GOOD NEWS

FRIDAY, 24 SEPTEMBER, 2010 The word Gospel means Good News but that is not what I have in mind this morning. Yesterday I received a phone call from a pretty 39 year-old red-head… again irrelevant. The good news is that Dr. Sanderson's nurse, Jessica called with the results of my biopsies. All three came back negative for skin cancer. Yahoo! or Google or something like that!

SONG BIRD - BAILEY

Thursday, September 23, 2010 Yesterday after football practice, Corey and family came over for dinner. Bailey asked Grandma (Judy) if she would play the piano for her while she sang. She sang for quite a while. She is really quite good. Today, after school Bailey tried out for a singing and speaking part in their school's Christmas program. Corey said that Stacey said she did well. Good for nine year-old Bailey. On facebook I asked Stacey how it went. She said: “She’s in the choir but that’s good ‘cause that’s where she wanted to be…she sounded so good I was blown away.”

A FEW FUN TIDBITS from STACEY

From Stacey’s facebook: Thursday, September 16, 2009 Stacey Jepson: "Today is crazy hat day at school. Bailey was walking with some friends when she remembered. She yelled out to me to go (home) and get her cowboy hat… So I had to run to the house, then back to the school with her hat and a few of Jayden’s hats for him to choose from. (When I came back to Jayden,) he said 'I am already wearing a hat. It’s invisible...If only you could see how crazy it is Mom.' I laughed all the way home." another entry September 15 at 1:54pm ‎"MOMMY WHERE'S MY…?" "MOM CAN YOU DO THIS" MOM I’M HUNGRY!" MOM CAN I…?" And last but not least "HONEY I'M HOME WHATS FOR DINNER". Everyday coming at you on all four sides.... I wouldn't give it up for anything... I might dial it down a little."

THE UNIVERSE

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CUT AND SEW IN OHIO; or was it American Fork, Utah

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2010 – As stated earlier, I was rescheduled for my in-clinic surgery from last Wednesday to the sixth of October then from the sixth to this morning. Dr. Sanderson passed a kidney stone last Wednesday and will be out of town on the sixth. Anyway, bright and early, at eight thirty this morning I was in the clinic wearing loose fitting shorts to facilitate matters and had three procedures done. Three is the maximum they will do at one time and if I understood them correctly it is because, if they shoot any more numbing “stuff” in you it can make you goofy. Well, the three they did do made me a little light headed and feel funny as if –I- needed that. I have other problems that do that to me on a regular basis. In all, I had a big gouge taken out of my lower left leg, where the trace of melanoma was found previously. They also took off a hairy brown blob off my upper right leg and a dark spot off my right hand. The doctor sounded almost disappointed that I didn’t flinch when he poked me to give me a shot in the hand. I saw it coming, was prepared and wasn’t about to give him the satisfaction. I guess I should be happy he came in early today to do this for/to me. I mentioned to him that Judy asked the doctor how may stitches she got after delivering one of our children and the doctor retorted, “Do you count when you sew?” Dr Sanderson said that any doctor who says a specific number when asked that question is either lying or guesstamating because they are concentrating and too busy sewing to sit there and count stitches. Dr Sanderson said that if I haven’t heard the results of the biopsies by a week from now to be sure and call in and ask! Oh, Dr. Sanderson turned out to be as big a comedian as I am. We had a fun time and his nurse Jessica, a cute nearly forty year-old redhead, joined right in with us. Sorry Jim she's happily married!

- JAYDEN -

Thursday, September 09, 2010 Stacey tried to send this yesterday but it didn’t show up, thus the wording following the pictures. There you go Freddie, hopefully that time it worked. One pic is Jayden getting his arrow of light. And the other one is his teeth; Jayden had to have four teeth pulled out this morning, everything is fine no cavities, But his adult teeth were going to come in weird if they didn't come out... He must have inherited that from me. The following is from Stacey's facebook page: We all had dentist appt: this morning, I am happy to report no cavities and healthy teeth for all.... Except one..... Corey had cavities and some kind of infections. And Jayden had to have four teeth pulled due to the fact that his adult teeth would come in weird if they didn't come out..... he did awesome. He is going in to the American Fork Hospital this afternoon to have X-rays to check for Scoliosis.

SUPER LADY

Wednesday, September 08, 2010; 9:40 p.m. Right now Judy is downstairs helping Ethelynn Higbee, a very bright neighbor lady, on a project and that made me think of something once said about Hugh Nibley. Hugh Nibley was one of the LDS Church’s top super brains. It was said once by a Catholic Jesuit historian, if I remember correctly that Hugh Nibley, when he is working on a topic, becomes more knowledgeable about the peripheral subjects than the experts in those fields. (He complained in a tongue in a cheek disgusted way, that it just isn’t right or fair or however he worded it.) I’m not saying Judy is another Hugh Nibley or Einstein or whatever, but she is very bright and does much the same thing. She is “indispensable” at work and it seems there is always someone there or at home, in the ward (church) or elsewhere asking for her knowledge, advice, help on something or whatever and she soon delves into the subject and becomes “expert”. She, of course, is a very talented pianist and harpist. Her only downfall, if there is one (she admits) is that she can’t memorize music; she has to read it. I wonder if it is just that she has never put that much effort into doing so. To her credit, she is always so busy on other things that she seldom has time to sit down and play her instruments.