A New Week

Tired. I think that is how everyone is feeling. Becky and Chad are emotionally, mentally, and physically tired. Blake is also tired. He is having a pretty rough time stuck in his room. It is right by the door and every time he gets to sleep someone or some noise wakes him and he wants to see what is going on. I think he is tired of having those tubes down his nose, and not being able to do much. This morning is another swallow test. We hope and pray that this will go well. Otherwise they will not do another one for six weeks. This means he will most likely have to stay in SLC since Ely does not have the capability to deal with his feeding tube. (i think that is right) I know that Chad and Becky are so grateful for the prayers and for all that fasted yesterday on Blake's behalf. Thank you so much for your calls, comments, care, concern and support during this trial.



I think that everyone passed the care class. I have posted a video of Blake getting his trach tube changed. It is pretty hard for me to watch, but it must be so much harder to do. While the tube is out, Blake can't breath. It is hard to see the fear in his eyes. I hope that I have good news this afternoon about the swallow test.



Please let Katie know how good of a job she does on the blog and help her to understand that she needs to take it over... It is a girl thing anyway, but I have never been able to convince her that it should be her responsibility. Things have been going well at the house. We are pretty much moved out of Rexburg, but have a weeks worth of work cleaning, patching, painting, and shampooing to do. We will put our place on hold until we are done there.

Yesterday I was able to seal the shower tile and we put a lot of stuff away in drawers and cupboards. It is nice to not have to maneuver through the maze of totes and boxes. My next big step will be to pull out the oven hood and install an outlet plug, then mount our microwave over the stove. So far all of our used appliances have worked. We had a scare with the dryer on Saturday. It was making a bad noise like there was a warn out bearing or something, but it went away??? At least that one was a free gift so I wont feel as bad if it needs to be replaced.

We had a good experience at our new ward yesterday. EVERYONE was so friendly and hospitable. Then one of our neighbors stopped by list night with some of the best sticky buns I have ever had. They are great people. Their daughter and her family live by them to the south of us, and his father lives to the north. All great people. They told me that our original house was a sheep ranchers place up by bone, and that they had hauled it down by horse and put it in Iona. I am excited to find out more history about the place. We also met some folks at church that knew Katie's family. One guy had taught Katie's dad in church, and one gal had gone to school with Katie's aunt, Georgia.