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Anna celebrated her eighth birthday and ninth Christmas on Monday after dinner at Baba and Grandad’s. The decoration for her birthday cake and also for her birthday card were Anna’s drawing of a Winter scene using a Crayola software program. Among her Christmas gifts were an interactive puppy named Lucky who responds to voice commands and an interactive Princess doll who does dance movements to imitate movements by Anna.
Erin and Anna celebrated Christmas by opening their presents after dinner at Baba and Grandad’s. Later they went to visit Grandmother Gabelman. Gifts were under a Christmas crib which is almost a half-century old. Erin and her American Girl doll Kerin got matching tops from Baba and Grandad.
See and album of Christmas photos.
See album of birthday photos.
Here's Anna Liggett as she appeared in the Christmas musical for Grades 1-3 at St. Paul School. The musical was performed in St. Paul Activity Center (the former Chapel) at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 19, 2006
This is a Winter scene Anna Liggett designed using the Crayola software program.
Anna and Erin enjoyed about two hours of ice skating Sunday afternoon at the downtown Akron Lock 3 Park skating rink. The temperature was in the 60s so it was a pleasant and beautiful day for skating--unlike last year when it was freezing cold.
Erin Liggett and Hanna Horrigan were chosen for the lead in the musical play Annie which will be staged by the St. Paul School Drama Club tentatively in March. Auditions were conducted by Patricia O’Neill, the Drama Club sponsor, who will direct the play. Both girls will play the role of Annie in the St. :Paul adaptation.
Anna Liggett portrayed Cleopatra in the Halloween parade on Friday, October 27, at St. Paul School. The parade was held in the Activity Center, former Chapel, because of rain.
With temperatures hitting the frost mode, the leaves are beginning to fall rapidly. Posing for a photo after a romb in leaves they raked up on Neptune Avenue are Anna and Erin Liggett and their friend, Julia Valley.
Photo taken by Grandad on Sunday, October 8, 2006
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI today announced the appointment of The Most Rev. Martin J. Amos, Auxiliary Bishop in the Diocese of Cleveland, as the new Bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport, Iowa.
The announcement was made by Bishop Richard Lennon.
Bishop Amos will become the eighth Bishop of the Diocese of Davenport which was established in 1881 and contains more than 105,650 Catholics and 84 parishes throughout the southeast section of the state. His installation is scheduled for Monday, November 20th.
A native Clevelander, Bishop Amos was ordained to the priesthood on May 25, 1968 and was ordained a Bishop in the Diocese of Cleveland on June 7, 2001 where his duties have focused on special care of the southern districts of the Diocese, maintaining an office in Akron.
In response to the announcement from the Holy See, Cleveland Bishop Richard Lennon has asked everyone: "Please join with me in thanking God for the gifts of Bishop Martin Amos as bishop and priest of the Diocese of Cleveland for the past 38 years. Also, Let us pray for God's blessings upon him as he will soon begin this new ministry."
A Mass of Thanksgiving and farewell is scheduled for St. John Cathedral in Cleveland on Thursday, November 9th at 7:00 p.m. and will be followed by a reception. All are welcome.
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These are school portraits taken August 30, 2006 for the new school year. Erin (left) is in Grade 6 and Anna is in Grade 2 at St. Paul School on Brown Street in Akron
During this school year, students, faculty and alumni at St. Paul School, Akron, are celebrating the school’s 80th anniversary. The school opened the academic year with Mass and a balloon launch. Students also placed several items in a time capsule to be opened in 20 years during the school’s 100h anniversary.
[This item appeared on page 10 in the Oct 6, 2006 issue of the Catholic Universe Bulletin.]
Open house at St. Paul School was Monday night. Anna and Erin showed off their work to Mom and Dad, Baba and Granded. Then they posed for pictures with their new teachers.
Anna is with Miss Mary Means in the second grade.
Erin is with Mrs. Diane Zak in the sixth grade.
Claire Fuller, 4, (in chair) and Chloe Fuller, 7, Erin Liggett, 11, and Anna Liggett, 7, take time out from fun to pose for this photo on Sunday at Baba and Grandad's. The Liggett girls just returned to class at St. Paul School on August 22, but already the regular school portraits have been taken, the girls are selling candy and open house is tonight (Monday). Stay tuned for new school photos which should be available in a few weeks.
Anna Liggett gets a "chair lift" from sister Erin (left) and Kelsey Hall during play time on Sunday, September 10, 2006.
