Please continue to pray for my brother Danny

I am asking anyone who reads this to continue to pray for my big brother, Danny.

He is fighting for his life against a horrible disease- melanoma.

He is having radiation therapy to help with pain. It troubles me to see him in so much pain.

This morning he and my mom returned to Arizona to continue his treatments because he wanted to be home. So with a heavy heart I said goodbye to him and reminded him to stay strong. I will continue to update his condition on this blog. He was uncomfortable with the attention that the blog I set up for him brought him.

Same Birthday

On Dec 9, Big Z turned 6 years old. It amazes me as to how fast these 6 years went.
Big Z plays roller hockey on Friday nights and he played on the Hot Wheels . The coach's
son, shown here with Big Z, shares his birthday. In talking with the coach's wife we discovered that they were both born :
at the SAME HOSPITAL - Hoag Hospital
on the SAME DAY
had the SAME DOCTOR
and born within 4 hours of each other.
Who knows, they could have laid next to each other in the nursery.
Wow! I find that to be a small world kind of thing!
I told them - they need to be life long friends

Thanksgiving 2008

OK have a great day

A star is born!

Big Z has been chosen to sing a solo at his Christmas play this year. He will be singing Little Drummer boy. Big Z loves to sing and dance so this something fun for him.

BUT does anyone remember The Christmas play of 2006!

During one of the songs they were singing Big Z and D.G were standing next to each other ( 1st mistake). During the song DG turned and put his hands around Big Z's neck and was pretending to choke him. If that was not all, what did Big Z do ? He turned around and licked DG down the face. It had the audiences laughing so loud. Wish we caught that on video.

SO I will keep you updated on his perform ace. Only Big Z knows what he will do on stage.

My brother Danny

This is my brother Danny.

This is my big brother Danny. He has been fighting melanoma since Nov 2007. He has had to have several surgeries under his arm for the melanoma. If you are reading this , please all I ask of you is if you can say a prayer for him. He has been standing tall and bravely as he faces this terrible disease.

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Nationals in Lancaster 10/3-4

Big Z raced his his first Nationals this last weekend in Lancaster, CA.
We went there not expecting much since he has only been racing for 3 months. On Friday, they have a "Pre-Race"race, Zeke took 1st in his qualifier then 1st in the main. He got a 3' trophy for that win. Mike and I were amazed and overwhelmed at the number of people who attended.
So on Saturday morning, Zeke took 1st in his qualifier. The weather was really bad, it was so cold and rainy. The track was so muddy and many of the riders were falling. We just told Big Z to hold on tight and pedal. Big Z went on to finish 1st place. Wow! we were so excited. We never thought that would happen.
On Sunday, Big Z got to ride in his "Lap of Champions", He was so proud of himself. Now that he has 7- 1st place wins he moved to Intermediate class. Now he will have some more advanced riders to race agaisnt.
It's all good - winning and losing

One thing I wanted to comment on that I saw too much of over the weekend- parents putting way too pressure on their kids to win. We saw parents lose control and really yell and treat their children badly. Both Mike and I felt bad for those kids and promised that we will throw a rock at each other if we lose it and do the things we witnessed.