This blog is in honor of my sister. I can't find the words to say how much I love and admire this woman. She has just been diagnosed with breast cancer, but that's not what I want everyone to know about her, there is so much more!
First, she is my oldest sister, and my best friend. She is a wife to her husband, a mother to her 3 beautiful children, a friend to everyone she meets. She is the strongest woman I know, she is a fighter. Even though she has this cancer, she will fight it! As her oldest son says and it has kind of become our families motto, "we're going to kick cancer's butt"! And she will, and we will be with her every step of the way! This is a strong woman, and I am so thankful that she is my sister.
I have been able to come back to Utah to spend some time with my sister, and I can't say how grateful I am to be able to be here with her at this time. I know I won't be able to be here for everything, but I want her to know I am always with her. I love you Shauna!
We have set up a blog to keep everyone updated. The blog is http://www.teamshauna.blogspot.com/ if you want to take a look and see how's she's doing and it is also full of great info on breast cancer. Please keep her and her family in your prayers! Thank you
Nate and his fellow anesthesia residents have been so excited to have a week of class...no call, no late or early hours, no 80 work weeks, just mindless class! Well, there is a reason these crazy boys shouldn't have a lot of down time, when they do they (Nate) come up with some not so intelligent ideas! Like say, let's go wheeling on our lunch break!.......
Nate had me come with Rover to "pull it out really quick ". We pulled up to see Chris's brand new jeep stuck in mud, a 1/4 inch a way from a tree, and stuck on a very large boulder!
Now the Rover is stuck in mud, and on a very large boulder.....
They got our car out, then said they famous words we heard come from Nate's mouth too many times, "we'll drive it right up here, then pull it right out--it will be easy!"
Here is Chase in action! He just gets more fun everyday! He loves to jump, and keeps jumping when he gets tired, so he rests his little head and nearly falls asleep! He is such a little ham! We are so in love with our little guy!
Thanks Tim and Kim for letting us use your video camera!!! You guys rock! And I promise I will practice holding the camera still next time!:)
I really shouldn't complain, life is pretty good...but I'm going to anyways. SO, let me just start with saying what a HUGE pain it is to move to a different state. The fun just never ends. For anyone who thought the DMV was bad in Utah, you should really try going to the DMV in Vermont! Or should I say the mobile DMV that comes one day every other week! Then when you can finally go, you have to bring every paper you can imagine to prove that you are the owner of that car, oh and proof that you actually live here and aren't just trying to register your car in Vermont for the fun of it! So that is still a work in progress. One car down, and the other I have gone THREE different times and still have not left with successfully registering my car.
NEXT, why do your cars both have to break and one of your tires literally blow up on the interstate in the same week? I don't know either but that is what has been happening to us. So we have been trying to get both cars fixed and new tires on one and to make that even more of a pain, one of the new tires keeps losing air.
All and all I have spent way too much time in these shady little garages they call "tire stores" and am beginning to think I don't really need a car anymore--they're really not worth the stress!
So my lovely husband asks me "Di, do you want to go for a hike with the VanBiber's Monday, it's really more of a walk than a hike?" My response was of course "Sure!" So we set off for this "walk/hike" Monday morning with 5 other families in our ward and their children. I was still thinking how bad could it be, they have their 3 year olds here! Well, either I'm a really wimpy 25 year old, or these 3 year olds were unnaturally strong! This ended up being a really tough hike that was literally straight up the mountain the entire time! I feel like an old women tonight as I am stiffening up and unable to move. It still ended up being a lot of fun and a good memory, since I really never plan on doing that hike again!:)
Chase tried his backpack for the first time today! He is still a little too small so we stuffed a blanket around him to keep nice and snug! I don't know who loved it more, Chase or Nate?
