tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50629421173725524922024-03-05T07:46:56.948-07:00Reincarnated As A Mother Our family's never ending roller coaster ride. With a son dealing with cancer, Down's and Autism, life is far from dull.Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.comBlogger1667125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-85446670010688736562017-07-09T20:19:00.001-06:002017-07-09T20:35:10.147-06:00Head Shots, Hot Shots and Heart Shots<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #274e13;">Aye, yai, yai my girls are crazy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Last night Greer curled Reese's hair, picked a dress out of her closet</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">and set outside in the heat for a full on photo shoot.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Reese turns 11 next week and</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">the girls figured she needed to make her "eleven year old debut".</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">So enjoy--</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">And Greer's mad photo skills.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">The three Barkettes' headed off to Camp Rainbow Gold's Sibling Camp</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">this morning.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">They are gone about a week.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Wow, is it ever going to be quiet around here.</span></div>
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<br />Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-46857259774847525902017-07-04T22:45:00.002-06:002017-07-04T22:45:57.661-06:00What a Reunion<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000;">Nothing like starting the ol' family vacation off with an overnight trip</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">on unknown roads to the E.R.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Yep, our little frequent flyer decided to have us try out a new</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">hospital-- St. Luke's Magic Valley in Twin Falls.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">We had just arrived Friday night at our Leavitt Family Reunion</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">when Kean woke us up sounding like a seal barking--</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">darn croup.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">All I can say is thank heavens for modern medicine and steroids.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Kean was breathing fine and wired with energy (mom and dad were not)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">by the time we got back to our camping spot-- just in time for breakfast.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">We gathered at 1000 Springs for my dad's family reunion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">We had our entire crew there-- except my niece who is serving</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">a mission in Oregon. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Even my younger brother, Marc and his family made it from Texas.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">And it was if these cousins hadn't been separated at all.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">The reunion wasn't just for our family but for my dad's side--</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">all of my aunts and uncles and cousins.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">These are my cousin's kids-- mixed in with our kids.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">And I'll tell you, it didn't take long for them to bond and</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">We camped at the coolest place-- right along the snake river</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">and across from several gorgeous waterfalls.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">We packed in the fun.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">That first full day (after our all night hospital visit), we toured</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">an old dairy museum .. where Kean was quite lethargic.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Uh... but not the girls.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Byron, our girls and a bunch of cousins, trekked up to a waterfall.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">These three had to show off the dirt they worked so hard to get.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Kean perked up for the other days.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">He ran us ragged and LOVED swimming in the hot springs pool.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">I was really worried about camping next to the river</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"> but </span><span style="color: #990000;">once he felt how cold it was (and it was)--</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">he was fine staying out.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">The girls were a different story.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">We just partied all day and all night.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">My sister-in-law led us in a rousing evening of Bingo...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">with a prize table that kept us oohing, ahhing, giggling and teasing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">In our opinion, Kean came away with the prize of the night--</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">a new Curious George DVD.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">The highlight for me was a 3-hour trip I took on paddle boards</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">with two of my cousins. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Sorry, after Kean threw my cell phone in the lake last summer,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">I left it in the camp trailer! No pictures.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">I did get pictures of Byron and Reese coming back from their trip.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">We all took this trek across the river and around an island.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">We saw monster sized trout, and massive waterfalls.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Some parts were so lush, we felt almost like we were in Hawaii.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">It was that gorgeous.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">The kids played non-stop-- every game you can think of.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">One of the best was "flour dodge ball".</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">They pelted each other with nylons full of flour</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">and came out looking like extras from an I Love Lucy episode</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">shot in a bakery.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">These kids would get dirty or hot or sweaty-- then cool</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">I think these kids maybe, just maybe had some fun.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">I know I did.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">I love, love, love my aunts and uncles and cousins.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">This may come across more than a little crazy... but</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">cancer can be oh, so beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Case in point.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We got home tonight from a little slice of heaven.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We spent the past four days with seventeen other cancer families</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">at Camp Rainbow Gold's Family Retreat on Lake Perkins.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I can't begin to tell you how much we love this place, these</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">people or this experience.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">(Byron took this picture first thing this morning-- eat your heart out Ansel Adams).</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">My pictures and words are so inadequate.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">From the minute we arrive at camp, it is a joy to watch </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">my children join with others to play, laugh and cut loose.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Even Kean.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">He gets in the middle of things and does "his thing".</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The first night is dinner, music...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and carnival.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I'm talking a full-on carnival with more activities than are in </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">this picture, lots of dancing and way too much cotton candy and other treats.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Nirvana for kids</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and once again, joy for moms to watch such smiles.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Our days were pretty packed-- with archery...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and watching our mountain goats climb the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">This is Reese but Holland set a speed record--</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">she got to the top in 27 seconds.