Funeral for Aunt Carmen

Dear Family, Aunt Carmen's funeral will be Monday, July 7th at the Lehi chapel on Lehi road and Horne. There will be a 9:00 a.m. viewing, with the services starting at 10:00. Meldrum's Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Her obituary will be in the Mesa (East Valley) Tribune this Tuesday, July1st or possibly on Wednesday. I took a sympathy card to Craig and Lori today and got this information from them. Love, Sara Ann

Sad News

Dearest Family, I just received an e-mail from Jeriann Keeling, who said that Aunt Carmen passed away today, Saturday, June 28th. The family is getting together to make the arrangements. I will post more information here when I get it. I love you. Thanks for all your love and support for me and my family! Take care, Sara Ann

Update from the Chemo crew..

My dad finally shaved all of his hair off. Thursday was his 2nd chemo treatment and it held up pretty good until then. We ave been trying to convince him there are a lot of really cool bald people.. like Mr. Clean, Vin Deisel, and Exavier (from x-men)... sorry if I didn't spell those right, but you get the picture. He liked Vin pretty well. I will have to get some pictures up soon but my dad is still a little self conscious about the baldness. My mom and Dad both are pretty worn out but doing well. We are glad that he still has an appetite and none of us have gotten him sick yet. We're trying to be careful but it is so hard with such a touchy and affectionate family. It has really been nice having the boys back (Tyler and his wife, and Ryan came back early from summer sales in Chicago for those of you who hadn't heard). They are helping alot with the yard work- which is a BIG job, and they are working for my dad's company and are able to pick up some of the slack that has been created by my dad's fun cancer stuff ; ) One of my parents' friend in the ward, created a little book of remembrance where people wrote memories with my Dad and encouraging words from people in our ward, past wards, and even some from Arizona friends, for him to read during treatments. If any of you contributed to that thankyou and if any of you would still like to you could send it to me or my mom and we can add it. Thanks for prayers and calls it helps alot. We will keep you all in ours also!
Becca

Aunt Carmen Update

Dear Family, I just spoke to Craig again to see what's new with his mom. She is still at Banner Desert Hospital, but no longer in ICU. She doesn't need visitors at this time. She has had a struggle with the pain medication that she had been on, so that medication has been changed. The next few days the doctor's want to let her rest and recover more from the surgery. Soon she will start therapy for her Lymphoma which Craig told me can be cured according to her doctor. Please continue to pray for Uncle Royd's family. I love each and every one of you! Sara Ann

Aunt Carmen

Dear Family, I went to Banner Desert hospital last night to visit Aunt Carmen. She had her surgery on Wed. June 18th. It took most of the day as the doctors had to harvest bone from her hip and one of her ribs in order to strengthen some vertebre that had been destroyed by her tumor. Uncle Royd said she looked soooo much better on Thursday than after the surgery Wed. night. Craig and Lori; Darren and Marla; and Danny and his wife (sorry I don't remember her name) were all there and we had a good visit. Aunt Carmen might be leaving the hospital today, so call the hospital first if you want to go visit.
I'm not sure if any of you remember that Craig and I are the same age and went to school together. His wife Lori (Bevell) was one of my very best friends in elementary school. I hope you are all welll and happy. I am! I love my family, children, husband and my home. I'm grateful for my testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Take care. And always remember who you are and what you represent!

This is a great site!

Jeremy sent this link to most of us, but just in case any one didn't get it, here's what he sent:

http://www.kids-in-mind.com.

It provides parents and other adults with objective and complete information about a film's content so that they can decide, based on their own value system, whether they should watch a movie with or without their kids (or even at all). It's like a food labeling system which tells you what a food item contains. It is the only reliable, content-based alternative to the confusing MPAA movie ratings and I highly recommend it.