Glenn's Tribute to the late LDS President Hinckley

I found this on my cousin Kristal's blog...pretty sweet...check it out.

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/200/5127/

WOO HOO!!

I don't like the Simpsons, but I love the saying WOO HOO! One more class down...2 more to go! WOO HOO! 12 more weeks baby!

President Gordon B. Hinckley, one of my hereos

Beloved Church President, Gordon B. Hinckley, dies at 97

I love President Hinckley! He's been a prophet for a majority of my teenage/adult life, the one I have remembered the most. He is and will be such a positive influence in my life. He will be greatly missed, but I know what he is having the best time in Heaven being with his wife and family again.

This is taken from the LDS.org website :)
SALT LAKE CITY 27 January 2008 President Gordon B. Hinckley, who led The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through twelve years of global expansion, has died at the age of 97.
President Hinckley was the 15th president in the 177-year history of the Church and had served as its president since 12 March 1995.
The Church president died at his apartment in downtown Salt Lake City at 7:00 p.m. Sunday night from cause’s incident to age. Member of his family were at his bedside. A successor is not expected to be formally chosen by the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles until after President Hinckley’s funeral within the next few days.

He's home!

Yea! My dad is home! It's nice to have him home...but we still have a long ways to go. At least 6 weeks he has to get a daily IV of antibiotics. Twice a week he gets physical therapy (thankfully they come to the house), and once a week a visit by a home nurse to take blood samples to track the infection. He's doing a lot better! This week some of has have taken turns of taking off work to be with him all day. Wednesday it was my mom's turn, then yesterday my Granny came and stayed with him, and today it's my turn. I get to play nurse! We are very grateful for everyone's prayers and support! And he walked up the ramp that we built! WOO HOO! I took pictures, but they are on my mom's camera...so we documented his first steps :) Anyway, thank you all again!

On a side note...I guess he broke the record at that hospital. He was the patient who has stayed the longest (10 days) :) Hee hee!

Getting ready for Dad to come home!

Corey and I mixing the concrete

Stir!!!

Digging the holes (this is where we kept breaking the water lines)

Measuring???

Corey fixing the water line breaks

Platform---attaching to the porch

Michelle and Austin building the ramp

This baby is going to be so secure!

It's starting to look like something!

Pretty good eh??

Nice lookin' ramp! The Halls can think outside the box!

Austin and I stomping the dirt to pack it down to go on the ramp

Test Run #1----up up we go!

Coming down is kind of scary!

Well, we don't know when my dad will be home from the hospital, but Corey, Michelle and Austin came down this weekend to help build a wheelchair ramp for my dad and grandma. My dad won't be able to do much, let alone climb the stairs to get inside my parent's house. Anyway, we had no plans and with all of our input, we were able to conjure up a wheelchair ramp. It took 2 days because of many setbacks (waterlines busting) but we got it done! I think it looks pretty good and very sturdy! We even did some test runs to make sure it will hold us :) Can't wait for my dad to get back...but here are some pictures of it :)

My Dad

Just to let you all know...I think I have to learn a little humility and ask for some help...a little :) My dad has been in the hospital for a week with a very bad infection called MRSA (I think). He had knee surgery right before Christmas and everything was great. He has had this many times, they scope out of the arthritis, and the recovery time is pretty quick. He said that he has felt the best as he has in a very long time.

Anyway, about a week and half ago, he tripped over a box and landed on his knee, and it was so swollen! He couldn't walk. Wednesday (over a week ago) my mom took him to the doctor and he said it was a really bad bone bruise. Anyway, two days later, he couldn't walk and wasn't feeling good, thankfully the doctor's office said to get him there right away. My mom took him to the hospital where he had the knee surgery. Turns out he is full of infection, and it has got into his blood stream. It is so bad! People have to wear gowns and put on gloves, they changed his trash bags to the hazardous red ones! Then anything that goes in his room can't come out because of the contamination. He was in horrible pain, swollen, and can't really walk.

He has to get antibiotics 4 hours (2 times) a day of a very strong antibiotic, that is only done through an IV. Anyway...it's a terrible disease and very contagious. We are very scared...but things are starting to look a little better. He's still in the hospital, but we are hoping to get him home in the next couple of days.

He now has a pick line where a home nurse will have to come 2 times a day to give him the IV, and that's crazy in itself. He has this port thing that could also become infected or cause blood clots if it's not taken care of properly.

Tonight, my brother, sister-in-law, and nephew are on their way down, and we are going to build a wheelchair ramp so we can get my dad in and out of the house. He won't be going to work for about 6 months to a year (short term disability will kick in soon)....so it's going to be a major life adjustment for us. It's been a rough week because he's clear over in Chandler, and we live about 40 minuets away (one-way)...so my mom and I are exhausted!

Anyway, back to the humility part...we need your prayers that all will go well and he can heal quickly. We just heard today that if they don't catch this disease within the first 25 hours of having it, the survival rate is 25%. Crazy! And my Aunt Vern Lee just told us that her husband had this disease and was a main reason how he passed away.

Well, sorry for the long post...I needed to get it out there because we need help from our Heavenly Father because we love my dad very much and we need him home :)

I'm a survivor!!!!

