Alice Goes to Church

Sunday, Alice and her granddaughter, Beth, went to the Jubilee Service at Eastminster Presbyterian Church. This was Alice's second visit, but the first with the paparazzi in tow.

Reports are that Alice was singing and clapping on the front row, and that she was somewhat of a celebrity!

Alice and Amos Disasa, one of the ministers at EPC.


Alice and two friends from Eastminster. (That's Martha Mason on the left!)


Alice and Barbara McArthur, a member of Alice's "Care Team."

Alice at the Elliott's Christmas Party

Every year, the Elliott family has a Christmas party on December 23. Alice hadn't been out of the hospital long, but she had a new outfit and was determined to go, and go she did!

John Douglas escorting Alice (and Frances Anne) into the party.

Some great shots of Alice and Shorti.


And Beth and Alice.


Gramma certainly had her appetite back!


Alice with France Montgomery, Mary Elliott's mom. For those of you reading this in NC, Frances is from Sanford.


In case you can't tell, Alice had a GREAT time!

Alice Out on the Town

Tonight, the girls took Alice to first performance of the Forest Acres Winter 2010 Art Series at Midtown at Forest Acres. Tonight's performance was John English, who the girls actually knew when they lived in Greenwood.


He did some kids songs and some adult songs, including some that taught sign language. Here, Alice and Mary Pat are sign singing "We all love Saturday night."


Alice and John English...


The concert was held at the Columbia Children's Theatre, and afterwards, Alice and the girls visited with Jerry and Jim, who run the theatre.


Alice and Jerry...


We had lots of fun trying on hats and acting silly...


...and Mary Pat even tried to do "wheelies" with Alice's new tripod walker.


After the performance and clowning around, Alice and the girls went to Zesto's. Alice got a hot fudge sundae and started eating it before even leaving Zesto's. Beth got fries; Mary Pat got a dipped in chocolate cone. We took back a banana milkshake for Rick and a hot fudge sundae for Shorti.


Next Tuesday's "Gramma and Girls" adventure will be to the second performance, a magician! Stay tuned!

Alice: Our Christmas Miracle

It's odd to see that our last post was in July, 2009! Let me explain and also apologize. Sister and I went to Chicago in late July, and when we came home and through late December, Alice experienced quite a few health problems. It seems like during that time frame, she was in and out of the hospital every three to four weeks, and even when she was home, wasn't feeling too hot. It seems like once we all got back on an even keel, she'd get sick again. Her health problems, along with Dad's, kept us quite busy, and the blog suffered!

This last hospital visit in mid-December was quite scary, but Alice came out of it stronger and better than she's been since before she moved down to SC. We call her our Christmas miracle! It's hard to believe, but she was actually out shopping at Wal-Mart with us on Christmas eve!

Now that things seemed to have settled down again, and hopefully for a while, we'll try our hand at the blog again! We have some great pictures of Alice enjoying the Christmas season and visits from friends. I've gotten a new computer, which I'm still getting set up, but this week I promise to download the pictures and get them on the blog!

Tonight, Alice and Shorti went by the Elliott's to pick up Will, and Alice told Scott that she wanted to go to church with him - and off they went. We look forward to hearing about her adventure with Scott; maybe I can even post it to the blog - without pictures unfortunately!