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June 2022

 

June 2022

At the beginning of June, my wonderful friend Wendy came up from Utah and helped me organize my kitchen and pantry. She brought all of these cool containers and a label maker and made it look really great. That’s one of the best gifts anyone could give me because I LOVE organizing things. On June 2, Kierstin Holland from the English department stopped by with Crumbl cookies and one of the most beautiful flow arrangements I’ve ever seen. On June 4, Austin and Leah came over and brought pizza for everyone. We had fun playing with the kids, and Leah asked Phoebe to cut Kelson’s hair because it was getting out of control!






On June 6 and 7, Kory and I went up to Island Park for a seminary teacher’s retreat. We stayed at Sawtelle Resort. We had dinner the night of the 6th at the church in Island Park. In the morning, we divided into smaller groups and went to some different sites around Island Park and related different things to the gospel—Big Springs, the reservoir, etc. It was a little cold, but so beautiful and I really enjoyed it. On the evening of the 7th, Kory went golfing at the golf course right by our house. Morgan came to have fun driving the cart, and I rode in the cart.



On June 16, we had everyone over for a birthday party for Lakyn. We were curious if our new house would feel too small when we had everyone over, but it worked great. 


After that, we got to babysit Aiden for a few days while his parents were out of town. I was still healing from surgery and not allowed to lift anything, so Kory did most of the work with babysitting, but it was fun to bond with this cute little grandson. 




On Father’s Day we took my dad a present and also got to visit with Kory’s dad when he stopped by. (Dad and I had fun watching Obi Wan Kenobi together for a few weeks.) That evening we went to Austin and Leah’s for dinner and had a great time playing with the grandkids and finishing up with some amazing karaoke by Andy and Stevie.



Chloe finished up her drives for Driver’s Ed and officially got her permit, so she’s out on the road! Yay! Morgan went to Girl’s Camp with our old ward in Idaho Falls from the 22-25.

On the 21st I got a colonoscopy and endoscopy to see if there was cancer somewhere in the GI tract. I was very happy when that all came back clean! Kory and I drove down to Utah for my follow-up appointment at Huntsman on June 27. The surgery incision looks good, and I’m officially recovered from that. Next step is chemotherapy in Idaho Falls to treat some little, microscopic dots of cancer they found in the lining of my abdomen during the surgery. I will have six doses of chemo, one every three weeks, so I think I will be done around November. This is the type of chemo where you lose your hair, so that should be fun. She also said that this type of cancer has a 70% recurrence rate, so it sounds like this will be something we’re monitoring long term.

Because I was feeling great (no longer carrying around a 30-pound tumor) I decided to go back to work to get ready for Fall semester. I was not teaching my classes, just doing administrative and other things I need to get done. Everyone was super sweet when I got back and lots of people stopped by to say hello. I really love working at BYU-Idaho.

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