In Honor of Haleigh Nicole Dickerson

A PRECIOUS angel was born April 28, 2000. Twelve PRECIOUS days gave me a life time of memories. Haleigh touched my life in the few PRECIOUS moments I shared with her and are held close to my heart. Words cannot express the heartache felt and continue to feel over the loss of Haleigh. May God's peace continue to bless Haleigh in heaven.

4321 E. Burchell Haydon, IDaho

This property is my favorate property found so far. Over our budget and without a shop is a negative, but the home and neighborhood are beautiful. Joni (Jerry's sister) and the realtor will be viewing the house tomorrow.

The link below will take you to the information about this house and all the photos available.

http://www.flexmls.com/cgi-bin/mainmenu.cgi?cmd=url+other/createlink/link_receiver.html&no_html_header=true&i=jeaqxqebh5g,7

2240 Mountain Vista Coeur D'Alene, ID

This property is PERFECT in consideration of location. The property is only 0.9 miles from Jerry's sister Joni. The house 3,490 sqft. house only sits on a .33 acre lot. Jerry and I are hoping to find a house on at least a half an acre. There is NO shop, but the house is probably going to foreclosure, so the money we save on the house would go towards adding a shop. Problem is the shop would take up alot of valuable acreage. The other negative about this property is that its sits up close to Canfield mountain which would cause the house to be in too much shade. This is definately something we would want to consider since we are coming from Sunny Southern California.

The link below will take you to the information about this house and all the photos available.

http://www.flexmls.com/cgi-bin/mainmenu.cgi?cmd=url+other/createlink/link_receiver.html&no_html_header=true&i=jeaqxqebh5g,7

2398 N. Mountain Vista, Coeur D' Alene, IDaho

But, there's no trees... This house is still under consideration. There are no pictures on the internet and we are waiting for a video from the realtor. This house is the same builder as the Cuprum home. Lot size is also the same. However, Jerry and I are not too excited that there are NO trees!

4863 Cuprum Coeur D'Alene

Jerry and I were so excited about this house, that we were considering making an offer without even seeing the house, for ourselves. Jerry's sister, Joni and husband August walked through the house while narrating to us. The items mentioned that made us decide not to select this home was: Main Living floor looked out into the backyard of neighbor, decking was not trex decking and would be high maintenance, five (5) steps from house into garage and back into the house.

The link below will take you to the information about this house and all the photos available.

http://www.flexmls.com/cgi-bin/mainmenu.cgi?cmd=url+other/createlink/link_receiver.html&no_html_header=true&i=jeaqxqebh5g,7

12715 N. Yearling Circle Hayden, IDaho

This is a really beautiful home and we would be really interested in the property except that it is 8.3 miles north of Joni. We are still considering the home, but ideally want to be closer in to Coeur D'Alene.

1446 E. Bruin Loop, Hayden, IDaho

This home is bank owned, but has not been completed. In addition needs Landscaping, sprinklers etc. Jerry's sister Joni has viewed the property and said it was very nice. If this property is still available when we visity in July we will want to see the property and make a determination if we want to consider it. The property is a little further north of Joni than we really want to be. However, Joni says... it's closer than we are right now.! She has a point.

Coeur D' Alene, IDAHO - House Hunting

As many of you know for years Jerry and I have been planning to someday move up to Northern Idaho, Coeur D'Alene, ID. After a difficult and rough health year, for Jerry, we have decided it's time for Jerry "wind down" and retire. I was forced into early retirement when I was laid off in September, 2008, from my employer of 11+ years. After supporting Jerry through chemo therapy, having shoulder surgery myself we are now working towards downsizing (California) and preparation for moving sometime around this time next year. We decided to take advantage of the recession and purchase our home now, while prices are down. It doesn't make sense for me to try to find a job in California. Unemployment at a record high and trying to compete with the younger people and the competition also looking for a job. I will wait until we have found a home in Idaho, have numerous garage sales getting rid of 30+ years of accumulation and Jerry needs to dig into the boat port, his garage and all the other places Jerry finds to hide his treasures (aka junk). We are planning to head up to Coeur D' Alene the 1st of July and actually physically look at properties. In the mean time, I am looking on the Internet, Jerry and I are carefully reviewing the properties and Joni and August are going with our agent to preview the properties and report back to us. There are a few properties that we have really liked, but there have been things we didn't like so we continue to look.

Zack (5) and Jake (7)

Easter pictures of the boys holding their See's Easter Bunny and a bucket full of plastic easter eggs with a surprise for the boys in each egg.

Have a Blessed Easter - April 11, 2009

Wishing you and your family a Very Blessed and Happy Easter

Post Surgery Physical Therpy - April 8, 2009

I started Physical Therapy on my left shoulder today. I will be having PT (physical therapy) three times a week. My doctor indicates that my shoulder will not be fully back to normal for about 3 months after surgery. Slowly my range of motion and use of my arm and shoulder are coming back. I am still having a lot of pain below my elbow and above my wrist with a feeling of pins and needles and numbness. If I extend my arm in a certain way, or pick up something heavy an excruciating pain occurs. Once I endure the pain, it's hard to get rid of.

Medical Appointment - April 1, 2009

Jerry's appointment today with the oncologist was fairly routine. Jerry has been fighting with a serious sinus infection. He started taking a Z-pack and that did not know out the infection. When they took Jerry's temperature, he was running a fewer. They took his temperature a second time and continued showing a fever. Dr. Javadi decided he wanted Jerry to give some additional blood to test for an infection in his blood. They took two additional vials of blood from his port as well as blood from his arm. The results should be available in a week. Unfortunately, Jerry's PSA is slowly creeping back up every week when they draw blood for a CBC (complete blood count). Overall, Jerry is feeling much better on a daily basis than he has in a long time. Even though he's been on antibiotics, Jerry's diarrhea has been pretty much under control. Jerry continues having sinus problems and Dr. Javadi is prescribing Avelox to continue fighting with the infection.