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We went Geo-Catching with other families...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Had lots of down time to laugh (and sing...remember we had Greer with us).</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">One of our favorite activities was solving the mysteries</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">in an "Escape Room".</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Every night was filled with music-- talent shows, silly jokes...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and crazy karaoke.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">On Saturday, the beautiful weather fled and was replaced by snow.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Snow in June!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">That didn't stop the fun...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">we moved inside for crafts, games and general silliness.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Superman - above, Jason Hosick is one of our favorites.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">He wears a new wig about every hour (or at least every few hours).</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I don't know of any child who does not love Jason, including Kean.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Before every meal, we all gather and make a huge circle,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">hold hands to sing a silly, little song about what we are thankful</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">for. For some reason, Kean won't stand with his family or in the </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">circle but has his special spot in the middle of things.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">He goes to the same exact spot before every meal!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">After every meal, it is Shine Time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">A hat, the crazier, the better, is passed around with the microphone</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">where whoever wants to-- shows their gratitude by<br />"shining" for someone or something.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I think Reese shined every meal.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Oh, how we love these crazy folks who do so much for our families.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">This is Camp Director, Steve England-- who happens to be a Lieutenant in the</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Haley Police Department. Wouldn't you love to have him pull you over?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Our final night at camp, Holland and Greer sang a duet as part</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">of the talent show...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">There's nothing better than watching your kids thrive </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and enjoy every minute while being together as a family.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The night ends with the Pine Cone ceremony where every family</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">(some who have lost children and the rest of us, who have had</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">children forever scarred by cancer) tie written "wishes" on </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">It is the most somber moment of camp-- highly emotional and</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We woke up this morning to glorious weather.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Of course, it was the day we said our goodbyes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We did get in a family hike before breakfast.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We came home tired, dirty, loaded up with laundry and</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">even better, loaded up with memories we'll never forget</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and experiences that will recharge us and keep us going.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We love everything about Camp Rainbow Gold-- especially the love.</span></div>
Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-11921100539706776362017-05-18T21:45:00.002-06:002017-05-18T21:45:54.321-06:00The Most Thrilling Gift<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: blue;">You won't believe what came in the mail today...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">one thing that absolutely made this boy smile.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">No, make that giggle...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and try and kiss the gift.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">An autographed photo from none other than THE CURIOUS GEORGE!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Actually, it is signed by Frank Welker himself,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">the guy who has voiced countless movie and cartoon characters--</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">but most importantly (to Kean anyway) Curious George.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Thank you, thank you, thank you Leslie Lamers!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">You have made one little boy incredibly happy</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">(and one mom incredibly touched)!</span></div>
Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-60567411309896812602017-04-28T12:35:00.001-06:002017-04-28T12:35:54.284-06:00Blowing Bubbles and "Stink" Eye!<div style="text-align: center;">
Big exhale.</div>
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Yesterday was Kean's regular cancer screenings at MSTI.</div>
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He wasn't too happy to get his arms numbed up for "vampire draws"</div>
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but once we got there... they are so dang cute with him</div>
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he seems to forget why he is there.</div>
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I'd have to say if I had someone blowing bubbles and singing to me,</div>
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I'd be happier about my doctors appointments too.</div>
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In honor of National Pay It Forward day, my company, Scentsy, gives</div>
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all 1058 employees a ten dollar bill and a little card</div>
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asking the recipient to pay it forward.</div>
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While at the Cancer clinic the nurses told us about a teen boy who was</div>
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having a particularly rough day-- Kean and I went over, introduced ourselves</div>
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and then Kean gladly handed him the card and money.</div>
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It sure brightened our day-- hoping it did the same for Jake.</div>
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By the way, Kean's counts look good.</div>
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That's the great news.</div>
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The bad news is he woke up with a gift from the clinic--</div>
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Pink Eye.</div>
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So another day off of school.</div>
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This makes day 49 this year. Isn't that insane?</div>
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And he has two weeks he's taking off for surgery starting</div>
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May 9th.</div>
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This boy is a record breaker I tell you!</div>
Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-23233725387582699252017-04-01T20:43:00.000-06:002017-04-01T20:43:03.256-06:00Vegas Baby<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: blue;">Let me quote my dear husband:</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">"We are having Prime Rib. Sorry for your bad luck!"</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I'm home while the whole gang (including my parents)</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">are spending Spring Break in Vegas.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I had to take a business trip to Atlanta</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">(I had an incredible view from my hotel room)...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and got home yesterday in time for another baby cow</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">to make its debut this morning.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">It looks and sounds like they are having a grand time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I'm told Kean only whined for me for the first couple of days</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">(he's now conveniently forgotten about me)- ha.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">They spent one day hiking around one of our favorites--</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Valley of Fire.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">If you haven't been, it's about 45 miles outside of Vegas.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">And has all kinds of cool historical stories (about a renegade Indian</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">who killed a few people and hid up in these canyons)</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and lots of Indian Petroglyphs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">They got to have dinner with my childhood best friend and her husband--</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and have been living it up in the sun at Grammy and Grandpa's house.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">There's no pool but a jacuzzi is just as good.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">This is the house my parents are trying to sell -- again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">In case you didn't know, they had it sold once but the</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">guy died three weeks before closing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">If you know of anyone... er, looking to buy, not die--</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">let me know!</span></div>
Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-6120385498020893572017-02-25T23:02:00.000-07:002017-02-25T23:02:14.536-07:00The Dancing King and His Queens<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: blue;">Friday night we had one of our best evenings of the year.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Boise State's Dance Marathon is something we look forward to all year long.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Hundreds and hundreds of students dance all night to raise money</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">for St. Luke's Children's Hospital and the Children's Miracle Network.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Kean's been one of their "Champion" children since they</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">started this event at BSU five years ago. Of course, this</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">was only his second year he was well enough to attend--</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and just look at him up on stage with some of the other honored</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Part of what makes this so fun, is we've grown to love</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">many of these students. Here the kids are reunited with</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Kendra from last year. We adore this girl!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">In the hopes of getting the students motivated to keep dancing,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">they had our family (and others) get up on stage and tell</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Kean was so great on stage-- totally comfortable</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and even babbled something into the mic.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">They lined up the portraits and stories of all of the honored kids.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I had to stop myself from stealing Kean's and taking it home--</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">it was so cute!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">They did let us take home the posters where the kids</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">wrote the kindest notes to each of the children.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">It is such a fun event-- lots of food, treats, visitors---</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Kean was quite intrigued by the giant cow.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I'm not sure what a cow has to do with the Boise State Broncos,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">but Kean loved playing with the poor guy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Of course, there was a lot of dancing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">One of my favorite moments? Reese dancing with Kean.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">She weighs a whopping five pounds more than he does.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I loved this coed- who came over, plopped down on the floor</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and hung out with Kean for about twenty minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">In fact, that's one of the things we love so much-- we must have</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">been hugged by at least a hundred students. They are so great </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and friendly with all of us.\</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">This is a picture of our dear friend, Drea-- the student who heads</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">up the entire Dance Marathon.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Everyone paid a buck to put a piece of duct tape on her</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">to strap her to the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">My girls were right in there!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Another fun fundraiser, was Jail. My mom sent Reese</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">to jail for ten minutes. We like to start our juvenile delinquency</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">off young.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We couldn't leave Holland and Greer out of the fun.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We hired Malek (the guy on the left) to round them up and haul</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We were there for about five hours (not in jail, at the event)-- and the dance floor</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">just kept growing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The student union/rec center regulations don't allow anyone</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">under 18 to stay past ten. So at about 9:30, all the hero </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Kean had his little harem of coeds surrounding him.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">He wanted nothing to do with his family-- he was</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">too busy dancing in the arms of one girl after another!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">And he didn't even seem phased by the fact there was nearly</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Our favorite part - hands down- is the end of OUR night--</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">when all the students form a monster of a long tunnel</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and we all run the gauntlet-- telling them thank you and</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">giving them high fives.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">It is an incredible experience...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">where we feel nothing but love.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Kean ate it up-- especially since he was being carried</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">the entire time (her back must be aching today)</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">by a cute, blonde co-ed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We went home to bed (Kean was asleep before we left the parking garage)</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">while the students danced all night.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">They unveiled the funds raised this morning.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Drum roll please....</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">$150,712.62 RAISED FOR THE KIDS!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Can you believe that?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">The future of our country is in good hands.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Seriously.</span></span></div>
Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-21783087792403803592017-02-13T21:11:00.000-07:002017-02-13T21:11:37.064-07:00A Slice of Heaven Served up With a Side of Hell<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: blue;">Excuse me while I scream.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We were back in the doctor's office tonight.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Kean has, yep, two more ear infections.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">His third set in a months time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Who knows if they are the same ear infections that never cleared up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">All I know is he's miserable.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Those are his toes sticking above his shoulder while we waited.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">He's on antibiotic number three (a stronger one for a longer time).</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and we've been ordered to see his ENT. Today's doc suspects</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">an underlying sinus infection is to blame.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Well at least we had a few days break.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We went up to Sun Valley for the weekend-- mostly</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">so I could testify at a hearing on behalf of Camp Rainbow Gold.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">They are trying to build their own camp on a pristine</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Unfortunately, the uber rich neighbors don't want it in their backyard.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">It was a long, long and depressing experience.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">It's a good thing we made up for it in fun the rest of the weekend with the family.