Once again, I can't believe it's been over a month since I wrote on this blog. I should be ashamed of myself!!!! I am. I've been busy. I've had Herceptin a couple of times, a measurement on my little cancerous area under my clavicle, done a lot toward Relay for Life, loved my family, loved my God, loved my friends. Yes, I have a resistant area under my clavicle that is being hard to get rid of. I'm on the Herceptin and now changing my diet to help in fighting the cancer and getting rid of it. I'm eating many more veggies per day and week and also more fruits daily and weekly. Whole grains, cutting down on sugar and sweetners. I'm doing well and I'm losing weight. I'm enjoying time with everyone I know and love. We had a nice Valentine's yesterday. We ate dinner with Kimberly and then went to a hockey game. A lot is going on with Relay for Life-getting our church team started, trying to fundraise, enjoying life as God gives it to me.

I hope you all have a blessed week. We are showing the movie Courageous on Saturday evening at church. If you live around me and haven't seen the movie, come to our church. It starts at 6pm and we're having a snack bar with hot dogs, nacho's, etc. God Bless You all!!!!

Boy how the time has flown by!!!! I last wrote in July and now it's August 8th. Let's see, from the last time I wrote I've traveled about 3000 miles!!!! We went to Chicago-driving !!! Kimberly, Zachary, Sadie, Caleb, Caitlyn, Clayton-my brother, Freddie-caregiver, and me. Bryan flew up a few days later. Everyone was SOOOO good!!! We had a great time and the kids got to meet all their cousins that they had never met before. They had such a great time catching frogs, chasing animals, etc. My brother has a pond and 8 1/2 acres and I think they covered most of it in the days that we were there. I got back from Chicago, and then left for New Orleans to be with my brother for an angiogram. It went well and we will probably only have a minimally invasive heart procedure. Praise the Lord. Got back on Sunday night and left Monday morning for Texoma to be with some friends at their timeshare for a few days. We also went up to Turner Falls for the day. I'm going to try and go back one more time before the kids go back. They really had a great time. I have my next PET scan on Wed. and will have the results by next Tuesday. Then I have my mammogram and visit with my breast surgeon. I'm wondering about where we go from here as far as my treatments go. I feel the PET is clear and clean, I'm just curious about what we do from here-if anything. I'm so loving my new church. Our VBS was totally wonderful. I'd LOVE to have you visit my church even by internet. The site is www.cbclucas.org. We have a video ministry and you can sign up for free and watch our sermons online. We have people from all over the world that watch. Even soldiers in Afganistan, Iraq, etc. Check it out. I'm going to go-oh by the way-pray for my PET scan please, results and then also remember our doggie, Duchess. She again has more cancer that is going to be removed Friday. She got groomed today by a friend that is just getting into the trade and she did an incredible job!!!! Thank you so much Helen. If your dog needs grooming, let me know and I'll pass on her phone number. Love ya'll!!!

Hello everyone, Well, can't sleep so I thought I'd just update my blog. As of last blog, the tests were all done and I was waiting on results. Well, let me back up a little. Friday evening, we didn't get to go to the rodeo. Caleb fell and broke his wrist-a buckle fracture. He was so very brave in ER and on Monday, he got a blue cast with a red stripe. That's exactly what he wanted. The Dr. had him supervise putting it on. He (Caleb) is so sweet. Do you know they have been praying about this cancer. God is so sweet. Anyway, he can still swim so he was thrilled to death. In fact, he went yesterday afternoon!!! Anyway, moving on. The results are in-glad finally but I've just been waiting on the Lord. There is no cancer in my abdomen. There is a little cancer in my sternum, Dr. Laidley will be removing the cancerous lymph node on the right along with a few others to check them. They haven't "staged" the cancer yet, so that will happen. The lymph node on the left may come out too. I will have chemo in order to kill the cells in the sternum. How can my witness be real effective if I don't go through all the stages of cancer- like chemo? I have to be able to empathize with others. Anyway, surgery is supposed to be next week so I'll keep everyone posted.

My brother crossed the gulf today heading back from Key West. It was a long day for him and the dog, I'm sure. He doesn't want to be around for any storms that maybe heading across the Atlantic-like Colin. I'm glad he's closer. Keep him in your prayers as he travels west.

We're taking the kids to the circus I think on Saturday. They don't know it yet. We'll ride DART and go to the American Airlines Center. Should be fun. Zachary, I'm sure, will be amazed.

Tonight we went to the Purple Cow and watched outside the water/music/light show. It was enjoyable and then we went and had ice cream. Everyone's asleep but me!!! (and the others out driving on the road).

With it being so late, I hope the raccoon comes to check out the feeders. I keep watching for him/her. They are so much fun to watch.

Caitlyn and Caleb both baked a cake in Caitlyn's easy bake oven. It was a fun-fetti cake and they iced them. They turned out really good. That machine is amazing-who would have ever thought that you could bake a cake using a powerful light bulb! Caitlyn wants to make the pretzels next. She loves to cook with me and I'm so glad she does. Well, gonna try and get some sleep so you all sleep well also.

