This afternoon Laura's preacher, Mike Lyons, and Mrs. Cannon came to visit Laura. They brought a fun little (really, big) surprise.

Last Sunday at church, Mike had everyone turn around to the balcony and they all had their picture made to let Laura know that they love her.

Look at me and Julie showing you just how huge this poster is...

In other news, she received the last bag of chemo for this week. Wooo hooo!!

By tomorrow night, she will have perservered through seven straight days of that. The doctor's words to her today were "You're a tough lady!" (We already knew that...She continues to show us all.) She'll have three more weeks in the hospital and then will receive another round of chemo just like this one. And, then... they'll check her bone marrow to see how things are going. (Pray that she won't have to receive more chemo.)

I can't get over how good she looks and how cheerful she is. Don't get me wrong. If she had her way, she'd be ridin' her bike and goin' out to eat with me and her friends. (I'd like that, too.)

But, she's a good patient. So, instead of that, we decided to have a "party." (A "party" is what we had on Friday nights as children. Our mother would make onion dip and we'd eat Fritos and dip and drink Coke while we watched tv.) I brought my computer (thanks, to Judy's brother and his employees my computer was fixed today, too!) and we watched two episodes of the Mary Tyler Moore Show while eating Fritos and dip and drinking Coke. We had a good time.

♪ ♫ Who can turn the world on with her smile? ♪ ♫

♪ ♫ Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile? ♪ ♫

♪ ♫ Well it's you girl, and you should know it ♪ ♫

♪ ♫ With each glance and every little movement you show it ♪ ♫

♪ ♫ Love is all around, no need to waste it ♪ ♫

♪ ♫ You can have a town, why don't you take it ♪ ♫

♪ ♫ You're gonna make it after all ♪ ♫

♪ ♫ You're gonna make it after all ♪ ♫