The L Word

Pops doing an egg and spoon race just because the boys wanted him to:)

Meeting his first granddaughter for the first time:)

Patiently helping Davey feed Hope a bottle when she was only a week old.


This is my Dad. He is hilarious when he does not even try to be and is truly the BEST grandfather on the planet. He loves his grandsons and his granddaughter and is protective of us all. He loves VT Hokies and is a Godly man.

Why am I telling you all of this?? He is in need of your prayers. He was diagnosed about a month or so ago with Chronic Leukemia (CLL). Praise Jesus it is not the aggressive, grow really fast kind of cancer but it is still cancer. He is in stage zero (prasie Jesus) but the doctors have no idea how fast or slow it will progress.

I know we are blessed that he is in such an early stage and that it is the slow-moving type of cancer, but we ask for your prayers for him. They have been to an oncologist in RAdford, but they also went to Norfolk to a specialist (thank you Uncle Gary) that specializes in this type of cancer. Both doctors are optimistic and great, but who wants to even have to visit an oncologist.

My Dad is a rock star around this house. I love him dearly and he is David's favorite person on the planet. Just recently David walked into my house and saw me and my Mom but the first words out of his mouth were "where's Pops?" In the next few weeks we will have some additional testing that will perhaps shed some more light on this CLL, but in the meantime we covet your prayers for Pops:) He is truly the klutziest, most precious, hilarious person in the world-and he does not even try to be:)

Not Me Monday!

It is a chilly and dreary Monday morning here. Just perfect weather to snugggle on the couch and pretend to be getting stuff done. It is Not Me Monday time-time to publish for all the blog world to see my slightly ummm, less than precious moments over the last week or so.

I did NOT enjoy three lunches out last week with friends. That would be simply too luxurious to dine out three days in a row with friends.

I did NOT feel the least bit guilty when I took Hope in to see the doctor on Friday and ended up chatting with our friendly pediatrician for way past our allotted time. I would never be selfish and simply chat away with a friend when she is working:)

I did NOT simply throw away a baby sleeper when Hope had a blow out on it because I was too lazy to find the stain stick. Nope not me!

I did NOT take the boys to school this morning and then snuggle on the couch for a nap when this house looks the way it does this morning.

I did not accept a friend request on Facebook recently and then subsequently hide her when I realized that she posts the strangest things.

That is all I am willing to admit to on this Monday morning-how about you??

Swim Meet

We had such a fun family weekend cheering on our LASO kids at the Bristol Swim Meet this weekend. I learned a lot about how NOT to act at a swim meet from another Mom who drove us crazy! She screamed so loud in my ear and woke Hope up. AAGGGH. She took a lot of grace this Sunday morning...

Anyway, we had a blast and Kyle did awesome! He got second place overall in the 8 and under age group. He swam 9 events in two days and swam 6 personal best! Go Kyle go! Mike and I both love swim meets and it is so fun to cheer on our team and watch Kyle's competitiveness come out!

Hope did great. Here she is sound asleep in her carseat. This CRAZY mom screamed several minutes later and woke her up.

My Mom went with us on Saturday and here she is with David and Hope. Such sweet kisses..

Kyle getting his award.

Here are some of the LASO kids with their awards. Many more LASO swimmers went, but these were the kids that stayed until the very end and got awards.


Kyle doing the backstroke:)