The kids at Florida Caverns State Park
 
Jess has finally found her man!!!
 
Mom and Steven at the beach near our cabin. We love it here!!!
 
Anna and Liberty enjoying the water.
 

Pampered Chef Party and Sunday

WEDNESDAY April 30th.

On Wednesday night, Momma had a "Whip Breast Cancer" Pampered Chef Party. We had some old Friends and Neighbors over. We had a great time and if you see a bunch of people in Pink (Including Olivia :) ) its because we were showing our Support for Helping Cure Breast Cancer. Here are some Pictures, Hope Y'all enjoy!

Mrs Carson and Jess.

Olivia and Julia. (We got Olivia to wear a shirt with some Pink!)

Mrs Danielle Redner, She helped Momma do the party.

Mrs Pollock.

And Our Dear Mrs Stokes!

Mrs Eva Sitting quietly on the couch! :D
Christiana being silly.

This is a bunch of the stuff we were showing at the Party.

Ariana and I.

SUNDAY, May 4th.

Sunday Morning....Little Stevens Birthday is on May 10th and Momma and Daddy went and got a pool and filled it with Sand for one of his Birthday Presents. Then after having a little fun, The Boys finished building the back of the Porch.
Steven and the rest of the Littles playing in the New Sandbox
The Littles burying poor Zack!

"Why did I get myself into this?"

This is what our porch looks like now!

The Master Builder.

Wow Sam! ONE FINGER!! You are so Strong!! ;)
Ben trying to spin a piece of wood around his waist. (They Really are supposed to be working!!) :D

Our little Flower Garden by the front porch.

After Church on Sunday, The Pollocks stayed a little bit later then everyone else did.
Christiana trying to not have a Cheesy Smile. :D You did a good Job! :D
Would this face lie to you?

This is a really good picture of you Ariana!

We had some more Pictures to post but they weren't Uploading so we will do them next time. :( :D Hope Y'all enjoy!

Posted by Rachel.

Our Garden.

Hey Y'all,
These are some Pictures of Our Garden we planted on March 24th.
A precious couple came and not only taught us how to plant a Garden ,but brought all the Equipment to do it. They brought a Tiller, Fertilizer, Seeds, and Starter Plants.
We Planted Corn, Cilantro, Beets, Dill, Cucumbers, Beets, Sweet Potatoes, Radishes, Tomatoes, Beans, some different types of Flowers, Sunflowers, Yellow Squash (you'de think we would be tired of Yellow Squash by now :D), Zucchini Squash, and Several other things....but my mind ain't remembering ;).
Well I hope Y'all enjoy the Pictures.





Mr Lawhead and Sam working on starting the Tilling.



Some of the Starter Plants we planted.


They got it going!



The Lawheads. Jess call's them our "Gardening Angels". :D :D


The Garden half done.


Daddy's Bamboo! Daddy wanted Bamboo and he asked Jess to ask Mr Lawhead...well she forgot, But he brought some just cause he felt he needed to! :D :D


The Tiller hard at work.


More seeds to plant! We had many Varieties of seeds.


Jess and her Peppermint Plant.


Done with the Tilling...now to start with the Fertilizing.


Oh, I guess Ben knew what was coming next, SO he decided to get started on it.


Jess and I, Spreading the Fertilizer.


Now you might wonder why this is here...but you will figure it out when you scroll down.



Haha, Ben and I trying to act like the couple in the Picture above. :D


Us girls planting Broccoli, Cilantro, and Dill.


Our Hard working boys planting Corn.


Jess Scaring me! but...I wasn't really Scared..I did it for the Picture. :D :D

Posted by Rachel

I'm Cancer Free!!!!!

