It was great to see everyone yesterday at the birthday party. Hope you enjoy the pictures. Rich and Bev and family were able to take home their desk and they took the old plymoth to fix up for a friend. We are glad someone can use it and that it is now out of our lives. Today I am in the midst of dying Teresa's hair. So I must run and rince it out now. bye.

We went to the lake so Deborah could take some pictures for her photography class and noticed this new statue. 

Chris 

Grandma Ruth 

Bev 

Rich 

Deborah and Gloria 

Teresa 

Grandpa Larry 

Happy Birthday Gloria and Rich 

Chris is getting along pretty well. He has learned to do most things by himself although is it still hard to open the bottle of pain meds. We did get new slip on shoes so he can go for a walk easier. Teh days are sometimes long for him but he hopes to do more walking next week.

We are enjoying having Laura home for the weekend. She has a consult for her wisdom teeth on Monday and she also hopes to get a flu shot and a chiro adjustment. She is currentlly out with her friends.

We enjoyed visiting Grandad and Grandma Theo in Cathlamet on Saturday and Grandpa Larry and Grandma Ruth today. Laura, Teresa and I also made some homemade cards on Saturday. And of course we watched way too many movies since Laura was home. LOL. We liked the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. It is a real tearjerker.

The next week looks to be busy with trips to Portland, home group, worship practice for Jan, class on Wednesday for Jan and Chris, Jan working Wednesday-Friday and a birthday celebration on Saturday for Rich and Gloria. It will be good to see them.

Have a good week. Jan

Surgery day

We left home around 6:00 and made good time. We stopped for gas and still made it to the hospital by 7:20. We sucessfully found parking and the same day surgery waiting room and proceeded to wait.... Finally we were taken back to the inner room and given lovely new clothes to wear and hooked up to an IV. They were sucessful on the first try which is always nice. We shared a room with three or four others that seemed in worse shape than Chris. Chris watched a show on building a fifty five story dam in Europe but he didn't get to finish the building project as we were taken to another room. Here They called over the walkie talkie asking for a volunteer to come shave a male patient's upper extremity. After the shaving Chris noticed his arm was much colder. He was also hooked up to compression leggings to squeeze his legs every few seconds. And the Doctor came in and became pretty ticked off because his paperwork hadn't arrived from his office. Not a good sign. But the paperwork was redone and the H and P found and the surgery was still on. They kept assuring us this would not compromise his care in any way.... After meeting the anesthesist and nurse Chris was wheeled off and I headed to the waiting room... for more waiting... three hours later I followed Chris to yet another room. Now he was in a cast and sling. He was hot instead of cold and very thirsty. After about two hours we were headed home. The first stop was a Starbucks for a carmel frapachino and the second stop was to Kaiser in Longview for his pain meds. Then blessed home.

Thanks for all your prayers.

We are glad that Mom is home from the hospital and are still praying for healing of symptoms but she is much stronger.

Chris had his pre-op appointment today and everything is set for next Tuesday the 18th. The surgery is at SW Washington Medical Center in Vancouver.

Teresa has a retreat in Portland tomorrow night and Saturday. They will drive back to Longview and spend the night at Northlake Baptist church.

I have several sewing jobs this weekend to do for three different people. I don’t think I will have much or any e-team sewing this year so it is nice to have some jobs for other people.

We will be praying for Tonia Friday as she has her wisdom teeth out, Hope is goes as smoothly as possible and she will have a speedy recovery.

I’m glad tomorrow is Friday, I am tired of this week!

The week in review

Tuesday we had life group at Kia and Khang’s house. We had a visiting couple join us which was nice. We enjoy having home group at our house but it is nice when it is at other people’s homes also.

Wednesday I had a tooth pulled. I had not expected it to be as difficult a procedure as it seemed to be but I survived. It has definitely reaffirmed to me that wisdom teeth need to be removed under anesthesia! I had the option of laughing gas with mine but have had negative experiences with that in the past so opted for just the Novocain. They had to give me several more shots as we went along so I felt like a wimp. But it is over.

Because of my tooth I missed the class I am taking on Wednesday night that Chris is helping to facilitate. The class is on DVD and is basically on home groups. I need to make up the DVD today I guess.

Friday we had Jim and Janis Harvey and Jeanne and Steve Nortness over for dessert and talking. It was nice and mostly relaxing. We didn’t actually get any games played but that is okay. I had a cake in the freezer that I unthawed but also tried a recipe from the paper for Green tomato pie which is supposed to taste like apple pie. It sounds terrible but actually tasted pretty good if you could get past knowing what is in it. I am not sure what possessed me to make it really except I hate to see anything wasted and every once in a while I like to try something new. We are trying to invite new people over every once in a while on Fridays especially. This week we are thinking of our neighbors. The worst part is actually doing the inviting. Ugh. We’ll see if we get brave enough. Lol

Saturday we went garage saling. We are sad to see the end of the season coming quickly. Teresa and I went to Wal-Mart and I visited with Mom and Dad. Mom has had a hard week but we hope she will continue to get better this week.

Sunday we went to church. Teresa is now helping with the 1st and 2nd graders. I got a little orientation regarding doing the overhead projecting which I am now doing every so often. I am scheduled twice this month. They use the same program as New Horizons but run it differently. I should be able to pick it up. Tonight is worship practice so Chris and I will both be going since it is my week for the overhead.

Have a good week. Jan

We have enjoyed a great visit with Jonathan and Tonia this weekend. All the family in this neck of the woods come for lunch on Saturday and we had fun looking at old photo albums and catching up with each other. Later that night we went to see the movie Serenity which continues the same story line as the series Firefly. We enjoyed the movie and it filled in a lot of the blanks in the story. If you haven’t seen Firefly it would be harder to know the characters.

Today Chris helped on the worship team for the first time. It sounded good and was good to see him doing that again as he always looks like he is having so much fun. Teresa started helping with the 1st and 2nd grade class. I start helping with the overhead on the 16th and the 30th and the nursery on 11/6/05 so we are gradually getting plugged in. Our home group has changed its night to Tuesday so Chris can do worship practice. Teresa’s home group changed back to Mondays so Jim could take a class on Tuesdays which is probably more than you really wanted to know.

After church we watched a couple of netflicks and took naps and I did a tape for HealthWorks and Teresa did some homework. Chris is cleaning his old office and setting up the computer again. We had moved it to Laura’s room when our other one was getting serviced so Teresa could print out her homework. Everything is getting back to its rightful place now that Laura is back at school.

Have a good week everyone.