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Archived 2/8/2007

Ron & Robin Miller 10/29/2006
11/07 Kittens are doing well and are starting to hang around when we walk by them. It is a long process taking kittens that are basically wild animals and teaching them to trust.

Ron is getting better all the time and will soon be able to cut down to 3 dialysis runs. We are hopeful and thinking positive about his kidneys healing from the inside out. Our Father can do marvelous things when we have the faith. Please keep Ron in your prayers to boost his positive attitude so that his body will respond.

11/04/2006 We have two new additions to Our family. Two little kittens that we have named (with Ian's help) Haagen & Dazes (yes like the Ice Cream. They were born to a domesticated cat gone wild and so we are socializing them. Beautiful Barn Tabby's.

9/17 Transplant Update: November is booked so we are probably looking at transplant after the first of the year.

9/04 - Ron and I moved into our apartment on the 31st. We are exhausted. but are very excited to be in our new place.

We are just waiting on a transplant date to be decided. We went to Vancouver a few weeks ago and the doctor said that it should be the end of September or early October. And we need to move out of this apartment into something that has and elevator and laundry room. We will be moving the in September also. This leaves out travel to UT for the wedding.

Ron and I found a great apartment next to the water in the West Bay area of Victoria, that has laundry room and elevator (no more stairs!). It has two bedrooms and a very nice balcony. We move in on the 31^st or the 1^stof September.

Aunt Connie & Uncle Karl & Grandma Rhoades 12/22/2006     Your Aunt Connie & I hope that your Christmas is full of Family Joy as you reflect on the blessings bestowed through our loving Savior, Jesus Christ.    Your mother and Richard arrived here with your Aunt Carol & Frank yesterday evening. Your grandmother's mental behavior has been questionable for the last couple of weeks. This makes it difficult for your Aunt Connie to manage her needs. She was admitted Monday to the hospital for testing and observation. Yesterday she was transferred from the hospital to a Resthome facility for therapy and will be there for three weeks or so,    We visited her today and all seemed to be OK. We send our love ------ Uncle Karl

News about Grandma Rhoades

02/08/2007 -

For those who do not already know, my Mother Violet Rhoades, is now residing in The Caring Place on 13th. Street here in Franklin, PA. She would love visitors.

Connie & Karl transferred her up here from VA on Monday. If you are close by and wish to visit, her room is 124. Some days, she seems fine, other days, she is quite mixed-up. As for now, she knows who everyone is. We will keep you posted, if and when there is a change. She has fallen more than 12 times since Thanksgiving.

Keep in touch, Joyce

01/19/2007 - Well here is the latest on Grandma, We are in the process of finding a place for her. Went to Erie today with Carol & Frank to look at the PSSH (Pa soldier & Sailor Home) She qualifies for that and it is less expensive than a private home. The doctor diagnosed her with Paranoid Schizophrenic and that she is going down hill rapidly.

Physically, who knows, but mentally she gets progressively worse. She needs a place that will take care of her physically, and one that handles dementia. Erie doesn't have that, but Pittsburgh does, so I guess we will go down there soon and check that one out. Connie is checking in VA for something near her.

01/19/2007 - Your grandmother is now in her 30th day in a Nursing Care Facility with the issue of Dementia. We travel the 20 mile round trip to visit her at least 3 times a week. The Facility is directly across the road from our Church building.

    Her doctor recommends that she remain in such a facility her remaining life. The facility is doing rehabilitation that she can be transferred to an Assisted Living Facility. She is not doing any physical therapy --- she says too much back pain. She gets out of bed very little. This lack of therapy will not qualify her for an Assisted Living Facility --- thus there are questions unanswered right now.     Your Aunt Connie is managing her financial and other matters. The Lord is blessing her in that situation.     We love you ------- hope all is going well Uncle Karl

