Scouting For Food

Garret is now a Boy Scout so he got to go and help pick up the food for scouting for food.  (The cub scouts drop off the bags the week before and then the scouts go the next week and pick it up.)

YW Evening in Excellence

I was in charge of YW Evening in Excellence.  We had a speaker (my mom, she said she was bored so I asked her to speak), sang a song, and the girls shared a goal they had accomplished and what they had learned from it. 

Michelle's Bowel Obstruction

Poor Michelle is back in the hospital.  She had her 1st massive abdominal surgery on June 27th (the day Tanner left for his mission). She had a huge cyst on her ovary.  They found that it was cancerous so she had her uterus and ovaries removed.  Then she had a hard time finding a Dr. that knew how to treat her.  She finally found Dr. Holbrook. He told her that she should do this HIPEC surgery where they open her back up and look at all the organs in her abdomen and take off anything that looks suspicious at all.  Then they run a high temperature liquid chemo through her abdominal cavity for 90 minutes to hopefully kill any cancer that is left.  She had this surgery done on September 17th.  Right before she went to surgery, she also got a bowel obstruction.  It turned out that she had some adhesions on her bowel that they were able to remove which alleviated the obstruction.  They looked at everything and found very little signs of cancer and did the HIPEC.  She was recovering nicely and looking forward to her family trip to Hawaii the day after Thanksgiving, when she got another bowel obstruction.  They had to go in and cut her open for the 3rd time in 4 months on November 5th.  She bowel had gotten wrapped around her ostomy. Luckily it hadn't died and they just unwound it and didn't have to resect it.  But she was still in the hospital for a week and in tons of pain.  She is such a fighter and so positive.  She is definitely a survivor.  I took Ike down to the hospital to see her and he brought Bunker Bear with him.  (Bunker Bear is from teacher Barbara and the kids get to take him home and write down what they did with him.)

Garret's Ziggurat

Garret had to make a Ziggurat for his history class. His Ziggurat motto was "Reach for the Gods".

Sadie Gets Baptized

Sadie got baptized today. It was a super special day to be there with her. 

We went to Shari's for dinner afterwards. Cody, Nixon, and Garret loved their root beer.

Bowling

Ryan and his family came up for Sadie's baptism and we went bowling. (Me, Ryan, Angela, Grammy, Katie, Garret, Brandon, Kathleen and Cody)

 Garret and his silly bowling moves.

 Katie had the best bowling form.

Halloween 2018

Another Halloween in the books.  I was a witch for the 15th year in a row.  Michelle and I took Scarlett to U-High to trick or treat.  We found Katie.  Scarlett was a little scared at first, but then she got the hang of it. Jon and his family, my parents and my family all went to the ward trunk or treat (I had to work until 7:30pm). Then they all came back to our house and went trick or treating in our neighborhood.  They were all coming back to the house after trick or treating when I got home from work.  The kids came up to the door and said trick or treat as they were walking up to the door and then walked in the house.  There were some other kids from the neighborhood that were coming up to trick or treat at the same time.  After the trick or treaters left, I looked down and there was a girl in our house that I didn't recognize.  I looked at her asked her where her family was.  I thought she was just some random trick or treater that had wandered in our house.  Turns out she was actually Sadie's friend Helen.  We all got a good laugh.

 Garret and Nixon were both Harry Potter

 Katie and Mady and Olivia were life guards