This is the best update I could ever expect to give you all...
We went to the doctor today for my 2 week checkup...Praise the
Lord...I got all the staples out and the catheter...yeah!!!!!!
After all that was done, the doctor came in with all the reports
from the pathologist...He said that everything looks great. No
need for radiation or chemo...we got it all!!!! I started to cry.
I was totally prepared for him to say that I would need to do some
thing...just because...and here he is telling me that there is no
need...it is all gone!!! It can only be God.
I want to thank you, Lord Jesus, for seeing me and my precious family
thru this time...we couldn't have done it without you. Why do I ever
doubt you? Why can't I just always rest in you? Thank you for loving
me and caring for me inspite of my weaknesses. I feel like such a
failure to you when I doubt what you are doing in and thru my life.
I am so sorry for doubting you. BUT, I am soooo grateful for the
results that you gave us today. I feel as if I have a new lease on
life. It is kind of like a new birth...again!!! Thank you for my
family who have stood beside me and loved me thru all of this. Thank
you for all the precious believers who have placed themselves in the
battle for us thru prayers and love and giving of themselves. The meals
and cards and calls have been all so precious to us. We are sooo grateful.
Thank you most of all for being our Lord. I can't imagine having to have
taken this walk without you. You have truly sustained me. Thank you, Lord
Jesus, Thank you.
God bless all of you who have been praying for us. You don't know how much
all those prayers have meant to us. We are eternally grateful.
Where do we go from here? Well...I have to go for another checkup in 6 weeks.
Then I will have to go every 3 months for 1 year...then every 4 months for
2 years...you get the picture for up to 5 years. It really doesn't matter...
I'll be alive to do it!!!!
Once again...thank you all for your prayers, love and giving of yourselves to
our family. We love all of you!!! Give us a call, we'd love to hear from
you. Whenever you think of our family...please send up a prayer of thanksgiving
for God's goodness and mercy!!!!
God Bless you and yours...we love you!!!!

Hands on my shoulders.

At the request of my mom she wanted this recent post on my blog http://benandsamsblog.blogspot.com/ posted on this blog also.

Enjoy!!!


It was Saturday the 29th, we were cooperating a strawberry picking in Plant City Florida when we got the news. "Mom is coming home today!!!" my sister shouted as she heard the news, on Tuesday the 25th she had gone into the hospital for a complete "historectomy?". At this point on our way home Dad was warning us that she might not want to see you us today. So as I was preparing myself not to expect to see her today nor the next or the next after that. around 2:00 she was home, you could tell from her face that she did not want to talk to ANYONE! So, I was already prepared to wait to see her after a few days......."Sam..........Dad wants you."

Dad was with Mom in thier bedroom. So, Shocked, I went to go see Momma.
After I saw her, Ben Said"Lets go throw the football". As he was inside getting the football I looked up and said"Thank You God for bringing my Momma Back!". As I said those words, I felt the Lords Hands on my shoulders telling me it'll be ok! After I felt His hands on my shoulders I just felt perfect peace.
I've allways wondered how in the bible it says that God touched people, I wondered how it felt!!!

Please Continue In Prayers, I Feel Them!!!

Sam

More from the drill sarge:)

Well, Mom seems to be healing good. THe doctor noticed her heart rate being a little over active and wants her to get a cat scan, which I am assuming she will be put in for today.

Her spirits are a little better, but she still isn't where I would like to see her.
Please continue to pray that it all gets straightened out with her heart, and especially with her emotions before she comes home!!!!

( On a selfish note, pray the nurses remember to put an extra bed in there tongiht...Dad and I have been either sleeping on the tile floor, or in the mosst uncomfortable chair known to man kind!!!!!!:P ) Thanks!!!!

So I will let you all know when I get an update!!!
Jess

On the blog again....dum de dum:)

Howdy again:) This is Jess, and I am actually going to try to write you an update:)
Yesterday was a hard day...I shall be honest. Mom got hit with a lot of the emotional junk from the surgery and it was rather hard to shake:) Last night I stayed with her after running home and she was in much better spirits.

She is in pain, but it's not unbearable since she still has pretty consistant meds for pain. THe bad side effect obviously is the fact that when she gets the pain meds all she wants to do is sleep, thereby causing things like walking to be more difficult:)

But she did walk yesterday, and the nurses were proud of her accomplishments!!! They are planning on pushing her to walk the length of the hall a few times today instead of just in her room....

The boys seem to be doing much better, and as far as I know, don't have the fevers anymore so that's a big anwer to prayer for us!!!!

Please continue to keep us in your prayers as we keep fighting all this... Mom is still needing to do different things to make sure everything is fine after the surgery, so pray for that...

We love you all and really feel the love and prayers!!! You guys are so awesome!!!!
Keep up with us so we know you thinking about us!!! We want you to know how much it means to us!!!!

God bless you all!!!
In Christ,
Jess