my mother-in-law

Last post (for a while)

2010-03-07T17:12:00.000-08:00

Mom, we heard that you arrived at Cairo safely. I saw Margaret's blog and it seemed that you had great time with them. Well, you deserve it because you have suffered and fought this cancer long. So, congratulations!!

Nothing has changed here in Provo. Sassy was looking for you and sleeping on your bed for the first few days after you left, hoping that he might find you and be pet, but I guess he finally realized your absence and now he comes back to our bed.

One new thing, so to speak, is that we just discovered a new kitchen equipment at home(We found a mixer thing). Last night, we made a delicious pizza from scratch and David is excited to bake some cookies tonight.

We hope to see your big smile again when you come back.

We love you and enjoy the warm weather!!

One more day.

2010-02-21T19:02:00.000-08:00

Can you believe this? My mother-in-law has only a day left here with us.

Tomorrow (=Monday) and she is gone.

Wow. It was quick. Well, it must had been very long days for Mom.

She looks good, proud, happy, and excited to go home.

She will be leaving on Tuesday morning to Arizona, Idaho, and then Cairo.

This picture was taken last week when Margaret and Clark came for a date...

Clearance!

2010-02-12T22:12:00.000-08:00

Finally finally, mom received a clearance from State Department.

She is on the way back to Egypt in any time!

Congratulations mom!!

Report: at least 2 people touch her hair and 5 people comment on her hair to be cute and curly when she goes church.

2010-02-03T19:17:00.000-08:00

My internship exhausts me good each day. But, since I got out 30 minutes earlier, I feel somewhat alive.

This is what David purchased recently to contribute to MOM.

They turned out to be really cute. We like going to color me mine.

David uses his cup everyday.

Mom never used her coaster yet.

It snowed about 10 days ago. Since then, Provo is pretty blessed- no snow, warm sun shine.

So, David and I went for sliding.

Then, two Tuellers in Provo got sick.

Both recovered now.

Mom deep cleaned kitchen today.

She may be leaving here in couple weeks. So, we sang "America the Beautiful" as an opening hymn for the Family Home Evening last night.

Certificate of Merit

2010-01-19T20:06:00.000-08:00

I wish you could all see how happy she looked holding this certificate of merit in completely-cancer-themed clothes. (Margaret's cancer T-shirt with pink pants, I love them!)

Last night, we went to Color Me Mine for Family Home Evening Activity by using the gift card that we gave to MOM for Christmas.

Then, we celebrated "Last-day Eve" for radiation therapy with her favorite ice cream. And we have already decided what kind of ice cream we will get on her last day of Provo, too.

Radiation Therapy

2010-01-18T14:22:00.000-08:00

This is how Radiation Therapy is done.

A patient lay down under the gigantic machine.

Medical staff will adjust the point with the red ray.

Once radiation starts, all staff but the patient leave the room. (Those walls are made thick concrete.)

Monitor the patient while the machine goes around her.

Check the breast and shoot for the white space in the green graph by the radiation.

After radiation, the patient gets red skin but is happy for burned cancer cells.

4 bowls of love

2010-01-17T21:02:00.000-08:00

MOM has been cooking more since we started school/internship. Last Tuesday, she made delicious enchiladas but she had to pour the source and the enchiladas four times to find a pan, just right size. Last week, she had been gone a lot with her cousin and relatives on her side.

Tonight, Aunt Anna (always so sweet) invited all for pancake night. Aunt Rachel gave a lesson about scriptures and she suggested an activity, in which we picked a story/parable from the scriptures and did skit. I was bad thief with Aunt Rachel, Grandma was a dramatic poor Jews, grandpa was a good Samaritan, and David was a narrator (New Testament). MOM was Esther, Sam was Mordecai, Uncle Bernell was a king and Aunt Anna was Hyman (OT). And the Smith played Nephi's family (BOM). I loved how MOM(Esther) said "such a time as this" with clear and stunning voice.

It's always fun to get together.

Hair report

2010-01-12T19:18:00.000-08:00

On Sunday morning, I saw MOM moving her hand up and down around her head with a hairbrush. Indeed, she was combing her hair.

