I never intended to have so much time between my posts - really. I mean, I still have Christmas music playing on my blog - good grief! Life just gets in the way. Right after Christmas, Keldon was hurt in the semifinals of The Nautical Cup (soccer). He was hit by two players on his left knee and went down, tried to get up and went down again. I knew right then it was bad. He had to be carried out of the stadium (Rancho Buena Vista High). Brad and I took him to Urgent Care and his knee was x-rayed, nothing broken. I took him in to see the sports orthopedist, Dr. John Fellow, and he said it was a bad sprain, 6-8 weeks recovery. I told him I wanted an MRI and he said that there was no reason to do that. So, now, ten weeks later they finally do the MRI (cause darn! it just wasn't healing) and find that he has a torn meniscus - lovely! He did not get to play any league games in high school and will now miss three club tournaments and Nationals State Cup with his club team. He has surgery on March 20th, so keep him in your prayers, please.

I had my first colonoscopy in January, 2008 - what a lovely thing, everyone should have one! If you've participated, you know it is the preparation that is the part you'd like to leave out of the whole procedure. This was done in conjunction with a spontaneous retro-peritoneal hemorrhage I had back on Oct 21, 2007 (the days the fires started in San Diego). My colon was healthy and they could see nothing associated with the hemorrhage. The doctors still do not know what caused the hemorrhaging. I also had minor surgery in January and was recuperating for 3 weeks (okay, it was for a hemorrhoid, if you have to know, so there!). All those health issues just slowed me down for a while.

Amanda, Lance, Gavin and Jackson moved to Utah on February 8 and that just about ripped my heart out! It is really hard when you get used to seeing family often and then to have them move - especially the grandbabies. It is so fun to watch them grow up. They have settled in South Jordan and Lance is going to finish his degree at U of U.

I just returned this week from an 8 day trip to northern California to celebrate my mom's 83rd birthday. Nicole and Kimberlee and their families came on March 8th to Grandma Parker's house in Modesto to celebrate and it was great fun. It was so nice to see my daughters, their spouses and my granddaughters - four of them! We had a great day together. The following day after church with my mom, I drove up to spend two days with Nicole and her family in Folsom.

My mom and I didn't do much cooking while I was there. We had lunch out most every day with a different friend or just us two. We had lunch at Uno's with Pauline Halliday, lunch at The Village Bakery, (our favorite turkey, cream cheese and cranberry sandwiches!), lunch with Marilyn Heiner at a Thai restaurant (I still don't like Thai food that much). Then for dinner we either had soup at home, take out Chinese, or we ate at Tahoe Joe's (prime rib - yum!) or at a great Mediterranean place called Skewers - they have the best shish-ka-bob I've tasted.
I have been home now for three days and have had a terrible head cold since last Sunday. We have Brad's sister Debbie and her family coming tomorrow for a three day visit. We're excited to have them. Brad and Keldon spent Saturday painting the upstairs main bathroom, so it would be nice and fresh for our guests - looks good!

Brad, Ethan and Keldon fixed a belated birthday dinner for me today. It was very good. Brad even bought a no-sugar-added berry pie from Marie Callendar's. How sweet was that?!!