WE MADE IT!

We began our Journey to Utah after recieving countless hours of help from dear friends and ward members with cleaning etc...etc...etc....! How can we possibly ever begin to thank everyone enough? Leaving was hard. Our hearts have been so touched by people that are nothing less than angels to us.
After our goodbyes we stayed the night in Auburn and took off early in the morning for Boise Idaho. Sheena rode in the back seat inside of her little bed. She really was very good the first half of the day, but towards the end insisted on staying on my lap. That got old, let me tell you. Those tiny little paws HURT when they are sitting on your leg. OUCH! But...we fianlly arrived in Boise Idaho in the later afternoon. We slept well, and then on Friday took off thinking that we only had about 6 hours to go before being reunited with our kids and grandkids. xo
We got 3 miles outside of the Utah border, in the middle of NO WHERE, and our car died on us. We called AAA and they informed us they would be there in about 30 mintes but that they only covered a total of seven miles. The nearest city that had AAA services was Brigham City and it was 60 miles away! YIKES! The double YIKES came when she explained that the tower could charge us anywhere from $5.00 to $15.00 a mile after the seven miles. We waited around an hour and 20min. and finally help came. Fortunately he only charged us $4.00 a mile so it was around $198.00 to be towed. Better than the alternative, I say!
The most traumatic thing about the towing episode was that poor Sheena had to be left in the car being towed. No animals allowed in the truck! So we rolled the windows down abit and left her there as they lifted the car onto the trailer. Poor thing! She was looking at us like she was saying: "Why?" "Why?" She ended up surviing the ordeal and our D.J. came and rescued us in Brigham City to take us back to Provo. We left it at a GMC dealer ship and they could not look at it until Monday sometime. D.J. was our hero.
Of course, because Sheena had been so traumatized, she insisted on riding on my lap again.
We finally arrived at La Quinta in Orem at around 7:30pm. Of course we then decided to meet anyone who could at In n Out! That was a little bit of HEAVEN. It is after all the "only true hamburger." LOL
Monday our STUFF was delivered at our rental, which is very cute by the way, and we have spent the remainder of the week unpacking, and picking up our car in Brigham City and then organizing and unpacking some more. The car ended up having the catalytic converter replaced which was much better than what we thought was wrong...the transmission. A much more expensive deal. We felt blessed.
Yesterday...Thursday... Ralph and I went to the Huntsman cancer clinic in SLC for the first visit. It is a beautiful facility and the staff is very attentive and Dr. Acrely was sensitive to the fact that we have been at Swedish in Wa. for quite some time and got close to Dr. West there and his staff so he brought in his staff and we got aquainted. Very nice. Ralph will begin some more traditional chemo in about 3 weeks from yesterday. It is called taxitere. He is getting all of his favorite hats ready as he will lose all of his hair this time. He will look right in style and is such a handsome guy anyway...big deal. He has certainly been through alot. I admire his faith and trust in the Lord in all that he goes through. I call him " steady eddie" because that is exactly how he is. We feel so blessed to be surrounded by our wonderful kids and grandkids, and now with good medical care again as well. We have always known that our Father in heaven loves us and somehow is certainly involved in every detail of our lives. We will never be able to thank him enough for everything. xo