JANUARY 2023 – DECEMBER 2023 – CHALLENGES AND MIRACLES!
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JANUARY 2023
Looking at lights in January
Lights on our stairs for “winter lights.
Long-awaited family Christmas. Chris and I tested positive for COVID the next day, and Roger the following week. No one else got it!!
Looks like we got a little snow during COVID isolation
My positive test, Roger was still negative
All masked up.
Not as much snow as during 2020 COVID!
STRANGELY there is a picture from Halloween showing up here on phones and tablets but NOT the computer. I have no idea why it’s there, it’s my picture, but is not here on this index, so I have to see what type of weird electronic wizardry happened here. It is also on the 2022 picture page…..
FEBRUARY 2023
winter decs finally up – enjoyed our Christmas decs a long time last Christmas with COVID coming also!
I love these white lights Roger bought last year. We kept them up all year!
We ended up having some sewer fun in the later winter/spring – more than one visit including rebuilding part of a sewer line!
Ryan had good luck with his dental sedation!
A few years now where he hasn’t had many cavities!
He does so much better with this now
Not bad food in the cafeteria!
He still says “No dentist hospital!” though when he’s going somewhere different
Still love this machine at UH Pediatrics Rainbows!
Some nice outdoor time in the winter!
Ryan’s and my birthday!
MARCH 2023
Got the boys to Taco Bell one of their faves!
Spring park walks!
I also remember that was the day we ordered our Steve Hackett tickets! (11-1-23 concert)
Got to Riverside to sub for art class. Always so cool to see Colleen’s 2012 art again!
The promise of spring!
Papa’s gorgeous drawing he made!
Always great to get Chinese food with the FAM!
Ryan’s got a handsome haircut! fun at the park with my goofy face!
Chris’s handsome haircut!
APRIL 2023
I made this years ago and always post it every April.
Got new curtains for their group home..
Saw a movie that had come out about the Jesus Hippie music 🙂
First movie with our friends in several years!
Warm enough to eat pizza outside!
Had an amazing Easter brunch at LaMalfa with Ryan’s workshop.
Spring, and faith.
Easter decs up, had my winter decs up for a long time before that!
Shirt sleeve weather!
Love daffodils
New present for us!!
I can’t remember exactly when our fence fell down. We want to plant evergreen trees there…
lots of wind damage late winter/early spring
we had a LOT of cutting to do on our poor weeping willow.
MAY 2023
Working on a birthday present for colleen of a little stuffed toy holder for the wall!!
I’m still not done, it’s way bigger than this now though!
Crazy snow going out to PA trip early in May.
I think this may have been out of our hotel window but not sure now.
Since I probably labelled most of these on fb at the time I didn’t look for exact locaations. Somewhere in PA!
This was back home – not sure where.
spring outing
Got Colleen & mom out to dinner!
Jevnikar picnic including Nick’s best friend – he looks just like a friend of mine at work and for a minute I thought it was him!
Colleen’s birthday party!
Happy birthday!
Colleen’s birthday!
JUNE 2023
Ryan’s field day at school. He was starting to not feel well with the issue with his stomach, it kind of went from early June through into September.
Ice cream and outing!
NY trip that was a smoky surprise!
Not sure if this is night 1 or 2 in corning – but we had smoke for 2-3 days.
Corning NY. Second night with the sun actually red.
NY smoke-demic. It was insane. This color is only a little off
these are going into PA county we have near there, still smoky
Sad how much of the mountain vews were skewed
Just prayed for all the people affected.
Finally saw a normal sun up North
The smoke had been very active up there the day before
Skies stayed blue after this!
It was very cold. Geneva, NY, Seneca Lake.
This was comparison of Aug of 22 and June of 23 – the smoke had made things really cold!
Penn Yan ice cream and chicken place
We did viit Lake Keuka near Penn Yann on the way home, so glad we didn’t have to wear masks to walk outside there!
Finally more normal looking mountain views!
Back home
Ryan at summer camp.
He had a good day here, his open house. Did have some cramping there, however.
Following week or so, end of June at camp.
He just loved his teacher Shawn!
The bubble day was cool….
JULY 2023
Veteran’s park picnic
4th of July picnic
Veteran’s park
Mama’s cute chicken!
Mama’s apartment for dinner
Got a walk after
fireworks in Mentor
Ryan asked to play baseball at summer camp!
Ready for my high school reunion!
All classes above 40 years so mom came too!
mom got a pic of my hair
My broccoli casserole
Friends Vicki, Cris and Tenise!
Mom had a good time! class of 60s!
My old elementary school!
Deepwood picnic
Day we went to Meadville to work
Summer camp awards
Erie overnight trip
Huge thunderstorm!
Saw Eileen & Greg
Ryan bowling with school camp
Jen & Brad’s shower
EJ almost 2 years old!
Chris requested fish from Burger King on his talker.
He has done this 3 times now!
