Garage Sale Tomorrow and Saturday

Tomorrow and Saturday, Emmie will be holding a Garage Sale with items donated by the Hulberts and Aunt Linda, as well as selling the beautiful bibs and hot pads donated by Sister Zenk, flower hair clips that we made, and fun necklaces from Sister Hulbert. If you have a moment, please stop by and support her fundraising efforts toward her Ambassadorship to Australia.

Special Night for Emmie

What a very special night we had last night. Due to it's sacred nature, I won't elaborate much, but felt that such an important moment deserved to be shared more than my usual ramblings. Prior to taking Mom to Cheri's house, Cheri came up to stay with the younger four kids, and Ryan, Mom, Emmie and I went to Patriarch Matson's house, and Emmie received her Patriarchal blessing. It brought me back to when I received mine, when I was 14, and my Mom and Tanya accompanied me. Only this time, it was my sweet Emmie we were going for. What a beautiful blessing and a special night. Emmie, as I always say...thank you for being my daughter! I love you rosebud.

Mom is at Cheri's house

Hello there - Yesterday, Ryan picked up a bed frame from the Blodgetts, and a mattress from Bishop Davidson, and we moved Mom to Cheri's house. I have today to prepare for Emmie's fundraising Garage Sale on Friday and Saturday, and needed to prepare. Also, I am leaving town with Lucy after that - so I wouldn't be here to care for Mom. Cheri's information to reach Mom is: 916-735-9226, and her address is: 7178 Crail Ct., Citrus Heights, CA 95610. She will only be there for a week, and then she will be back at Tanya's house for one more week until we go to San Francisco to try to get her on the Liver Transplant List. I will update more then. Also, you can reach Mom by email (as her computer is now fixed). Her email address is: ladyc_forever@yahoo.com Please don't send forwards or junk mail, not matter how funny, sweet, or spiritual. Her email is swamped right now (as she hasn't been able to check it for months), so for right now, please only personal messages.

Mom's surgery didn't work; Lucy is doing amazingly well!

So, I took Mom today for her hip x-ray, and it shows that it is not healing; so it didn't work. Now we are looking at doing a full or partial hip replacement. I will be taking her tomorrow to see her Primary Care doctor, and we will ask her (and call her Liver doctor and ask him), if they want her to use a Sutter surgeon, since they are both Sutter doctors, and don't have privileges at Mercy; or should the last surgeon just do it again. Things are still really busy right now, but Lucy is doing amazing! She doesn't have the wheelchair at all anymore, and only has to wear her brace while she is out and about. She can move her foot all around, and just has some strength issues with her right foot, and some balance issues. Her therapy has been moved to 2x a month, instead of 2x a week - Yay! So right now the schedule is that I will be taking Mom back to Tanya's house toward the mid/end of this week, because I have to take Lucy to Utah for the studies and to see her Dr. there the beginning of next week. When we return, I have to get things ready, because Mom, Tanya and I have to spend the next week in San Francisco to do all of the panel testing to see if we can get Mom on the liver transplant list. We are hoping to get her hip surgery done shortly after that. The good news about that, is that it won't take so long to heal with the replacement surgery, so she will be back home in under a month after the surgery (and possibly the week after the surgery, depending on how it goes). So all is well. I will blog when we have any new news regarding Mom - so you don't have to wonder or worry, no news is good news! Thank you for your continued thoughts, well wishes and prayers! We love you!

Ore-Ida’s Steam n’ Mash, Mash Destruction at MashDestruction.com

Go online to vote for Emeryl, Lucy, Abigail and Nathan to help then win a spot in the final 20 for the judges to choose from. Click the link below - and it brings you to Abigail's idea, so you can vote! After you vote for her - then you can put "logan" in the search, and scroll down (not the big picture -but under it is where the search comes up) and it will show you all of the kids (and some boy named Logan from somewhere else) - and you can vote for each of my kids once a day. Only 7 days left!! Please vote!! Ore-Ida’s Steam n’ Mash, Mash Destruction at MashDestruction.com