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The snow was unbelievable-- cars and homes buried.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We saw signs of avalanches everywhere-- even Baldy,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">the big ski resort was closed down for a few days while they</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We spent one day with our favorite Camp Rainbow Gold counselor,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Jaime and her family. The girls couldn't get enough of her</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">She took us up this amazing sledding hill...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">where, I'm not sure if we talked more or sledded more.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">That night we all relaxed at the hotel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">On Saturday, we took a leap and got Byron back in skates and on ice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The last time he tried skating, he skewered his leg, got a metal plate,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">10 pins and was on crutches for months and months.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">He said it was playing with his mind-- but after a few minutes</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">he settled in and boy, did we have fun.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Kean sat in that little chair for a whopping 1 and a half hours</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">while we took turns pushing him around.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">He was in heaven.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Hopefully, he's hanging on to all those fun memories while</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">he feels so lousy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Poor kid.</span></div>
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<br />Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-18051765124661034082017-01-30T19:52:00.001-07:002017-01-30T19:52:20.773-07:0018 Jam Packed Years<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Happy Anniversary to this guy--</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">my guy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">18 years- wow.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">What we've been through is enough to fill</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">several books. But hopefully, we are better people for it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Greer and Reese went all out and decorated our room</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">to mark the occasion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Here's the sad part though,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Kean and I are both sick--</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">we stayed home today.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">He with two infected ears and two infected eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Me, a raging case of Bronchitis.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">He's back on antibiotics (again).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I'm on codeine cough syrup and steroids to try and clear </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">up my cough.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Greer says I says I sound like a dying squirrel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">You can see our batch of drugs behind the pizza boxes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Byron brought home Pizza Hut after I ordered Dominoes!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">(This is even the shortened stack. We pawned off a pizza on the Bodily's)!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Kean and I did venture out of the house for his big cancer screens at MSTI.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I'd already cancelled a few times because of the flu so felt we should</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">try and make this one since by afternoon we were both feeling somewhat better.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Typical Kean-- he ripped off every mask-- so they kept us</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">All went well-- his counts are good-- even though they had</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">to take blood twice (they messed up his first submissions).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">And the even better news-- we don't have to go back for another three months!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">It happened.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Gigi got braces today</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">and I think she looks adorable.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Okay, so maybe she looked kind of like a platypus during</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">the procedure but she looks cute now.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">And here's my update on Kean's medical issues.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">We drove through a snow storm (again) on Monday</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">to make it to the hospital for his meeting with</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">the Pediatric Neurologist.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">In short, all is well. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Dr. Foy didn't find anything scary from his EEG and found</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">no reason why he had those two seizures.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">So we are not going to do anything, we especially are</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">not going to worry and we hope we </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">can be done with this nonsense!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I'm hoping Kean won't remember how traumatic</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I tell ya, I never want to go through it again. Holding him </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">As a refresher, Kean had a couple of seizures a month or so ago.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Lucky us, we got to spend the night in the hospital</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">to test his brain activity and his sleep patterns.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">That miserable, miserable test showed he has moderate</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">sleep apnea and surprise-- his heart was stopping several times in the night</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">for two seconds or more.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">That new, little trick earned us another trip to the hospital</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">to take home a heart harness monitor.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">More fun times, especially in the middle of the night</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">as Kean woke me up time and time again to say "off"!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We finally got in to see our new Pediatric Cardiologist</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">(super cool Dr. Womack). We still have to wait</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">to see the Pediatric Neurologist and the Pulmonary Specialist.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We got the best possible news!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">And I think Kean even sensed what the doc was going to find.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: blue;">He ran more tests and talked our ears off...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">But here are the cliff notes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">He said, and I quote: "Bottom line, your son has a good ticker".</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">In other words, this mama doesn't need to worry!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Now to get through the next two appointments.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">And certainly hoping for the same good results.</span></div>
Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-54713924836728586832016-12-30T21:01:00.000-07:002016-12-30T21:01:05.645-07:00Food Obsessed<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: purple;">You know how each anniversary has its designation: gold, paper etc.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">This birthday, clearly is the food birthday.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Don't believe me?</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Let's see, I started the morning off with Reese surprising us all with</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">She had forgotten that two of my girlfriends were taking me out for</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">breakfast.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">The afternoon was gobbled up (like that food reference?)</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">with taking the pups to the vet for follow-ups, a</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">shopping spree at the grocery store (more food)</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">and then dinner out with my 98-year-old grandmother...</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">my sweet mother-in-law...</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">and my wonderful parents.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span id="goog_496432334"></span><span id="goog_496432335"></span>Byron and the kids came too.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">I don't know how we missed getting pictures of them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">But trust me, I need to be rolled up the stairs and into bed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">I'm stuffed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Oh, and feeling well loved.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Thanks for all the birthday wishes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">I have the best group of friends.</span></div>
Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-20277884093809729272016-12-28T22:35:00.000-07:002016-12-29T21:22:18.982-07:00The "Sorta" Test Results<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: blue;">I've had so many of you ask if we got the results from Kean's</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">testing on his seizures.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Well, kinda.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We don't meet with the Neurologist for a few more weeks</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">but Kean's pediatrician called on Friday to say while he hasn't</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">gotten the official report, he did not see anything scary.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">However, (and geez, doesn't there always have to be a however with </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">this kid), the sleep study showed his heart stopped several times</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">during the night for short durations (over 2 seconds is all I know).</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">So guess what?!?!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We now get to add another new doctor to our stable.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Lucky us.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We are hoping it is no big deal. But for a kid</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">with his health history, we don't get to skate.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Kean's new Cardiologist ordered a heart monitor harness</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">for 24 hours- Monday onto Tuesday.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7WFcu8QrWskMQ0JwG5TAKfm7wvYh5viUngaS33Og7UVB9TouxEMFDS38TqvXiYIsPS5XFct79yy_rQXoccO_F0z1eWVlm1eFiGiqr-qzZd6CLkZuWsi7SkC9HZJA_JnFiFjNHCSVJzKw/s1600/IMG_0761.JPG" imageanchor="1"></a>That's Nicholle, Kean's therapist helping</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">me hold him down so the technician can</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">put the sensors in the right spots.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">Surprisingly, it wasn't too much of a battle.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">And he didn't fight it quite as much as I expected</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The night was a bit rough (he woke up several times</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">to tell me "off").</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">But we completed the test without having to re-attach</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">any of the sensors. So that's definitely a win-win</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">in my book.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We turned it all back into the hospital yesterday.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">And now we all wait.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We see his new Cardiologist on January 12th.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The fun sure never ends, does it!</span></div>
Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-56645307743405549452016-12-27T21:09:00.001-07:002016-12-27T21:11:21.442-07:00As Good As It Gets<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #274e13;">I have long since given up trying to get Christmas Cards out in the mail.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">(Thank you to all of you who do send them to us, we LOVE them).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Our cute neighbor cornered us into taking a few "snaps" one Sunday afternoon in our yard.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">So this will have to do for our holiday greetings.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Happy holidays. How grateful we are for each of you,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">for your examples of kindness, goodness and friendship.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">And how thankful we are for a Savior who loves</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">us unconditionally.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">May 2017 bring health and happiness to all of us.</span></div>
Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-84763614623587781882016-11-26T21:52:00.000-07:002016-11-26T21:53:05.970-07:00Land of the Shining Mountains<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;">Nothing like blogging about our family vacation nearly two months after the fact!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">It may not be timely but we sure had a phenomenal trip.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We went with our close friends, the Borup's to Montana.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We visited the old farm where Byron grew up...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We spent time with his mom, Grandma Kay</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">and some dear friends, the Morgan's.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We strolled the quaint streets of Byron's hometown, Big Fork.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">And then headed up into Glacier Park for a couple of days.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We all had fun taking family pics with the stunning scenery</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">The Borup's were so much fun to be with </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">and get this, they still are our friends after spending that </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">many days with us in our camp trailer!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We hiked up about half way to where Byron was chased</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">by a grizzly bear years ago. If you haven't</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">heard his crazy story, you should. That bear had him</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">and for some reason, let him go.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We also oohed and awed over</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">some of the sites. It was so pretty, it</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">almost looked fake.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We walked the shores of the lake in the rain.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">But that didn't stop us from spending a good half hour</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">seeing who could skip rocks the farthest.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">This boy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">He loved, loved being outside</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">and got a good work out nearly every day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We love visiting Glacier in the fall...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Even though several of the hotels and lodges are closed,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">it is as if we have the whole park nearly to ourselves.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;">And there is a picture perfect picture to take</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">nearly everywhere you turn.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Outside the park, we visited White Fish Lake...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">gorgeous.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Swan Lake...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">gorgeous.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">And Holland Lake.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Yep, that's right.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Holland has her own personal lake.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Or at least she thinks so.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">And yes...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">gorgeous.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We love Montana.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">In fact, I think, Byron would move back in a minute.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Uh, not gonna happen.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I'd be the first white cross on the side of the road...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Too cold.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Gorgeous but too cold.</span></div>
Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-7905856853286641832016-10-31T22:19:00.000-06:002016-10-31T22:19:24.875-06:00Repeat After Me: Trick or Treat!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #b45f06;">What a fun night we had tonight.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">You can't tell from this picture but we really did dress Kean up for Halloween.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Our first stop? The Bodily's and before I could even get up to the house,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Kean had stripped off his monkey suit, walked into the "Gobily's" house</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">and started pounding down the candy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Only problem is he forgot to take off the brown paper</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">around his Reese's Peanut Butter Cup-- and ate it too.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">(Fiber, right?)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">It sure didn't take long for Kean to catch </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">on to the fact he could get a treat at every house.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">He quickly learned to say "Trick or Treat" and "thank you".</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">It did take him forever to catch on that he needed to keep</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">his costume on!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">In fact, at our neighbor, Gina Kwid's house the ol' costume came right off.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">And while he, yep, ate another piece of candy, I did</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">get a picture of these cute girls-- H, G, and R and their friends.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">We always spend the first hour or so of the night visiting</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">a handful of our dear neighbors and friends.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">We love that tradition.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">You'd think with the slower start it would cut down on the candy grab--</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">unfortunately (in my book but not the kids), that's not the case.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">They get especially spoiled and come home with more candy</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">than should be legal for a child to have!</span></div>
Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-75244543551845623762016-10-17T21:33:00.000-06:002016-10-17T21:33:15.653-06:00Our Hospital Reward<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: blue;">Today was one of those days where if I let myself, I'd mow my fingernails</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">down to nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We had Kean's cancer screenings.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">And even though we are now just over a year out, it still scares</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">the spit out of me to have to wait for his results.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Kean, of course, wasn't nervous one bit.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">In fact, he fell asleep in the car and snoozed through</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">much of our wait to start the tests.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">It was kind of rude of us to wake him up just in time to </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">But he was a trooper.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">If anything, he had a harder time holding still for vitals.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">That is, until we gave him a little dog to put the blood pressure</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The clinic was getting used to a new computer system</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">so we had an extra amount of waiting.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Kean just decided to look cute while we waited.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">He kind of gets me with that toothless smile.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">And all the waiting sure paid off.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Kean's counts are getting better and better</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">with each month.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">In fact, drum roll please... we now only</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">have to go into the hospital for testing</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">every THREE months.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Christmas came a little early for this mama.</span></div>
Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-28155756259322000062016-09-28T21:13:00.000-06:002016-09-28T21:13:46.487-06:00Lucky Ducks<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;">For those of you who don't live in Idaho-- I feel sorry for ya.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">It takes us just over an hour to get up to some of our favorite spots in the mountains-</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">we love to go up and relax around Lake Cascade.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Not too far from there is this fabulous little hot springs</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">and on this crisp morning, we had it all to ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">On a few occasions, we've hiked in to find a few</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">naked folks.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">No problem-- we just tell the kids to look the other</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">It is such a lovely setting, Holland and Reese</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">asked for a photo shoot.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Of course, Byron and I had to do our own version.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Sunday after church, we took a family hike.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Bryon and I each took one of Kean's hands and he even hiked</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">up quite a ways until it got too steep. Good therapy, eh?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Holland found these formations that looked like giant toes sticking out.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We sure love where we live.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Actually, we've loved everywhere we've lived.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We are pretty lucky that way.</span></div>
Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-72420078661320842372016-09-19T14:36:00.001-06:002016-09-19T14:36:32.537-06:00The Huge Highs and the Little Lows<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: blue;">It is funny, I used to be so good about making near daily</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">posts on this blog. Now that Kean is finished with treatment</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">(and hopefully cancer forever) I'm lucky if I check in once a week.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">So here goes: our week in review-- and what a week it has been.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We had a church/neighborhood Rodeo-- the real thing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">From 3 legged races...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">to jump houses that Kean didn't ever want to leave...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">to massive egg toss competitions (come now, doesn't every</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">rodeo have an egg toss)?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The highlight had to be the pig chase--</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">yep, picture 100 kids madly chasing after a good sized</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">hefty, squealing pig with fifty bucks taped to its hind leg. And they</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">did it twice with two different pigs!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Byron and I even ran into an old friend from our single days in Arizona-</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Maurice Matsumori. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Kean had a ball.... riding horses...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and deciding after all that Cotton Candy is a good thing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I cursed him by telling everyone how well he's been doing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The next night, we spent most of the night in the E.R.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Poor boy got a double whammy-</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Croup and Stridor-- both respiratory issues.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">He's fine now, thankfully.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Greer and I spent much of Saturday at the Music Theater of Idaho's offices</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">building a bathtub as part of the set for The Little Mermaid.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Then we raced home, scraped the paint off of our hands and arms</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and did our best to clean up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Our family was invited to the big Make A Wish gala event.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">It was in the Stueckle Sky Building-overlooking</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">BSU's football stadium.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The views were stunning of our fair city (and</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Greer looked just as stunning-- so grown up)!