Stephanie's Fight

Too young to have died of skin cancer, is the only thing that comes to mind when I think of how fast this whole thing came down this last week or so.

This is one of a few pictures that I took at the Kaiser hospice room that Stephanie was in on Saturday night September 4. This was taken a few short hours before she died. She had asked for some "Smart Water" and there is a cute little story about that. At this point all Stephanie wanted was her mommy!

August becomes September

Always the first major sign of fall, is the delivery of the semi-truck full of Joe Lastufka's alfalfa from Colusa. Pete Demas delivered the load and squeezed it off the truck and drove it down the driveway up onto the landing. Nicolas and Logan came up the very next weekend and covered the load with tarps. Those agile young men had it covered in no time at all. Also a thank you to my brother-in-law Karl for helping out with this project. Isabelle, Karl, Sean and baby Kaden also were in town. Here is a picture of Sean and Justin-Bobby. Isabelle is fending off my Sadikins as my Sadikins is trying to lick little Kadens fingers.

For Isabelle's Birthday we all went to Leatherby's Ice Cream parlor and had yummy ice cream. Here is a picture of Karl's Black and Tan which looked AWESOME!