today around 3:30 central time, esa's grandfather, Terry Ross went home to be with the Lord. please be praying for our families strength during this time. most importantly for our wonderful mother Teresa Ross, as she is going through the hardest thing by losing her spouse of 37 years. pray for us and all of her children to be the support that she needs, and the encouragement to help her through.

esa got her chemo yesterday, but it was a long day. we were supposed to be done around 2:30pm, but we didnt get home till about 6:30pm. i dont know what happened but we waited for the chemo for like 3 hours before we got it. esa is doing so great with this one. the last time she got a one day treatment she was really sick by the next day. this time she played and had a great time. you can tell that her tummy is bothering her though because she is having a hard time with you know what!! her counts were at 1000 so we went out to dinner tonight. some friends from florida sent us a outback gift card, and tonight was the night to use it. esa is so cute. ever since she was really young we have been teaching her that when you walk into a room, you say hello to everyone you see. it is really coming around now. she will say hi to everyone, and waves almost everytime she sees someone new. i love that!! she loves cheese fries!! she kept saying more as soon as she bit it off my finger. i just love these nights that we can go out. it must be so wonderful to have healthy kids to just go out and do things all the time. we will get there one day.

terise's mom called us yesterday about her dad. his doctors told them that he cant get chemo. the chemo was going to give him 6-9 months to live. but after they have done more tests on his lungs they found out that they cant handle chemo and would put him in very bad shape. so it's day to day right now. he has been in the hospital for over a month, and he just wants to get home for his time left. this is pretty hard to go through, esp. for all of the ross's. so please be praying for them. i want to remind people to please be praying for my brother, also. nothing has been resolved yet, and they are still in alot of pain.