Way To Go Royals!

Last night Eric's cousin, Vance (Jody's sister's boy), a sophmore at Portland Christian High School, helped his team, the Royals, win the Oregon 2A State Basketball Championship!! (2A is schools with an average daily attendance of 116 to 235) The game was played in Pendleton Oregon. We listened to the radio broadcast on the computer. They beat Western Mennonite in convincing fashion: 70 to 38. The Royals led after the 1st quarter 22 to 2 and never looked back. It helped that they shot amost 70%, a very high percentage for a basketball game. Congratulations to Vance and the Royals!

The month of March is suppose to come in like a lion, go out like a lamb. Well yesterday we had some nice rain storms pass through the area, drenched us good. The weatherman said we might get some lightening and maybe even some hail. If so, it wasn't in our area. It actually cleared off in the afternoon and turned out to be a nice day. R and Gabby came over for a visit in the afternoon. Gabby and Shakespeare chased eachother to whole visit with short breaks for food, treats and naps. Bailey got in the action for a while but stayd on the sidelines and watched for the most part. It's hard to keep up with the energy of 11 month old dogs.

P changed the dressing on R's nephrostomy for the last time, his surgery is this Friday. He won't know exactly what time his surgery will be, morning or afternoon, until the day before. If it's in the afternoon we'll pick him up, take him to the hospital and wait for the results. If it's scheduled for the morning, P will go out the night before to take him first thing. I will take care of the morning routine around here and meet her at the hospital. The surgery is suppose to take up to four hours. They will go in throught the nephrostomy hole in his back, break up the stone, pull out the pieces and see what else needs to be done. Hopefully it will clear the ureter and his kidney will be able to function properly again. Once R is out of surgery and recovering, we will go back to his house to pick up Gabby. She's staying with us until R gets released from the hospital, up to four days depending on how quickly he recovers. It's going to be general mayhem around here until then! Wish us luck, all of us...