12/28/06 - I am so sorry I have not been in touch for a while. Carol and Frank and Richard and I have been in VA, we just got home last night.
We have spent the past 7 days visiting with Mom in the Nursing Home. The doctor told us 2 days ago that she is probably not ever going to be back "home". His recommendation is to find her a perm. nursing home.
She won't eat. I doubt that she gets 1/2 c of food into herself each day.
Right now she seems to know everyone, but her mind is very confused about what is happening. She thinks she is in a hospital. She gets up during the night and tries to pack her clothes and falls and then it is back to the hospital emergency for several hours, then when she is returned to the nursing home she has all kinds of stories of the horrible things that happened to her while she was gone.
They did x-rays and she is convinced they operated on her. Or she will get up during the night and wander into another room and then she says the man there wouldn't let her go. She screams and yells at the nurses and they can't handle her. She smacked Connie.
The idea originally was to have her taken care of until her ribs healed so she could come home again, but she is getting worse each day it seems. She isn't going to heal if she won't cooperate, but she fights everyone and won't take shots, or meds that could help her relax. She says it is her body and she isn't going to take drugs and they can't make her. None of us could convince her to cooperate except Richard and Carol part of the time. We are all concerned about her getting pneumonia because she won't move around (except for in the middle of the night lol) and won't do her breathing exercises. She has a walker and a wheel chair there but won't use them, so she has fallen 5 times in the past couple weeks.
That's the news for now......

Cantrell, Nichole & Chuck: 9/12/2006
Nichole is pregnant and her baby is due on April 24th 2007.

Cunninghams: 12/15/2006
Kori has computer service again and it is nice to see her online, Welcome back!

10/12/2006   Korrine is working in a new place and love it. Easier work for a lot more pay and closer to home...she has interviewed for a job at the jail that will even be better for training and government benefits. They will train her in a lot of nursing duties that RN's usually do so that when he she starts school in January she will be able to test out sooner in her classes.

New Photos! Click Here to go to Korrine's page in the Family Album.

Engelberts: 7/27/2006
Marcel is hot on our heals asking us every chance he gets if we have a date for the transplant.

Jenks, Bethany:   9/7/2006
Hey Aunt Robin. It's your niece, Bethany. Ya know, Michael's' eldest. Any who, I found your site. Aubrey told me about it. You and the kids look great. We haven't spoken forever, I know. I miss the family. I'm a horrible pen pal, and always lose phone numbers. I'm glad you guys have an email address! I have a little 3 year old boy. His name is Kaden too. Well, just wanted to say hi! Hope we all can keep in touch.

Love,
Bethany10/08/2006

Bethany is living and going to RN School in Blanding, UT. She has earned her LPN and has a very good baby sitter for Kadan.

Lahr, Joy &
Richard:
10/08/2006

October 19^th (Saturday) we left for MA & NH, arriving in MA at 7 am.

Beth had already made 3 trips to the hospital in as many days.

The doctor said the baby wasn’t ready to be born.

Beth went back into the hospital on Friday and the doctor said he would do a caesarian section on Saturday. Baby Grace Elizabeth was born on Saturday October 21^st. at 10:30 am. She came into the world weighing 9 pounds and 5 ounces and was 21 inches long.

Beautiful baby girl! The doctor said she had no intention of leaving the womb, she was happy there. We hung around the hospital until Gracie was born and then after taking a couple pictures, we left for NH.

We arrived in NH in time for Grampy to baptize and confirm Eric Jr. a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was a nice service held especially for Little Eric.

On Sunday we went to church with Eric and the family. After Sacrament Meeting we drove back down to MA. Eric and Sandy and family followed in their car. We spent the afternoon visiting Beth and the baby. We dressed Gracie in her blessing dress and bonnet that I made for her and Grampy gave her a grandfather’s blessing.

We left for home on Monday, arriving around 7 pm.

On Friday the 27^th of October we left home for CO, ID,UT, and BC.

We arrived at Felila’s in Grand Junction, CO at about 2:00 pm. We visited with the Fountain Family the rest of the day. She was in the middle of sewing costumes for her boys for Halloween. They are characters from the Pirates of the Caribbean. She sure did a good job. They looked so good. Then we spent the night in our van in her driveway and left the next morning before daybreak heading for UT.

