Catching up! Babies, surgery and a concert!

 It's been awhile since I last updated! Sorry! In October I went to OK to be with Emmee and her family when she had her little baby, Grant on the 10th of Oct. He's a cute little man and it was fun to be with them the little time I was there! Can't wait to go back!

 Emmee's boys are good little boys and we had some fun together!

 Just before I left, we got a picture together! I'll be back in February for another baby!

 In November - the 2nd Sunday and the day we had stake conference Stanley ate dinner and got sick. We thought he had food poisoning.  He was in a lot of pain and was given a blessing by his sons and was able to go back to work the following week, still in some pain but not as bad. Well, Saturday it reared it's ugly head again and this time we decided to go to the hospital to find out what was going on. That's when we found out it was his gallbladder. We received many tender mercies from the Lord - the 1st was when we walked into Banner Gateway and found NO ONE in the emergency room. We got right into a room and the 2nd was the PA who saw us. Dr. David Zimmerman was very kind and answered all our questions and was a great help to us. Turned out he's a former bishop, he knows several people that Stanley works with and knows and his son was in a video done by the church called "Dayton's Legs". His son took a handicapped young man on a triathlon - pulling and carrying him for every event. It's a beautiful little story and one that Stanley saw at a council meeting with Elder LeSueur. Everyone who had anything to do with Stanley was very nice and pleasant to be around. Dr. Zimmerman gave us several options after talking to the surgeon cuz yes they recommend you take it out - and we decided to stay and have the surgery Sunday morning. We got to the emergency room about 2:45 and we were in a room by 7:00 that night. Once he got settled, he wanted me to go watch the rest of our stake roadshows. He was really sad to miss them and wanted a report back on them. I brought two of my sons back with me to give him a blessing before surgery and gave him a report on how the roadshows went.  The 3rd was our nurse. Turns out the woman who would be on duty all day Sunday was a member of our stake! She was getting off duty and happened to pass by our room and look in when Stanley was getting hooked up. She took excellent care of Stanley and all his needs. The surgeon was the best she said and put our fears to rest. The surgery went good, but he had a hard time waking up - these guys don't know how much to give someone with pure blood!  Clinton came with me in the morning and stayed all day until about 4. Stanley was discharged and ready to go home by 6. He's recovering nicely and was back to work the next day - taking it easy of course! Kadee brought her kids Saturday night to see their grandpa. Chloe was so concerned when she saw him in the hospital bed and was asking questions with her concerned look on her face. So sweet!

 We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with all the kids that live here. It was supposed to be our off year, but everyone wanted to come anyway! Happy Day! Everyone but Natalie and JT went to their in-laws in the afternoon for 2nd dinner and they left around 3 so we had a nap and rested the rest of the day. That night we went to the temple to look at all the work Stanley and the boys have been doing. It was nice to walk around without a big crowd, looking at the beautiful Christmas lights and the weather was perfect - not too cold! A week later, we went to see Donny & Marie Christmas in Arizona concert at Gammage. It was a fun night of music and jokes! Marie can sing opera! I think she hit a high A in one number! Amazing. They did some stuff from their show and previous hits and broadway tunes as well as Christmas music. They played old video's on a giant screen they had on stage. Donny can dance like he was in his 20's again! They played a video of "Just Like a Yo-Yo" and he did every move! Couldn't sing that high anymore, so they lowered the key and he sang and danced again! Then he collapsed on the floor, lol! What a work-out! We had a great time with Kadee who went with us and the Quist were in the seats next to us! We saw Pres. Whimpy down on the floor with his wife but he had too much hair for Marie to leave a lipstick kiss on his head! They went in the audience several times to give handshakes and hugs to people. As we came in they had these cardboard cutouts and we stopped and took a quick picture! Nice little reminder of our night!