Dear All, Well, the results were not good for me today. I have breast cancer again. This time it's on the right side and it's in a node. I don't know anything else at this time except I have to have a full body MRI and some CT scans. Just keep me in your prayers. I'm so thankful that my grandchildren are here to keep my mind off "the bad stuff". Thank You Jesus for them!!! All my love and just pray for me.

Good afternoon everyone, Well, we've been gone again. I haven't put the pictures onto the computer yet so you'll just have to wait. Kimberly, Zachary, Caleb, Caitlyn, and I went to Branson and had an absolute ball!! It was a HOT ball but we had fun anyway. Went to Silver Dollar City, Dixie Stampede, and a bunch of other stuff. I'll post pictures when I can later on. We're celebrating Les' birthday this evening!!! Caitlyn is working on a birthday card for him. Caleb and Caitlyn sure do love Uncle Les. He is so special to them and they are special to him also. He sure missed us all while we were gone. Well, not much more happening right now so we'll talk later.

Okay you all, twice in 2 days!! I'm posting. I'm so excited that we got Caleb AND Caitlyn's "code" for their pictures in Maryland playing sports. The man at the place where we ordered Caleb's kindly looked Caitlyn's up for me. Thank you group photographers for doing that. We appreciate it very much. They aren't the best looking yet as they copies of copies but that'll do until we get the real thing. We have a little over 2 weeks before they come for the summer. We're so excited and so are they. We have ALOT planned even though their letters didn't come back that we asked them to fill out, which they did. It was a letter to each of them, letting us know what kind of things they'd like to do over the summer. We were told they were mailed, but haven't made it. Anyway, we don't need letters to tell us what our grandchildren enjoy!!! Hope you like their pictures. By the way, Zachary is "Officially" walking now all by himself! Hard to believe he's growing so fast. Anyway, just wanted to post Caleb and Caitlyns pictures.

I know, I know, it's been AGES since I wrote!!!! Sorry to you all. It's a beautiful day here on the acre and I've been enjoying it alot. I planted 3 knock-out rose bushes this morning. Everything is blooming so beautifully. Bryan is feeling so much better than he was over the last 2 weeks. He had a bad sinus infection and he's finally better. Even Duchess' allergies have been bad. She's on medication to. The kids' fort/swingset is all finished except for water proofing. I did a little patch this afternoon to see how it dries and what it looks like. We are excited for Kimberly. She is starting her own Pampered Chef business and she and I are going to start a candle business with difusers, sprays, etc. It's called AngeLove. We are excited about that too. The kids will be here 2 months from today!!!! Yeah!!!! We are working "on their list" of to-do's for the summer. Vacation, swimming, other excitement. Christopher is really liking his new job and we are so happy for him. He's doing well and looking forward to the summer with his children. We miss them so much. Bryan and I are going to Florida-to the keys in May to see my brother Larry again. He's on his boat and it's so nice to get away for a few days. We're excited about that. I'm hoping that my brother Wayne will join us for a couple of days. We'll see. Relay for Life is in 1 1/2 weeks and we're looking forward to that. Should be fun going out there in McKinney for the Survivor lap!!! Well, gonna get going for now so take care, God Bless, and talk to Jesus!!!

ATTENTION TO EVERYONE, Someone hijacked my yahoo mail address book and I have NO addresses in it!!! I have tried to write to everyone from my Mac to let them know to change your password so you won't get caught too. I'm making some changes to my accts. so if you have trouble with any of my stuff, you know where I live and you have my phone numbers. By the way, the letter said to send money so if you still want to send it, send it to my home address!!! hahahaha

This is my brother Larry who had a tremendous life change a few months back. Jesus brought him a new life in Him!! Praise the Lord. Bryan and I are going to the Bahamas to see him when he gets there. I love you big brother.
This is Clayton and his new 1st little grandson!!! His name is Nathan and my brother is Clayton. Many of you know of Clayton-he's the youngest of the brothers. Still older than me though.
Zachary was Mickey Mouse for Halloween. We were at a church for their fall festival.
Here are the "children" in bed taking their naps!!!!
Zachary was enjoying the lovely ladies at the saloon show at Silver Dollar City!!!
Hello everyone, I know, I know, it's been a long time since I wrote. Sorry about that. We were gone for several days to Branson. We needed to get away. We're home now but I leave again on Thursday morning to go to "The House of Mouse" in Orlando with a great longtime friend and working associate of mine. We're excited. I've never done this before. We're gone from Thursday til the next Tuesday. Cheryl has got all kinds of things planned for us!! I'm looking forward to it. She's planned the trip and all I have to do is go and have fun. That's different because I'm always the one planning the trips so it is truly a vacation for me. I have to look at all the interesting pictures I've gotten recently and add a few to the page. Duchess is doing great. Right now she is licking my leg/knee. She LOVES ME!! Caleb, Caitlyn, Zachary are doing well also. Can't wait to see the kids next month-Caleb and Caitlyn that is. I've almost gotten all their pictures ready to send to them. Just have to do it. Oh Christopher... Not much else new and exciting going on so I'll close for now and look at the pictures and then add more thoughts as I go.