My life changed dramatically on Mother's Day 2013. Three days later I was diagnosed with cancer from my physician. This blog was made to keep my family and friends informed to what has been happening to me the past few weeks. When I find out news from different Doctor's through all of the procedures I have had, so many of you have wanted me to text, email, call, or someway contact you. It humbles me how many of you are concerned. Sometimes I forget to contact some of you. This way, you can stay in touch with what is happening now. Please feel free to comment. I hope I have it set up so you can. If not, I will ask Emily my daughter to help me, since she helped me get this set up.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

My Talk In Sacrament Meeting

The bishop asked me to speak in Sacrament meeting last Sunday on how the priesthood has influenced my life. I was actually very happy to speak on that subject since as of late I have  had more priesthood blessings than normal. I am so grateful for the power of the priesthood .  I feel it and am comforted. As happy as I am with our new kitchen, I am more grateful I have an honorable priesthood holder in my home. Life is good!

Monday, March 24, 2014

Old kitchen....VS......New Kitchen




 







Above is pictures of our old kitchen.  Below is our new Kitchen.
 
 
 




 
 


 I never ever expected it to be so beautiful.  Thank you to all who helped to make it like this.  Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
(We haven't brought the table in yet.)

Friday, March 14, 2014

Vacation in Southern Carribean

This past two weeks have been so much fun.  We went to the Southern Carribean out of San Juan and went to St. Thomas, St. John, Barbados, ST LUCIA, St. Kitts, and St. Marten.  The main place I was excited to see, is evident! St.Lucia.  If you have followed my blog, I had a port put in  my chest back in June to be able to hook up my chemo to.  I ended up being able to have my chemo through a pill, and haven't utilized my port other than to have it accessed every six weeks to clean it out.  My niece said I should give it a name, which made me laugh.  I decided since it was a port, I would name it my favorite "port" which is definitely St.Lucia.  So when we went to St. Lucia last week,  I introduced my "Lucy", to her name sake, St. Lucia.  I have always thought of St. Lucia as what Heaven would be like.  On our water tour around the island, I was talking to a sweet 20 year old St. Lucian young lady, and I told her heaven would look like this island.  She very quickly answered me with the best comment ever.  "Heaven is going to be ever so much better than St. Lucia".  I feel so lucky to have been able to go back again.

We got back Monday night, and when we came in the house, there were welcome home flowers and balloons and my new drawers in my kitchen were filled with plastic black ants and rubber mice!  Oh yay!  It was pretty funny!

On our vacation, I had some rough days.  Kim gave me a blessing one night, and many other prayers were given for different difficulties I had.  One morning, we had just started a tour on Barbados, and I got very ill. I knew there was something I could do to help the pain, but didn't know what.  I silently prayed,  and said that I knew HE knew what I could do for me to help myself.  Please help me to know.  The second I finished, I was told to drink some of my bottled water.  I did, and I was able to feel so  much better within a minute. I ended up in the onboard doctors office one day from an ear ache but my bad times were so minute to the great time I had on our vacation. I found out that my skin reacts to sun much differently than before chemo. I would get red blotches from the sun in weird places.

While we were gone, our kitchen was finished.  The day after we were home, our appliances arrived and now I am busy putting things away in my cabinets.  I feel like I am having Christmas times 10!