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">My mom kept Kean and brought him up later</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">for the program. I was the keynote.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">But we had a blast leading up to the dinner.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The attendees all buy "wish bucks"-- think monopoly money</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">they pass out to BSU athletes who pull off the craziest antics</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">to earn money.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">They have players from all the big sports teams at BSU and</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">they compete to see which team can earn the most.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">This guy was from the wrestling team. He showed off</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">a talent only a mother could be proud of-- he drank down a</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Ick.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The football team sang and danced...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Reese's favorite was the gymnastics team--</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">they did back flips, cartwheels and all kinds of</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Holland was adopted by the Track and Field team</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">(she runs track for Eagle High)...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">And this tennis player serenaded the family in French.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">In fact, I think we had every team do something for our family</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">What a fun and crazy night.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">All of a sudden, the BSU marching band came streaming out</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">of the elevators- playing their fight songs full blast.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">They literally pushed everyone into the room for dinner to be served.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Once inside, some of the coaches spoke, we had more</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">players do some pretty crazy things</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and we had a lovely dinner.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Well, the little bit I ate tasted fine.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I can't eat a ton and then get up and speak.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Suffice it to say, the speech went well, there were tears</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">in the audience and most importantly, people gave generously</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">to Make A Wish when all the talking was done.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We treasured our trip to Disney World, Universal and Sea World.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Looking forward to it kept us going for those three plus dark</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">years of Chemo, surgical procedures, vomit and hair loss.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">And now, we have those memories-- and what amazing memories they are--</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">to always fall back on.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Thank you Make A Wish for an incredible evening and</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">a trip of a life time.</span></div>
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Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-6278181304305931002016-09-07T22:31:00.002-06:002016-09-07T22:31:44.176-06:00La Goon's<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;">Why do I feel like I need a vacation to recover from a vacation?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Probably because I wrestled the kids without Byron.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">He stayed home while I took the crew to Utah for the weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">First stop? Lagoon Amusement Park.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">The girls took off and hit some of the "bigger kid" rides</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">while Kean and I hit a bunch of the small fry options.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Reese was a good sport and joined up with us to ride with</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Kean on many of the rides I could barely get my long legs in to!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">And then, bless their sweet souls, were my nieces, Morgan and Lindsey.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">They rode with Kean on several rides that would have had me barfing- like this one-</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">a ride that spins and lifts up. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">It was, hands down, Kean's favorite. Get this, he rode</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">it EIGHT times with Morgan and Lindsey.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">My favorite was the ol' Rattlesnake Rapids-- a rafting trip</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">down a river and through a waterfall. Because of Kean, we</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">got to ride every ride twice before getting off.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">And on this one, boy, did we get soaked.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Our tickets to Lagoon were free-- part of our parting gift</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">from our Make A Wish trip we took to Florida back in</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">November.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We didn't get the rock star treatment like we did on our</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Make A Wish trip, but we did have a blast cramming in</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">as much as we could. The lines weren't bad and Kean</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">surprised us with his stamina. As long as we kept him</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">on rides, he was happy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">The girls were just crazy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We topped the night off with a stop for dinner</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">at In and Out. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Kean wolfed down his own milkshake.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">You can see someone's hands in the pic- all</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">ready to grab the shake.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">That would be because he has a habit of</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">tossing things when he's done.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">For example, a near full cup of root beer</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">in the car (make that, all over the car we had just cleaned </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">from top to bottom)!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Notice, the girls are all responsible drinkers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">The other big highlight of our trip was visiting my</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">grandmother at her new assisted living center.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Of course, Kean waltzed right in, found her bed</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">and pretended to take a nap (snores and all).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Her new place is lovely.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Seriously, I'm tempted to sell off my kids</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">It is that nice!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We got a tour of her new digs...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">look at how cute the area is just outside her door.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We even had lunch with her in the dining room.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We actually were there to help celebrate and honor her</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">on her 98th birthday.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We gathered in a room upstairs and many of her children,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">grandchildren (there are 86 of us) and great grandchildren (she has over 300)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">took turns performing for her and sharing their talents.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Greer was one of the first to go-- she sang a solo.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I thought you'd like to see my darling Grandma</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">and her children. I love every one of these people</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">more than I can ever express.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I count myself pretty blessed to come from such goodness.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Now if I can just figure out how my grandmother seems</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">to have much more energy at 98 than I do at .........</span></div>
Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-67439663677078124002016-08-28T21:54:00.001-06:002016-08-28T21:54:57.862-06:00Goldilocks and the Three Beds<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">This boy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Never a dull moment.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We went to visit a friend from church and up the stairs he</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">went (we thought to play with her kids).</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Nope, we found him first trying out this bed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Clearly, it was too hard...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">so off it was to this bed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I think that one was a little too soft...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">or perhaps, too BSU-ey?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">He finally settled on this bed; the teenage daughter's</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">queen sized bed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Good choice son.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">He was a "bear" though, to get out of there and get</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Speaking of the car.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Look who commandeered my camera</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">while I was driving.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">That girl.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">(And that boy)!</span></div>
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<br />Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-26442752449591231182016-08-22T22:50:00.001-06:002016-08-22T22:50:19.755-06:00And They Are Off...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: blue;">Let's face it. The Internet has been full </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">of all these darling portraits of kids holding signs</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">about what grade they are in or what school they are going to.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I'm lucky to a. get my kids off to school</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and b. be alert enough to snap a picture on my phone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Poor Holland starts her day with an out the door time of 6 a.m.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Yes, it is still dark.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">And yes, she's still half asleep.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Greer is a much more palatable 7 a.m.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Remember, I was crazy enough to have four kids going to four schools.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Reese and Kean both ride buses.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Luckily they are supposed to be only 15 minutes apart.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Reese got on and left us with no problems.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Kean's bus was well over half an hour late. Which means we played around</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and rode his bicycle for nearly 50 minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">But once he got on the bus, he was fine.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">His new bus driver and aid, by the way, are darling.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The first day is under our belt.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">They all seemed to do fine, even Kean.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">He's a big first grader this year- we have him on a Kindergarten </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">schedule, only going half a day. But I think he'll be moving right up to longer</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and longer days before we know it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Yes, he's doing that well!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Knock on wood...</span></div>
Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-100980529695121692016-08-18T22:12:00.001-06:002016-08-18T22:12:33.760-06:00Whoosh<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: blue;">Big sigh of relief tonight.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We got through another day of screenings at the hospital</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">(checks to make sure the big C hasn't come back to torture us).</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">One of the best things about going to the clinic is Miss Jenn.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">As a Child Life Specialist, her job is to play with the kiddos.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Kean loves her--</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and pleasantly shocked both of us by telling her some of his</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">favorite foods he likes to eat (without prompting).<br />That's a big deal, folks!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Here's the rundown.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Kean's counts are all looking fabulous.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">His neutraphils (ability to fight germs) are still quite low</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">but slowly, slowly inching up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The doc said once in a while it takes a kid much longer</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">to recover. Guess we have that "once in a while kid".</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I like to tell myself, slow and steady wins the race, right?!?!</span></div>
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<br />Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-9887341784284376532016-08-10T22:19:00.000-06:002016-08-10T22:19:14.433-06:00The Birthday Cone of Shame<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #b45f06;">I absolutely love this picture.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">My friend Fabiana took it THREE YEARS ago</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">when we did the photo shoot for the Hall of Heroes</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">at St. Luke's Children's Hospital.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">This boy is growing up so very fast.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Today we celebrated his seventh trip around the sun.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">And what did he want for dinner? Tacos.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">It is a big deal that he has progressed enough to tell us</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">what he wants for dinner.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">He is doing really well.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">(Knock on wood)!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">For the first time ever, he blew out some of the candles on his cake</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">and was engaged and excited to open some of his presents.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">He was particularly taken with this little car his Aunt Kori</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">sent him. He'd push the button and giggle as it raced across the table.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Alas, the item that got the most play</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">(and wasn't even a birthday gift) was</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">the dog's cone of shame.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Go figure!</span></div>
Lonni Leavitt-Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882323078094444458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062942117372552492.post-54905103790745666152016-08-06T22:17:00.001-06:002016-08-10T22:20:17.437-06:00Playtime<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;">Byron and I escaped this afternoon to meet up with some friends for lunch.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Kyle and Amy Benson live a few hours away and have a little girl</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">who is about six months younger than Kean.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">And like Kean, she was blessed with that extra chromosome</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">and cursed with cancer.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We met at Tucanos Brazilian Steakhouse for the yummiest lunch we've had in a long time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">That meat is incredible!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Last night, we also went out-- for the most relaxing</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">and loveliest evening on the lake.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Oh, and side splitting, heavy duty belly laughs--</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">'cause look who we were with-- our dear friends, Calene and Mark</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Borup and Marc and Monique Warner. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I was a wuss and didn't even try... but Byron got </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">up skiing...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">and criss crossed the lake-- which we almost had to ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Boy, did we both need those breaks!</span></div>
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