WHEW!! what a morning! and its only 8am!!

Well it's now already January! Our family is hoping for a better year and MUCH improvement for Jon! Ive spent the past 2 hours cleaning up throw up and diarhea AND on top of that just when i think i have things under control, the sewer decides to back with everything i JUST CLEANED UP!!! UGH! so out to the garage i went and managed to get it working again...seriously i need to be paid for my hours of sewer/plumbing service i do here!!!! all this and its only 8am!! needless to say, the girls are LOCKED and CONFINED to their rooms (of course with laptops and video games to keep them there!)

We had a GREAT xmas- I wheeled in Jons bed into the front room to enjoy xmas together-the girls had a great time as did we.

We then all packed up and traveled back and forth to OC for the day to spend with Jons family.

On Friday the 29th all the Hales clan left for Chad's house in Danville-here are some pics of that time we spent there.

One pic is of all of our BLACK cars- we joke that Robert's jag is the president and we are all his body guards- except for sandra's WHITE FORD!?!?! what on earth!?!? heheh just kidding sandra- just make sure your next purchase is ATLEAST BLACK! haha

Here is one of Kristi's family (Brittnay was baptized up there). Aden (the oldest grandchild-Chads son-was beind ordained a deacon)

Here is also some pics of Kelly's RAGER new years eve party-a chocolate fountain! Need I say more!! She had an awesome spread and we were stuffed!

Lastly is a picture of ALL the grandkids from oldest to youngest! AMAZING that we even got this picture taken!!

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Starting today Jon will be VERY VERY BUSY!!! From now until the 18th he will have to either be in LA for the research project or Carlsbad for Project Walk. I had a meeting with both sets of parents and they have worked it out that someone will either be here to take jon or be here so i can take jon- WHEW what a relief!! After the 18th I'll have a better idea of how much jon will do and what the hours will be etc to get a concrete plan in motion-Jon is REALLY excited to be doing something active! He currently is completely OFF of the dilaudid and coming off the baclofen =which is also great news. He was also able to take his FIRST shower since March 16th! After MUCHHHHHHHHHHHH persisting on my part and some lifting by his brothers, he finally got in. Of course, after he got in he didnt want to come out! (he typically just has a bed bath)

So all in all =good news! We enjoyed xmas- hope you received our xmas letter and photo of the family-keep praying for improvement for jon!