We stopped in Layton, UT and visited for a few hours with Corrine and Mellisa and Jetson. We met Kylee and Keyara for the first time. What cuties they are, and Kaiden has sure grown! What a live-wire!!

Then after loading Robin’s storage into the van we drove on to Pocatello to Luaine’s.

Halloween day we helped Luaine get Trisha and Dallas dressed for Trunk or Treat at the church, and then took them there. It was cold, but there were a lot of people there and it was nice for the kids. Dallas was Superman and Trisha was a Medieval Princess.

Vaughn is still not ready to be born. He is due on the 7^th.

On the 4^th of Nov. Heidi took Luaine and me out to the Golden Corral for dinner. After dinner Richard and I went to Rexburg to BYU Idaho. Christifer was in a musical performance with the University Choir. It was very well done. After the performance we took Christifer back to Pocatello for the week-end.

We went out to Rockland for a couple days with Heidi and Jim and boys.

On the 7^th Luaine went into the hospital to be induced, since Vaughn wasn’t in any hurry to meet the world. He and Gracie just seemed to be happy right where they were.

After a few hours, the doctor said that Vaughn was in some stress and he suspected the cord was wrapped around Vaughn’s neck, so the opted to do a caesarian section.

So Vaughn was born on his due date, weighing 7 pounds +. He had to spend a few days in the NIC Unit because, evidentially, unbeknown to anyone, Luaine must have had high blood sugar prior to the birth. So when Vaughn was born his blood sugar dropped. They had to give him high amounts of sugar and then drop it slowly until he could tolerate it on his own. He is fine now. A Beautiful Baby.

So while we were waiting for Vaughn to come home from the hospital and for Thanksgiving, we traveled to Victoria, BC, Canada to visit with Robin and Ron.

We really enjoyed the ferry rides over and back and had a great time visiting.

Robin made us a great Turkey dinner and had several of their friends over. It was wonderful. We spent a lot of time playing with their new kittens and playing “chicken foot dominoes”. Robin sang a solo in church and we were blessed to be able to be there for that as well. We did some shopping and running around, but mostly enjoyed just being there with Robin and Ron and spending that time. They live in a very nice apartment complex. It makes me think of a grand hotel.

We returned to Luaine a few days before Thanksgiving. On the 21^st. of Nov. Heidi had a baby shower for Luaine at her home in Rockland. There were about 12 women in attendance and she received gifts from several women who could not make it to the shower.

Two days before Thanksgiving, Felila and her children arrived. They stayed out at Heidi’s until Thanksgiving Day, and then they came into Pocatello and spent the next couple nights at Luaine’s. It was a wonderful visit. We played games and talked and ate and talked and ate and played some more games! All the kids had a ball playing together. All in all there were 15 cousins there counting BJ, Christifer and Vaughn, and 7 adults.

On Sunday the 26^th, we attended church with Luaine and Jack, where Richard was privileged to give Vaughn a blessing, in Sacrament Meeting. Heidi and Jim and boys attended and Uncle Dell was there as well. Afterwards we went back to Luaine’s for a nice “salad bar” dinner.

While we were in ID we acquired a new dog. Sage Moondust is her registered name. She is a Spitz. She looks like a pure white fox. We love her. She took the trip back to PA well and gets along great with our cat, Bunny.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

We pray that you will have a wonderful New Year, filled with

peace, happiness, joy, good fortune and all the blessings that our

Father in Heaven has to offer.

Try to remember each day, throughout the coming year, “The Reason for the Season”! The birth of our Lord and Savior and what His birth, crucifixion and resurrection mean in everyone’s life. And show that by example.

You are our family and friends and we love you and miss you.

We wish to be a regular part of your lives. Please keep in touch.

Email is wonderful! A few words here and there help us to reach

that goal, yet it takes just a few moments.

WE LOVE YOU, Mom & Dad or Joy & Richard

Grammy & Grampy

Aunt & Uncle

Or what ever works......

Sunday, 24 October 2006

On the 21st. of October, we were blessed with a new granddaughter. Grace Elizabeth York, 9 lb. 5 oz. 21" long, in Waltham, MA. Healthy, strong and beautiful.We will be leaving for ID and parts west on the 27 for the birth of another grandchild. Talk when we get back.Love you all.

