Good morning!!!  Another two birthdays today!  I want to wish my wonderful Father-in-law a very "Happy Birthday!"  Here is Tyler's wish to you!  Have a great day!!!

Since we were taking pictures I decided to have Tyler wish my sweet friend Denise Rogers a very "Happy Birthday" too!!  He is singing to you here Denise!  Have a super fun day today!

Yay!!  We got the results to my blood test yesterday and my levels are improving!  They are still not in the normal range yet but they are getting better.  They were good enough to go ahead and get started on the vaccine that the Hoag Institute has ready for me.  The Hoag Institute finally has everything that they need from me.  Mike and I are leaving tonight to spend the night in San Diego at Monica and Gregg's house.  It will help to break up the trip tomorrow.  So I won't be blogging again until tomorrow night when we get home.  Might not be until 7:00 or 8:00 west coast time.

Please keep us in your prayers as we start this new adventure.  I can't wait to come back on here and tell you all about it. 

Have a terrific day everyone!!  Today is another gift from God and He is so Good!!!  Thank you God for your peace that passes all understanding.

Sweet pickles or Dill pickles??????   Definitely Dill for me!  Mike on the other hand is Sweet.....Jen and Jeff are Dill like their momma.

Good morning!!!!  I want to wish my very sweet Mom a very "Happy Birthday" today!!  Have an awesome day Mom!  I will talk to you later.  Here is a birthday wish from Tyler.

We had a great time out in the desert Saturday.  The weather was beautiful.  My father-in-law had a fun birthday celebration!  I will have some pics of that later this week.

I went to the hospital yesterday morning to have all of my blood work done before I leave for the Hoag Institute on Wednesday.  I should know all of the results to that today.  Hopefully my levels are still going up.  I will let you know how they looked tomorrow.

The San Diego Chargers will be playing the New York Jets on Sunday in San Diego.  GO CHARGERS!!!  Did anyone see the end of the Cardinal-Packers game last night?  Wow.....what an ending!

The friend that I was telling you about that needs prayers for her health.....well they diagnosed it and they have now started her on some medicine that will be super hard on her body.  Let's all pray that the meds work fast and that she can get off of them soon.  Please pray that she will heal quickly.  She still has to work while going through this.

Have a marvelous Monday everyone!!  Today is another gift from God and He is so Good!!  Thank you God for my Mom!

If you could have anything that you wanted for dinner and a experienced chef had to make it......what would you want???

Good Saturday morning!!!  We are getting ready to head out to the desert in a while for my father-in-laws birthday.  It is chilly this morning but I know it will warm up and it looks like it will be a beautiful day!  For those of you that don't live in the Imperial Valley it will probably be around 73 degrees and sunny today.  You back east folks will have beautiful weather soon enough and we will be complaining about how hot it is here!  :)  Maybe we should all move to Hawaii!!!

We will also be watching football playoffs this weekend too.  I hope to get some scrapping time in also. 

Gaynell Irving.....you are so right!  Love it!!  Thanks for always cracking me up and I promise to take good notes when I go!

By the way everyone......I have an appointment with the Hoag Institute this Wednesday.  It will be an informative meeting about how this all works and they will make out a schedule for me for the next six months of vaccine treatments.  It is very exciting that they have something like this out there.  I am totally all over doing this.......just hate needles and being poked more......and I don't like feeling sick either but I am already praying that I don't have any side effects.  Your prayers are working!  I am looking more forward to it now.  Like I said before....what a miracle from God on the timing of this!  Plus I get to meet another whole group of medical staff that I am sure I will love!

Edna Clary......Thank you again for the info.  I so appreciate it!

Have a fantabulous weekend everyone!!  Today is another gift from God and He is so Good!!  Thank you God putting the right people in the right time of my life to say the things that I need to hear.  What perfect timing you have!

Are you a hot dog or a hamburger type person?? 

Good morning!!!  It is Friday!!!  Yeah!!!  I am ready for the weekend!!!  This was quite a busy week for me.  I am ready for some down time.  Tomorrow our family (extended too) is heading out to the desert for my father-in-laws birthday.  They are taking out their big motorhome and we are all going to hang out, ride desert toys and of course eat!  Looking forward to a day of just hanging out and having fun with our family.  Here is another picture of my goobee Tyler.  What a kick he is!  He and I are practicing getting on his tummy everyday.  He likes it!

Here is my sweet little guy again.

The NFL playoffs are this weekend.  I won't be seeing much of the Saturday games but plan on watching some on Sunday!  Chargers are on their "bye" this weekend.  It will be interesting to see how the games go.

Thank you to everyone for all of the phone calls, texts, e-mails and comments here that I received yesterday in support.  I couldn't get through this without you!  Love you all!  Still don't know when my appointment is yet but should know sometime today.

I have received all your prayer requests and please know that I am praying!!

Have a fantabulous day everyone!!!  Today is another gift from God and He is so Good!!!

Weekend plans anyone???  Whats for dinner tonight???

Good morning!!  I have a couple pictures of my sweet little Tyler that I want to share with you.  Nanie put him on his belly yesterday and was able to get a couple of shots of him lifting his head.  He was having a good time. 

This one is of Tyler just being a happy little boy.  He loves to play and smile for his Nanie.  And yes.....I know he was Heaven sent!

So the latest with me......Two years ago when the surgeon in San Diego removed the tumors out of my left armpit.......they were sent off to a place called the Hoag institute in Orange county.  They wanted to send them there and see if they could grow a vaccine from my tumors.  This place has had great success in this.  Well after two years of trying my tumors finally took off and they informed us the same day that I got the "all clear" from Dr. McClay that my vaccine is ready!  They would like to get started next week.  I don't know all the details yet but I know it is something that I have to do.  It could work as a preventative from ever getting melanoma again.  Dr. McClay is all for me doing it.  It is exciting but at the same time I am nervous.  It is about a six month ordeal....... have to be healthy and cancer free for them to do it, which I am.  They administer it by shot.  The downside.....driving 31/2 hours up and back, I may be sick for 24 hours after they administer it, have to miss some work, have to do lots of bloodwork, I hate needles and I am tired of medical stuff. 

I know I will do it......it is a vaccine.....I can't pass that up but I have anxiety already about it.  So we will go up to the first informative meeting about it either next week or the week after.  I will listen to everything and hopefully feel better about starting this.  I just keep telling myself that this is a great thing......but my anxitety just hasn't gone away since I heard it is time to do this.  I think mentally I just needed a break and I won't be getting one. 

So if you could all please be praying for me for strength and wisdom and peace about this whole thing.  I would really appreciate it.  I will be giving you all more details about it when I know more.  I think I will be needing you all to hold my hand through this too.

Sorry this is turning into a novel.  Have a terrific day everyone!  Today is another gift from God and He is so Good!!  Thank you God for wisdom and family and friends that hold you up when you need them.

Angel Linda.......You go Girl!!!!  So proud of you!!!