Father's day becomes a wonderful family day!

Dear Family and Friends,

For all those days we have issued tense and stressful blog messages we offer this message in balance. God has blessed us with a precious weekend including today. Jason and Jo arrived last evening, Dana arrived in the afternoon and we all had a long nights sleep. Jo being in the final month of her pregnancy probably had the roughest night, away from her own bed, searching for a comfortable position. Dana went to bed about 8 and slept until about 10 this morning. She needed the rest and felt better today. Mom also slept in late not waking until about 9:45 which was great, she too needed the rest. Jason got up early and helped me with planting some new colorful flowers in the front yard, tweaked the sprinklers along the rear vegetable row. When Keanna and her mom arrived she brought her Dora Sprinkler. This cute little sprinkler twirls and sends a gentle stream of water into the air so Keanna could play under it. We kept it running most of the day watering different dry spots in the yard and the new flowers. Dana made a wonderful lunch with fresh vegetable, some vegimeat fried, genuine mashed potatos which Jason peeled, fresh Brentwood white corn, what a feast. We were working outside and could smell the wonderful aromas while we worked from the JennAir exhaust fan. Mom came down and was in the middle of all the activities. Later in the afternoon Chris and Stephanie with new little daughter came to visit. Chris was Jason's roomate in Texas and is a wonderful person. They are moving to Houston to teach next year. Late in the afternoon Jason and Jo noted the time and headed home. They called as they were nearing MBA to tell us the temperature was 58 degrees, nice! We were still 85 at that point. This afternoon Steve and Melaboo came to swim and socialize. Steve has been puttering with the boat and has it running now with new plugs, rebuilt carb and tomorrow new ignition. True to form he has it clean, gas all drained out and new gas put in. He is a working wonder and he already has Mela trained to chase the ball even if he throws it half way across the lake. She loves to swim and its hard to get her to stay out long enough to get dry to go home.

Dana tempted Nan with several different things today and she loved them all. Her colostomy seems to be working well and she is doing pretty well, had some severe pain this afternoon but we've used the pain controls we have on hand to help with the pain.

Nikki, Keanna and Steve gave me a beautiful photo of Keanna and me mounted in a frame that seems like the photo is melted into it. Its a perfect item for my desk to control flying papers and that way I get to see her smiling face over and over. Nikki is a master at picking cards and once again today found one that seemed like it was written for us, made me cry. Jason and Jo gave me a very cute card also and a gift certificate to Home Depot and a jar of planter peanuts which I love dearly. I felt like a total winner all day. I am so proud of my family and am always overwhelmed with appreciation and love for each of them and now with a second grandchild on hand the joy is just growing more and more. Keanna has grown to the point where when I am working outside she can hand me tools and be quite helpful.

Nan is resting now, has her TPN on board, has her hit of Adavan, ice water and is snuggled in for the night. She is a happy camper this evening and loved seeing the kids and getting to spend time with them. Yesterday David, Steve's younger brother was in the area and came by for awhile. It was great to see him as we enjoy him a lot, nice gentle person.

So tonight we just say a huge thanks to God for His ways and His timing, we seek His direction tomorrow as we try to get more aggressive in getting a drug for Nan to take for the tumors.

Please pray for God to open doors and close doors according to His divine plan tomorrow and for Nan's recovery to recover. We also thank Him for the family he has given us, for Dana too, for Pam yesterday.

Love from our house and from our hearts,

tim and nan and dana