Senior Recital, Golden Friends, White Sox Game

I am so proud of my piano student, Lydia! She performed a solo Senior Recital yesterday, for her family and friends, and I couldn't be prouder of her. 

Student and proud teacher! Looks like we both got the same memo about what to wear, too, ha!

"Make new friends, and keep the old...one is silver and the other's gold!"  We had the pleasure of meeting some golden friends for dinner last night.  We hadn't seen Deb Bisek and Tim Gerber for over 25 years! 

It's a beautiful day for a ball game - Chicago White Sox vx. Minnesota Twins - well, at least, it started that way!  It was sunny and hot when we got there, but then...

...we had multiple rain interruptions, and one actual rain delay.  Despite all that, we had lots of fun with Hannah and Danny.  Yummy cheese fries!

Cheers!

Hannah's 21st!

I have no idea how this happened, but little Hannah is now 21! Born 21 years ago, on September 3rd - Labor Day!

Hannah shares her birthday with our dear friend, Diane Hires. In honor of the occasion, we decorated Diane's guard lions with balloons!
Of course, Emily came out to celebrate Hannah's birthday with her. I couldn't be prouder of these two lovely girls.

Group shot with the all-important marble birthday cake. Left to right, Lindsay Prerost, Scott, Hannah, Emily, and Tom Gilbert.

The September 3rd birthday buddies, Hannah and Diane. I'll never forget, 21 years ago, we had celebrated Diane's birthday with her and her late husband, John, on the evening of September 2nd. I hadn't realized that I was in labor at the time. Hannah was born at 4 am on the 3rd. John was very surprised when I called at 7 am, to tell them that Hannah had arrived!

Happy 21st, Hannah!

Excellent Day of Fun!

We had such a fun time recently when our dear friends, the Engels, came from Indy for the weekend. Scott and Dave were best friends in high school. Old friends are the best! Dave and Denise married just three months before we did - 33 years ago! Scott and Dave stood up for each other in our weddings, and we've all been friends ever since!

We spent most of the day at the Chicago Botanic Garden, in Glencoe. It is just a gorgeous gem, a not-to-be-missed spot if you are in the area!

I don't remember what was in these overhead flower baskets, but I do remember that the sight of them took your breath away!

This shows the Japanese Gardens. We didn't know this was coming up (the Botanic Gardens is a HUGE place - acres and acres - we were there 2-3 hours and saw only a portion of it), and came around a corner and - POW! This picture doesn't do it justice, I know - but when I caught sight of it, I stopped short and got tears in my eyes. It was that beautiful.

We finished our wonderful day by seeing a performance of Grease!, featuring our daughter, Hannah, as Sandy.

Scott, Denise, Hannah, Dave, and me