Her hair looks a little curly from the back and has two patches of white grayish color in front which I never really notice until she says so.

But most of all, her radiation therapy will come to a conclusion next Tuesday. Yeahooo!!

My goal is to visit her radiation place and take pictures before she ends.

She is in the Newspaper!?

2010-01-05T20:23:00.000-08:00

Yes, she was in the Newspaper. (Front page)

This is the close up of the picture.

And here is the electronic article.

MOM is, in my eyes, doing wonderful = cooks dinner every day since yesterday.

David started new semester on Monday. But he's been already stressed since Sunday.

I started Therapeutic Recreation internship. I could not sleep on Sunday night because of nervousness. But, I begun LOVING my internship as soon as it started.

Christmas

2010-01-01T20:15:00.000-08:00

We celebrated Christmas and a New Year.

We celebrated MOM's birthday (Nov. 23rd-24th).

We bought wii (Nov. 30, yes, it was our Christmas present).

We went to ward Christmas breakfast (Dec. 5).

MOM begun radiation treatment.

MOM attended a cancer group Christmas party (Dec. 8).

We saw nutcracker (Dec. 12).

Somebody started dropping off 12 days of Christmas with candies and fruits and good stuff.

We went to Grandpa's place for Christmas Eve.

We came back and opened one present each.

We also read a Christmas story, since David insisted it was a bad idea to watch "it's a wonderful life."

All aunts who were there at grandpa's: "Yaya, you haven't watched 'It's a wonderful life?' You should watch it tonight."

When we came back home...

David: It's such a depressing movie. He (the character on the movie) tries to kill himself.

MOM: BUT, Angels save him!!!! It's great!!!!!! We should watch it.

David: No, it's SAD.

I think they repeated this conversation at least three times. By then, I learned "it's a wonderful life" is a Christmas movie which contains life problems and angels.

On Christmas day, we woke up (David woke all up) and opened presents.

We took sassy (our lovely cat) for shaving (Dec. 31).

We went aunt Jan's for soups and games like everybody th

ere said.

While MOM was having a nap, David and I did count down and celebrated the New Year.

MOM woke up shortly after, at 1am, right after we went to bed.

We ate breakfast together!!! (It is a big tradition in my Japanese family on the New Year's day.)

We ate mochi for breakfast.

And, we just came back from a movie (AVATAR).

MOM treated us with soup and salad/sandwich.

Thanks to all the family members and friends, MOM and we are having great holidays.

I was especially touched with all the Tueller aunts who always make us feel welcomed and loved. And off course that wouldn't happen without grandma and grandpa's great examples.

So, thank you.

2 more days until we get back to life again!

New Year's Resurrection

2009-12-28T22:52:00.000-08:00

With 85% of chance, I would say "New Year's resurrection" when it really means New Year's resolution. Especially after working at the MTC for 8 hours talking about plan of salvation, it was way easy for me to start Family Home Evening lesson by saying "Today, we are going to make New Year's Resurrection!" That entertained MOM and my husband.
But if you think about it, like if you think you were going to resurrect on the New Year's day, that would be cool. You probably don't even need to make any more resolutions.
Since we humbly partook the fact that we most likely won't be resurrected yet, we made resolutions. Then, we shared one thing that we think we need the most help with to accomplish.
Interestingly enough, everyone's challenge was goals to attain a physical well-being. So we swore that we would help each other. We are OHANA. (It means "family" in Hawaiian. Yes, we watched "Lilo and Stich" today.)

MOM cooked delicious chicken with sour cream with breadcrumbs.

We love holidays.

Horrendous

2009-12-23T21:57:00.000-08:00

"HORRENDOUS"

That's the word MOM used to describe the way up to SLC yesterday. There were 6 accidents and cars were going 30-40 miles/hour because you just could not see right in front of you due to the snow storm. Despite all those, she evidently made it to the appointment and came back alive.

We were so glad to see her smile as we came back home.

As you can tell from the picture, MOM and I hid ourselves in the dark and carried the project into action (Yes, we finally hang some presents at neighbors' doors).

We enjoyed it. We thought it was pretty fun and gained a little empathy for Santa.

