A Great Big Thank You!

I think I am pretty much up to date!  Yay!  I will be updating regularly on Kayla's progress and treatments as well as other family stuff.  Thanks for all of your support and for taking the time to read this giant book I am writing.

The one thing I haven't mentioned is how much help and service we have received this past month.  I have had so many dinners brought in by friends in our ward that I have hardly had to cook.  Family members and friends have been mailing gifts for Kayla and the family which we have greatly appreciated.  Some of my in-laws are paying for weekly house cleaning to help me out.  It has been a huge blessing to have my bathrooms scrubbed down each week!  And, it is a good friend of mine and avid cleaner who is doing it.

Bryson and I were talking about what we should do with our chickens.  Kayla isn't supposed to be around farm animals and they didn't even want her checking for eggs, so we were trying to figure out if we should have fresh chicken for Easter dinner, or do something else with them for the next year.  The very next day a friend in our ward called me and asked if we would want them to take our chickens for the year.  They came and picked them up, along with our coop and took them home with them.  They call themselves the "chicken tenders." :)

So many friends have watched my kids and many more have offered to help!  I know I will have no problem each week finding someone to take Benson for the day on Thursdays, or Nathan and Lily after school.  I have even had friends come over to pick up my laundry (unfortunately, I had just finished folding it! ).

Several friends have been making hats for Kayla and we love that.  A quick hair update:  it has been 4 weeks now since her first treatment and her hair has not even started to thin out!  They told me to expect it at 2 weeks, but we have been blessed so far!  I will take it for as long as we can keep it.

We have had so much support and even more prayers from those of you who are too far away to help out and even those of you who don't know us!  We are so grateful for how blessed we are with wonderful family and friends.  I feel truly strengthened by all of your support.  I know that the Lord won't give me something that I can't handle, but if it weren't for all of you, I would definitely be having a pretty hard time right now.

THANK YOU!!!