Sunday, 8 October 2006

The past little while has been fairly routine for the two of us. We have been traveling approx. every other Sunday, all over the Jamestown, NY Stake. (Our Stake) It covers all of Venango County, the NE part of Clarion County, Crawford County, Erie County, all in PA and probably some other areas that I have missed, and Chautauqua County, NY and probably some of Cattaraugus County, NY as well. The stake boundaries are large. As a High councilman, Richard has to visit one of the 10 Wards or Branches in the Stake every other week at least. During Ward Conferences, he sometimes has to go every week. Then he has to go to Jamestown, NY every other Thursday for High Council Meeting with the Stake Presidency. Fortunately, we have 2 other High Councilmen and the 1st Counselor in the Stake Presidency in our Ward, so they can share rides for this meeting.I have been working as the Family History Consultant, with Brother and Sister McMunn working under me. Connie Mc Munn mans the Family History Center on Wednesday night. At this time it is the only day of the week that the center is open. I have gone into the center and cleaned it up and re-organized the working areas. We got a new computer and now have it set up for use.

Our two cats, Mouse and Bunny are thriving and doing well. Mouse always wants to be in the house, but since I have the allergies I cannot allow that, so she spends a good deal of her time either in the sun on in the greenhouse or on the breezeway. She is approx. 11 years old. Bunny is a typical kitten and very playful.We are searching for a dog to adopt. We want a young female, all white Spitz. Some people recognize them as American Eskimo. They are the same breed. Aunt Connie, Aunt Carol and I were raised with a Spitz and I love them. So far we haven't had any luck finding one that we can afford.

I have been having some problems with my diabetes lately, so I was referred to a specialist. Don't need to tell you how much that cost us since I don't have Medicare yet. But she has me on quite a rough regime of insulin shots each day. I think it is improving. My leg problem with the lymphedema is about the same. Some of the fluid retention is down since the weather is cooler, but walking for very far is still quite a problem. But I don't let that get me down.

We are planning a trip out west in Nov. So will report on that when we get back.We will be going in a few days to MA for the birth of Beth's baby girl and Eric Jr's baptism.Love, USDad or Mom

Hi All,

Just to keep you up on the news here, I was released from the calling as High Priest Group Leader last Sunday, and called to be on the High Council. The approval from the other wards and branches won't be done until this Sunday, and the rest to follow in a couple of weeks. The HP Group Leader was the shortest calling I ever had.

We are glad to hear that things are going better for all.Drop us a line when you can.Love, Dad (Richard)

Lewis, Mellisa & Jeff: 7/27/2006
Mellisa's wedding went very well. she said that it was perfect. Korrine said that she was beautiful. They had a great time at a B&B in Logan.

Mellisa and Jeff have a baby due on April 17, 2007

Abrey: 10/08/2006 Aubrey is living in CA, I think she said in or around Carson, but don't quote me on that. She is working at the same hotel chain that she has been with for about 4 years now, she also has a very good sitter for Tevy and they are doing well.

Stamm, Bob & Mitzy: 10/12/2006 Hi Everybody,Just a few words to catch you'll up. Got back from the Sierras the first part of Sept. and been busier ever since. Been working on the house and it's almost done except for carpet and waiting on Mitzi's nephew Paul Allen to do that. Having a big party for Mitzi's 60th birthday this Monday, people from our old work place and other fiends and neighbors. Going to Az. to look at houses the last week of the month.   May sell this place next year, don't know yet. We're probably going to work in the Sierras from the 1st of April till the 30th of Oct in 2007. Free space rent, water, electricity, propane, & three meals a day, plus 7.50 an hour. Can't beat that. Being retired is great except for the fixed income.     How is everyone?   Whats new?   Tell all the Kids we love them.     Hope to hear from you soon!Love Dad and Mitzi

Bob & Marg Nelson 10/3/2006 Video of Margs Graduation for her masters degree. http://lightenup.ca/pdf/grad_2006.wmv

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