Update on things going on

Hey everyone,

Well I have had quite a past few days. We went camping at Bartlett Lake for little Kenny’s 8th birthday and it was a great time. Yesterday I was sitting here at work just doing my thing when the door to the office opened and I almost fell over! It was my ex husband, his wife, their new son and my Will! I was so excited I had not seen my son in almost 2 months and did not plan on seeing him until Thursday night. It was such a wonderful surprise. Will had the day off school and they had stuff to do in the valley that they cannot in Show Low, like Costsco, Fry’s electronics etc. So on a whim they came down. I did not tell Kenny when I got home, I just told him I was taking him on a “date” to Long John Silver’s, his face when we walked in and he saw all of them was great! He had not met his baby brother Shay yet, so that was really cool. Bill’s mom came to dinner and it was great seeing her also.

I had some bad news yesterday, too. Todd’s dad had a small mass removed about 2 weeks ago from where his feeding tube had been, it is cancer. They also determined he has a cancerous tumor in his groin and on the back of his head. He has been waiting over a week now for the insurance company to approve a CAT scan so we can find out how much it has spread, but I do not think it is good if the cancer that started in his esophagus is now causing a mass in his abdominal area and tumors in his groin and on the back of his head. I just burst into tears, I love that man so much and it is a very difficult time. Todd’s mom had major surgery on her foot a week ago and cannot walk or anything. We are spending this weekend in Forest Lakes (between Payson and Heber) with my boss and his wife, my boss’s son (who I work with also) and his family. We were planning on going up Friday and getting William from dad and taking him with us. But in light of all this we decided to take Thursday off also. We will drive up early Thursday morning to Payson and spend the day there, then go get Will ( we will meet in Heber) come back and spend the night with Todd’s parents. The cabin my boss got for us for the weekend does not allow check in until 3:00pm so we will have most of the day Friday with them also.

Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers if you can. I would certainly appreciate it. Tomorrow is Todd’s birthday, so we will celebrate that also. Tonight we have Todd’s catechism class and then tomorrow night is Kenny’s. They needed someone to teach the 5th grade class so I will be doing that J I volunteered and Todd is my teacher’s aide so it should be fun! Love to all and will post again when I can! Oh and I have a ton of new pictures from birthday parties, camping, miscellaneous sill pictures etc on my yahoo photos which can be found at http://photos.yahoo.com/irish_angel72