Kathy

Kathy left this world yesterday the 27th at around 10:30 in the morning. She was surrounded by her children, family and close friends. She was truly amazing and a example in every way. This is a loss that will be felt forever. I loved Kathy, she was my mom's best friend and a second mom to me. I think back upon my life and can't think of anything that didn't involve Kathy and her family. I don't know what we are going to do without her. I feel so blessed to have had her in my life. I love you, Kathy. The Abney Family.

Families are forever they will all be together again, and what a reunion that will be.

Welcome Home Meg!

Yippee Megan's home!!! Todd little sister Megan arrived home last night at 11:15 pm from serving a 18 month mission in Romania. She was such a inspiration while serving the Lord and the people of Romania. I just love her and her conviction for what is right. I hope I have a daughter like her some day. We are so glad we got our Meg back just in time for Christmas. That for sure is our favorite gift this year. We love you Meg and our so proud of you! Welcome home girl!

Watch Tonight!

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20th Join Generation Rescue spokesperson Jenny McCarthy, co-founder JB Handley and president Stan Kurtz for a candid conversation with Larry King about autism.

The statistics are staggering:

every 20 minutes a child is diagnosed :

1:150 children are affected

1:96 boys

67 families a day receive a diagnosis

Now hear the facts tomorrow night as Larry King asks the tough questions on:
How to vaccinate while lowing the risk of children getting autism
How to effectively treat and prevent autism, ADHD and other neurological disorders and chronic illness

You can be part of the show. What do you think about what's being said? You can chat, ask questions, interact with guests, producers, even Larry!Go to Larry King Live BlogJoin us, Saturday, December 20th, 2008 6pm/9pm PST/EST on CNN.

After the show, Stan Kurtz and JB Handley will publish candid letters on how to lower your risks of having a child with autism and how families with autism can learn about treatments.

Following the show visit the Generation Rescue website for more information.________________________________________________________________________________________________
The team at www.GenerationRescue.orgemail: info@generationrescue.orgweb: www.GenerationRescue.orgphone: 1.877.98AutismGeneration Rescue is an international movement of scientists, physicians and parent-volunteers researching the causes and treatments for autism and mentoring thousands of families in recovering their children from autism.

Family Pictures

Last month we had our family Pictures taken by the Fabulous Nat! It's not so bad to have a Best Friend that takes such great photos. She was so great with no stress, I didn't have to worry about my kids and knew she would totally understand. Loved it and we got some really great pictures from it. The only stress was the over sized navy shirt Jojo is wearing. He wouldn't put on the shirt we had gotten him so we had to improvise. Enjoy the pics and thanks again Nat or the great photos!

Holding Hands!!!

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Made the Paper!

Hey guys,

I made the AZ Republic. Check it out! http://www.azcentral.com/community/gilbert/articles/2008/12/12/20081212gr-familyblogs1213.html

Thank You!

It's OVER!!! And it was a HUGE success. Thanks to everyone who donated their things and time. We really have been blessed with amazing people around us, who set such great examples to me of service and love. I hope to be able to be more like them. I'm amazed and all my great friends and family who took time out of there busy lives to help us. It really means so much. We couldn't have done it without you.

Here are some pictures of Saturday, I couldn't find my camera for the other days, so I didn't get pictures of the others. ( for some reason these days I can't seem to figure out what the order of the pics are going to be so here they are in random order.) Who doesn't love Shep. He had a blast playing with all the kids too.

Todd and I with our fanny packs! Yup, that is right mine is bright green straight from the early 90's!

Todd loving it!

Tal and Jenn

Candace! Dressed to kill.

Nat helped everyday, she was AWESOME!

Loving being in the back of Uncle Talans truck.

(by the way thanks Talan now he wants in every ones truck!)

John looking HOMELESS! He pretty much was for the 3 days. He was in heaven with so many kids to play with.

JoJo loving swinging that Dino. It was massive!

And it's over!

Special Thanks to.... My Mom& Dad, Todd, Nat, Stacey, Barb, Heidi, Jill, Holly, Shauni , Jenn, Candace, Talan, Darin, Travis, Ryan, Anney, Sis McClaws, Sandy, Karen & Ted,everyone that donated & so many more! Thank you so much!

Reminder

*Just a reminder for JoJo's garage sell this weekend.(Friday & Saturday) It's going to be at my parents house, located across the street from Mesa High. (Southern & Hall)

*Also we are still collecting anything you guys don't want. You can drop it by my parents house or give me a call and we will come pick it up. (480-242-1931)

*Thanks for every ones support, We love you!