Monday without a camera...

This is Izaac just watching me on the computer last week one day. His Aunt Michelle thought he looked much older than 22 months in this picture!

This is a 30-second video of Izaac last Monday afternoon in our back 'yard'. Three of the 'orphans' went walking with him near the area where I was trying to kill weeds last year so I could plant something prettier! The wind sounds (and was) really ferocious!

(I took some pictures yesterday in Des Moines, but left the camera in its case sitting on the server. Oh well.)

Presents from the party....

This is the bouquet of flowers my dad got me for my birthday (belated party). I put it in this corner hoping the cats wouldn't bug it too much. Those are our "Cubs" Christmas sock hangings on the wall (from Christmas, but we're not taking them down until they win the World Series--or we get really tired of them.....).

This is a metal cat that has a sun-powered cell, so that at night, it looks like a blue cat with cutouts. It's cool. Although yesterday wasn't that sunny, it glowed blue most of the night.

I also got a "Cubs" flag (big) for outside and a "Cubs" pen that glows! I have another one that when you squeeze it, it shines the "Cubs" logo on the wall or paper, or whatever you have close. I hope spring training is going well!!!

Tuesday talk for Hamilton County Relay for Life!

(That's not me in the photo. I'm taking the photo.) On Tuesday evening I gave my "survivor's" story speech at the kickoff meeting for Hamilton County (Iowa) Relay for Life!

It was a short speech, outlining what happened to me between May, 2006 and May, 2007. I was really, really sick from the chemo treatments and sometimes thought I would never feel better or 'normal' again. But I'm back to 'normal' (some people might question that....) or actually a little better since I can now do yard work! (Somehow the chemo helped that.)