Cassidy, Age 10
Lund, Age 9
Sarah, Age 6
Will, Age 3 Today was a bit of a worrisome one for me. I had an MRI on Thursday of last week and they said that they would let me know by Monday the results. They said that the MRI would show how far the cancer had spread and if it is in my lymphnodes. Here is the result I got back today... One of my lymphnodes has "abnormal activity". What does that mean??? Is it walking backwards while the others are marching forward??? Come on, what does "abnormal activity" really mean???? I guess I will have to wait and see. We are hoping that the surgeon and oncologist can tell us a little more on Wednesday when we are in their offices. I guess we will wait some more...(I have a feeling this is a trend that I am going to have to get used to)
Tonight we had some wonderful family time playing "Charades for Kids". We had a blast playing boys versus girls since the numbers are even that way. And wouldn't you know it? Those boys just barely beat us!! After the game was over, we got out a punching balloon for everyone in the family and had a grand 'ole time. These are the memories I hold close to my heart.... just the fun family moments on a Sunday evening....
here are the girls with their balloons...
And here are those silly boys as well. Good luck blowing that up Will!
And looky here!! No need to spend thousands of dollars on a fancy reconstruction. You can get these babies at the dollar store. The kids thought they were soooo funny with this one!!!! This is just the kind of jokes you have to be willing to put up with in my boat...And frankly, you have to be able to laugh at yourself and let others (your children mainly) see you joking this way!
I think she is going to have twins any minute!!! What a beautiful smile!!! She was sooooo proud of herself!!!
Sarah also drew a face on her balloon! She draws the cutest stuff!!!!
And this is such a cute story... Morgan and I try to go on short walks every evening and Will ran up to us tonight before we went and said... "o.k. I am ready.. I want to go with you! I even have shoes on!!" This is such a cute memory... Those are Lund's shoes, his Bob the Builder toolbelt, and of course underwear. And he thought he was ready to conquer the world!!
Yesterday my parents came all the way up from the Valley (3-hours away), to get their H1N1 (swine flu) shot! They have tried to get it in the Valley, but the lines are just too long, there seems to be a shortage there. The Bagdad Clinic has been EXTREMELY great to work with and they came down on a Saturday to let them get their shots. What a blessing!!
It is important that they have it because while I am in chemo and while I am recovering from surgery, my immune system will be extremely low so those around me have to get immunized. On Friday, we also marched all the kids over to the clinic and they got their swine mists as well. Hopefully, we will have a relatively healthy winter this year!!
I just got home from the church. We had a busy schedule today because we had our 3-hour block and then we had potluck (yummy) and then right after the potluck we had FOUR baptisms!!! Can you beat that????!!!! One baptism was an 8-year-old member in the ward and the rest were convert baptisms... Yea Bagdad Ward!!!!!!! 
Ralph and Gage Dominguez (an 11-year-old convert)
John and Ruth Sacretto (a convert couple) with Thor Anderson (helped with thier conversion)
Go Hillside Hotshots!!!!!
Cassidy and Lund had their final volleyball game on Friday. It was a tournament and Morgan came along as well. We really enjoyed rooting for our kiddos, and they did a TREMENDOUS job playing their little hearts out. They only had 6 kids on the team so they all had to play the whole time. One of the funny moments was when the ball hit Lund on the head and he kind of looked around and then said, "oh well!" and kept on playing. Cassidy was also hit on the head and when the kids kept playing the referee blew his whistle and said, "you can't hit it off your head." (as if she planned it! He!He!)
Cassidy serving it up!!
They played right next to each other...
She's a serious ball player!
Lund getting ready for the ball.This was the cutest thing! The Relief Society President brought these masks over for Morgan and I and the card said, "just in case you get sick of all the questions, you can wear these masks so no one will recognize you!". Ha! Ha!! I think we might get a little too much attention wearing these masks, but it was such a sweet thought from such a sweet lady! Thanks Roberta!!! 
Then Will said, "oh, we are wearing masks now?" and put his Batman mask on. But he would take it off every once in a while and say, "It's just me, Will!" (in case we got confused!)
