Gracie

As many of you know, my 3 year old neice Gracie was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer about 2 weeks ago. She has been in the hospital undergoing tests in order to stage her cancer and is now getting ready to start chemotherapy. She was diagnosed with a Stage III (high risk) Neuroblastoma. This news came as a complete surprise to us and it has been a really hard thing to digest. Gracie is looking at months of chemotherapy and all of the associated side effects before it is safe enough for the doctors to try and surgically remove the tumor. I would really appreciate any prayers that you could give them at this time, especially little Gracie. She needs them more that I can say. There is a blog set up for her at www.graciecare.blogspot.com that tells her story and keeps you updated on what's going on. Hope that everybody is doing well.

Nothing New

Okay, so here's a quick post to let everybody know that we are boring and nothing new is going on with us. What can I say...when you live in a boring place, you become boring! I guess I could talk about Valentine's Day. As many of you know, Taylor is not the most romantic person on the planet. He actually asks me to tell him exactly what I want him to do to be romantic, completely not realizing that by me telling him, it takes away any romance that could have come from that action. So, I really had just accepted the fact that Valentine's Day would by like any other day. On the Friday before Valentine's Day, all of the girls at my work were getting flowers delivered or some other cute things and it really didn't bother me. I was joking around with one of the girls I work with about how she and I should just buy each other presents because our husbands aren't into the romantic stuff. So, I got off of work and walked out to my car to find 2 HUGE heart shaped and love balloons tied to my car. Then, there was the most gorgeous pink tipped white rose and a sweet card on my windshield. It was so sweet and the card was very adorable. I was pretty surprised and just loved it! It's always the best when you're not expecting anything!
I also wanted to post about Tay's Birthday because I actually took some pictures, but I didn't realize that the memory card wasn't in the camera, so it just saved the pictures to the camera memory and I can't find the cable to get it on our computer. When I figure that out, I'll post the pictures.
Oh yeah, here's something that decreases the boring factor in our lives....we were called to be the Bear Den cub scout leaders for 3 wards, including our own. Now, Tay and I don't know ANYTHING about scouts. In fact, when we went to our first planning meeting, I thought that the pack meetings were called Pow Wows for some reason and I sounded like a COMPLETE IDIOT. We have 10 boys in our group and the are all 9 years old. Holy Crap! If you ever feel like saying "sit down and shut up!" over and over again for an entire hour once a week, come to our den meetings. They are like caged animals being set loose for the first time in ages! We do have fun with them even if they are animals. And, correct me if I'm wrong, but I am almost convinced that Tay and I are the only cub scout leaders ever that don't have kids. We are definitely the odd balls out there.
So, anyway, there's our boring update. I'll post pictures when I can get smart enough to download them from my camera!