March Brings Birthdays, Birthdays and More Birthdays in the Ledford Family

Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Today is our grandson, Reilly's 15th birthday.  It is hard to believe it has been that long since his dramatic entry into our world while his daddy raced to get to the hospital.  Reilly couldn't wait and ended up being born during the drive there.  And life has been filled with all kinds of surprises and joys ever since.
(More to come)

On Saturday, March 5, 2016, our youngest granddaughter, Dagny, celebrated her 7th birthday with a birthday brunch at the American Girl Doll Store with her mom.

We sent her a huge cupcake cookbook filled with all kinds of interesting ways to decorate them along with all the decorating tools and other needed items to make them.  She created apple cupcakes with a worm coming out of them as her first baking treat.

Dagny got to celebrate a day early at her school with her daddy acting as teacher for the first few minutes of the day as well as sharing cookies with her whole class and of course wearing the birthday crown. 

Tuesday, March 8, our grandson in North Carolina will celebrate his 15th birthday.  He LOVES sports, especially football (he is on the freshman team at his high school)

and is blessed with the ability to catch on quickly to all that athletic stuff.  His dream is to own a hoverboard which he hopes to be able to buy with birthday money and other money he has saved.  Hopefully our gift will help him reach that goal.  To celebrate his big day, he chose a Japanese meal with the grill at the table. Here he is with his family enjoying it.

Friday, March 11, will bring our grandson, Scott's 18th birthday.  He is eagerly looking forward to graduation but meanwhile is loving playing in his rock band which just recently performed in Memphis, Tennessee at an International Blues Festival.  Leah and the Troublemakers had won the local competition in Michigan and earned the chance to go.

Punk rock music is his favorite, though, and he has wanted to have his own record (yes record) player so he could play old 75s, 45s and 33s.  Who knew the young kids would want what we grew up with. Anyway, on Friday he will get just that - a brand new record player he can use any time he wishes.

And here he is getting it

And finally, the following week on March 20, our oldest granddaughter, Abbi, will also celebrate her 18th birthday.  She will be attending a homeschooling week long celebration in Virginia that is capped by a USO themed dance for the "seniors".  Her greatest desire was for an outfit to fit the theme including specator shoes.  She'll have it since that is our gift to her.

Meanwhile, several of our good friends here and around the country including Canada also have already celebrated birthdays or will be in the next couple of weeks.  Our good friend Bette has her 75th on March 20th right along with Abbi and two others in our Keystone Winnies "gang" Jim and Dorothy Lenhardt.  We'll be celebrating their birthdays at a planned lunch at Red Lobster next week with about 16 of us in attendance.

Our next door neighbor, Lana Buchanan, (that is next to our motorhome) celebrated at a small "neighborhood gathering" on her special day, March 2nd and our good friend, Lucy, who no longer can make it down here from her Canadian home celebrated on March 3rd.  Later this month two other good friends, Bill Patton and Mary Elizabeth Luttenbacher, will celebrate their 85th and 95th birthdays.  These are just a few that make March an extra special birthday month in our lives.