Cute Grandma Harding's 98 birthday party with her kids.  What can you say.  We went to her favorite restaurant (Sizzler) she paid for everyone's dinner.  We decided to let her because we would have had to fight about who paid the whole night and she wouldn't have enjoyed her dinner.  She said she had to pay for it because she takes turn living with us and we feed her all the time.  She is amazing for 98.

I am posting pictures of Steven.  Tuesday he had his tumor removed.  It was a 4 hour surgery.  He is still in intensive care.  It has been difficult to say the least.  He still doesn't complain but you can tell how hard it is.  After he recovers from the surgery he has 4 months of killer chemo.  The good news is that we can probably cure this cancer.  The bad news the cure is hard. 

Brother Steve

This is my brother Steve.  We are  sitting in the Doctors office.  He is fighting cancer.  He has courage does not complain and I think life is not always fair.

We had a great trip To Disneyland.  We went twice.  Once in September with three of our kids and once in November with out other kid.  We got to go to Disneyland in 2011 with all of our 13 darling grand kids.  The was the best that happened in 2011. I am going to try to post some pictures.  Hope it works.

Great Grandma Harding

The last few months

I am trying to post a few pictures of the last few months. I felt like the last few months had been a real trial until I looked at the pictures and was reminded how blessed and mostly happy my life really is. The bad was my brother (single-50years-mental illness) was diagnosed with Rectal Cancer. It was a huge blow. He entered 7 weeks of chemo and radiation, is having surgery in a couple of weeks, and then has 4 months of killer chemo. Hard times for him and he needs massive amounts of help getting through it. The blessing is his body is strong, and he seems to handle chemo and radiation really well. The other hard thing is my baby sister, whom I loved, shot herself on December 1st 2011. I can hardly talk about it. I miss her, but I do know that she is in a better place. She also was single and suffered from depression for most of her life. I think she was 47 had fought as hard as she could and couldn't fight anymore. It still breaks my heart and I miss her. I hope I can upload some of my pictures because there is too much joy to dwell on the bad for too long.