Take a close look and you will see our families first initials, woven so beautifully together! Our own personal "family crest", created for us by our very talented cousin [plug in here for Amy Burrows and her graphic design business - Innisfree Design]! Hopefully this will one day be crafted out of metal and hanging over our fireplace!

It's been a few months since we've done a blog, and of course there's been some happenings.  In February Wayne's PSA began to climb again, he had all the bone and CT scans repeated the end of March, and back to see the oncologist yesterday for bloodwork and results.  After some delay in getting results, we received the call late yesterday afternoon that his PSA has gone up more, and there is a new area of concern behind the sternum.  Well, I'm not going to lie, that rocked us.  The Dr. is quite concerned, as are we.  She is scheduling him for a biopsy of the new area, as well she has sent in a referral to London for another opinion.  These will hopefully happen this month. 
After processing this last night [shout out here to thank my work family for covering my shift last night - we needed that!], we are pushing forward, trying to hard to stay positive, and praying hard.

Wayne continues to have his good and bad days, but generally has been doing ok.  Mornings are still a little slow, but he is sleeping better [shout out here to essential oils!], we have again tweaked his diet - and he feels good with that.  He is able to putter around here during the day, doing little projects that's he's been wanting to do [even got the stone on our fireplace surround this winter!] Generally we are actually really enjoying our "early retirement" together, and so thankful for the opportunity to have this time with each other and our family. Speaking of which, our children are doing well.  Jessica is pushing through her last semesters at college, hard to believe she will be completely done in August, and will be starting her full time job as an Architectural Technician in September!  Vanessa is finishing up her 2nd semester in her Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and has been enjoying her program - it has been so wonderful to see our girls flourish and enjoy their schooling/career choices.  Vanessa was even hired as a fulltime student nurse for the summer at the hospital here -  an amazing opportunity for her to get some excellent practical experience [and make some money for next year]!  Brian is done hockey and missing that, but has been enjoying a little more free time! He is looking forward to warmer days, atv rides, paint balling, soccer, camping . . .

So here we are again, finding joy and thankfulness in our every day moments  -  just 'being' in each others, and our Heavenly Father's, presence.