HOUSE PHOTO'S

Well since forever ago I have promised these photo's to Maggie aka Bob...so here goes girl!

First we will start with the Kitchen:

Then there is the dining room

Then we will go into the Living Room

Ok fun huh...here is a lil peak at what will be in our bedroom...it's all thrown together and its not gonna look like this but here goes:

Then there is the spare bathroom

And my oh so cute and sweet lil pink room:

That's all I have ready for now. I will have the rest up this weekend. I hope you have enjoyed them.

PICTURES

oh yeah...I still have to put up pictures...I will work on that tonight. SORRY as you can tell I have a lot on my mind!


Love to all!
Shanny

BUSINESS IS TAKING OFF

Im so excited so I wanted to share my good news today with everyone. So as some of you know I started a business called Sassy Buttons making picture frames and magnets. Well I have been looking into some different craft malls to take my stuff to and have it displayed. This past weekend I met a wonderful lady who is a dealer at an antique craft mall. We started talking about the different things she makes so I started asking her questions and started telling her about my business and before the end of conversation she decided she wants be to bring some stuff to her and show her what I do. This lady makes wonderful wall signs and so that night I had to go meet her to pick up a couple that I was having made. So I showed her a few of my things and she loved them and said she was going to get back with me. This was Saturday, on Sunday she called me and said that she needs me to this coming up weekend to bring my stuff back out to the antique mall and show a couple of the vendors out there that she was telling about me.

They have already called and want me to make sure to bring certain samples of things that they are looking into buying in bulk. I am so incredibly excited about this. I love making these things and I am so excited to get it off the ground. Wish me luck this Saturday as I meet with everyone and show them what I have.

Until Saturday...

Shannon

Well I thought I would drop a lil note...

I will put up a real blog tomorrow with some pictures of the house. But we have made a blog site for my dad so he can communicate with his friends and our family back home. So if you know him and would like to check it out from time to time here is the site.

http://www.carepages.com/carepages/KennyThompson

Until tomorrow

xoxo
Shanny

HERE WE GO 2009

Well now that it's 2009 I thought I would update my blog. I added some slideshow's for everyone to enjoy. Hopefully that will make a few people smile.

First off I will give everyone a quick update on my Dad. He had his first round of Chemo last Tuesday and it went ok. He got extremely sick that night and was really week the day after but as the week progressed he started feeling better. He will have treatments every 21 days so please continue to keep him in your prayers. And thank you to everyone who has been doing this already. It's the most important thing that we all need right now.

Second as my WONDERFUL friend Maggie has done...this will be my accountability site for my New Year's Resolution.

1. I started back on Monday at my Weight Watchers Meetings and I am extremely excited about getting in shape and HEALTHY.

2. We are looking into selling our house and moving into the neighborhood where my parents are. It's definetly closer to them and closer to Billy's grandparents house which is what we want to be.

3. We are hoping that now that it's the January and I can have the test's done that I need done...that we can possibly be able to have a BABY. Which is the one thing Billy and I want right now.

If we can get these 3 things done...I will be doing good. I hope everyone had a wonderful New Year's. I am going to try and do better at this blogging thing it's a big STRESS reliever when I let everything out.


xoxo
Shannon

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR

I know that I havent posted in a while so I thought I would give a lil update. It's gonna be short cause I dont have much time today.

First of all woo hoo it's Christmas. I am so glad to be spending it with my family. I cant wait for Christmas morning not because I want gifts but I love giving them and I cant wait to see everyone's faces when they open them up. My biggest Christmas present this year is something for me and Billy that we bought together. Its a Canon 30D camera. I love it. We bought it from our photographer, its the one he used in our wedding. So you can imagine its wonderful. Look out 2009 for pictures from Shannon.

Second, my dad starts Chemo on the 30th of December. Im really glad that I have a week off for Christmas vacation so I can be there with him and help my mom out. She has been a basket case the past two weeks with everything going on plus adding in Christmas...you can only imagine. So 3 months of Chemo is starting. I will keep everyone posted as to what is going on.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and blessed New Year's.

Love,
Shannon Poling

DADDY

So here is an update on my dad. For those of you just now finding out and for those of you who know a little of what is going on we found out that my dad has mesothelioma (cancer). Such a hard thing to hear. The cancer is on his chest wall between his lungs. We found out the day before Thanksgiving what steps he is now gonna have to take.

First off he is gonna have to have Chemo for a period of four months. To try and keep it from spreading anywhere else. This type of cancer spreads fast and wide. So they are hoping to contain it to where it is and possible shrink it. After those 4 months are over, he will have to have a series of tests done to make sure that he is strong enough for this next step.

Second he will have to have surgery. During this they will remove 1-2 ribs from his right side and possibly even his right lung. They wont know for sure until they get in there. They cant take the risk of leaving it in there and not knowing if the cancer cells touched any of it in any way. So they must remove it all in case it did. They said that he will still be ok and will function fine without one of his lungs.

Lastly they will have to do more radiation after the surgery just as back up so to speak. This is probably going to be the hardest step of it all. Cause this will actually be the step that we cause the hair loss, the burning, the sick step is what I call it.

Physically if you look at my dad you would think nothing is wrong. Until you actually start watching him. He has trouble being up on his feet for several hours, he gets shortness of breath, tired very easy, his blood pressure rises and he just stops. Mentally is the hardest part of it all right now. My dad is a wonderful man. He is the strongest man I know and to see the strongest man I know break down...KILLS ME.

The one thing that all this has brought on is it has made our family really close this past couple of weeks. Which is what we all needed. We are all gonna get through this together. He is gonna get through this. And he will be a living testimony for years to come. We kidd him telling him that they are gonna make a Lifetime Movie out of this. That's all I have for now. Thanks for listening.

xoxo

Shannon