More fun and great news!!!!!!!!

After having the two cute girls spend time with us in Leeds, we took of Monday morning (Oct. 2oth) we made it safe and sound and the girls were excited to see mom. I think mom was as or more excited to see them. She was all alone during the days and wasn't so sure she liked it so much. Emma had written a story and won and was able to read it that night at Murray park where they had the Haunted Woods going on. She did a great job. Then on Wed. night Josh had his first concert. He plays the Cello and plays it very well I might add. He is the Roman Soldier playing the Cello.

Friday the kids were out of school for some reason, so we made some sugar cookies. The kids took 3 plates to some of their neighbors. The rest were for us to eat. Not to many left. :)

Then to Saturday we carved pumpkins, they all had fun creating there own little faces on their pumpkins.

Then we come to Sunday and some more changes taking place in the Ogden home. Meet Bishop Ogden and his wife, my beautiful daughter Desirae. Mark was put in and sustained today as Bishop of their ward. Was a wonderful meeting and there were many tears shed.

Desirae called us on the 9th of Oct and told us that would be taking place on the 30th. What a great birthday present that was for me. I don't know any other way to get through this trial in their life's than to have the mantel of the Bishop in their home and receiving so many blessing from their service. I know that the Lord will bless this sweet family with all they need at this time.

Des does not only have her family, but she has the ward family now that will be and already has been taking care of her.

The ward family is such a blessing to have, our family has been blessed by our ward family at times in our lives when we have needed help. When my Dad past away my moms ward family was there to take care of her. Living in St. George and not able to be there all the time for my mom I was comforted to know that she had her ward family around her to help her. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is such a blessing in my life and my families lives.

A busy fun week.

I started off this week with a quick trip to SLC with Ron to pick up fence materials and of course spend some time with Des.
We hit the jackpot and brought Ellie and Abbie home with us since they were having UEA the end of the week. So we got home quite late Tues. night the girls where very ready to be at our house. We have had a fun week here with girls and the girls have had fun with their cousins.
Went to some Parks ate out a few times. Thurs. night the girls spent the night at Brittany' house. Friday was a fun day at grandma' Raylie spent the day here and Haiven came to play as well while mommy and daddy worked
We played with Haiven then put her down for a nap and while Haiven slept, we frosted cookies.
When Haiven woke up we feed her lunch.
THEN Then Friday night Grandma and Grandpa played at Brittany' house while She and Josh, Dan and Chantelle went to the Temple. Below is a pic of how the night was spent.

Watching Kung Fu Panda 2 and eating popcorn. Grandpa had to make a popcorn run to the Dollar Store, we ran out of popcorn not a good thing when at the movies. :) (he also brought home some licorice, shhhhhh).

Then Saturday morning, up early for the Save a Sister breast cancer 5k run. It was awesome. I don't know why I don't get up early more often. It was very exhilarating and of course it was for a very good cause.
This is a picture of us all bright and cheery before the race.

This is the cute little face that went for a stroll as we ran/walked.I was feeling pretty good, my emotions were all in tack. Then........we hear the announcement that we could go to the table and get labels to write the persons name on that we were running for. So still all was good, we walk up to the table and at that point it was as if the flood gate had busted. I picked up a label and pen and wrote my daughters name on it, at that point I was so thankful I had my sun glasses on. I could hide behind them. Brittany did catch a glimpse. (sorry Brit) It is still so hard for me to believe this is really happening to her. I have been with her, I have seen the changes, but for a mom it is so so very hard to watch your daughter go through something like this. As I have said before I would take it from her at anytime. (I am sure there are days that she would happily turn it over) But I know that this is her trial, as it is strengthing her it is also strengthing our family in many ways. We love you DES!!!

This pic is us just after coming across the finish line.
This is a pic of us and 3 of Brits co-workers that also ran in the race.

Face lift for our bedroom

Decided to give our bedroom a face lift and didn't want to spend a whole lot of money. So I turned my bedspread over and used the plain side ,added the buttons to match the headboard. Recovered the pillow shames with the flowered material. Made the picture blocks on the quilt shelf. The quilt is the one the ward made for Ron when he was released as Bishop. Thanks to Des added the vinyl lettering on my wall. The whole project did not cost alot and it was fun redoing everything. You can see that I recovered the chair, which was my grandma Hansen' chair. It was just enough change that it feels like a whole new room.
This is the process I used for my headboard, didn't have a headboard before. I was looking on line to see if I could find a homemade headboard that I liked and this one popped up. What better thing to use than a chainlink fence gate when your husband owns and operates his own chainlink fence company. I really like it, it was fun having Ron help me make it.

WHO'S OLD?

So yes today is one of my many birthdays that I have had. It was a great day I always love having my birthday on Sunday. Not sure why but I do. I guess because we celebrate for 2 days instead of just one. Saturday is the going out day and Sunday is the getting together with family day. Didn't get to many pictures but I will post the two that was taken.

Brittany made Chicken Enchiladas, which where very YUMMY thank you Brit. I made some Yummy Schaum Torte's for dessert. You will see what they are in the pic. It is a German treat. It is basically egg white sugar and a touch of cream of tarter and you bake them. They have a crunchy top that you peel off and the inside is soft and you put a topping of your liking on it such as strawberries, Lemon filling (my favorite) and then top with whip cream and then put the crunchy part on top and eat away. LOVE LOVE LOVE it.

Is mom watching? Yes grandma was sneaking a little taste of that sweet treat to Haiven and can I just say she LOVED it as well. :0)

My stay in SLC

This is the morning of THE day,the first of her Chemo session. A wonderful friend brought this wonderful PINK blanket over the Monday before I left for SLC. She told me to take this and wrap my baby in it, and that is just what I did. Thank you so much Toiya!!!!!!

Sept. 30th was a big day for Desirae. Friday morning there was a Cancer awareness and survivor meeting at the IMHC, Sheri Dew was to talk at this meeting. It was a wonderful meeting, I had to take the opportunity to get pictures with Sheri Dew. So we did just that!! Sheri' Dr. was the last speaker and he presented his oldest and youngest Breast Cancer survivors. His oldest was 99 when she was diagnosed with Breast Cancer and she was standing before us that day at 101. His youngest was 24 who now was married and has a family. She is also the Pres. of the Young Survivors Group who has been in contact with Desirae. It was wonderful hearing about the survivors of today. When just a few years ago women were dying because it was not detected soon enough. Stats are that 1 in every 8 women will be diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Self examination is very important before the age of 40.
Friday night, Murray High was having a PINK OUT game and Desirae was chosen as one to be honored at half time. It was a very PINK Football Stadium. She was exhausted Friday night.

FUN, FUN Saturday night when all the boys went to the Priesthood Session The girls had a pink party. The Ogden girls know how to party, Mom Ogden brought dinner from Macaroni Grill and the pink hair dye was brought out and the Fowlks girls had our PINK party.
I would like to thank all those wonderful people who have supported Des in anyway, she has many awesome friends and family who have worn pink on PINK Wednesday and sent pictures to her. I know that she has felt the many many prayers in her behalf. I have felt the comfort from our Savior, through the beginning of this journey, I know she has as well.

And to end this post I just have to put this picture up of this cute little face. This is Haiven' face she loves making at people. She is just so stinkin cute.