the vacation

Now this is Scott writing. I am writing about our vacations. Well every year in the summer we go with our friends to a place. But last year we went to yellow stone by car 0f course. My dad and his friend would call each other names like grislly, and papa bear. well last year my dad and his friend didn't shave the whole time which was 6 weeks. now we saw geysers and famous land marks. But we came not for the places but for the adventure and fun of it. Now I can't wait for the next place we go. So keep watching and Remember to have some fun.

p.s. we are very buzy

Scott Latham

Gary Latham Memorial Golf Outing

Hello Bloggers,

Please mark your calendar for the first annual Gary Latham Memorial Golf Outing – which will be held this summer on August 10th. Proceeds from the event will go toward the Latham Children’s Fund.

Lots more details will follow and in the coming weeks we will post information about the event on this blog and we will send invitations to as many people as we can.

OMG SHOES!!!!!!!

Hey Everyone,
This is Craig, the best son, and from what i hear we are still writing in the blog and it is my turn. So what i am going to write as my memory or story about my dad is quite a funny one. I think. Its about the time my Dad bought the best pair of shoes, in his mind that is. :)
So it was a Saturday and my dad realized that he needed a new pair of shoes. So we go to Dick's which is probably the only place that we go to get shoes. O, just clearing up for you disgusting people we went to Dick's SPORTING GOOD'S :). so we all then helped him pick out a good pair. And after countless hour we picked out some Adidas Shoes. (I wear those shoes now)
We got home and my dad decided that he wanted to go on a family walk with his NEW SHOES. If you don't know when you buy a pair of shoes, you usually wear around the house to break into them. My dad was so excited about the shoes he made us keep walking around the 4 mile square near our house.
It took us about 1 hour to do that walk, which is a pretty long time for a walk. I think it was good for him because he didn't walk for another two days because his feet were sore. They were so big. I just laughed at him the whole time. :)
Well that's my funny story/memory with my dad. Hope it was a good one. Well gtg(In text Lang. means GOT TO GO). See you guys when i see you. Later.

The Last Piece

Hi. It is Hannah (Gary's Daughter). It has been about three weeks from the worst thing in my life and I thought I should start writing down things about my dad. It is really hard to write down memories because I miss his love and everything so much it makes me so sad to think about it. I want to tell everyone this one story though.
Okay, anyways it was the night after the funeral. Me, Aunt Patti(dad's sister), and Uncle Kelly( brother in law) were doing a puzzle (to keep everything off our mind. It really works actually.) and it was like I think 1000 pieces and our family had been working on it for a few months. Even before my dad got in the hospital. Anyways we had all the pieces in the puzzle, but one of the pieces were missing. It has kinda been a game in our family to be the one with the last piece of the puzzle. I think dad started the game in which all of us end up hiding a puzzle piece in our pockets so we can put in the last piece. So we had worked so hard to get the puzzle done and then we can't find this one stupid piece. So I yelled to my mom and said something like "Have you seen the last puzzle piece?" and we looked everywhere. Finally for some reason she told me to look in her hospital bag. It turns out it was in there!!!! My dad had gotten the last piece! Nobody knows how the piece got in the bag but I think my dad had something to do with it.
Thats the story I wanted to tell. Me, my brothers, and my mom will keep more stories about my dad before and after death. It is a really rough time at the Lathams but we are trying to Stay strong and hopefully things will get a little bit better. Keep reading. Thanks for all the support.
Love you all,

Hannah xoxoxo

Latham Children's Fund Information

LATHAM CHILDREN’S FUND

An account has been established in the names of Craig, Hannah, and Scott for their education.

If you would like to make a contribution to this fund, please make your checks payable to the Latham Children’s Fund;
Please mail your contribution to
Sara Olsen at 23986 Elizabeth Lane, Novi, Mi 48374

Thank you so much for your continued support for the Latham Family.

What's Happening

Hello blogers this is Scott again. My family is crying tears of joy for my dad or at least I am.
He shouldn't had died he did nothing wrong. He was a fighter. Now we are going to the funrile home today to see my dad. He was a great loss and a really good friend to some of you. We are staying strong and trying not to cry that much. So we are now 1 day befor the sad event. I hope you people keep reading and I will update every day.

Latham Children Educational Fund

Hi today's blog is from Sara Olsen. I can't take credit for this idea just instituting a great idea. Based on numerous requests, there will be an additional donation option for anyone who is interested. We will establish an education fund in the names of the Latham children at Bank Of America. We expect to establish the account in the morning ... stay tuned. Thank you everyone for your continued love and support and let's keep it coming.

Funeral Arrangements

Funeral arrangements for Gary

Tuesday April 7th 2-8pm Visitation O'Brien Sullivan Funeral Home
41555 Grand River Novi

Wednesday April 8th 10:30am In State at Nardin Park UMC Farmington Hills
11am Funeral Service

Going to Heaven

Dear people,
Hi I am Scott Garys son. My dad is dead and in heaven right now. He was my best friend I had in my life. He was the only person that played with me when I was sad. So now we will go on and stay strong. He died April 4, 2009 6:00pm. He was then best father a son could have. We will keep typing about our family. But with out him we are not a familly. The last thing I heard from him was " I love you Scotty and stay strong". Today is the worst day of my life. And god wanted him to come and live with him forever and I hope something will be good to us. He was a good man and I love and I am pouring tears and can not stop. He did nothing bad to god or us. To the Latham family in Novi Michigan this is the worst day of our life. If you are reading this don't cry. Dad if you are reading this i love you even if your dead. Bye and have a good night. My familly is miserable with out him. Stay strong people.

Positive Attitude

We had a chat late this afternoon with Gary's regular hemonc doctor- the one that he sees in clinic and we trust. She was very concerned about Gary's condition tonight- his breathing is labored, blood pressure high, fevers continue, etc. They dr team feels that Gary's pneumonia is getting worse without much chance of improving. Without his own neutrophils and a very resistant bacteria, we are in a difficult place.
The drs kinda recommended stopping the neutrophil transfusion for this evening. Gary kept asking when am I going to get the blood. Gary's sister arrived from Denver this afternoon and we decided to go on with the transfusion. Donor #6 volume 253cc- they are going to work hard in those lungs.
Gary is restless but his overall happy self making jokes which we do not always understand.
I decided that the kids needed to visit him this evening. We are not sure how his condition will change in the next few days. All he could talk about his having a pizza party with big Cokes. None of us were hungry so I ordered one from food service for him. It arrived and he said this was not what I was expecting. I think we will have a big pizza party with him tomorrow with pizza from Pizza House or Cottage Inn.
We also moved to room #4 at the hospital. A large double room that Gary has all to himself.
God is surrounding our family with his love and lots of angels which seems to arrive at just the right moment.
The bone marrow could decide to recover at any time- the time in now the time is tonight. Keep the faith- God has a plan!