Anna gets ready to trapeze over a huge pile of limbs from an old Red Delicious apple tree in the backyard of Baba and Grandad’s while Erin climbs what is left of the old tree after Eric Poston and Mike Kowal started taking it down on Saturday, August 26. A chain saw will take care of what is left standing and a chipper will grind up the limbs that were removed. The girls had to have one last fling Sunday. They will miss the many hours spent swinging on a swing that hung from the old tree. This tree and a Macintosh apple tree, still standing, were planted in 1982 with money from a gift to Baba and Grandad on their 25th wedding anniversary from Mary and Pio Chini, Baba’s sister and brother-in-law who are both deceased.
Anna and Erin walk acrosss a bridge on the towpath at Peninsula near Lock 29. The bridge crosses over the Cuyahoga River and is near the acqueduct where the canal crossed the river. The girls, Baba and Grandad were there on Sunday, August 20, 2006.
A Cuyahoga Valley National Park ranger shows Anna and Erin a beaver pelt during their train ride on Sunday, August 13, on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad. The girls with Baba and Grandad left the Northside Station in Akron at 1:15 p.m. for a trip to Peninsula and back which took an hour and 45 minutes. The railroad is one of the oldest, longest and most scenic tourist excursion railways in the country. It follows along the towpath trail of the Ohio Canal. The tracks reach 51 miles south form Independence passing through the 33,000 acre national park to Akron and Canton. The tracks were recorded in the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Although we go swimming a number of places--mostly the Falls Natatorium--we always spend one afternoon each Summer at Waterworks Park in Munroe Falls to go down the slides, swim and take a leisurely trip on the Lazy River. This year it was on Tuesday, August 8. Erin is in the front of the double tube and Anna in the back. Anna took swimming lessons at the Natatorium in July. Both girls are becoming better swimmers each time we go.
Anna Liggett performs on a trapeze swing Grandad made in the side yard. This photo was shot on Sunday, July 23, 2006
It took a little bit of huffing and puffing for Erin to blow out the 11 sparkler candles on this cake baked by Mom. The candles actually sparkled like Fourth of July sparklers. The cake and ice cream was served for a party at Baba and Grandad's,
Erin got the American Girl doll she is holding from Mom and Dad and a heart-shaped locket engraved with ERIN and the date from Baba and Grandad. There were a number of other gifts of course.
Here's Anna Liggett getting some swimming lessons at the Cuyahoga Falls Natatorium.
This is a new photo to celebrate Erin Liggett's eleventh birthday. She is now 4 feet, 11 1/4 inches tall and that is just three-fourths of an inch from the top of the growth chart Grandad keeps for Erin and sister Anna. Next year Erin will be off the chart. We went toy shopping on Sunday and stopped at Swenson's in Montrose. Baba baked a cake and more gifts will be opened after Anna's swimming lesson Tuesday evening. The family will go to Pittsburgh Zoo on Wednesday.
Anna sitting at carving of Chief Logan at Bath Community Center, 1616 N. Cleveland-Massillon Road. The 20-foot, 15-000 pound carved wooden statue is made of a red oak tree and carved by Stow sculptor Joseph Frohnapfel. We visited on Sunday, June 18, 2006.
Drawing by Anna Liggett
Remembering June 15, 1991 when Mom and Dad were married in Immaculate Conception Church in Kenmore.
Love from
Erin & Anna
Anna and Erin Liggett put small geraniums on the grave of their grandfather, Donald Gabelman, at Holy Cross Cemetery for Memorial Day, May 29, 2006
Anna’s first grade class visited Cleveland Zoo on Tuesday, May 25, 2006. She drew sketches of all the animals she saw. This is one of the giraffes.
A new chapter of diocesan leadership begins
The Most Reverend Richard G. Lennon became the tenth Bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland during his solemn rite of installation which began at 3 p.m. and concluded at 5:45 p.m. Monday, May 15, 2006, in the Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist.
More than 1,200 invited guests filled the 158 year-old Cathedral located at E. 9th and 
Superior Avenue in downtown Cleveland.
Catholic leadership in attendance from outside the Diocese of Cleveland included: His Eminence Sean Patrick Cardinal O’Malley, O.F.M., Cap., Archbishop of Boston; His Eminence William Cardinal Keeler, Archbishop of Baltimore; The Most Reverend Pietro Sambi, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States; and The Most Reverend Daniel E. Pilarczyk, Archbishop of Cincinnati. In
addition, some 30 other visiting Bishops and still other visiting priests and deacons from dioceses around the U.S. were in attendance.
