It's been a great summer!!

So, we start back to school day after tomorrow......for not having any plans when school let out, I haven't quit running!!!  One child left in the nest and she's kept us running!  But we've had a great time!  Parades, rodeos, bbq's, trips, family parties, 4 wheeler rides, the fair and everything else we could cram into the summer!

Summer might be coming to a close in the northern hemisphere, but it Argentina spring is just arriving!  I kind of felt guilty that Jace was freezing his "balls off" (that would be his lingo, not mine) and I was running the air conditioner!

Look at the cute picture I "stole" off the mission blogspot.  He looks so happy...and I miss him SO MUCH!

And we can't forget about the little sister "cleaning up" at the county fair!  Lyndsey is the Sr. Fitting and Showmanship champion in the steer division for 2012!!  And her steer took 6th overall out of 54 steers!  Not bad for coming off our little farm!  In fact....pretty darn good that we can hold our own against some of the big boys!!

And one day I will catch up with my married kids and brag on them a little too!  If Josh see's this, surely I will hear about my "two favorite children" being bragged about so much!  Looks like I need to head to Salt Lake to their apartment!

 

Love this kid!!!



Jace's 1st ever attempt at throwing a javelin!



Life at the Palmer's!

Lyndsey in the Salina parade July 2012

Lyndsey in her "Tough Enough to wear Pink" attire.

A great tradition at the Ute Stampede.  What an awesome sight!

Lyndsey and her fan club....Brenly, Gradee, and Sibley.

Saturday night of the Ute Stampede!  Bring it!

So it's over!  The big Ute Stampede has come and gone.....that was fast!  Lyndsey was an attendant to the Stampede Queen this year.  Our summer has been filled with parades, running here, running there, washing horses, making sure Lyndsey is ready for the next parade...a few rodeos, and more parades!  Did I mention I've been to a few parades this summer?  I'm posting a few pictures of Lyndsey in her "blingy shirts" as her nieces call them.  They think Lyndsey is a princess when she gets all decked out and ready for the parades!  The more I think of it, she kind of does look like a princess.  Enjoy Lyndsey!

So much fun!....then....OUCH!

Youth Conference 2012 will now go down in the history books!  What a great time!  Bear Lake is BEAUTIFUL!  I would move there in a heart beat....but right now there's a love/hate relationship between us.  I had the best time there and the lake was WAY fun....but I hated the way I felt later that night!  Got whipped off the "water wienie" in a crude fashion...and talk about hurt!  After consulting with the Dr., the lake had gotten the best of me!  I broke my ribs!  We need to keep that on the down low....I'm sure the Youth don't want some old lady "tag-along" to be the reason they can't take a boat to Yuba this fall!!!
So what's a post with out some pictures?  BORING!

Service project....cleaned the Montpelier cemetery, and marked out new plots!

Marty and Me!  Still can't pull it off without the hat! Minnetonka Cave.

                      

Nothing but the best for the Nephi 6th Ward Youth!  We took them to Paris!................(Idaho)

We are blessed!

We're coming off another whirl-wind week at the Palmer home!  I started physical therapy on my left arm on Monday.  I lost some of the mobility in my arm after my surgery last September.  I love my therapist!  He's amazing!  He's got me doing things I didn't think would ever be possible again! He asked me if I could lift my arm up to do my hair.....and I looked at him funny and said, "Have you seen me?  I haven't had to do my hair for 9 months!" He felt a little silly after that. :)
Lyndsey had a tonsillectomy on Wednesday.  What a trooper!  Poor little thing can't hardly get off the couch.  Her diet right now consists of slurpies..and slurpies.  That's all she can get down.  And Marty has food poising as I write this.  This started Wednesday morning....and hasn't let up yet.  Good thing we have 4 bathrooms in our house...and we were stocked up on toilet paper!
And one last event......drum roll please.......THE  CHEMO PORT WAS FINALLY REMOVED!!!!  And that, my friend, is the last chapter of "living life with breast cancer".  Let's close that book...actually, let's BURN that book!
And why do no pictures accompany this post?  Who wants to see Lyndsey passed out on the couch in pain? Or Marty sitting on the throne?...(or kneeling by it.) Or me, with my man's haircut (looking more like Marty's brother than his wife) letting the therapist contort my arm into positions I didn't think humanly possible....and I know my face is contorted while he does it.
Why is this post titled "We are blessed?" ~ Because we are!

He made it!!!!

You cant see me right now....but I'm doing the "Happy Dance!"  Jace made it to Argentina!  Here he is meeting President Carter for the first time!  I'm so happy that his mission has a blogspot so I can "borrow" pictures off their blogspot to put on mine!

And here are the "reinforcements" as they are known in BAW, or the "waiters" as they were known in the U.S.  That must have been quite the sight to see all of them gathered together at the Atlanta airport last night.  Stripling Warriors are what they are! 

Jace is the 4th from the right.......and he's still smiling after flying the "red-eye!"  I love that kid!