Our cat (Papa) with 9 lives!!!

skipping rocks with the girls!

Cracking mom up as usual
40 year anniversary!!!

Papa was taken again by ambulance to St. Thomas Tuesday in the middle of the night. He will be having surgery this afternoon if his blood is thick enough!!

He is such a trooper - in and out of the hospital about every other month and just hangs on with such good spirits. He is always joking and has the most uplifting spirit about him! We are so blessed for his will to fight. My brother and I and our children are blessed with this incredible man in our lives. Serious one minute and crazy the next! Just Sunday during a ward conference I looked over at him-he had plastered a silver gum wrapper across the front of his teeth. He was smiling at my girls with silver teeth! They thought he was so funny! And yesterday at the hospital he felt really bad but still wanting to kiss on mom!!!

I have been given what some call a tender mercy this week. I only had a couple of picture appts. scheduled for this week which is very unusual for summer so when all this came about I have been able to spend extra time with both mom and dad that I would have had to do a lot of work to change my schedule. And he would have been worrying if I had changed my schedule for him!!!

Last night he was fortunate enough to have two stake presidents-Meredith and Tipps visiting him at the same time. He was given a beautiful blessing-that was prob. more comforting to me!

We love our sweet-crazy Papa!