Taco Bell after his camp and my work
Ryan at one of his school camp outings
EJ 2nd birthday party
rescheduled Chardon fireworks
AUGUST 2023
Road to SE Ohio trip
Crazy hotel room with a huge conference room!
Antique/craft stores at Logan
Yummy German restaurant!
Petting zoo by the hotel
Lake Logan
Jackson County
We always eat at LaRosa’s in Jackson
Pomeroy – we don’t work there anymore but love to visit it still.
Famous Captain D’s!
Made the fish sandwiches from Captain D’s at home.
Painesville Township Park being remodeled!
I think this was the night before the Mentor tornado!
We went for ice cream night before tornado
And hot dog, at King Kone
Mentor Tornado damage
Our family members had damage
Thank God they were okay
SEPTEMBER 2023
Headlands
Construction at Twp. Park
Another movie date with Jevnikars!
More cleanup work at Gayle & Chuck’s from tornado!
Deepwood cookout!
Jevnkar picnic/mama’s birthfday party
Cool to see Uncle Mike and Aunt Pam, and to have Uncle John there!
Fun to see EJ and Becky and Eric
Drs. for his stomach
Ryan had to have 3 stomach x-rays, by this time he was starting to get better
Yes!
Colleen started spending more time wiith us in September
She was seeking other housing, and we got a lot of time with her pup, Axel!
She got into a new apartment Nov. 1
Now we all need a play date with Axel as we’re missing him!
OCTOBER 2023
we have had up to three cats hanging out in our garage – I put a bed in there for them – someone else feeds them.
Turkey we made – Colleen still stayed at our house a lot in October while moving from one residence to another….
Colleen has a new friend (still into 2024!) and he’s pretty musically accomplished!
Ha
the new two…..
New truck to us, roommates of Colleen’s wanted to sell to us.
Fall foliage glory!
Remodeling completed at the Pvl Twp. park path!
Finally the splash of color at the Lake I was waiting for!
New path eventually to go to Fairport! Still closed at this point.
Lunch with mom!
Mom’s and my twin day! ha! Accidental!
Axel had a lot of wonderful time with Mama and Papa AND us while Colleen was with us
We actually went looking for Halloween lights this year!
Halloween decs at my hearing aid drs.
Special sports party for Halloween
Me and dear friend Sue at Fairport – she also was Ryan’s teacher before!
Fall glory!
Ugh – arthritis trigger fingere. Mom has too and had surgery. I hope I am a LONG way from that….
Chili for Halloween night!
Halloween night traditional fire – but it was so wet it didn’t catch well.
Glad the snow stayed away for the actual Halloween
Snow came overnight.
NOVEMBER 2023
Ryan off to school Nov 1, snow!
We had our Steve Hackett concert in Akron!
Beautiful theatre!
Breakfast we do about once a month at Concord Diner. I think we missed December…
Pluto Christmas channel on already!
Cool park walk
Fall lake day
Walkway still not open at Twp. park.
Chris loved the spaghetti at Thanksgiving Work dinner!
Ryan ordered pizza!
First time boys rode in truck!
Music teacher day!!
Love the pond park!
First of some of the lights
Thanksgiving/Chris b’day
My revisiting turkey dinner where I love it all mixed up!
had to take Chris to Cleveland next day
A crazy circus parking but made it!!
Checking out Fairport school construction
we could only walk about 2 minutes, freezing!
finally got christmas ornaments out
DECEMBER 23 – JANUARY FIRST WEEK 24!
Dec. 1 lunch with mom!
Christmas tree and decs sale at Ryan’s school
Rainbow after lunch!
Our work Christmas party
Great bbq sandwiches!
pizza great also!
Took Ryan to Taco Bell after school
The four out and about!
Medina Cty
Wooster Medina courthouse trip – we found a music store in Wooster!
Our Medina/Wooster court work date –
Sandusky (I think it was?) had a Christmas tree contest!
Mr Lee’s chicken!
Got to Hidden Lake and got some awesome pics!
Looked at Fairport again on a nicer day!
Bowling party finally!
Walked at the mall and also had pizza
Chris at the hospital for dental sedation
I remember noticing he seemed a little warm and his nose was running! They were not worried!
Me, 3 days later
this is a good place to pop in Ryan’s school pic!
and here he is, the test lit up like a Christmas tree!! Coughing and hacking on Saturday
Happiest boys with COVID I’ve seen
Chris’s test
Our trees, Colleen’s, ours, Chris & Ryan’s
Rest of the decs – a minimum this year but so nice!
didn’t realize I had COVID when we got these down from the attic but it sure tired me out…
Our own Christmas morning —
Just us 4, quarantining
So grateful Roger didn’t catch it this year!
This was cool —
Finally out of quarantine for Christmas with the rest of the fam!!
Christmas at the condo!
Chris signs more!
My dear friend Lynn’s tree
Finally had Jevnikar/Colleen & Christian party 1-2!
It was fun to play guitar more with Christian
Great to see Axel and he loved Ryan’s present to him!
FEBRUARY 2023
