A whirlwind weekend...

First of all it was so good to hear from Sue! Glad they are all home and resting.

We have had a crazy weekend. Friday night we went to a great pool party at Ron and Peggy's...it was the perfect summer evening. First thing on Saturday morning Jillian had her cheerleading camp...from there we went to her and Ava's party at Run, Jump and Play. We had 27 kids show up so it was a lot of fun. I never knew how nice it was to have someone else do ALL the work at a party so that was a nice way to go and Jillian had a great time. Her actual b-day is not until the 15th and that is kind of confusing her this year...she thinks she turned 5 on Saturday...Saturday evening a group of the Strawberry Hill babes hit the town to celebrate Heather's upcoming b-day. We started at the Melting Pot...we did the cheese fondue and then went straight to the chocolate...OMG, it was so yummy. After that we went to a bar called the Porch of All Sorts...not sure about porches but we sure saw people of all sorts...the $5 cover charge was worth it just to people watch. They had a pretty good "house band" playing so we kicked our heels up until Midnight. Once we made it back to Strawberry Hill and dropped Heather off the rest of us decided to move on down the hill to a scary little bar called the "Monkey Bar." This place was nuts...very tiny block building built right on the river...it did not appear that the Ohio ban on smoking had any affect on the patrons here and with some of the guys it seemed that clothing was optional (just shirts). We joined right in with the friendly crowd as they were doing some of the very worst karaoke I have ever heard in my life...we finished up about 1:30 with a few of the Strawberry Hill Babes doing an awesome version of Love Shack...wow, what a night!

This morning Jillian and I went with Heather and her family to see the musical Beauty and the Beast and we had a very nice brunch before the show...this was Jillian's first time in a real theater and she absolutely loved it...it was a special b-day treat for her. Tonight we met up with a few families at the pool for dinner...it's hard to believe that the pool will be closing soon...while we were out last night we started talking about relationships and friends...when we talk about things like this I always remember how lucky we are to have such great friends and what a great place we are at right now in our lives...we really enjoy being with our friends and just have so much fun together...we are very blessed!

I did have a minor medical issue this past week...I was having some dizzy spells and my feet were swelling pretty bad...of course when anything hurts or goes wrong with your head after a cancer diagnosis you always first think - brain tumor. I decided to call my family doc and when I got in to see him my blood pressure was really high...something like 140/99...he said most people don't really feel symptoms when their BP goes up but I am someone that obviously does...anyway, have yet another new drug to add to my list of daily meds...thank God for my pill box...I would have never thought at 40 that I would need a stupid little pill dispenser box..jeez, I even have the one with the AM side and the PM side...oh my, I am getting old...