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First off, I talked to mom just now and she is doing good. Her leg is still pretty sore and her hopes have been brused but I think she will pull through ok just like always

Ok, the pictures of the girls that I was so excitted to show you have disapeared so this one will have to do for now. It is proof that my girls can and do get along when they want to.

During Christmas break we went to Bear Lake for a week. We took Wendy's mom with us, and a project. Before I tell ya about that project I will tell ya of another one that I did just before Thanksgiving. If you would notice, Keelee and I have the same material for out bottoms. I made all of us matching bottoms so we could all lounge alike while we were there. It was pretty fun. Now, for the project at Bear Lake. Wendy's mom took a bunch of scrap material and she tought me how to make a quilt. I think I did pretty good!

This quilt below is a levi quilt that I am doing for Marcus for his high school graduation. For those of you who do not know who Marcus is, he is the son of Wendy's friend Darrin who lived with us for a while.

I think that is all the news for now.

MOM

Ok, here is the skinny on mom. Mind you, dad said the family needs to know but we do not need to broadcast it, so having said that...

The doc. did an ultra sound on her heart today and found that she has mitral stenosis, and mitral regurgitation. Basically she has hardening of the arteries, calcification throughout her heart. Like Marilyn said her heart is to fragile to do surgery. The doc called it a porciline aorta, the aorta is lined with calcium. The heart is suppose to be soft, plyable, mom's does not have any soft spots. Therefore she is not a canadate for surgury becouse they would have to clamp off her aorta to fix or replace the valve and there is no place to clamp it.

She is as healthy today as she was a couple days ago, we just know more about her heart. The doc says people who had rheumatic fever gets this a lot. She had rheumatic fever twice. Colestoral and diabeties could also play a part in it. People do not die from this, however they do from complications such as heart attack, stroke, pnuemonia etc. She has a lot of pressure in her chest cavity that is causing her to have shortness of breath. They are going to try to releave that with a water pill. The doc will keep an eye on her and see if that will help. Hopefully it will.

As Marilyn said, mom does have a history of defying the odds so...

And like I said, she is not worse off today than she was two days ago, we just know more about her heart.

pics

ok so here you can do the "where's the pepsi"

but the helicopter is Pepsi!

I have a couple good pics of the girls but I cannot find them right now. I will get those though. I think they may be on Karleys camera and she will be here on Fri.

KIDS

My girls think I need to tell y0u about them. Well, I agree. They are both straight A students. Keelee is in 6th grade and tested for AP math for 7th. Keelee is also in Drama and they are performing The Music Man Jr. Keelee is Zaneeta, the mayor's daughter. She is loving it. They perform in March. She is pretty excitted. Karley is in 4th grade and in chior. They performed for all the shoppers in Harmon's one evening. She loves it. And she got to hug a hippo in a ballarina costume, it was like christmas.

MOM

So, I was talking to my dad last night and he told me that my mom is going to Ogden on Tues the 23rd for an Angioplast. So please keep her in your prayers and thoughts. Thanks

What is in the Name?

Ok, for those of you who do not know, the reason I chose Cola Wars is because Wendy is a Coke drinker, and I am a Pepsi drinker. Our kitchen has a Cola wall and shelf. It is like where's waldo only it is where is the Pepsi stuff! I would take a pic and show let you all play but I am not that good with this just yet. Now the Peterseon, Yes, I did spell it correctly. Wendy is Peterson and I am Petersen. It is a standing joke between us.

Hello, I joined tha dark side!

Well, I have enjoyed all your blogs so much, I decided to give it a try for myself. Maybe I can do this. Racheal assured me I can. Now I need to find enough to tell everyone on it.