Mom's back!

We had a party!and ate*  Dianna's cake.

*I really should have put the cake in the freezer cause (as you can imagine) after 2 weeks of sitting on the counter being admired it.....well....it had a different flavor (and a slight color change). Therefore we put it on our plates and wished we had eaten it sooner.  To put it bluntly, it was moldy. :-(

Update on Grandma

She's out of the SICU, Praise the Lord! That's the most momentous news

I've had to share with you all for a long time it seems, and I am so

glad. Also now you Grandchildren can call her at anytime of the day

and I'm sure she would appreciate hearing from you at any time.  The days do tend to get

kinda long........ Lucy (Evelyn's sister) came in this morning and

that seemed to perk her up a bit too.

Thanks for praying!

...and now our mom's back ! 

                               

Update...

Mom left for IA to be with her mom who is in the hospital,  Here's an email she wrote to our extended family.


Dear family,
 I'm in Iowa City at the University Hospital where my mother is a patient in Surgical ICU. She is still totally sedated. They did a 9 hour surgery on Sunday and Tuesday they went back in (they are keeping the incision open cause they want to go back in and keep checking on things), and yesterday they went back in again, both times taking out some dead bowel sections. They think they have all the bad spots out now and they have her reconnected, but they want to keep it open til tomorrow to make sure the repairs are all holding with no leakage. This is the best hospital she could be in for the most technically advanced treatment available. I'm just staying here at the hospital day and night, sleeping in the SICU lounge, it's sorta hard to sleep with some lights on all night and others snoring and sometimes talking all night long. I'm too tall for the couches so I made myself a bed with pillows, (which they have lots of,) on the floor. Last night at somewhere around 2:00 or so a whole group of about 15-20 street clothes people, filed past where I was laying and went into a room close by. Had to wonder what that was all about in the middle of the night. Maybe it was about todays security issues.
 Mom is doing as well as can be expected. She is in a very precarious condition. Dr said Tuesday was not looking so good, but yesterday he said he can say now that he is "cautiously optimistic".
 The news around here is that Obama is coming here today. His motorcade will be driving out here within a few hundred feet or yards from where I'm sitting. This will be at about 1:00. I went to a glassed in catwalk a while ago which connects to another wing of this whole huge University complex, and they are getting everything ready with security guards and sniffing dogs. I can easily see the tent set up and the walkway where they will pull the limmo up and he will get out inside the tent and go into the building right beside us and give his speech. Tho I don't know if they will let us stand on the catwalk to watch or not, but right now it's no issue. This county was heavily supportive of him before the elections, but strangely I don't sense a lot of real support at this point.
 They have a whole surgical bay right close here evacuated and ready should anything happen to him.
 My brother David and Martha came here last night on their way home from VA. So we are all here now except Lucy.
 Keep us in your prayers,
 Evelyn, 

Happy Birthday Evelyn !!!

We are very blessed to have you for our  mom!

The last few days she has had a VERY sore shoulder,  she would really like use it but she can only move it a few inches. That makes it hard to do about everything!  So please pray that it would get better soon!

Mom will be going out east in 3 weeks, to speak at a few churches and schools in  IN, PA, and VA.

She is studying for it right now.

And I'm sure you're all wondering 'which' birthday this is......but I can't remember at the moment. ;-)

27 years ago today..

..was Steven and Evelyn's wedding day

Happy Anniversary !!

~Fun facts~

are 8th cousins

they had 8 children

girl, boy, girl, boy, girl, boy, girl, boy

only lived in 2 different houses

moms maiden name was Miller

started Lilies of the Field

built the house we lived in now

 and lived in the basement for 4 years

..and thats all I can think of....for now   :-)

Steven and Evelyn...

Here they are! my wonderful parents.

They have done so many things I don't know where to start......or stop ?

My Dad is a bus driver,runs a sewing and vacuum shop, farmer.
My Mom runs a clothing business, and is a full time homemaker.
I won't take the time to write all the things they do (I can't even remember!)