2008-April 26th: LDH Alumni Banquet-35th class reunion

My 35th class reunion from nursing school! Only 3 of us chose to attend the banquet but more of us will gather on June 21st at a classmates lovely home. It was good to see so many former RN mentors and friends from former days when we worked side by side caring for our patients. So many stories to be told! I feel so priveleged to be taught the art of nursing from the Christ-like perspective ("At His Feet" was our school's motto).

Rachel and her mother, Stella, are/were both nurses.

Rachel and Jo have been my OR supervisors/managers.

They have little turnover of staff as they both have showed such care for

their staff plus are excellent at their jobs!

It was great to see and visit with our brother-in-law, Gary's sister, Sue.

She was celebrating her 25th class reunion.

Celebrating Aunt Dorothy Gilbertson's 87th birthday

Happy 87th birthday, Aunt Dorothy!

Her birthday was April 15 but we celebrated on the 19th with many family and friends.

Her family presented a program at 2:30pm with many

musical numbers (and jokes by great-grand children).

Aunt Dorothy and her children: Lt to rt-Sue, Dennis, Mary, & Jim with grandson-Mark Elworthy and nephew-Doug S behind them holding this beautiful quilt her mother had started many years ago, then D. had added squares to make it a twin size and now Mary had made it to be a double-bed size. (Sorry 2 photos of same came up. I don't know how to delete that mistake in the midst of composing a blog without deleting everthing.)

Same photo!!
Mary & Dorothy showing me some squares with special memories.

After the wonderful program Aunt Dorothy's family presented to her ,

we visited her room-apartment down the hall. She was an accomplished organist and pianist and had given lessons to many students over the years. I asked if she would honor us with a special number on her piano. She obliged by playing a piece written by Durand I believe.

Listen to the video to a portion of what she played.

Very well done!

2008: April 20th Spring is here!

David was so happy to go outside! He tromped from side to side giggling and sort of dancing as he explored the deck. We were amazed he kept this hat on which he needs to wear as he is so fair-skin. His mommie had told him he needed to wear it and so he did!

He seemed like such a "big" boy.

He had such fun with this bouncing ball.

The grass still seems strange to him.

These steps are big for him. It was a lot to coordinate getting up the

steps plus getting this ball back on the deck.

He ran in the backyard looking for places to make a "basket"!
The bouncing ball just made him laugh.
I love to hear his giggle of joy.