A LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN....Before Round #4

I started Round #4 yesterday!!  I just mowed the front lawn so I think I am doing well so far with this round of treatments.  The weather is cloudy and it is so pleaseant outside!  My favorite kind of a day!  Count your Many BLESSINGS!! 

I spent a few days this past week at a place I call "A LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN!! I had an extra week off of the chemo treatments to attend the Frischknecht Family Reunion at Ferron Reservoir! This is a place my dad and his siblings loved to go as children. The tradition continues with cousins and now their children and grandchildren!! The group now numbers in the hundreds. A GREAT family tradition!! Kerm and I have gone for 32 years, missing only one year for his class reunion in California. We took our three kids including a six wee old baby for the first time in 1980!! Such a GREAT tradition!!  While I was undergoing chemo and radiation in the Jan-Feb-March time frame I would lay on the table and think of Ferron.  It was more beautiful than I could think of on that table!

My dad, Neil C Frischknecht was born and raised in Manti,Utah.   We took the kids by the MANTI HOUSE where my dad was actually born!  My Uncle Dean still owns and maintains the MANTI HOUSE.  In fact some of his grandkids were there and we were able to go inside and show the kids the house which has not changed!   My dad would be 94 this year.  Uncle Dean Frischknecht is 92 and still kicking!  Uncle Don Frischknecht will be 88 this year and is still kicking HARD!   It is comforting to know they are still here to continue sharing memories and remind me of my dad!!

At some point in time my mom and dad moved to Ephraim. I lived there until I was 9 years old when we moved to Provo, Utah. My dad's mom was Elda Christensen. She married Wilford Frischknecht and they combined their efforts to run the sheep farm pictured in the Mayfield area. The Frischknechts are one of the biggest sheep raisers in the State of Utah. The farm is well over a century old and continues to this day run by my cousins Joe and Paul Frischknecht. It is a great part of our heritage!! We head to Mayfield to go up 12 mile over the top to the Ferron Reservoir!

We took our three grandchildren, Simone, Lukas and Stella. We had a wonderful time and I would not have missed it for the world!! It is known the reunion occurs every last weekend in July. It is no secret. It is EVERY year!! The family members know. At 9000 feet I had complete Internet access and phone service. Yay for modern technology!!

Today I started round four of the chemo I have decided to continue. I am taking other agents which people claim cure cancer. So with all that I will be a winner. One of my classmates from high school said he saw me in his dreams the other night and I was a winner. I LOVE LOVE that he shared that with me!! With the extra week off my blood counts had come up a little so on with the fanny pack until tomorrow!

I was given a blessing before I went to chemo by my BUBBA! Last time it took two hours to access my port with lots of sticks and then they still had to draw blood from my arm -- the reason I got the port was to avoid arm sticks!!!   When I went  yesterday I told them they got only ONE STICK in my chest. Last time it was more!! She stuck me and could not get the blood. I told my husband "Bubba you gave me a blessing. What's up with that?!". They had me drop and hug my knees and had blood in less than five minutes. So it worked. I am so THANKFUL!!

Today I am feeling pretty normal and I know that if I am to WIN this battle, already knowing that the cancer is gone - I have to PUSH through eacn and every day.  I refuse to give up and I will be that WINNER that I need to be.

I am thankful for the Many Many Prayers offered in my behalf.  My family still needs them.  We pray for all of those that pray for us on a nightly basis.  I feel the love and I KNOW and have FAITH that it works.  I am truly BLESSED.  I have ANGELS attending on this earth and in HEAVEN.  You will NEVER make me think otherwise because I KNOW!!  I FEEL and I BELIEVE!!

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

"The Trick is NOT How Much Pain You Feel  - -  But How Much JOY you feel.  Any IDIOT Can Feel Pain.  Life Is Full of Excuses to Feel pain, Excuses NOT to LIVE!!....  EXCUSES, EXCUSES, EXCUSES!!"

Remember - We ALL have EXCUSES and Life I Said Before - They are Like Sweat Glands - They ALL STINK!!  I REFUSE To Be An Excuse or Even USE An EXCUSE!  I Choose to have JOY!!

GOD BLESS US ALL!  Love and HUGS!!!!!


Uncle Kasey in the canoe with the KIDS!!



Beautiful Simone - trying her new fishing pole!

Lukas on the left with his cousin Adam Johnson  Uncle Kasey being PATIENT!!



MY BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF HEAVEN!!



The Original Farm still in operation today!

Gramps is the Breakfast CHAMP!  Eggs, bacon, pancakes, juice and milk!  Make my BABIES HAPPY!!  And YES!  That extra plate is MINE!!

Gramps with Beautiful STELLA!  Love that girl!!