Here is a little bit of Denver where my husband and I stayed for getting my new name (TUELLER) into my passport/vacation.

He fed a turtle.
Yes, a huge spider, which you can see in Indiana Johns, was alive and moved like a feather on my palm.
Downtown Denver was clean, cute, and kind to people (they had FREE shuttles every minute to get around in the downtown. I know, it's awesome, especially with this weather.)

Ready for Christmas!

2009-12-12T15:18:00.000-08:00

These are bunch of pictures from a few days ago.

Today, we are going to see nutcracker. This is a birthday present for MOM from us. We are excited!!

She just finished decorating a Christmas tree.

We finished taking Christmas family pictures.

On Thursday, MOM and I attended R.S. Christmas open house and had different kinds of soups and breads.

And this is nothing to do with Christmas but I thought it was cute.

David is pouring his favorite drink (expensive grape juice, $5.99) into a bowl.

and drinking it.... yes, it is a imitation of Japanese way of drinking sake.

Except the real bowl for sake is super tiny.

I guess I'm in America.

"I" talk

2009-12-01T23:04:00.000-08:00

We had a good one-hour chat with MOM today. She told us what she learned from the class that she attended today.

"I" talk. It means to take in charge of oneself. Do not be influenced by "you are ..." or, "you always..." But boldly say "I feel ..." or "I want..."

I thought that is so true and simple but I forget it sometimes and look for excuses on "someone did..."

In addition to the learning, she looked fabulous today. She smiled, slept well last night, therefore, we had a great time.

Just a little report but she is doing great.

Officially "MOM"

2009-11-28T22:18:00.000-08:00

Well, my mother-in-law was in the period of sad moment. So, my husband encouraged her super hard and they came to agreement of going out for bowling!!! My response was "Can you throw a ball? I guess you can kick it."

Somehow, both of them forgot that she had both of her mastectomy taken out and was not allowed to lift up heavy stuff.

We shift the plan to go get ice-cream and see a movie, "Blind Side," which we enjoyed very much.

P.S. I officially got a permission to call my mother-in-law "MOM." There are a few reasons why I wanted.

1) I always wanted to call mother "MOM" since I have been calling my mother "oka-san," which means mother in Japanese.

2) Plus, "DeNeece" is a long name and you can't call her name when you are very in hurry.

These are photos from last two days.

She made a delicious corn pudding on Thanksgiving day.

Also, don't you love her smile?!

We went to donuts party at Smiths.

P.S.'s P.S. I discovered one of her daughter's (Marie) secret similarity with MOM; The tone of voice and smile when they face to a baby are exactly the same. A great family unity (within MOM and Marie).

I am grateful for babies who help the families unite.

trading

2009-11-25T21:46:00.000-08:00

We have been trading our charities.

My husband and I took all to my mother-in-law's birthday dinner,

Marie took all to cafe rio and movie (Fantastic Mr. Fox),

my mother-in-law read scriptures a lot for her sons,

I bought her a long socks that go up to thigh,

she bought me a pair of leg warmers,

we made a bed for Cousin Sam,

and he baked some brownies.

So, we are having fantastic holidays.

Comforting stuff

2009-11-22T20:56:00.000-08:00

It's been almost a week since my mother-in-law's daughter with 2 little ones left Provo. My mother-in-law was off course missing them. Through that time, I discovered, what I call, her little secret, "comforting stuff."

Her fluffy bed,

Three Fixed bathrooms,

and McDonald.

Oh, and off course beautiful roses and Godiva chocolate from her husband for her coming birthday.

Yes, her birthday is tomorrow, the 23rd!!

It may be a little late to ask but, let me know if there is any little thing that I and my husband can do to make her day special!

Halloweeeeeeen

2009-11-03T09:39:00.001-08:00

My mother-in-law was a great giver for the trick-or-treaters. She greeted with smile and gave candies. Earlier that day, David treated her with ice-cream as well to prepare for the night.

Best one was Suzie who came in the pink dress. She had a dance to show us. So, she took off the nice fluffy jacket (it was a cold night) and danced. According to her brother, she had to take off jacket in order to dance. What a sacrifice in this cold! Well, we all clapped for her.

