Rasmania 101: 2 week letter :)

Pictures from week 1:

Ori and Effie. Light blue eyes mean sunglasses!

Finn-not yet 2 but he has to keep up with his brothers.

Doyeon and Yuna--yay, it's spring!

Caitlyn at the Rheumatologist. She has Rheumatoid arthritis in her jaw
and Friday started giving herself injections to combat it.

Swim lessons!

Maverick (I'm not sure what he's doing)

Reading with the boys. Believe it or not, they can
sit still for a story.

Ruby loving Greta (Facetime screenshot, if you can't tell)

Roy got two mentor pins from the two boys on the left at their Eagle
Court of honor.

Roy, meeting with his Elder's Quorum presidency from the Centerville 1st ward

Getting Effie's eyes checked at the doctor. She's
very far-sighted, but they are hopeful her eyes will normalize
in a few months time.

Dojin

Cait and Roy. Cait just learned how to give herself a shot.

Selfie!

Cait and Ori playing dress-up

Finn and Ollie loving Greta

One last screen shot showing Ruby's black eye
Crista thinks she fell against the brick
fireplace.

We've been able to see our grandchildren off and on these past two weeks. We've also been to the doctor's office a lot. Roy had a 2nd opinion from Dr. Mike Mangleson. He spent nearly an hour with us, and though he said basically the same things as the first doctor, he did give us another alternative (besides surgery) that Roy is thinking might be the way to go. It's basically radiation therapy where the radiation goes directly into the prostate. Dr. M. says he's had good results and the side effects are diminished. Roy also saw the recommended oncologist who would do the treatment. We are still waiting for some questions to be answered, such as "how fast is Roy's cancer progressing,' that will help us make a good decision.

Caitlyn is now on Methatrexate (?) I have no idea how it is spelled. It's long been the drug to treat arthritis, I guess. We have to try it first in order for the insurance company to kick in and pay for other options. She will go back to the Dr. in a month to see how she's doing on this medication. The main side effect is terrible nausea when she first takes the shot. She takes folic acid to combat this, but last week she felt pretty horrible. Hopefully she'll get used to it.

I finally received a calling. I will be a Relief Society teacher. I get to teach about every 5th Sunday. My first lesson is called "We look to Christ" and I am really looking forward to preparing it. I'll let you know if I look forward to actually presenting the lesson.
Crista is the only March birthday in our immediate family, so, Happy Birthday a while ago, Crista. (I didn't forget her, I promise--I took her out to lunch and brought her a present), and we have several coming up in April-

Happy Birthday to Finn and Hyeji on the 7th and the 8th. We will be out of town, so I won't be writing a letter next week (April 9).

We have a couple of landscapers who are making good progress on our yard. Well, they are making good progress on the days it doesn't rain. Hopefully we will have sod by the time we get back from our spring break vacation.

Front entrance

Front yard

Side path

Back yard

close up of creek

Friday I spent the day at Nuttall's learning how to use rulers when I machine quilt. It was a lot of fun class. Friday evening Roy and I went to the Jazz game with the leaders of the Young Adult Stake. President Whitworth from the stake presidency is the CEO for Miller Group and I assume he got a good deal for all of us. We had a very nice dinner and the Jazz won, so that was good.
Of course, Saturday and Sunday we listened to General Conference. It's always wonderful and uplifting. I am excited to reread some of my favorites starting with Russell M Nelson's talk.
Sunday night we had everyone over for dinner and it was good, but absolutely chaotic at the same time. We desperately need sod and a trampoline so the kids can play outside.

Pictures from 2nd week: