Janet, first let me say I love the "dungeon". He has so much room in his kitchen and that is where he likes to spend his time. When we grocery shopped for his apt it wasn't tv dinners and ramen noodles! It was cornmeal, flour, buttermilk, eggs, oil, chicken, and not the breaded ready to eat in the microwave! So if any of you guys pass through Athens my kids KNOW how to cook. Zac and emily are good cooks too. I guess they learned more from grandma than I realized. Because even now when I am making biscuits they tell me I don't do it like her:)

And the hairless thing he isn't laughing at it's taking the hair from the only place he had it; his chest! Lol

As I was trying to catch up on the Blog today, I have two things to say...

1)  Please do not post pictures of the dungeon, a.k.a Tanner's apartment, because it brings back bad memories!  LOL  and...

2)  To make light of a serious situation, did anyone else get that when Trish wrote that the chemo was leaving Danny hairless?  Because I am pretty sure even he would have laughed at that!!!!

Great master piece by Marliegh, that's a keeper, and the pictures of Brooks are beautiful Amy, I cant believe he is that big already.Poor little Clara is being left in his dust.LOL.

Kids are getting ready for school to start here , they are getting anxious. and I cant wait Ha!Ha!

Trish, how are thing going with Danny,? sure hope they are ok , We are still keeping him and you too in our prayers. And Hello to every one else.

Lol Monica that's what mr clean magic erasers are for. Takes that crayon right off. I speak from experience as I have had many master pieces on my walls:)

Marleigh's masterpiece:

Brooks is growing up!! He looks so handsome :) Where are the pics of Clara??? Marleigh drew her first portrait on one of our living room walls today in orange crayon. It was beautiful!!!!!!!! LOL

Brooks

I sure did!!! I was laying on the couch watching "The Fighting Temptations" :P Mark and Marleigh were over at the apartment office visiting with the manager (Marleigh likes her). I could feel myself start shaking. I was just trying to figure out if I was having a medical issue then the back of the couch started bumping against my back. I have a chime that hangs on our ac return door and I heard it. When I looked at it it was swinging back and forth. At this point, medical issue or not, I jumped up off the couch and stood in the middle of the living room (getting under a table or doorway did not come to mind). I didn't feel anything else and I didn't see anybody running around outside. I thought, by odd chance, that maybe some outdoorsy animal had made it's way into our apartment so I looked behind the couch and shook the ends of the couch and found nothing (which is a good thing :P ) I went over to the office and when I walked in the manager had a strange look on her face. Mark asked me if I came running over to see if they felt it too :) Of course I did, I wanted to know if I was going crazy or not lol!! There wasn't any sirens going off in town so Mark was thinking that it might have been an explosion at the arsenal. Jan's phone started ringing off the hook about the same thing. A few minutes later the news broke in with all the details, or what details they had at the time. For anyone who hasn't heard yet, it was a 5.9 earthquake halfway between Charlottesville and Richmond, VA. Since I have never experienced this before I wasn't sure if that's what it was at first. Now that I know, my knees are aching and won't stop LOL. I can tell you that I didn't like the way it felt. I guess the whole issue that I was completely not in control of anything at that moment :) but I know God was and still is. I had my interview this morning and the Lt. Col. told me that I did good. He said not to be discouraged if I didn't hear anything for several days because that's usually how long it takes and he doesn't know yet how quickly they want to fill the position. With that being said, please continue to pray for me in this situation. I hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful day. I going to go pray that we don't have any aftershocks!!!! Love to all :)

So did everyone feel that earthquake?

Trish, thanks for the info. She's asked for it a few times in the last two days but hasn't done anything in it yet. She doesn't mind to sit on it though :P You'll have to post another pic of Danny for us!! Let him know we are still praying for him :) Continue praying for me. As I was about to leave this morning for my interview, they called and had to reschedule it for in the morning at 9:30. Love to all

Monica I learned from the best when it came to potty training. There is nothing magical to do. Sounds like you have got her doing the hardest part, just sitting on it. Mommy always told me to have it there for them to go and expect accidents that's just part of it. They all learned at different times and they were all different. That goes for nighttime too! All different and Jacob was completely different from tanner. So just treat her like the little individual that she is and it will be a piece of cake. She takes the cutest pictures!

Danny has ten treatments left after today. He is having more and more difficulty swallowing and the radiation has pretty much left him hairless on the chest. School starts for everyone this week!