Dear Friends, Just thought I would update you on mom and ask for your prayers. She has experienced tumor growth that has caused them to cancel her latest chemo treatments and has collapsed her left lung. The prognosis long term is not good. Short term they are giving her some radiation treatments that have made the lung re inflate a small bit. All of this recent change and growth has caused her stamina to be greatly reduced and her ability to get out in about limited. We are praying for quality time and Peace and joy for the moments we have left. Thanks for your prayer.
Love to you all! Hope you are enjoying a healthy fall and looking forward to a blessed Thanksgiving.

More photos from Red Hot pool day

Red Hots Day at the Pool

well, the skies might have been threatening and overcast for most of the day, but i still wound up with a little sunburn! how did that happen? i had a great time seeing julie h., julie k., kellie and the chili peppers that were able to be here, and we missed you laurie, betsy and kim and your lil' ones too!

here are some pics from our day! enjoy!
amy

Have a great time at the get together this week! I will miss being there. Get the date finalized for February and let me know and I will get ready to host along with my new Forsyth Co. transplant buddy, Betsy. I have been thinking of some fun ideas for our outing. Take care. Love to all!

Red Hot Get-Together

Alright, girls!  It looks as if I will be able to make the get together after all, but minus one child.  Will is going to camp, therefore, Anna and I will make the trip. Amy, will you post the date, time, and any other details that I need to remember?  I am hitting 41 tomorrow, you know.  The mind is going....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BETSY!!!

Excited for you about what this year will bring - a move back closer to us Red Hots! (:
I hope you've had a great birthday!!!!
Love,
Amy

Amy, How was Cali with the in-laws?  Hopefully, you got some R&R!

Mom's Progress

Hi to all! Kim, hearing your grandfather's progress reminded that I needed to update all on my mom as well. I am glad he is doing well and I bet he looked just as cute in surgery with no hair as he did at the beach that year.

Mom had a great report last week at the doctor. We have found out that the gammaknife procedure in her brain was a success and they see no further growth of the places in her brain. All are measuring smaller and there are no new mets. She had her 3rd round of chemo today and it went well. The rest of the week with get progressively tough, but the other two rounds have gone well and we are hopeful that this will continue to be the trend. Thanks for keeping her in you r prayers. Hope you all are doing well and enjoying maybe some break time with Spring Breaks and a change in routine.

My Grandfather's surgery

My Grandfather had his hip replacement surgery this morning. He did great. Kellie, you should see the size of his room! Yours was a closet in comparison. He had it done at the NC Specialties Hospital (or something like that) near Chick-fil-a on Roxboro Rd. Laurie, he did not wear his hair to surgery.
The sister cruise was wonderful -- I may get some pics up soon. The room made the trip. Having huge windows and a balcony made it such a nice place to be. We even got to share the gospel with a Jamaican man on Grand Cayman Island. Our excursion was canceled because of rough surf and we ended up wandering around -- a God-thing for sure. Tag-team gospel -- great way to share.

Don't Faint! I joined Facebook!

Just so you all know! I have sent you all friend requests. I guess you all got to me on the Redhots weekend.

WAY TO GO AMY!!!!!!!!!

GREAT JOB on the REDHOTS NYC album. It will be cherished for years to come. I can hardly wait to get a copy. Let us know we can place our order!! Thank you for alllllllllllll of your work on this.
I can hardly wait to share it with everyone!

Findley misses the Red Hots

WOOF!

The NYC StoryBook is "complete" and comments welcome

I uploaded it to cmphotocenter and "shared" it with each of you. Be sure to click "preview" when it brings you to that page, so you can view the book. Let me know if you have any comments/questions/suggestions. I've already found one thing I want to change so if you're going to order your own copy for delivery to your home, please DON"T ORDER THIS EDITION. I will upload a new edition probably Friday after you've all had a chance to comment. You may not be able to read the journaling clearly -- i have proofed and proofed it. If you are concerned about it and can't see it, call me and I'll read it to you.

Please email me directly with any input in case I don't get back to the blog or FB before then -- I thought about giving FB up for Lent, but I've changed my mind. Giving up lattes is easier!! (:

Pranks and sabotage - you got him good!

When my boys got home, I told them that you all had been startled by the alarm clocks going off and the shoes in the pillowcase and all of their little pranks. But it was night time before Ben discovered that the his room had been sabotaged in return!

When Doug and I got back from going out to dinner, Ben came running down the stairs.

"Mom there is something strange going on with my bed!" he told me as soon as he saw me. "And there is a weird potato in my bathroom!" I don't think he'd ever been a short-sheeting victim before, but he was most freaked out by the potato. And there were so many little notes and things that he didn't know when something was going to come at him next!!!

We had a good laugh, and Ben wanted to know if our house was going to be "invaded" again this weekend! We could only be so fortunate!! (:

I'm In!!

I may be a Facebook hold out, but this I can do! I so enjoyed the weekend. It was great to catch up and spend time with you all. Kellie, you are my hero. I am so pleased with your recovery and strength. Keep it up girl! Julie and I will have you our there running with us next year. Julie, thanks for the run. I missed today, but I will be back out there tomorrow, however I am much more motivated when I have a partner to run with. I will try to get Sarah's autograph for you since she and I are so tight now that I am her stunt double. HeeHee! Every lady I talked with today that knew we were off on our weekend when I told them about the extent of our noneventful weekend was jealous. We are all just too busy on a regular day to sit around and enjoy like we did this weekend. Amy, thanks so much for the wonderful hospitality and food and the great job on the book and now setting this up. It was great to catch up and talk & maybe this will motivate me to check in with you guys more. How did Ben like his traps? I am blessed by all of your friendships. Love to you all! L

Afternoon tea, the first photos

Tea was lovely on Saturday. We missed you, Kellie and Betsy! Did anyone else take any photos from the weekend? Are we all too behind on our albums to be taking photos???? Hmmm....
Love you gals!
Amy

Afternoon tea

My apologies to Laurie for typing too fast in my first post and spelling her name wrong!!!!!

Hey everyone. It was great to be with you all this weekend. I certainly loved our tea time, and wish Kellie and Betsy could have been there too. In case you two didn't know, Sarah Palin had tea with us!!!!(LOL...Lauire)
I love and appreciate you all and the years of commitment to our friendships!!! Hope our summer plans work out so that we can see everyone's kids.
Love to you all,
JH

Friends

What a great way to communicate with you guys! I look forward to being able to keep up with your day-to-day lives a bit better now. Thanks again for being such a great hostess this weekend, Amy.