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Today's a hard day.
My grandma has been sick for the last year or so with cancer. This is not the first time she's had it, mind you. No, this is probably the 5th or the 6th time. She has been so strong throughout her life, raising a set of twins and my dad, working while my grandpa was at war, a multi-time cancer survivor; she's just an incredible woman.
This is one of my favorite all time photos - she and my grandpa when they first started dating.
And this is a layout that I did about her as part of my HOF entry last year. It ended up getting picked up by BHG Scrapbooks Etc right about the time we learned she had cancer again. I'm hoping the issue hits the stands soon so I can send it to her.
Received a call from my dad this afternoon saying that she's really struggling. It's really hard for me to talk about. I have learned so much from her over the years. It's hard for me to think about her being gone.
Anyway, the boys drew her some pictures this afternoon that we'll mail off to her tomorrow to cheer her up.
From Jack - 
From Sam
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scraplifted that is, by a great friend and amazing artist, Rhonna! Everything she does is amazing and she's such a neat person, too boot! She contacted me a few weeks ago and asked if she could lift one of my layouts for the Creating Garden at Two Peas.
Here's my original layout - photo of my parents leaving their wedding reception in 1967.
And you can see her version here - Romantic Getaway. I love what she did.
What an honor! Thanks Rhonna!
I'm so proud of him! Our oldest son, Jack. He's turned into such a little philanthropist.
We've always felt very strongly that we've been blessed with a healthy family, good jobs, and great friends and that what we need to give back to the community. It started when I went to college, joined a sorority and participated in all of the fundraising events there, graduated and did volunteer work for the Utah Aids Foundation, and then joined the Jr. League to continue to help women and children in our community. After having kids I gave up the majority of my community service work; we manage to participate in a few fundraisers each year including The Multiple Sclerosis Society and Wasatch Adaptive Sports.
This weekend Nick and I went to a fund raiser for Wasatch Adaptive Sports. Wasatch Adaptive Sports is a ski and summeer program for children and adults with special needs. Nick's company supports this program and we attend their annual fundraiser each year. It's such a great program, I always come away from the fundraiser feeling so much compassion for families that particpate in this program and wish I had more time to volunteer with this amazing organization.
Anyway, I'm getting off track - back to Jack! As we were getting ready to leave for the fund raiser on Saturday night, he asked where we were going. We explained the organization to him and that we were going to an event that would enable more kids to participate. 
He ran upstairs and came back carrying $10 that he had taken from his piggy bank. He held it out to us and said, "Here's $10 to give to those people tonight. I love to ski and I want anyone that wants to ski to be able to ski like I do". After that Sam promptly ran upstairs and came back down with $2 from his piggybank, not wanting to be left out.
Such amazing things to see coming from our kids. I'm so glad they really 'get' what we're doing and why!
WOW. It's been almost 6 months to the day. 6 stinkin' months since I started this blog, and 6 stinkin' months since I have added a post. Well, today's the day for it to become a habit. After ____ hours (insert an ungodly # of hours!), I've finally figured out how to make my own banner on this thing and make it fit without looking too terribly ridiculous. Shouldn't have been that difficult, especially considering the fact that I've spent the last 7 years of my life at a software company! Oh yah, that time was spent using that *other* side of my brain... Well, that side's been left behind for now while I focus on the better side, the more FUN side!
And here's the kick off to the fun side - my first layout as a free woman!
