My Grandma

I just wanted to let you know that My Grandma, Betty Speakman, went in to the hospital last Wednesday. After extensive and painful testing, she has been diagnosed with intestines that have completely shut down. She can not eat anything for the time being. Also her abdomen has been distended. After testing she has been diagnosed with stage 4 (there are only 4 stages) malignant, inoperable ovarian cancer. They have one doctor that is hopeful and is trying to get her intestines working again. They are tube feeding her now, it seems to be going well. The cancer is pretty wide spread, so not much can be done about that. She doesn not want chemotherapy. No one knows how much time she has left. She is still a happy and optomistic person, but she also very much misses My Grandpa who passed away 3 years ago. So if Her passing away is what is supposed to be, she is okay with that too. We are hoping and praying for the best. Each day with her still here with us is such a blessing.

This has helped me to relize how precious and fragile life is.

Let the ones you love know how much you love them!

Who is this child! :p

So Kenna has no bangs today. I wanted to change it up a bit. It is always funny when she doesn't have bangs because she looks so much more like Saileen and I almost don't recognize her without them. She is cute either way, but today she is bangless.

Before and after

This is really and truly her hair, right out of the bath. After air drying for about a half hour.

I even brushed it!

Blow drying makes it even poofier! Believe me, I've tried it!

So here is a before pictures

There are no camer tricks or photoshopping. I PROMISE! This is why I do their hair like I do.

Here she is after.

Doesn't it look much better!! What a difference a hair doo makes!

MyLee and her little MINIPIGGIES!

Her hair is getting close to being able to do some fun things with it.

Here is an easy hair doo! braids to messy piggies.
......And on that farm she had some PIGGIES!!! E-I-E-I-O!

Or just piggie tails rather! ;P

Snowbird minus the snow

We took a little trip up to snowbird. My parents were staying there on a little mini vacation and asked us to come and visit form the day.

MyLee and I in the lobby
Ready to go on our walk

She was so excited!!
Here is the crew heading the steep hill!

We are at the top, it was an amazing view!
Me and my ladies!
Aunt Kalie with the girls
I love this picture. The little wood cave was really neat!

Our picnic at the top!
YUMM!

This place had an awesome park! These were the swings.

So cool!


Thy even had stuff, under the playground!

We couldn't resist.
Neither could my Dad!

What a face......I want a turn!
SHe was really just pretending, but she was good at the face!

My dad was amused....I tried to jump out...forgot to unbuckle some of the buckles!

Didn't get very far!

Cool climbing wall!

She didn't fit...he he he
Monkey on the monkey bars!

She loved this big bug!

I saw this and thought...."ut I wanted to feed the CYOTES!!!!!" Yea right!!
cute girls

The view from my parents room

5 flights of concrete stairs....so inviting, aren' they!
We wore her out!

they even got to ride thei bikes. They were excited about that.
It was a great trip. Lots of fun in a short period of time. Saileen said it was the best day she ever had!