Quick Updates

The last month has been so crazy. The school year has ended and the kids are enjoying summer vacation-Samantha is currently going to JumpStart Kindergarten for two weeks and loves it. She has also learned to ride a bike without training wheels and rides like a pro.

I was in Sioux Falls with the Girl Scouts last week to see the "Little House on the Prairie" musical and LOVED it! We also stopped and saw Laura Ingalls Wilder's home in DeSmet, South Dakota-more on that later.

Mostly I've been visiting my dad in hospitals-Williston, Minot, and for almost two weeks now-Bismarck. He's a very sick man and the plan is to do surgery on Thursday the 10th at noon. He needs his gallbladder removed but it's very risky and if it weren't making him so sick the doctor wouldn't even attempt to remove it with his current problems. He's recovering from blood clots in his lungs and is on Cumandin so that's a big risk plus the shunt he had placed in his brain and abdoman is a problem. Please pray that it goes well. He was running a high temperature today and has gotten so weak in just the last couple days.