School is out.

I think I should have been a teacher? Sure would like to be out for the summer! You know, I always thought I would be a teacher when I was tired of nursing, that was until the TAKS test came along. What ever happened to the good ole achievement tests. Those were the days. Anyway, we enjoyed seeing Austin graduate into the high school. I am not sure he had anything on his mind but whether he would make the ball game that night. Abby and Landon are really excited about the break as well.

Congrats to the Trojans on advancing to regional finals ( I think that is the right round???). I know I witnessed a huge number of true blue fans. Anyone who sits roasting in that kind of heat must either bleed blue or need to have their head examined. Thanks to all those who confirmed the miserable conditions. I think Mark thought I was being a little pansy. A huge thank you to James and Gwen for a little shade. I should have found you 13 innings earlier.

Many applause to our Tanna for being the valedictorian of the Windthorst graduating class. All that hard work eventually pays off! And to my nephew Justin, we look forward to celebrating the end of your high school years next week also. You guys make us really proud and our kids really look up to you. You should be very proud of yourselves as well.

This is chemo week. #8 starts Wednesday. Mark has had a pretty good week leading into it. I know everyone is so proud of how good he looks. It makes it really difficult to even think that there is anything going on with him. Believe it or not, I can on think of a very few times that he actually looked sick through all of this. We are so lucky. Daily we are reminded of how much worse it could be. So bad, in fact, that sometimes we even feel lucky to be where we are!. God is good. We have an appointment scheduled with the cardio thoracic surgeon on August 11th. Of course that is pending the end of chemo treatments. We have it all planned and lined out. We all know what that will do for us. In time we will know if God's plan works out even similiar to how our plan looks on paper!?!

Congrats to Michael Wipperman. Michael is the young man I have requested prayers for. He is undergoing treatment at MD Anderson. I believe has received three treatments and they have seen miraculous change in the cancer in his body. They feel that his cancer is 85-90% gone. Many kudos to all of those people who walk all night so that successes like these are possible.

God is good. Love to all, Missy