Local Catholic leadership included the Bishops of Cleveland. The Most Reverend Anthony M. Pilla, Bishop-Emeritus of Cleveland; The Most Reverend A. Edward Pevec, Retired Auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland; The Most Reverend A. James Quinn, Auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland; The Most Reverend Roger W. Gries, O.S.B., Auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland; and The Most Reverend Martin J. Amos, Auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland. Also in attendance were many of the priests and deacons of the Cleveland diocese.
Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk, who served as the installing prelate, opened the liturgy with the sign of the cross and greeting. Archbishop Pietro Sambi then read the letter of appointment from His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. The Papal letter was then given to Bishop Lennon.
A long sustained applause came when Bishop Lennon spoke about Bishop-Emeritus Pilla. “I want to say a very special word of recognition and an expression of personal gratitude to Bishop Anthony Pilla, for his over 25 years of Episcopal leadership in this great Diocese of Cleveland.”
[Abstracted from news release on diocesan web site. The photo is by Akron Beavcon Journal photographer Paul Tople. Click here to read the Beacon Journal article on the installaton. Go to www.ohio.com to see 10 more photos by Tople on the installation. You can also order a video of the installation on the Diocese web site for $20.
Here is our Mother’s Day tribute -- with a little bit of help from Grandad. Our mother, Susan (Gabelman) Liggett, was born February 7, 1966. Dad’s mother, Helen (Smolak) Liggett, was born November 15, 1930, and Mom’s mother, Mary Ann (Timko) Gabelman, was born June 15, 1932. Happy Mother’s Day to all three from Erin and Anna Liggett
Special Note to Uncle Don and Aunt Mary Alice:
Anna and I want to thank you for all the nice comments.
We wish you could have been here for Mass last First Friday at St. Paul. Anna’s class was assigned to assist at Mass. Anna took up the hosts on the paten and I volunteered to read the epistle. I led the procession to the altar and carried the sacramentary. We were both proud because Mom and Dad and Baba and Grandad were all at the Mass. I also was altar server for the 9 a.m. Mass on Sunday and got to ring the bell for the elevation.
Watch out for Alberto!
Love,
Erin
Chalkboard drawing by Anna Liggett on Sunday, May 1, 2006
Tiptoeing near the tulips with our friends in the backyard at Baba and Grandad's on Sunday, April 23, 2006. From left are Julia Valley, Anna Liggett, Samantha Valley and Erin Liggett
Baba counted a record 100 bounces by Erin on her Pogo stick on Sunday, April 23, 2006.
It was a great Easter for Erin and Anna Liggett. It started with Mass with Mom and Dad at St. Paul. It was beautiful with all the lighted candles. We went to Baba and Grandad's for lunch at noon on Easter Sunday. The trees in the few days before Christmas began to leaf out and Grandad was surprised to see the rhodobndendrum had bloomed in time for Easter. Anna and Erin posed for a picture in front of it with new singing Easter bunnies they got along with full Easter baskets. In the afternoon we went with Bemaw to Aunt Cathy and Uncle Gil's and had the traditional Easter egg hunt. And the best part is still to come--a whole holiday week from school.
PS: Thanks to Uncle Don and Aunt Alice for the nice comment on the item below this.
Sisters Erin and Anna Liggett wish you a Happy Easter.
Go find those eggs.
We will be at Grandad and Baba's house for dinner
All students at St. Paul School join me in welcoming our new bishop, the Most Reverend Richard Gerard Lennon.
No, of course, we have not met the new Bishop and, no, we were not in Cleveland to see him, but thought it would be nice to post this information as a way of welcoming him.
Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 announced the selection of The Most Reverend Richar
d Gerard Lennon, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston to be the tenth Bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland.
The Most Reverend Anthony Michael Pilla welcomed and introduced Bishop-Designate Lennon at a 9:30 a.m. news conference held on Cathedral Square in downtown Cleveland . Bishop Lennon, currently the Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia of the Archdiocese of Boston, will be installed as the new Bishop of Cleveland on Monday, May 15, at 3 p.m. in the Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist, E.Ninth & Superior Avenue, Cleveland.
