snow coming? All the weather we have been having this winter has been quite white, scary, and often. :-(

We are looking forward to seeing the Goffs and attending Sarah's wedding. It's coming up really fast now!

Jennifer posted a Bruce Springstein song in honor of Jeff (two years gone....it's still hard to believe).

I taught some Eastampton Seniors how to play "5000" and they LOVED it. (Of course I gave full credit for the game to my CA sister Jennifer!)

Fire and Ice

I put my warm ski clothes and H&R Block hat today and attended the Mt. Holly Fire and Ice Festival.
It was a cold day, but I was as warm as if I was on Killington in VT ready to hit the slopes.

A lot of folks stopped by our booth and I had a chance to sample some mighty fine chili, too.

It snowed!  but I braved the roads to and from work and lived to tell the tale.

Speaking of snow, there have been a couple of biggies since last I wrote. This is getting to be some white winter!

I am really looking forward to the Austin trip/wedding. It will be great to see all the Goffs and I'm lining up other assorted relatives along the way (see Samantha in Texas and Roxanne in Atlanta ...and wouldn't it be great to hook up with our aloha friends Doug and Leslie?)