For He's A Jolly Good Fellow

My Dad is the best! I wish I had more picture evidence but I will try and tell you.

Most recently, we came home from a trip to St. George and the pipe to our master bath toilet had frozen. He fixed it. It was FREEZING outside and he had to go lie on the ground to reach that pipe. Everytime my parents come to visit, they find projects to complete and ways to serve each of their kids.

He is also really patient. He will do projects with Gavin for HOURS. I don't know how he does it. He helped him build this plane and earlier in the year they worked on this bird house.

He has developed an interest in wood projects and built each of our families a bird house for our family reunion this summer. The theme was "Birds of A Feather." (my favorite event of the year)

He also built Gavin the coolest ferry boat after our Seattle visit.

There are lots of other reasons (commitment, generous, sense of humor, righteous, patient) why he is great. But this week - I am thankful for these.

The Neighbor Gift

Instead of neighbor gifts (which are fun), we decided to give to the Utah Food Bank. We invited all our neighbors to our home for hot chocolate and treats. All they have to do is bring a donation for the Utah Food Bank. We collected 800lbs of food. It was a great but very cold night.

Gavin was so helpful. No surprise. He wanted to be involved in all the details. The heat lamp in the garage, loading the food, the mechanics of the trailer, passing out hot chocolate.

Spoiled

We are spoiled. We are so blessed to have so many good friends and family taking such good care of us. Lots of help and generous gifts. I couldn't even list everything that has been done. I will try to get to those thank you notes but if you read this please know how grateful we are for all the notes, gifts, helping hands, words of encouragement, prayers, etc.

Today Kenyon was really feeling good. It was a pretty good day except we couldn't leave and do anything. His blood counts are steadily dropping and will continue to for another day or two. Today he was craving a snickers and Lucky Charms so I got that taken care of. Just about anything tastes better than a tray of hot hospital food.

Have you heard?

Tonight this neighbor of mine comes to my door holding a bunch of daffodils. Sweet! Then she tells me about Daffodil Days. It is sponsored by the American Cancer Society.



She told me that these daffodils are to provide a ray of hope for those living with cancer.

I sure wish we didn't have to have cancer at our house but we do and that was so thoughtful and definitely brought some sunshine in on this first day of spring.

So, had I known about Daffodil Days, I would have purchased some daffodils and passed them out because cancer or not - we all know people with it and could use a little ray of hope. Consider these your daffodils.

A side note - I have been working on a lesson for Sunday about Pres. Eyring's talk called O, Remember, Remember. (October 2007 General Conference) He suggests that we keep a record of how we have seen the hand of the Lord in our daily lives. He tells us to do this for our children so that someday they will know.

After I got these flowers it occurred to me that I want my children to know how thoughtful and good people are. I want them to know how blessed we have been through this cancer. We have seen the hand of the Lord often through other people's kindness. The kids don't understand that Kenyon has cancer but someday they will and they will need or want to know what this experience is to us and what it means to have seen the hand of the Lord in our lives.