My Girls

Thinking good thoughts!!

Well we found out that yes in fact my sweet little Melinda does have cancer of her thyroid. It sounds so scarey especially when you say it. When she called I felt a bit of shock, then fear, and then tears.

We still do not have a lot of answers as of yet. She sees a surgeon on Tuesday. There are so many questions, and Melinda is so on top of things and organized that she has a pad of paper with a list of questions that she keeps adding too.

Last evening after attending the womans conference we met up with Janae my #3 daughter and we had a girls day. We went and had dinner then of all places went to Wal-mart. I love my kids, I wish Kevin was here too.

I watched as my 3 daughters laughed and shared memories, thoughts and when they were not looking I said a silent prayer, in Thanks for being able to be their mother and to see the freindships and love that they have for each other.

That is all for today!

The Journey which lies ahead

This is my #2 daughter Melinda. Isn't she beautiful? We are all waiting to hear what the Doctors found with the biopsy they performed on her this last wednesday.

They found a lump on her thyroid and did an ultra sound and also found another one on the other side that they said had them worried. I think the unknown is harder than actually knowing what her journey will be.

Melinda has always shown such strength. When she was in high school I bet her $100. if she stayed away from sugar for 1 year. I seriously did not think she took me serious. Well she not only took me serious but actually found creative ways to accomplish this goal (sugar free candies she could suck on). I was amazed at her strength, when we had family parties she was fine not indulging in the sweet treats. I remember even saying, "You are so strong, I don't know how you are doing this" I even offered that she could have a sweet treat and we would still call it good.

There was no way-she was determined and she did it!! She won the $100.

I have seen her strength and the power of self control she has when she sets her mind to do something. This will be no different. What ever the outcome she will win and fight and beat what ever lies ahead of her, and she will be supported by everyone that loves her.

She is an important part of our family her brother and sisters look up to her. Melinda is always there for any of us, she is honest, a great friend, and listener, an amazing mom, sister and daughter.

Melinda we love you!!!

Grand kids....you gotta love em!!!!

I had so much fun going to Ausitn and Spencers soccer game. They played so well, I was screaming and yelling and not even hardly talking to Angelee (which is hard not to do as she is so fun to talk with) But the boys were on fire!!!! Making goals and blocking kicks, passing the ball, getting inbetween the opposing team and taking off with the ball. It was such fun!

They were all in their team huddle. Oh and their Dad is one of the coaches. I love that.

And I only got 10 misquito bites during the whole game. It started getting dark and Doug and I could hardly tell who was who. Rather than say, "Go Austin" or "Way to go Spencer" We decided "Go green" was good enough.

Guess what it is?

I just want to see how many of you that are reading can identify what the heck this is?



I will wait a few days and then I will tell you.

Have Fun!!!!

updates updates updates

I thought that it has been a while since I posted anything. My foot surgery was a bit more than I had expected. I will try and update you all as this is the big thing in my life right now that I am learning from. This is me the morning we were leaving the house to go to the hospital...hmmm...I look pretty happy for having not eaten anything for hours and hours....I love breakfast, yep Doug and I both get up at 4am shhhhhhhhhhh I know it is not normal. But first thing I have to eat. Yum Yum!!



This next picture we took to try and give us an idea of exactly what my bunion really did look like. If you look real close you can see they wrote on my foot with a purple magic marker the word YES so they would make sure to cut on the right foot.

Hey what is up with this I am still smiling....we had to wait a while for dr. Anderson to get to the hospital. It wouldn't be long now and I will wake up with No more bunion. Little did I realize that this was going to be a bit of a journey.

Doug took such good care of me while I have been recovering he brought me a pear all cut in pretty slices with cottage cheese in the middle. I was trying to hobble out of bed to get the camera, he did not understand what i was doing or saying, he thought the drugs had gotten the best of me. I just wanted to get a picture I thought this was so nice. I love him, he is my best friend.

This is what it looks like as of yesterday afternoon. the stitches have come out and for some odd reason I thought I would be back to my normal activity, but alas it is not so. I have exercises I am to be doing...dugh! they don't seem like much but it was painful putting pressure on my foot. I am being optimistic and I will be walking like normal real soon. I really can't wait this has been much too long for me to just sit and lye down. I guess I am to be learning something from this experience.