Updates...........

Wow how long has it been since I posted a blog? SHEESH! Time flies by so fast these days. Ok so for the last several months I have been working on myself inside and out. I've been working on exercising and eating right and losing weight. So far, so good. I've hit a few snags along the way but as soon as I can, I'm getting back and going hard core. The boys ordered me a beautiful ring for my mothers day gift. It is a mothers ring. It has both of their stones (March & December) and has their names engraved by their stones. David just completed the 5th grade at Visions Unlimited Academy and Danny just completed the 3rd grade at Benson Elementary School. This has been a rough year for all 3 of us, but we made it through. And we got some great news as well, the best. I got a letter saying they are back in Pomerene school for this next school year!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last month we lost a very dear family member. My cousin Linda Saline. She was diagnosed with Colon Cancer about 4 years or so ago, decided not to do Chemo, went home and did everything she could to fight this disease on her own. She changed everything about her eating habits, how she lived her life, etc.... and went into remission. Then in February of this year, I got a text from her daughter Ginger saying her mom was sick and going to the dr. I told her "Her cancer isn't back is it"? and she said "I HOPE NOT!" about 4 days later I got a text from Ginger and she said her mom's cancer was back, it was in her liver now and moved into her bones. I went to the temple to try to get some peace about it, and put her name on the prayer roll and knew everything would be ok, no matter how it turned out. I felt so much peace. One night I was watching a movie with my boys and my mom (to overcome with tears to talk) texted me and told me that Linda had passed away. I cried for a long time that night, not because she passed away, but because of how much I was going to miss her. She was a very special lady. She fought that disease with every bone in her body. She was a warrior and will always be one of the most influential people in my life. I love and miss her very very very much. She and my mom have always been close. My aunt Doris had my cousin Linda, then my mom was born a month and a half later. They were best friends.
This last month we had a special thing happen. Our temple... The Gila Valley Temple was dedicated. What an amazing experience that was to be able to go to that with my kids. I will post a separate blog about it.
Over the past several months my ex's sister Melinda and I have been talking about having a birthday party for her grandparents, which I was totally in for as long as the ex wouldn't be in the picture. She had texted me last month and told me it would be at her grandparent's ranch in Reserve, New Mexico and I'm thinking ok if chris is anywhere near New Mexico, I'm not going to this thing. It so happened that he is far away in Washington State so that worked out... but then there was another dillema... getting the boys there, such a long drive for only one day and a lot of gas money. So then a couple weeks ago my mom calls and asks what we were doing for Memorial Day and I told her I didn't have any plans. She told me she and my dad wanted to take the boys to Alpine on Memorial day for a couple of days then I would come up there and take them home on Saturday the 5th. A couple of minutes later I receieved a text from Melinda telling me the party would be on Saturday the 5th around noon. Alpine and Reserve are about 28 miles apart. So I said "Yep, we're in".... the whole time in Alpine I felt sick because the trailer we were sleeping in was ICE COLD, with no running water and no heater except for a very old space heater from like the 70's or 80's. And I didn't give Melinda a definite yes that we would be there. Saturday morning I woke up and I felt better. We packed up the car and headed out of town and stopped at the grandparents house... we were the first ones there, in fact the others were several hours later, so the boys got to spend some alone time with their great grandparents and their grandpa esrael. We stayed one night in their HUGE ranch house that is not quite finished yet and we headed home on Sunday. Now we are embarking on a trip to Albuquerque, New Mexico on June 30. My dr.'s secretary commented to me she said "YOU TRAVEL A LOT" and I said "of course, I'm from a small town, I have to get out to keep my sanity!" LOL!!!! I found out that I have a small hernia, but the hernia isn't what has been causing the pain... I have a case of acid reflux and a ulcer... which is NO surprise whatsoever. I don't have to have an operation... YAY!!!! The dr said to keep up with the weight loss and the ulcer and acid reflux should get better and may even go away! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!