Time alone with my Camera

Tuesday night, Kyle and I were going to mutual. I had to stop first at one of my girls houses because she had surgery Monday, and I wanted to visit her and see how she was doing. (for those of you who know the YW in my ward, it was Suzy, she fainted at a Jack Johnson concert...not because it was Jack Johnson, but because she hadn't eaten all day and that combined with waiting in the sun to enter the amphitheater, she fainted and broke her cheek. Everything is okay now, the surgery went well). I was inside for probably 15 minutes. When I came out, I apologized to Kyle that it took me so long, and he told me he was fine, he had found a way to entertain himself. This morning, I discovered, on my camera, what he was doing for entertainment. The picture in the middle is my favorite.

What a Goober!

Photography

I just wanted to share a picture that Kyle took for his Photography class. It's a picture of the sun behind the clouds...he used his sunglasses over the lens of the camera to change the light. I thought it was pretty cool.

First Day of School

That's right, starting today all of my kids are in school!

The older kids started last week, so this morning when I was taking a picture of all the kids on "their first day of school", Kylee made sure to tell me that this is her 6th day of school. Samantha was so excited to start kindergarten, all last week she carried her back pack every where we went...and yesterday she told everyone that she was "starting school tomorrow." I'm so excited for her and also for myself. I don't know what I will do with several hours a day all to myself. Actually I know exactly what I'll be doing, and school would probably be more fun.

Samantha made this hat today at school. She had a good first day

Fun in the sun in St. George

The week before school started, I took my girls and Ashlee and Sadie's friend Danielle down to St. George. We had such a fun time, in fact, we had such a good time that I didn't take very many pictures, and I'm sure Jennifer is going to let me have it.

Thanks to my mom, who is so much fun, the girls had a watermelon eating contest and played with water balloons. We also went and finished our school shopping, Danielle did make-overs on all the girls, we went to this little area in Kayenta where they have sculptures and a rock maze that the kids love, and of course, we spent most of the time swimming. The girls swam all day, and then would go out at night so they could watch the bats swoop down to the pool and drink water. We had a great time, and as you can tell in a few of the pictures, we especially wore out Ashlee, Sadie and Kylee.

I was even able to relax, and thanks to Marsha I am now a fan of Arrested Development. Mom and Dad, thanks for the great time.

Test Results........Finally

Why did it take so long to find out about my test? The reason is because I am a slacker. Not about everything, but pretty much I'm a slacker about all things "ME". I am not very good at taking my medicine, so back in May when I was supposed to get my blood test, I had to admit to the doctor that I had not been taking my Synthroid regularly. Those of you on Synthroid probably wonder how I could forget to take such an important medicine....I'm a slacker, no good reason. However, it doesn't help me improve when I call my doctors office and tell them I haven't been taking my medicine, so they load me up on free samples. I'm almost like a child who whines and whines until you give them what they want, except in my case, I don't take my medicine and then my doctor provides me with several months worth of free samples, it makes it difficult to learn.

Anyway, yesterday after taking my medicine faithfully for 2 months, I had my blood test. And today I found out that Everything is good. My Thyroglobulin is not even detectable. Great News!! That means, that my doctor is as fabulous as I thought, he was able to get all the cancer with my last surgery. So I am now back to yearly blood tests, which is a huge relief, since I don't have insurance.

Through this whole experience, I have had so much support. I've had family (of course) and friends, neighbors and even people I don't know offer words of encouragement. One of my friends even went on the "iodine free" diet with me during the holidays when I could only eat vegetables. Friends and Family who put so much time and effort into my fund raiser, and I don't even know how to thank everyone. It's such a relief to know that in times of need I have so many people there to help.