Sunday, May 31, 2015

 To say it has been an interesting week would be an understatement!  What started off as a relatively 'nice easy pace' turned into a whirlwind!!

Monday was Memorial Day.  John VonCannon (my cousin) and his wife Carol invited us up to visit them.  Carol is pretty much bedridden right now because she just found out she has bone cancer in her lower leg and has to stay off of it until they do surgery.  SO, we picked up some Mexican food and took it to them.  I also made a cherry sonker in my sonker dish and off we went.  We had a great visit.

 These are the gates to their home.  They gave us the code so we could open the 'doors' and let ourselves in!

They were both asking me about my new Apple Watch and I was demonstrating how the camera worked on it.  John and Carol were 'ready' when the foto took but I was still figuring out what to do!

By the time we got home in the evening the storms had moved in.  And they were pretty fierce!

Again, being a fairly easy pace the early part of the week meant I could get a couple of projects finished that I had going......this being one of them.  This is a 'square' I crocheted for the 'World's Largest Stocking Project'!  It will be huge when it is finished.  Can't wait to see how it turns out!

I got another doily made and sent to a sweet gal in Kentucky that we had met a couple of weeks earlier......Sister Deckard.

We decided we needed to start eating more healthy.....and here is the beginning of that process.  It was a really good salad!  Andy BTW....love our new little rain-boot salt and pepper shaker set.  Got the set at CardSmart in PTC.

Instead of reaching for chocolate for a snack, I found a really good recipe for ENERGY BALLS that is good for you and good tasting.

Lucy-Goosey really likes being with us.  Even if it means she sits on the back of Wayne's recliner and watch him work.

OR it could mean laying on the back of the sofa.  She is such a pretty cat and so long.

We actually got out for a walk a couple of days this week....meet Jeremy our Postiman.  He is such a friendly guy and knows us well!!

Friday at about 5:30 p.m. our world changed from the 'calm' during the week to 'fast-paced' and tense couple of days.  Sister Bennion, Mission President's wife in the Georgia Atlanta North Mission, called.  She told Wayne that a set of their sister missionaries had just been in a car accident.  Their car had been hit broadside by a semi-truck and the sister driver was killed instantly and the sister companion was medivac to the Atlanta Medical Trauma Center.  Wayne and I were asked by President Bennion to go to the AMTC and take care of things there while he went to the accident scene and meet with the police investigating the accident.  We were happy to do so.  A few hours later President and Sister Bennion joined us, along with a group of ward members in which the sisters were serving.  Wayne and President Bennion had a lot to talk about......plans for both sisters.  How to handle everything.  This all took place while the sister was in brain surgery.  At about 2:00 a.m. she was out of her surgery (which took 5 hours) and after she spent about 1 hour in recovery a few of the folks were allowed to see her.  This was just such an awful experience but fortunately the sisters never knew what hit them. President Bennion had to go to the morgue and get release of the body and make preparations to have it shipped to the sisters home and family.  This is just a very difficult thing to go through and not an experience that anyone wants to have to take care of or go through.

Over the course of the weekend we made 4 trips to the hospital.  One of them being Saturday night when President Bennion requested that we be there to greet the sister missionary's family who had just flown in from Utah.  Hence, the sunset Atlanta Sky Scape!  It was pretty but we wished we didn't have to be there for the purpose we were there for.

On Sunday afternoon Wayne and I along with Sister Mason, the Mission Nurse for the Georgia Atlanta Mission, went to see our little missionary.  Not much has changed.  She is still in critical condition and in a coma.  The ward where they were serving had prepared some get well cards to hang in her room.  That was so sweet of them.  

As we were leaving the hospital tonight we noticed this wreath hanging on the Anesthesia's office door!  Just so classic for the Atlanta area.  Everyone and their mother are Braves fames.  And they are not afraid to let you know it! 

It has been a rough few days.  We will stay tuned and see where we go from her with our sweet sister missionary!  Everyone.....please drive safely and watch out for the other driver!  Love y'all......