Wow! Weekend!

Shay makes a wish and blows out the candles.

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Callie & Shay think that the picture is just of the cake and not them. :-)

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Jackson in the baby pool with Kallie on the other side. Dane on the pink floaty and Shay submerged.

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Dane and Kallie at the edge.

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Tayzia and Shay swimming with the too bright sunshine.

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Shay's birthday present...a Nintendo DS that he has been asking for awhile.

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Devree got lots of fun stuff from Aunt Celest through Girls Camp. Tayzia made her a cute little hanging thing to hang the little Mormon ads.
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Aunt Celest out of the pool and giving Devree all of her fun camp stuff.
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Talon and Breck BBQ'ing.
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Todd and Noble out of the pool and by the BBQ.
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I will have to get Todd to put pictures on later because of my technical difficulties. We have celebrated Shay's birthday for a few days and even today. Devree got out of the hospital Friday afternoon and we went to see "Night at the Museum 2". It was cute and funny. Because Devree chose to stay in the hospital for so long, her body has deterioted even more. She can't walk on her own and she has lost lots of muscle tone and even gets out of breath for very short distances. Shay commented "She walks worse than Grandma now." It is sad to think that Devree will have to work that much harder to retain what little she did have. Devree had on her cute earrings from Aunt Danawn but didn't mind going in her Barney P.J.'s and having most everyone stare at her bald head and P.J.'s. at the theater.

Shay also commented that "Memphis is a STEAM POT!" At over 100 degrees with something like 90% humidity, we are getting steamed. Our car after a 20 minute ride to the theater never did cool down. I felt sorry for all of Germantown ward that were at Girls Camp in that kind of heat. Tayzia and Celest got home just as we arrived at their house on Saturday to celebrate Shay's birthday with them. We had brought everything for a BBQ and we swam in the pool and ate and Devree stayed in the house with air conditioning and watched movies and talked with everyone. Shay even thought up his birthday cake. He wanted mint/chip ice cream between brownie covered in chocolate ice cream. It was delicious! I loved Breck and Celest's pool because it felt like bath water. Shay and Dane could not be pulled out of the pool because of playing with cousins so much. We let them stay the night. I heard they partied till 1am. I went over early with their church clothes and the boys and I attended Germantown Ward. What a wonderful ward. We appreciate being able to go there very much. The boys fit right in and enjoyed it.

We were able to give back the wonderful car to Bill and Brenda Griffin. We can't say enough how kind and generous it was of them to lend 2 cars to Devree and I while we have been here. Without a car, I would have gone crazy a lot sooner! A car meant freedom to get away and do things and especially to visit Germantown when we wanted to. THANKS so much!

Well there are many things planned for these next few days. Devree started her 3rd round of Chemo yesterday with puking results. We are hoping that she will be feeling good by FRIDAY because that is her BIRTHDAY! Celest has BIG plans for that day.

We love all of you and are grateful for all of those that keep up with the blog and we feel your prayers for us daily.
Love, Shana and the Hamblin Family