Camping with my sister

A couple of weeks ago, Cody and I went camping with my sister and her kids. Yes, it was just me and Cody, Evan drove the trailer up and dropped us off. Evan is so sweet to accommodate my need to go camping as often as possible. Evan rejoined us in the morning for breakfast and some fishing time with his son.

Cody discovered how much fun it was to go fishing and he spent every minute at the waters edge. He was so cute when it came to gutting his own fish because he wouldn't touch it so I had to get him some rubber gloves. He was very proud of his little fish and even prouder that his Aunt Neenie wanted to eat it for dinner.

Cody's cousin, Eric, also caught a couple of fish so my sister was well supplied for her dinner treat.

Grandpuppy

This is the picture that Evan took with his phone the day that Matt and JayDee come home from Colorado Springs. As you can see, they have a new puppy and they named him Rosco Jenkins Jones. They aren't ready to give us a grandchild yet so we will just have to make due with a grandpuppy. :o) He is pretty cute.

Here is a video clip I took of him chasing a laser light in our living room.

Ward (Church) Campout

This past weekend we went camping with our ward, it was great fun and a lot of families came.
We camped at Rockport lake campground. It was about 100f HOT during the day but the evenings cooled down.

I thought I would post some pictures for everyone to see.

We will be camping again next weekend and again, I will post more pictures.

All is Well

So it has been a while since I posted on here but just wanted to update everyone. Things are going fine with my health. I have gained my energy back and feel great. We have been busy trying to get out and enjoy our summer so we go camping almost every weekend and have many more camping trips planned over the next couple of months.

So for updates, I guess there really isnt much to say other than I am healthy and doing great. Even my apitite is coming back and I am able to eat more and more.

As you know, I am not much of a writer but I will try and post some pictures of our camping trips when we get back.

Take care

Dr Visit

Well, last week Julie went in for surgery on her feet to remove some nerves that were causing her feet pain when she would walk a lot. They did both feet and she is pretty tender now. She has been staying down a lot but every day she gets better and better, in fact today she returned to work.
She still has to wear the funny shoes that they gave her for another couple of weeks but then she will be back to normal.

Well, when she was in surgery, I took the time to go visit my doctor (same location) and asked him how the results looked from my last test that they had me take. He said that everything looked great and normal and that there is nothing more that needs to be done. We just need to do check ups to make sure things stay that way and I am good to go.

Sad News-- In Memory Of Chris O'Connor

I have been deeply saddened by the news that a friend that we had met online through my Cancer who shared the same Cancer has passed away Friday night. He left behind a young wife and son who will try to move forward with their life.

Kristin sadly had to watch her husband suffer with this terrible disease for such a long time and I can only imagine what it must be like to watch a loved one suffer so much.

Kristin and Shane with be in our thoughts and prayers for a long time as they move forward with memories of Chris and the love that he had and still has for them.

If you would like to read about him and their family you can link to their blog on my blog under the "Blogs I read" it is the one called O'Connor family blog.

Kristin, we hope you will still stay in touch and keep us up to date on how you are doing.

In Memory Of Chris O'Connor

Nauvoo

We took our first family vacation in about 4 years and we chose to go visit the Church Historical sites of Nauvoo.

It was an amazing trip starting with a wonderful visit with Matt and JayDee in their home in Colorado Springs. It was great to see our kids again and they were so sweet to let us stay with them in their home Sunday night.

Monday we took a tour of the Denver Mint then we were on our way again making a stop at Liberty Jail just outside Kansas City. After a good night’s sleep, we took up our journey again and visited Adam-Ondi-Ahman and finally arrived in Nauvoo around 6:00pm.

We spent all day Wednesday visiting the historical buildings/homes in Nauvoo then Thursday morning we went to the temple then finished seeing more homes.

Friday we packed up and left the hotel but before we started for home we stopped in Carthage to see the Jail.

I can't post all of our pictures but here are some highlights.

Better late than never

Okay so it's been a month since Fathers Day and I am just now posting. Sorry :o)

Evan is still struggling to keep up his energy levels and mowing the lawn just about wipes him out for nearly the whole day after he mows. Yes, I know that Cody is old enough to mow and he does, but there are times when it needs to be done and Cody is not available.

For Fathers Day, a day early, Evan got a riding lawn mower and now he and Cody fight over who gets to mow the grass.

It is just nice to know that Evan can now get the lawn mowed without it putting him down in bed.

All is well

Great news!!! We went to the doctors yesterday and he said that the blood work was actually better than he had ever seen it. When the nurse told Evan that his numbers were elevated, she didn't know that it had been higher in the past. Normal is about 50 and Evan is at 53 but prior to this test it had been in the 80's.

The Doctor said that the problems Evan has been experiencing were a result of his pancreas not creating enough digestive enzymes. Evan is now well on his way to feeling fantastic.

I love modern technology... Evan had his CT scan of his liver yesterday as well and we were able to immediately see the results. His liver has never looked better!!! The tumors are continuing to die even the small ones that were not specifically targeted by the radiation treatments.

We couldn't possibly have received better news!! Evan is going to be around for many years to come. This is a direct result of your prayers and the Lords will. Thank you for the many sustaining prayers you have offered on our behalf, there are no words that could fully describe our gratitude.

Julie

News from the Doc

So, I went in and they ran a blood test on me and found that my numbers are slightly elevated but they aren't to bad. They are not sure what is causing this so they want to do a CT scan on June 23rd to see if there are any new tumors in my liver that have started growing.
We are confident that all will be taken care of. The Doctors are doing what they can and the Lord is doing the rest. Rest easy knowing that I am in the lords hands.

Here is a video that you might like. it shows just what the lord can do with his hands.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_vCqSebVEw

cut and paste that into a web browser and then it will play from YouTube.

Medical News

So, I have been doing fine lately but a few weeks ago I started having some symptoms that had me concerned and after talking with a couple of doctors they both had the same thing to say. "it looks like your liver is having issues" so with that I called my doctor and talked to my specialist and she said that she wants me to come in and have blood drawn and see what it shows. she then said to watch and see if I start turning yellow and if so to let her know.

Well, that night my wife turned to me and said that I looked yellow. So, I am going in today (Wednesday) and having blood drawn and also they might do a CT scan and we will see what is going on. Not sure at this point but I guess we will find out.

I will update when I get news back.