Lest you think I died...

I haven't....I been shopping!!!!  I won, I won, I won!!!  I never win anything and Saturday I decided to bomb over to our "new" Old Navy store.  They were handing out white envelopes to the first 200 customers to come to the Grand Opening.  I took  my envelope and went in to meet up with a friend of mine.  She said to open the envelope...she won a free Tshirt.  I'm like yeah right, mine's probably blank.  It wasn't....I won , I won, I won!!!  You had to spend it ALL at one time.  After 2 tries...I finally got it all gone.  So fun and Caden came out on top.  New pants and shirts that he needed badly. 

Okay, we are back up and running.

The "Real" 40 year old with my darling friends! 

Gramma's Hug Blanket

Caden and I got up and went to JoAnn's to pick out fleece to make Gramma a Hug Blanket for her bed in the hospital.  I am sorry to say that Caden is very adept in JoAnn's.  We got all the way downstairs and I was talking to my sister on the phone and had to go back up the stairs to get it cut. :) Ohhhh my!

Brad took it up to her and at that moment, she was cold from the chemo.  She finished out a very onlg day wrapped in her big cozy hug blanket.  She wanted it wrapped around her so she could be comforted with hugs from her grandchildren.

Looks who hasn't turned 40 yet but had the celebration...

The night started with a huge surprise.....a limo came to pick us up for our date and 8 of our closest friends popped out!  I totally had no idea and what a delight!!  We were driven to Outback for steaks, Caribou Coffee for coffee and cake and then just around to enjoy the limo.  Lots of laughter and crude 40 year old jokes (just kidding) and then home to get kids for a quick ride around the block.  Thank you, my love, for pulling it off and totally surprising me. 

Happy 12th to Allison!!

Oh my how the time has flown!!

Blue Ice Cream cake from Dairy Queen.  We celebrated down in the basement with Gramma. 

Okay, I know I know....it's been way tooo long.

Our life here has taken quite a turn of events.  Last week my mother-in-law was put in the hospital with shortness of breath. To make a very long story short, she has been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.  She has suffered from Rheumatoid Arthritis for many years. She was told that this could be the cause of the lymphoma.  Monday starts her chemo treatments. Wow, I still can't wrap my brain around that. The treatments will be every 3 weeks for 24 weeks.  She has been told that she will definitely lose her hair, but should not have the nausea that usually comes with it.  Now, we won't know for certain, but the doctors are so very positive.  This is VERY curable and she will start to feel better from her arthritis within days of her first treatment. We are truly resting in our Lord. She is so strong and very positive too.  That makes it alot easier. Please pray for Brad and his brothers as well.  This has hit hard and they need to band together.  Thank you and I will try to be better about posting. :)

Random pics of New York

Here we are in the Registry Room at Ellis Island.  This is where every immigrant waited for their name to be called to "check in" to the United States. This was the first of many steps.  We did not take alot of pics here.  We searched the Ellis Island Records to find Gram's mom and dad but was unsuccessful.  It may have been a difference in spellings but to no avail. 

This is for my sis! Notice the HUGE Dunkin cup :)!

Times Square at it's finest.

 

This is the "Elvis" blue M & M.  There is a 4 story M & M store in Times Square.  That was our only goal and we found it and bought way over-priced m & m's.  We also went to a 3 story Walgreens.  that was fun.