Christie's Surgery is Over

Hey all. Just wanted to update everyone that Chris' surgery is finally over. She went to pre-op and 11:15am and they finally took her to her room about 3:45p.

The Dr called down to us at halfway through her surgery to tell us that the tumor was not cancer..thank god! He came down to the waiting area about 2 and told us that the surgery went well and there was little bleeding. He did tell us that she had endometriosis really really bad so he had to do a full hysterectomy and take both ovaries. The endometriosis had passed through the wall and had started in her colon. He will not do any type of hormone therapy for at least 2 months so that it can heal in the colon and go away.

She was really out of it all day and slept most of it. Our son in law, Dusty is staying with her tonight, so Mac and I went back to their house to try to get some rest. We will relieve him in the morning.

Well, I need to get off and get to bed. Just wanted to update everyone that the surgery was successful and no Cancer.

Thanks so much for all your thoughts and prayers! You guys are the best!!

Try to catch you in chat tomorrow night.





Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Off To Amarillo

Well we will be off to Amarillo, Tx tomorrow morning. One of our daughters will be having surgery and we want to be there with her and our son in law. We will be gone until Sunday, August 31st unless there are any complications. Hopefully she will do fine. Chris just turned 33 in July and is very outgoing so she should bounce back pretty good.

This is their house in Amarillo.

This is Chris

And this is Dusty and Chris at Texas Motor Speedway with us a couple of years ago.

Our trip will take us about 8-8 1/2 hours to get there. We will be stopping in Oklahoma City at Camping World to pick up a few things we are needing for our RV. Probably more than we need, but that usually happens when we go there. lol

We are still slowly sorting a packing things up. I have finally decided that I am not going to be able to keep all of this stuff, so I am packing more and more to sell. I just seems kinda weird that it took us all these years to accumulate all these things and only a couple of months to get rid of them.

Here are a few more photos of some of our other grandkids...

This is Morrissey...

This is Jordan and date at Prom this year

And this last one was taken a few months ago..but this is Mac with our great granddaughter, Jaelynn...trying to nap

Well have a safe one everybody. I will keep you all posted on Chris' condition. Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers...you are the best!!

Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.

Dreaming of our RV

We will be going to a Fall RV show at the Kansas Speedway September 13-14th. We hope they have another Augusta for us to look at again.

We are looking at a Heartland Landmark Augusta 5th wheel. We love the floorplan and the tons of storage. I think I am in love with the kitchen.

Has great counter space and residential size cabinets. I'm not crazy about the furniture be we are thinking about buying it without sofa and recliners and putting in what we want. Here's a couple photos of the kitchen....love it! The photos don't show it, but there is a corian top for the stove also..so there is tons of counter space.

and here's a link to some more photos.

http://www.heartlandrvs.com/product.html?id=1&name=Landmark&type=Luxury+Fifth+Wheels&section=gallery

Here are some photos of some of our other grandkids. This is Kami. She will be a Junior at Ft Hays State this year. We are so proud of her.

This is a photo of Ryan, Jaden and Samantha.

Here is Kyle.

And here are their parents. Lynnie and Teri. They live in Kingman, KS.

Lynnie works for a Gas Company and Teri is a Para at the Elementary school in Kingman.

I have found the number of a few Estate Sale Companies and will try calling them sometime this week to see what services they offer. I have been told that they will come and pick up everything and even price it and then they take a percentage of the sales. That would be so much easier on me...lol

I am amazed everyday at all the things we have accumulated over the years. There are things in the basement that are still in boxes that have never been opened since we moved into this house in 1993..ya think I could get rid of those??

Here is another tile...

and another image ready to cut.

Well it is time to get off here and get ready for another work day...I'll be so happy when I don't have to say that anymore!

Life isn't measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away...

Sorting and Vinyls

Not much happening this week. Lots of work and sinus headaches. No fun.

Our daughter that lives in Amarillo, TX is going to have major surgery the end of the month and we will be traveling there to be with her and her husband, and to help her when she gets home from the hospital. Send some thoughts and prayers her way.

It rained all day Saturday and with a sinus migraine, the rain made it more depressing. Had Mac go and do mom's grocery shopping for her. He is such a nice guy....

Here's a photo out our front door. Pretty dreary.

Sunday was a day of catch up. Did laundry, and sorted through some more stuff to get rid of. I'm not sure I'll ever get all this stuff gone through. I never realized that we had so much stuff in house. I think I'm gonna make a list of things we want to keep for the RV and just shut my eyes and put everything else in boxes to get rid of. This is taking a lot longer than I thought it would.

Sunday we got up late and watched the NASCAR race. I sat in front of the TV and worked on some vinyl projects while the race was on. I haven't gotten them cut but will show some photos of what they will look like.

I'll post more photos when I get them cut and on the signs or tiles.

We were too lazy to make supper, so I just cooked some Zucchini and we had that.

Well it's about time to get things together for work tomorrow.

Life isn't measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.

Working on Vinyl Project

Just a short note today. I worked on a project for our spare tire cover for our RV. Dee and I chatted about it last night. Below is what it will look like after I adhere it to the cover. It is about 22-1/2" wide and 17-1/2" tall.
Well, that's it for today..too tired from having my granddaughters last night and all day today.

Taking the girls shopping...

Man am I tired...taking those 3 girls shopping is like running a marathon. Whew..anyhow we got all their school supplies purchased. I can't believe how expensive those things are now. We bought everyhing on sale and still spent about $130. 00 for pencils, paper notebooks, and etc.


We went out to lunch. Haven't taken them to lunch for awhile and it was fun. When we got home we sorted everything so they all could put their stuff in their new backpacks. I could barely see the family room floor. lol

Then we settled in and watched a movie. It was the Spiderwick Chronicles. It is supposed to be a family film, but it had a little more violence in it than I thought.

The girls are spending the night with us tonight and they are going to help me pack up some things in my office tomorrow. It's been nice spending time with them today.

I have enclosed some more photos of the vinyl projects that I make. Hope you like them.

These photos are for Jenny..Here are a few interior views of the TT we have now and are getting ready to put on Craig's List after we use it to go to the NASCAR races in Kansas City in September.

Well, I'm going to get off here and jump on the chat for awhile before going to bed.

Life isn't measured by how many breaths we take, but the moments that take our breath away.

It's Friday

Well it's Friday and 2 whole days off. Yea! I'm going to take 3 of my granddaughters school shopping. Decided to buy them their school supplies this year.

This is Justyce.






This is Glori
And here's another one of Natalie.


Saturday and Sunday I will go back to packing and sorting. Just about ready to paint another room...

Here are some of the tiles that I make with the vinyl lettering. I will try to post more projects when I have time.





Well that's about all for today.