She reminded me of Luke 10: 27.

"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself."

Great thing can be learned in Halloween.

Another highlight is my mother-in-law jumped, shook legs, and screamed for joy (that is I think she did in her head but I perceived from her facial expression) when I told that I got an internship. She is a great mother to me as well.

Her daughter drove half day and all night, and got here about 4:30am. Now, my mother-in-law is super active watching for the little ones. Good for her.

Son's Love

2009-10-30T19:38:00.000-07:00

In front of the drink shelf at Days.

David: I want to help my mom and show her that I care about her!!!

Yaya: ok.

David: So, I need to get these!!

We had good dinner over the drink.

Change

2009-10-25T16:36:00.000-07:00

There are a lot of changes in my mother-in-law as well as her surroundings. So, I will just post pictures.

Today after church, my mother-in-law sat on the stairs with the puffy jacket and supervised us to do yard therapy.

Aunt Jan and Anna came to wish her good luck with her new boobs and brought a gorgeous Venezuelan doll. We don't worship idles but the doll is on top of the fire place where we all see everyday. So, when my mother-in-law feels pain from boob expansion, she can look at her and think that's where she is shooting for. Yes, I am learning that getting something new usually requires sacrifice.

This is a sweater David bought for her. Off course, it's PINK!

Can't Miss

2009-10-19T16:53:00.000-07:00

I can't miss this picture, not being updated. This is taken just before the surgery when her husband and son blessed her.

She is truly loved by Heavenly Father and people surrounding her.

Speed Recovery

2009-10-19T16:35:00.000-07:00

I totally thought these cookies were some kind of creatures from universe, until yesterday somebody said these turtle cookies were yummy!

But off course, things that are more surprising than cookies are my mother-in-law's speedy recovery. She is up and taking for a walk. Today, her super visiting teacher who brought all kinds of gourmet sweets and let us borrow hundreds of DVD, came to take her a walk. My mother-in-law wears pink cute t-shirt that her daughter designed.

She is also having a lot of visitors to keep her busy. So, she smiles more. Yes, the end is near.

Can't you see?!

2009-10-03T20:53:00.000-07:00

My mother-in-law' HAIR IS GROWING BACK!! Can you see this excitement? I think she is also excited and wants to show it to everyone (Today, she wore nothing on her head when we got boba drink.) So, I guess her body is preparing for this coming winter, too.
These are our angels. My aunt (my mother-in-law's sister), her children, and their cousin came to help cleaning our home. Now, we really feel the presence of the spirit even edified by General Conference. Until Sassy peed in my mother-in-law's bathroom. So, he may be the only one who feels strong peace and especially relieved.

Who waited this moment?!

2009-09-25T21:34:00.000-07:00

Her feet were dancing the last ten minutes of the drops of chemotherapy. YES, she is done!!

Similar to how Booker was telling about his birthday to everyone three months ago, my mother-in-law was telling every nurse come by, "it is my LAST chemo treatment!"

She was getting anxious as the time approached to close, because nobody mentioned about the song that she had been desperate to hear.

Her emphasis on the LAST became even stronger and stronger.

However, nobody except me got it.

So, I simply asked them to sing it for her.

And you can also become happy by watching this.

Count down

2009-09-22T21:27:00.000-07:00

She received two flower gifts today.

Her family members and friends, as well as my mother-in-law herself, have started counting down for the end of the cancer treatment.

Yeah hu-.

I am not big fun of winter but this year is the exception; I look forward the season to come.

P.S. I wish everybody could see her happy face in person when she found out the basket of flowers was from her husband and her son in Egypt.

Utah-Fall 2009

2009-09-19T22:29:00.000-07:00

Thanks to my cousin's visit, we had a lot of opportunities to go around in Utah county. Today, we finished the day with the Heber Valley train ride -Sunset BBQ Train. As you might able to guess, it was cold. A lot of leaves started to turn the color to red. My mother-in-law, whose tempreture was lawer because of the cancer treatment, and us being Asians were freezing. But, we all enjoyed the beautiful scenary of Deer Creek Lake.

By the way, this was my mother-in-law's favorite picture of of the day: Her beloved son's butt with horse's butt.

Over the phone

2009-09-16T21:24:00.000-07:00

Here we go. Everyone was talking to my father-in-law over skype. I thought that was such a cute picture and couldn't help myself not taking it.

My mother-in-law's cousins came to visit her with cafe rio as always. I am afraid that I might remeber them as "cafe rio persons."

Also, we cleaned the house for about one hour for preparation to my cousin's arrival from Japan. You know, everytime I clean, I swear that I won't ruin the efforts. As I was cleaning I began to wonder if we had had any kids to make that much mess. Well, at least we felt very accomplished after the cleaning.

I am HAPPY.

2009-09-13T20:52:00.001-07:00

"I am happy."

That's what my mother-in-law SAID on the day she came back from the chemotherapy.

That truely made my day. If you talk to her, you know that word is still true today.

She has been the most energetic among three of Tuellers in Provo. She watshed a movie with us that night while folding the laundries so we stayed up till about 11:30pm together. and guess what?!

Following morning at 7

am we all are in the Provo temple!!!

After the temple, we went to get her shot. I finally witnessed the $5,000 shot that she injects ev

ery other week. It was small.

Today, she is the first one to ready for the church, she cleaned up the kidtin after my husband's Iron shef's cook, and she said she would cook dinner tomorrow.

Yes, she is doing great.

Thank you a lot, grandma and grandpa for providing fun stay for her.

Evacuation!

2009-09-08T12:56:00.000-07:00

Today, my mother-in-law had to evacuate to grandpa's place because I got a little flu. Evey one including me thought I was a pregnant. So, it was funny to find out that I developed some kind of infection which causes nausea. OH, boy, I can't imagine having nausea every day. My mother-in-law is tough.

Despite of my illness, she is doing good.

Last night she spent over one hour preparing the FHE lesson for us. She taught us about the importance of reading scriptures with the experience when she was hit by a car.
Also, she went support group this morning and enjoyed herself.

I hope I can welcome her back when she finishes the second from the last chemo on Friday.

What pleases us and what exhaustes us

2009-09-06T22:48:00.000-07:00

Here is the last piece of my husband's Pizza. I just could not stand watching the Iron Sheff on the fast Sunday. But sure enough, we had an Iron-Shef pizza for dinner thanks to the Iron Shef at home. So, my mother-in-law and I are very pleased with my husband watching something super productive, practical and bless our lives.

So, this picture is the outcome of what exhausted my mother-in-law on Saturday morning. Yes, Dannie is going to live in Arizona. She packed everything by herself! So, we just carried them. I like how she smiles when she talks about Dannie and how he is doing well recently. It tells me that the cancer does not destroy her motherhood.
She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. (Proverbs 3:15)
Yes, that is my mother-in-law.

We are back!

2009-09-02T19:06:00.001-07:00

Off course, there are many excuses for how much I had to make you wait for my beloved-mother-in-law's update. But the biggest two were one, our camera was broken, two, we were on the vacation to CA. (and my mind was also set as vacation especially since Margaret planned me the idea of "taking a little blogging vacation." the difference was hers was a little and mine was continuous) Anyways, we are back and I am back.

Today's my mother-in-law's highlights are
-She cooked a week-frozen foods with sister Stice. So, now, she has all sorts of home-made frozen fun lunch.
-Also, after our afternoon classes, we three all went to get some really delicious boba drinks! This time, she got strawberry, David got blueberry, and I got Taro.

So, those are her today's highlights. Finally, I also had chance to talk with her over the dinner. We talked about the wonderful trip to California and how we are doing for the new exciting semester.

Well, this is kind of off topic, but allow me to share.

I am experiencing two major changes in my husband's life.
-One, he LOVES to watch Iron Sheff, therefore, he cooks AMAZINGLY. The best dish so far was baked fish in coconut milk. Ummmm....
-Secondly, he works from 7:45am for three days and 7am for two days in a week. So, like today, we left home at 6:40am. I think that is miracle.