Born 59 years ago in Arlington, Massachusetts, Bishop-Designate Lennon graduated from Catholic High School and then attended Boston College before entering St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts where he received an M.A. in Church History and M.TH. in Sacramental Theology. He was ordained to the priesthood in May, 1973 and served in a variety of posts including parish priest, Fire Department Chaplain (sometimes participating as a firefighter), as Assistant for Canonical Affairs, and Rector of St. John's Seminary. He was ordained as an Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Boston on September 14, 2001.
The Most Rev. Anthony M. Pilla will complete his tenure as the longest serving Bishop in diocesan history, having celebrated his 25th anniversary this past January. Upon his retirement, Bishop Pilla will take a sabbatical to reflect and discern, as he considers several opportunities to continue in ministry. Bishop Pilla plans to reside in greater Cleveland.
For a photo of the press conference and more stories, you can visit Baba’s family blog at http://smolak.blogspot.com
These are the dogs of Olga Reswow and Bruce Griffin. Nakia (at left) has black and white fur and brown eyes, is four years old and hails from a breeder in Pennsylvania. Rojo (Spanish for red) is red-brown and has blue eyes, is 8 and was acquired from an Amish breeder.
Olga is a copy editor at the Beacon Journal and frequently leaves comments on this blog.
About the dogs, she says, “They love kids, long walks and homemade doggie biscuits–and love sleeping on the bed when we’re not home.”
Check out this latest drawing with pen. The boat with flag and diamond design, the fish, orange moon and whatever drawn by Erin Liggett at Baba and Grandad's on Sunday, March 26, 2006.
Color art drawn on a Sunday afternoon, March 26, 2006, at Baba and Grandad's
Here's another chalkboard drawing done by Erin on Sunday, March 19, 2006.
Sister Anna just cannot wait for Easter so she fashioned this special Easter egg in a drawing on Sunday, March 19, 2006. What do you think of it?
Erin Liggett served her first Mass as an altar server at the 11 a.m. Sunday Mass, March 19, 2006, at St. Paul Church on Brown Street. Fr. Ralph Thomas, assisted by Deacon Mr. Frank Lonteen, celebrated the Mass. Jacob Gabelman, Erin’s cousin, served with her. She is shown here after Mass with Fr. Thomas and Deacon Lonteen.
Members of St. Paul Parish in Akron were invited during the 2006 Lenten season to “nail” any burden, illness or struggle in their faith to a wooden cross placed in the narthex of the church. “Our hope is that by bringing triublations to Our Lord, He will bring about a transformation in our lives so that something good will result from our suffering,” a notice in the church bulletin said.
This drawing, titled "My Nick toon Friends," was drawn by Erin Liggett from Feburary 26-28, 2006 for a school art project.
Anna Liggett was joined by 11 of her friends for a Build-A-Bear birthday party at Summit Mall on Sunday, February 19. Girls with their costumed bears included Catherine Rardin in front and in back (from left) Anna Liggett, Michele Bojo, Lisa Rardin and Erin Liggett. Because she was born on Christmas Day, the family did not want her birthday to be forgotten. Not likely. So far, she has has been given at least three birthday parties since Christmas. Anna is in the first grade at St. Paul and Erin is in the fifth grade. Their parents are Tom and Sue Liggett
This is a chalkboard drawing by Anna Liggett.
This drawing by Erin Liggett inspired by Disney DVD movie Bambi 2.
Erin's drawing of photo worth 1,000 words on Sunday, Feb 5, 2006
Anna (left) and Erin Liggett sit with their grandmother (we call her Baba) Helen Liggett for Grandparents' Day at St. Paul School on Tuesday, Jan 31, 2006.
Anna is in first grade. Erin is in Grade 5.
Superior Avenue in downtown Cleveland.
It was a great Easter for Erin and Anna Liggett. It started with Mass with Mom and Dad at St. Paul. It was beautiful with all the lighted candles. We went to Baba and Grandad's for lunch at noon on Easter Sunday. The trees in the few days before Christmas began to leaf out and Grandad was surprised to see the rhodobndendrum had bloomed in time for Easter. Anna and Erin posed for a picture in front of it with new singing Easter bunnies they got along with full Easter baskets. In the afternoon we went with Bemaw to Aunt Cathy and Uncle Gil's and had the traditional Easter egg hunt. And the best part is still to come--a whole holiday week from school.
d Gerard Lennon, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston to be the tenth Bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland.
Anna (left) and Erin Liggett sit with their grandmother (we call her Baba) Helen Liggett for Grandparents' Day at St. Paul School on Tuesday, Jan 31, 2006.
