We love our Mama!

So my mom has been fighting Hotchkins Lymphoma for...I think about 4 years! She's been strong and has even had fun with her bald head at times. This last month she was admitted to the hospital to have intense chemo and stem cell therapy.  They were very serious about it saying that there was a 40% chance of death with this treatment. They were going to kill everything and then bring her back to life with new healthy stem cells. We were not allowed to see her if we were sick, and even healthy we had to wash our hands for 3 mins straight before we could enter her room. She was uncomfortable at times, but like I said she's strong and has pulled through. So well infact that they sent her home a week and a half earlier than planned! Her stem cells got to work immediately and the dr's are very surprised and happy about how well she's doing. She went in yesterday for a check up and an appointment that was supposed to take 4 hours of tests and transplants, if needed, only lasted an hour and a half. They say they haven't seen someone heal as quick as she is.

We're not surprised over here. She had a blessing before she went in that said this treatment would be effective. The Lord is always right :) I LOVE the priesthood, having the knowledge and comfort that he knows what he's doing!

Anyways, while she was gone. We (Me, Clair, Sarah, Austin and Logan) completely cleaned and redecorated her room. Before it had blue walls, covered in holes, it was super dusty behind all the furniture,  and the carpet that has been in this house since day one seriously needed some deep cleaning. If we had the money to tear out and replace that 1969 blue and green shag carpet we would have! But instead we took everything out. vacuumed it and then shampooed it really well.

We found a picture tucked behind the dresser, and Clair said she remembered mom saying one day she wanted to decorate her room like it. So we did it for her...

Our Inspiration

When we put everything back in the room after painting the walls a light pink we flipped around her TV and bed, making the room look much bigger!

We spray painted picture frames and lamps silver to match the picture, and Clair brought over that cute little tea set sitting on her dresser, which Sarah cutely decorated with some of moms jewelry.

This added the perfect touch

We all just adore this corner!! Clair decorated that "B" we found in the closet to match everything perfectly! And we found the bedding on walmart.com, which we think totally completes the room!

We didn't all get to see her reaction like we wanted, because she came home so soon, but we know she loves it! And now she has a wonderful room to get completely better in. :) Thanks for helping in making this surprise for her possible Clair, Sarah, Austin and Logan! I could not have done it without you!

WOW!

Ok... so three years ago editing my blog and customizing it was never this easy! I love it! What do you think?! I hope actually liking the way it looks will help me keep it updated! Wish me luck!

Take Two and Finales

So I love blog stalking! But I'm not like the weird kind, stalking people I don't know. Anyways I have a strong desire to become a blogger myself but can never get into it or hate the way my blog looks so I just get rid of it all together. So here it is. Blog trial number 2. Hopefully this time outlasts my lame pathetic excuse of a blog that I had about 3 years ago.

It's 2am and I just had this urge to pull out my laptop and start blogging. Why am I up this late?!

I live for spending time with my mom, and we struggle to find time to spend together until its the late evening/early hours of the morning. We love being night owls together. Catching up on our favorite TV shows and sharing bits of useless information about our days. haha! It's the best!

So tonight we stayed up late catching up on some entertaining TV. We know eachother so well! If ever we find something the least bit entertaining we immediately hit record to save it for when the other of us is there. My mom loves watching Judge Judy make people feel like idiots. So she showed me a few clips from that show. And I had a little marathon of Extreme Makeover Home Edition this morning. Ty Pennington makes me laugh and I recorded an episode or two to show my mom a few things as well.

We then watched the finale of the Office. In my opinion the most boring finale I've ever sat through.... Though I loved Ryan's random comment from his little closet. Telling Stanley he needs to live forever. Best line of the hour! I wish the Office would go back to the funniness of it's second and third season. But it's still a show I enjoy. I'm still curious as to who the new boss is gonna be. Feels like Michaels been gone for ages already! I'm so glad with how he left the show though. There couldn't have been a greater exit for the incredible Michael Scott!

And after some Office we watch The Mentalist. My new favorite show! Bummer it took me 2 and a half seasons to discover it! (partly due to the fact that I was on my mission) Anyways, the finale tonight. All I could say at the end was 'enjoy that tea, patrick jane, enjoy that tea...'

Now I'm the type that LOVES shows like criminal minds, and house, etc. Things that make you think along with the characters; solve-the-big-puzzle kinda shows. Ever since I returned home from my mission I have absorbed these shows like they were my life support. Life got so boring so quickly after christmas and with all that time on my hands I got to work solving crime! ha! I've seen so many of these shows I can now solve almost any case in the first half of the show. My mom is shocked how rarely these shows ever surprise me any more. Anyways watching Jane's body language as he was talking with Red John I knew how it was going to end, and I also figured out who Red Johns mole was a few episodes ago. Things just were going the way they should've with that couple...

Now the question is; How is jane going to be invovled next season!? My mom and I talked about it for quite awhile afterwards and we came up with 4 options. (If your a mentalist fan and have not seen the season 3 finale... warning this will spoil things for you. stop reading here!)


First of all can I say, I loved that Jane was a man of his word. He was very calm and happy after pulling that trigger. He promised Red John that he would relax and find happiness but only once he killed Red John. He almost seemed happy to get arrested. It was all worth it. He had taken care of the man that killed his family. Now onto how this is going to work next season.

1. He'll be in jail for a long time, but then they'll have a case where they absolutely have to have his help and they pull him out with a deal.

2. We never really saw what was happening with Red Johns hands at the time Jane shot him. Maybe Red John was actually about to shoot Jane and he was acting in self defense.

3. People will understand Jane's reasoning behind it, and also be glad to have a serial killer off the streets he might just be put in jail for a year or so and then put on probation.

4. Jane somehow escapes custody and goes on the run. Running for either reason being that he just really doesn't want to go to jail, or that the man he shot was not really Red John after all and he's on the hunt to find the real Red John.

Either way I'm excited for next season.

Now time for a boring summer of no good tv shows, summer school, work, and terrible AZ heat!