Well, enough for today, I should get back to my homework. But thank you for your patience to wait that long. ALOHA.

Surprise Party

2009-08-09T20:56:00.000-07:00

Thank you so much for those who came to Christian's surprise party and surprised him! That was so great. He had no clue, although he felt awkward for the invitation to go out to the porch was to see the cool birds?! Anyways, My mother-in-law had wonderful time with all the relatives and especially with her dear sister who came to see.
My mother-in-law was pretty satisfied with how Christian was genuinely surprised. She also enjoyed watching him drawing his own statue with blindfolded.

Almost

2009-08-03T20:05:00.000-07:00

Today, my mother-in-law was busy. She went to her doctor's appointment, physical therapy, worried about her youngest son's date, napped, ate with us, attended Family Home Evening, and played UNO with us. She would have won only if she knew the picture of the "reverse card."

Well, I hope she still enjoyed the game.

P.S. Christian gave an awesome lesson on temptations with stories, scriptures, pictures, and even closed with testimony!!!

What did we learn?

2009-08-02T22:00:00.000-07:00

Last AT Chemo!

2009-08-02T21:48:00.000-07:00

The Releif Society started to bring food twice a week!! Yes, we sure love this word!
The nurse was a friend of DeNeece's sister's! She was really nice and quick.

She is a mother

2009-07-27T23:08:00.000-07:00

We spent good 3 hours with Danny on Sunday afternoon. We played board game and he played the guitar at the end. We were very happy for what he decided to do. Danny's smile gives DeNeece comfort and hope.

My husband had birthday last week. So, we planned and made a cake. The former president of Relief Society brought happen to bring us some great full course dinner that night. How blessed we are because of my mother-in-law!! Anyways, the fun part of the birthday party is cake and presents. It meant be a warm loving night. However, it turned out to be anxious worried night since my husband's little brother came back after 10:30 pm. He went to Young Men's activity and was supposed to be back around 8 or 9pm. I cannot describe how much DeNeece worried. She is a truly a mother.

Birthday part 1

2009-07-21T21:30:00.000-07:00

We started celebrating tomorrow's David's birthday tonight. We went to the Asian restaurant "CTR" where they sell David's favorite drink, boba juice! Boba juice is from Taiwan and we can easily get it in Hawaii, even in Laie. But, this CTR's boba juice is the best of ever we had! Even my mother-in-law who never had a boba juice loved it!
These are what we got;
DeNeece: Mango boba juice
Christian: Rose boba juice
David: Coconuts boba juice
Me: a sip of all
Then, we watched a movie.

FHE at the pouch

2009-07-20T20:59:00.001-07:00

Today, Aunt Anna took DeNeece to the appointments also to see Danny. Danny got a permission to participate in the wilderness program, which I think made DeNeece's day.

At today's Family Home Evening, Trevor (David's friend) gave a lesson from Mosiah chapter 4. He talked about how we could all share love to each other, and then he started sharing one good thing about each one of us. How nice! In that, he mentioned the same thing that I was thinking about DeNeece.

She is brave.

She had all her health concerns including the cancer, plus family matters on top of that. But she is still DeNeece and going on.
Recently, I had witnessed a dramatic change in one missionary at the MTC. He was not willing to commit himself to speak Japanese and he was even upset when he was forced to. However, he decided that he won't make any excuses. Now, he is totally changed. He is the brightest missionary in the district. He has the biggest smile and he is no longer afraid of making mistakes. I see DeNeece as the similar example to the missionary. She seems to understand what she has to go through and have accepted it. So, even though she feels awful and nausea, she smiles (sometimes, it takes time to make her smile though). All in all, I truly appreciate this privilege to be here and also see the Tueller's circle of Love from lots of aunts and others.

P.S. Thanks Aunt Anna, for having us over last night. That was a great fun and I never knew about "funeral potato" if wasn't you.

A bunch

2009-07-17T22:50:00.000-07:00

This is a bunch of pretty flowers brought by great neighbor, sister Jensen. She is a real sweet.

