When it comes to living our lives, Christ doesn't make up the difference. He IS the difference.

This is the adoreable orphan that we took on as our own. (Amazingly she looks just like me!)

We went to the pumpkin patch and picked out our own pumpkins & carved them.

15 DAYS AND COUNTING!!

Dave's been feeling much better since the installation of his pain pump. On Monday, Dave and I biked the rim trail. It was a lot of fun. On the way downhill, Dave kept exclaiming, "I love this! I love this!"

We went with Alden and Natalie to the Coral Pink Sand Dunes over UEA. It was a blast! We plummeted down the edge of one of the biggest dunes we found there. There's Natalie at the top with Kate. Caden just loves his niece, Kate. He is a great babysitter.

Dave tried to get a pain pump installed, but it didn't work so we're scheduled to have a neurosurgeon do it next Friday. Hopefully it works this time. I'm anxious for this surgery. It seems a lot more risky because the neuro surgeon has to go in at T-4 and make a space for the cathider to go up Dave's spine completely, to allow the medicine to dispense.

Our new house seems to be coming along . We do realize that framing is the fastest part. Now we're chomping at the bit to get the rest of it finished.

This is our house as of Thursday, September 11.

Dave has been handling the cancer fairly well. He finished radiation just a couple of weeks ago, and he's been in a lot of pain for the last couple of days. His mood and pain level have both improved over the last couple of hours and we hope that it continues to do so. We are seeing some signifigant progress on our new home. (Just behind Dave's mom's.) Hopefully I can include some of the photos.

I don't know how to blog, but since everybody's doing it I thought I'd better jump in.