December 7, 2010
I have been thinking about all the ways I have been blessed
over the past few months and the things we have been doing. I have seen the Lord’s hand in our life and
have felt the strong impression that “Be Still and Know I am God” is real. From the time I received a phone call from
Richard Hawks from Church Educational System seeing if Marv and I were possibly
ready to serve a mission or not. That,
of course, started the process of thinking more seriously about a mission. That was on a Monday and the following
Saturday is when Marv had his 4-wheeler accident where his life was spared and
he ended up a broken leg, which had to have surgery and a plate with 12 screws
put in but if could have been so much worse.
It seemed we had a lot of challenges as we prepared our
paperwork for the mission. The doctor’s
office messed up a couple of times and I had to have my mammogram redone on the
side that I had cancer 6 years previously and an ultrasound. Everything worked out well and it was only
scar tissue.
Marv had to have a stress test and had to do the chemical
one because his leg was broken and he couldn’t walk on a treadmill yet. But we think that turned out goo too. We finally got an appointment with the Bishop
(Chad Carter) on October 31st (Sunday) and couldn’t get an interview
with the Stake President (Allan Rau) until November 14th
(Sunday). Then our papers didn’t get
turned into Salt Lake until November 18th because there were some
issues with our medical papers – the doctor’s office forgot to fill out some of
the boxes on the first page of Marv’s medical records so I had to go back to
the office on Wednesday and get them to complete it. I think the doctor’s office was tired to
seeing us. It took all day to get the
paperwork and then I had to take it to the Stake Clerk that night so he could
enter the information. On Tuesday night
I had to take down the stress test papers for Marv to the Stake Clerk and he
didn’t have our medical papers and then Bishop Carter found them and took them
to him. It was a stressful time.
Now we are just waiting to hear if we will get the
assignment in Frankfurt Germany at the Church Educational Office with the Area
Director there or some other assignment.
Marv agreed to this mission because he felt they needed me. I know I have had to put a lot of trust in
the Lord and his timing because he knows what is best for us. If we are asked to go somewhere else, I hope
that Marv and I will be willing and feel it is the right thing to do. I am just telling myself that if we get our
papers before Christmas that will be great.
That will be 5 weeks since our papers went in. I am trying to be patient and not get to
anxious but it will be nice to finally know what we are doing and when we will
be going. I pray that Marv and I will
be able to do whatever is asked of us.
On November 22, 2010, we received our 9th
grandchild. Our daughter, Christie, had
her fourth little boy and her 4th C-Section. The doctor said she had a lot of scar tissue
and her uterus was extremely thin and that their decision to tie her tubes was
a good decision because it wouldn’t be safe for her to have any more
children. They named him Hudson Riley
Perkins. He was 6 lbs 14 oz and 19
inches long. He is her smallest
baby. He is so cute and sweet. He loves to be held and he has done really
good. He had a little bit of jaundice
after they took him home from the hospital but he is doing much better.
On November 24, 2010, Mason Lee Paxton, our first
grandchild, turned 11 years old. We
took he and his family to the Pizza Factory for lunch. It was lots of fun and I sure love those
grandkids and then that night we all went to their house and had cake and ice
cream. Scott Perkins, Barrek, Kasen, and
Camron came for the party. Christie
just got home from the hospital that day with the baby so she didn’t come. Calvin and Carol Ann Goodwin came from Beaver
for the party. Scott and Kristin,
MaKayla and Sterling came for Thanksgiving weekend but didn’t make it to
Bryan’s until the party was pretty much over.
Bryan has worked really had to do light outside that play to music when
you tune to FM 88.1. He turned them on
that night for the light show. It was
wonderful. He is so smart and is not
afraid to try hard things. I am so
proud of him. He is doing really well
at his job too.
On November 25, 2010, Thanksgiving Day. Christie, Scott, Barrek, Kasen, Camron and
Hudson Perkins, Bryan, Candalyn, Mason, Jayden, Madison Paxton and Scott,
Kristin, MaKayla, Sterling Paxton were all at our house for Thanksgiving dinner
and stayed pretty late. Christie and
her family went home around 10:30 p.m. and she was feeling really bad she
couldn’t stay and play but she had had a really long day and she really needed
to go home to rest. We ended up letting
Bryan’s kids sleep downstairs because we were going to have Mason help with the
kids while we went to Black Friday sales at Wal Mart. Marv ended up staying home because he still
has a little bit of a hard time walking for very long and he was going to get
up at 4:00 a.m. and go with Bryan to Sport Authority. So Candalyn, Scott, Kristin, Bryan and I
went at midnight to WalMart and it was pretty crazy. I didn’t buy very many things but did get
Marv the Modern Warfare #2 for the X-Box that the boys wanted to play on their
game night. Scott got one too and then
I got a few DVD’s but that was all I bought.