Today, my mother-in-law had a visit from her nephew Andrew, Kristen, Chloe, and Kingston. When asked "How are you doing?" her initial response was "GREAT! (with smile) ...... plus, yakky feelings with nausea, and real fartigue." Yes, she is great.

We also had a wonderful visit to Danny today. We talked and had good time together.

She finished the day with the aroma massage.

One confession that I have to make is that I took a bunch (actually, great 2) of pictures of visiters and Danny without memory card in the camera. So, sorry especially Andrew and Kristen that you don't see your pictures today but I will shoot you again on Sunday!

Party Wigs

2009-07-15T17:41:00.001-07:00

We LOVE party wigs. They are so fun. We are showing off DeNeece's wigs to sister Margaret and Marie on skype. So, my mother-in-law is doing wonderful today. She woke up 3 am and could not go back to sleep till 7:30am. But, she slept whole day today and also Aunt Anna took her to get another shot and have some ice-cream. DeNeece says that did not hurt her like other times because she got a super kind nurse who injected the shot slowly. My husband marinated some stakes for dinner. Also, Christian came back exhausted from the all the fun he had at the Arabic camp. So, overall, it has been a good day for my mother-in-law!!!

Chemo # 3

2009-07-14T23:56:00.000-07:00

Report from the Chemo therapy today.
Well, my mother-in-law was doing super good today especially after the chemo. She was laughing, attending the support group, and she is sleeping so deep right now. We are delighted for her effort today despite waiting for 3 hours to see 2 doctors plus it took her 2 hours and 40 minutes for the infusion. Anyways, that was a long day.

Welcome the Truck

2009-07-14T23:49:00.001-07:00

Monday was the last day for my father-in-law to be in the States. So, he and my mother-in-law cleaned up the garage to welcome the Truck. The truck is old but good. Good to entertain us to drive around with the stick. It will be one more thing for my mother-in-law to teach me.
P.S. We need to name the truck. If there are any cute name for the old truck, let us know.

Monckey's balloon

2009-07-14T23:38:00.000-07:00

We all celebrated Monty's birthday at grandparents' place. The two new things for me were...
1. That was new to have doughnuts instead of birthday cake.
2. My father-in-law got a weirdest balloon that I cannot even google!

Friend's visit

2009-07-14T23:34:00.000-07:00

It's always good to have friends and families around. That really makes my mother-in-law smile.

Independece Day!

2009-07-14T23:16:00.000-07:00

July 4th, It was a clear beautify sky in Provo. We had a great time with families. Now, these three bold are my favorite!!

Birthday Present

2009-07-14T22:59:00.001-07:00

Now, I decided to go to a new place for my birthdays. So, this year, I chose to travel to the Huntsman Institute to go through my mother-in-law's chemo therapy. We pretty much stayed a whole day there. I liked the puzzles and the lunch over there. We also had a birthday party afterwords. Can you see Booker trying to hit the balloon to practice for pinata breaking? Unfortunately, he got into the tragedy and the pinata was put off for the independent day event.

Preparedness

2009-07-14T22:51:00.000-07:00

Being a Relief Society's president for 3 times, my mother-in-law is an expert of preparedness. She shaved her hair before she loses.

Gardening

2009-07-14T22:41:00.000-07:00

Finally, we started something in our little garden. It was a really hot morning. Off course, the biggest helper was Teichert who tried to clean the garden by eating dart!

Cancer awareness at the bull ride

2009-07-10T21:18:00.000-07:00

After my sister-in-law's negotiation, which I perceive is the skill that every Tueller has quite a bit, we got into the bull ride. Who can't deny to sell the last tickets to a mother who has a cancer with a daughter who has two little kids under 2 with a Japanese sister-in-law who knew about the bull ride just a night before through youtube?! On top of that, we all dressed PINK except one... who claimed his color was still "salmon color. Anyways, we enjoyed the show.

Jump on it!

2009-07-10T21:12:00.000-07:00

This is a fantastic photo of my mother-in-law with her little grandson. Yellow is a happy color!

The first chemo therapy!

2009-07-09T19:41:00.000-07:00

On June 16, my mother-in-law went to the first chemo therapy. She was very very worried as you can see. But she made it and continue her fighting toward the total victory.