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3rd MONTH BABY!!!

Wow is all I have to say about everything. This past weekend was a crazy one for me. I had a clinic appointment on the 11th and all my blood work came back great. I am so blessed that my body has sorta excepted this heart. Also too, I have responded back to the father of the daughter's heart that is in me now. So nuts how we can communicate through the Intermountain Donor Services.
On Friday my mom's business had this golf tournament at the South Mountain golf course where there were 160 teams. My charity was obviously heart4ash for medical bills, prescriptions, and all that jazz. Scottie, Kim, Nina, Kristen and I was there at the hole. "Hit the Heart" was the motto. $5 for a raffle ticket to try to hit a heart on the green. We all did great and I am so very grateful for everyone that helped out and who donated. It is so crazy to think that all of this was for me. For example, Scottie said, "Do you want to know how much we have?" I simply said, "No." Scottie then said, "Why don't you want to know?" "I just don't." All I wanted to do was to thank each team for their donation and for being there. That is what I did. After my mom was asking me all these questions about how much we made and I had no clue. I told her she was going to have to talk with Scottie, because she was the one at the head of the table the whole time, while I was down on the green.





Yesterday I was walking to church and thinking how beautiful everything is. It is so incredible how we all take these things for granted, even the smallest things like a slug on a fence or how the wind blows each individual leaf on a tree. If I was running late, I probably would have passed Mr. Slug and not said Hey! So take a half a step back and enjoy because folks we live in a miraculous place. Take a deep breath in and smell the beautiful air and all the little senses it brings to us.

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