I just get so overwhelmed at the masses of people everywhere. It is kind of fun. We got home at 1:30 and Bryan and Candalyn
went home to sleep for a couple of hours and Scott and Kristin and went to
bed.
When the alarm went off I told
Marv he didn’t need to go because Scott and Kristin and Candalyn were going. He had been moaning during the night about
his leg so I felt it was better for him to stay home. I stayed home to help with the kids. Bryan, Candalyn, Scott and Kristin got back
about 8:00 a.m. They had gone to
breakfast at the All American Diner and I think they had a good time
together. I am so blessed to have kids
that enjoy one another. In the
afternoon everyone got together again and hung out at our house. We watched Christie’s boys while they took
Hudson back to the hospital to have his belly ruban checked again.
We played some games in the evening and Bryan had rented
some DVD’s for the kids to watch.
November 27, 2010, Scott, Kristin, MaKayla, Sterling, Marv
and I went to the All American Diner for breakfast and then later in the day
everyone came over and we played games.
Everyone went home late. The
weather report was not too good and said there was a major snow storm coming
in. Scott and Kristin decided to head
home that night. They left at 1:00 a.m.
on Sunday, November 28, 2010. It ended up being a good decision. I made him promise to call me when they got
home so he said I will call on your cell phone. Apparently they got home at about 5:00
a.m. They last hour and half they hit
the storm and could only travel about 30 miles per hour. They were glad to get home. The kids slept most of the time so that was
helpful too.
November 28, 2010 (Sunday) Christie’s 32nd
birthday. Scott made chicken cordon
bleu and invited Marv and I over for dinner at 5:30 p.m. and then Bryan and his
family came over at 7:00 p.m. for cake and ice cream for her birthday. She is amazing that she is doing so well
after all her surgery.
November 29, 2010 (Monday)
I went over to Christie’s and helped pick up things then took her,
Hudson, and Camron to the hospital to get Hudson’s belly rubon checked again
and then over to the doctor’s office and then we came back to our house and
fixed lunch and then I took them home before the other boys got home from
school.
November 30, 2010 (Tuesday)
I went over to help Christie and took her lunch (Subway sandwich) and we
watched the movie Return to Me. It was
a nice afternoon. I can’t remember which
days I went to help but I didn’t go as often as I think I should have.
December 1, 2010 (Wednesday)
Marv and I went to St. George and did some shopping for Christmas. We went to Costco, lunch at Red Robin,
Shopping at Penney’s, See’s and Target and then we came home. Marv and the boys played Modern Warfare 2 on
the Xbox on line. Our internet went
down.
December 2, 2010 (Thursday)
The Relief Society Presidency came for a visit. Karen Marchant, President; Kathy Barton,
counselor; Rochelle Hansen (don’t remember her married name). I talked too much but it was nice they came. We talked about Marv’s accident and our
turning in our papers for a Mission. I
got the tree in the front room done and so decorations out before they
came. Marv was working on the tree in
the family room trying to put new led lights on the tree because the other
lights were not working very good.
December 3, 2010 (Friday)
I went over to Christie’s and helped get her house cleaned for the
weekend so she could relax. We fixed a
ham and avocado sandwich for lunch. It
was so good.
December 4, 2010 (Saturday)
We worked on decorating the tree and Bryan and his family came and got
us to go to the Storybook Parade down town at 2 p.m. We were going to run out some presents to
their house when they called. I rented
three redbox movies, “Ironman 2”, “Eclipse”, and “Letters to Juliet”. We picked up dinner from Applebees. We each had a steak with baked potato and
vegetables with a spinach/artichoke dip and chips. Marv had a 9 oz steak and I had the 7 oz
steak. It tasted really good. We watched
“Eclipse” and “Ironman”.
December 5, 2010 (Sunday)
We went to church and I was asked to tell the story of Esther in Sunday
School. There wasn’t very much time for
me to do it but I am glad that I was asked because I learned so much more about
the story than I knew before. I fixed
spaghetti for lunch with a salad and garlic cheese bread. I had Choir practice from 4 to 6 p.m. When I got home, we watched “Letters to
Juliet”. I enjoyed it but Marv was not
impressed because it is a Chick Flick.
Oh well.
