Bonnye's 7th Birthday Celebration & Mermaid Pool Party

Wow, hard to believe she is 7 y.o. already. Love this girl! We had her July 4th celebration and then her party on the 6th. She got to invite friends over for the first time for a party and since her gift from mom & dad was a new bigger pool, she, of course, had a pool party. They had a blast! As usual, Karli outdid herself with the birthday treats. 5 girls and 1 boy attended. Lee was so funny ... they got here late and all the girls were playing in the pool and he is a few years younger than they were. He came around the house with his mom and as soon as he saw the pool full of hyper, giggling girls, he said "No way!", turned around and was going to leave. Needless to say, he would not get into pool while everyone here. They stayed later, so once all the girls left, he did go out finally and play in the pool with Bonnye.

Mermaid Pool Party

 Mermaid & Seashell Cupcakes

 Homemade Mermaid Ice Cream

 Mermaid Jello

Update!

Sorry for the neglect, but after Abbi and David passed away last year, blogging was not something I even thought about. I had hoped I would, to help myself deal with the losses, but alas that did not happen.

I did get back into my red hatting and black hatting asap. It helped me deal with things and kept me busy. I slowly got back into my stamping and have started holding Stamp Camps again and going to Col. Beach Sr. Ctr. to make cards. So life has pretty much returned to normal now. Jan. was hard as she would have turned 3 on the 22nd. I miss her so very much, but her big sister, Bonnye keeps me busy. She has handled it best of all of us, but mostly because she doesn't totally understand "death". She only understands that Abbi will never be here again and misses her.

Life goes on, even when we want to crawl into a hole. I hope to start blogging here again. Bonnye turns 7 on July 4th, so I hope to share pics from that and her party on the 6th. Hoping that will get me jump started.

Sad, Sad News

My heart has been ripped out twice over the past month.

June 6th was the worst. My beautiful granddtr., Abigail Elizabeth Ferenz, 2 yrs. old passed away from a very, very vicious and aggressive brain tumor. She was diagnosed with the tumor on Sun., May 27th, biopsy done on the 28th and sent home. She was showing no signs that anything was wrong. It was discovered quite by accident. She bumped her head and started throwing up a few days later (26th), so took her in to rule out concussion, but said she was okay, but had a malformed skull. CT revealed a osteomas on inside of skull pushing on her brain. They transferred her to VCU Children's Hospital PICU. MRI next day revealed mass with bone in it. Biopsy done on Monday and she was sent home on Wed. to await results. Appt. set for June 5th to go over results. However, on Sun., June 3rd she started throwing up again and by time ambulance got her to hospital she was having mini seizures that got worse. They again transferred her to VCU. MRI revealed tumor was bleeding into brain adding more pressure. Meds basically put her into a medically induced deep sleep.  Working diagnosis from biopsy was Ewing's Sarcoma. They operated on Monday to remove the pressure and also ended up removing the affected part of her skull, dura and went ahead and removed as much of the tumor as they could for then. MRI on Tues. revealed extensive brain injury due to lack of oxygen to parts of her brain from the pressure. Wed. morning she made a turn for the worse and that evening we let her go. Her parents,Jacob & Karli; big sister, Bonnye and both sets of grandparents and Aunt Breezi (Karli's sister) and her boyfriend, John were with her at the end. The staff took us out to the Pediatric Garden and let them hold her and she passed quickly and peacefully in her mom and dad's arms. Our world caved in at that moment.

Friends and family came and gave their love and support via mail, food, visits, etc Her memorial was held on June 14th. We will be grieving for a long time.

Then, on July 2nd my BIL, David passed away. We knew he was declining (Stage 4 small cell bladder cancer, diagnosed early in 2017), but we thought we had months before he left us. His memorial will be on the 21st, so we will be travelling to TX for that.

Oops, sorry for the neglect!

Wow, have I really not been on here since Dec. 2016. Thought for sure I had posted since then. Well, I will try to do better. Unfortunately, my next post will be a double sad one. Hopefully, things will improve after that.

I will try to update with some of the past family events later. Add some of the happy times.

Merry Christmas

Had a great day with the family. It's so much fun to see it all thru the eyes of a child.

 The Christmas Haul

 Her main gift

 Little mermaid

Gift Bonnye received from Kathy & Phil Schutty

Happy Thanksgivings!

No pictures, as lost on phone when it broke before I shared them anywhere. Just a simple dinner with family.

10-29-16 Shannon Airfield Halloween Candy Drop

 Karli & I took Bonnye to the Shannon Airfield for a Candy Drop. They had games for them to play and get little prizes and a costume contest by age groups. There was an air show put on by the Flying Circus and they had some of the planes on display too.There wee some really cute costumes. She got to sit in a helicopter just before the drop.

 Making a smiley face.

 Youngest contest winne

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Bonnye's age group for costume contest

The astronaut was the winner. The pilot was his friend and I believe was runner up.

Bonnye in the helicopter

Plane coming in for the Candy Drop

Just before actual drop.

Drop complete. The second plane accidentally dropped the bag intact.

Second drop

Everyone out collecting candy