Thank you everyone for letting me know I wasn't over dramatic! :) I actually was brave and spent last night here at my house, and slept very well, until 3:45 when my alarm went off! Next time for sure I'm calling the cops! No way am I going to let that happen again! Thank you for all your comments! I loved them! I'm still a little scared, but I'm a survivor! :)

Sleep tight...don't let the bed bugs bite!

One more work day and then it's the weekend! WOO HOO!

Being Dramatic????

Ok, I had the worst night of my life, since I have been on my own. In the middle of the night, around 1:00 am, my door bell rings. I'm freaking out! Of course I have wild hair, I can't see (my contacts of course are not in...I'm sleepy for Pete's sake), so I have to grab my glasses and my robe! By that time the door bell rang again! Lucky is barking up a storm (I'm so glad he's there to protect me). I grab my cell phone and call my mom asking if it happened to be them outside, since they are the only ones whoever came over. So, I have my mom and dad all up and worried on the phone. I'm whispering to my mom what is going on, so the person outside can't hear me, but I know they know I'm there....Lucky is barking still!

I try to sneak a peak out of my front window, but I couldn't see the guy, and I can hear a car running. So, I tell my mom that I'm going to go find my gun just in case...yes all of you out there, I have a daddy who gave me a gun, and I do have my concealed weapons permit. The concealed weapons permit class is running through my mind...I can't shoot the guy unless he makes a threat to me, or I can get in trouble, but then again, I don't want to shoot anyone, I'm not that type of person, but I have been trained...fair warning! JK

My mom asks if she wants me to have her come over, but no way! I don't want her out there for her to get hurt and my dad's knee is really bad after his surgery, so he can't come rescue me! So they are my lifeline on the phone!

So, the person finally stops ringing the doorbell, but continues to stand at the door forever! I'm still whispering to my mom this whole time on the phone. I go back and forth from the front window to the guest bedroom window, but I still can't get a good look at this guy or the truck/car. I can hear that it's a diesel type of truck, but no clue who this person is! I finally see the guy leave to get in the car/truck, but then they sit in the car for another 5-10 minutes. OH MY GOSH! I'm freaked out!

The car finally leaves, this time it's about 1:30 am, and of course I'm not going to sleep any time soon because any little noise now is scary. I hang up with my mom, and Lucky is all ready asleep (lucky dog...no pun intended). And I just lie there for the rest of the night until my alarm goes off at 3:45 to get ready for work. I call my mom about 5:00 (for her wake up call--she asked me to the night before), and of course she couldn't sleep either, her mind was wandering all over the place. SORRY MOM!!! I only received about 3 hours of sleep! I'm hoping to make it for the whole day!

Am I being over dramatic? I was plain dang scared! I think I might sleep over at my parent's tonight, just in case! Lucky and I will share the twin bed! :)

January....not as fun as December

So much was done in December, I feel like I have nothing to post for January yet...yes it's only day 5, but there's nothing. I have 2 more days of freedom before school starts back up again. We were lucky and had 2 weeks off for Christmas, boy did I need it! It's going to be hard to do it again because I'm in the final class (besides my two HR classes I'm taking after this), so this is the capstone class, and I'm struggling! Wish me luck!

It's supposed to rain...I'm just sitting here waiting! :)

Christmas Pictures!

Wow, I have a lot of posts, and I'm still not finished with December, what a great month! This Christmas my mom, dad, and I loaded up the truck and took the dogs and made a trip to Vegas to spend with Corey (my brother) and his family--Michelle and Austin. We got there on Sunday night, and ate BBQ Wings at a place. Then Monday we went shopping and were able to get some good deals at stores having a 50% off sale. That night we attended a Mass service with Michelle and Austin at their church. I actually enjoyed it and had a lot of questions for them. Then Austin (who is 10) and I were told to be in bed by 9:30 so we bunked and went to sleep waiting for Santa. I actually had to wake him up at 6:00 (usually I get up at 4:30 to wake everyone up) and we had breakfast and and then it was present time. I didn't have anything to open until the end....Corey made me a Cedar Chest! It's so beautiful and he did a great job! I can't believe he would spend all the time and money and make me something to cherish for my entire life. I love my boober (I call him that---for my brother). Anyway, I love it and it all ready has it's place in my house. Now, I need to fill it! It will be cherished forever, and hopefully passed down through generations! It was a great Christmas. Then yesterday, we had another Christmas. My granny and uncle Rusty came out and we opened their gifts, and I was blessed again! My mom and dad gave me a kitchen aid mixer (yea!!) and a sewing machine....granny got me a food processor and of course a lot of homemade things (great work) and then some more houses to add to my Christmas village. It was a great Christmas!

Lucky also received a new bed and some yummy treats! He's just as spoiled!

Well, I'll post some pictures now of my cedar chest and my family, I didn't get any pictures at yesterday's gift opening though :)

Corey received a shoe polishing kit--has to do that all the time for the military :)

Here's my cedar chest!

Isn't it beautiful?

Lucky's new bed :)

What are they getting????

Austin was very spoiled!

Dad received water coloring stuff---he's starting a class in January!

A new outfit I got for my mom :)

Another surprise for Corey!


Michelle and her mom :)