Faithful Few

For the Faithful Few who are still reading~



I'm sure you'll be surprised (some of you elated) to see a new blog on here. It makes me laugh b/c I can see Ashli rolling her eyes that some of you will be sooooo excited that there is something new for you to read!!! There are a few things I want to make sure you know about:



1) On Tuesday this coming week, Jacquie w/ EMHS volleyball team will be giving a spirit award out to a volleyball player between the JV & Varisty games. Most of you know the volleyball team was something Ashli cared a great deal about. Most of our family will be going to watch and support the team and we welcome all of you to come who are available and would like to be there.



2) Kelly Moses (Crocker) is working on getting approval to plant a tree in Ashli's memory @ Bethel. I "think" the plan is to have people just donate to the memorial fund we set up for Ashli and we will pay for the tree & plaque with the donations we get towards it. I'm not sure if Kelly has gotten this approved w/ Bethel yet, but she's hoping to do some sort of planting ceremony over Bethel's Homecoming which is towards mid-late October. So for those of you who want to donate or if you want more specifics get in touch with Kelly. If you don't know how you can email me and I'll forward it along or you can just post something letting me know w/ your email Kelly will swing by and check.



3) Mom mentioned that she would like to plan a Chicago trip next spring (probably sometime in June) for friends of Ashli's (probably guys will be left out, but we haven't decided for sure). The thought was to carpool a bunch of us to Chicago, eat at Cheesecake Factory, shop, mayb catch a show? & just share happy memories of Ashli. I think it will be a really fun time. We figure if some people want to spend the night we can share rooms and if others don't they can just do the day trip thing. At some point we'll choose some dates and blog the ones we're considering. But we wanted to give you plenty of advance notice, so if you think you might want to go, keep it in mind.



4) Our Grandma is working on a book about Ashli's life. One idea we had for the book was at the beginning of each chapter or in different places throughout the book to have little memories from some of her friends. If you have a funny, sentimental or happy memory you'd like to share, you can email my Grandma at: Leakeys@aol.com



I think about many of you often. There is not a day that passes that I don't think about Ashli. Some days I smile at a funny photo I come across. Other days the dumbest, most piddly thing that reminds me of her brings me to tears. It's comforting knowing there are others feeling the same things & it's nice seeing that people are still commenting.



Love,



----Alysia