Cathy, Chris, Steph enjoy Disney with HS Band

The Hilliard-Darby Marching Band spent Spring Break at Walt Disney World last week. Senior Christopher, freshman Stephanie and chaperone Cathy were all on the trip.

Above, a family pose. At right, Cathy with other chaperones. Cathy plans to send along many more photos, so check back!

Finally! Signs of Spring at Birch Street

Could it be? Is winter really over? These little green sprouts and these crocuses seem to think so!

Brien hosts annual Watch Party for St. Pat's Parade

For a third consecutive year, family members and friends gathered at Brien's apartment on McLean Avenue to watch the Yonkers St. Patrick's Day parade pass directly under his front windows.

The parade and the crowd get bigger every year. This was just the fourth year that a parade was held along McLean, but the second year that it served as the official St. Pat's celebration in Yonkers. McLean has become the Main Street of the large Irish community in southeast Yonkers and the adjoining Woodlawn area of The Bronx.

Here is an album of photos of the party, mixed with pictures of the parade from The Journal-News, which has a big photo gallery on its LoHud.com web site.

Getting to know Beatrice: New photos

Week-and-a-half-old Beatrice met some more members of her family this past weekend. Above, Shanna holds Beatrice with happy mother Genevieve looking on. Below, Beatrice poses with her proud Grandma, Uncle Patrick and Aunt Vivien.

The last of the snow? We can hope!

After another round of snowfall at the end of last week, the weekend brought a break in the wintry weather and the snowpack at Birch Street Headquarters began to melt. Could Spring actually be on its way?

Dan took this photo Sunday afternoon. He says: "This picture tells a lot about the winter we've had. The pile of dirty snow on the right represents the many times we've had to shovel the driveway. The fresh white snow on the left is from just two days earlier. And the Christmas lights still strung around the tree show that the yard has been snow-covered continuously since Jan. 10, the weekend when I would have taken them down. Maybe I can finally do that next weekend!"

Genevieve & John bring Beatrice home

Genevieve and John brought newborn Beatrice Kathleen home from the hospital to their Manhattan apartment on Saturday.

Here's a collection of the photos we've seen so far of our newest family member.

Genevieve, John have a baby daughter!

Genevieve and John welcomed their daughter into the world on Wednesday night.

John writes: "I'm overjoyed to tell you that our daughter, Beatrice Kathleen, was born at Mount Sinai Hospital on March 4, 2015 at 7:20 p.m., weighing 8 pounds 8 ounces.

"Mother and daughter are well, but are very sleepy. We are looking forward to introducing her to all of you."