We want to thank everyone who has signed our petition for the TV show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. And especially everyone who forwarded the petition to their friends - it has really taken off. As I write this, there are over 11,000 signatures.

The show has had our application for a few weeks now, but until we hear from producers, we are still asking people to sign. We don't know when they will look at the web site.

Flowers for Marcy still blesses us and raises Marcy's spirits almost daily.

We still would like to fill the yard. When we first launched the site, it was set so that flowers would expire in 30 days and people who planted a flower would get a reminder/request to renew. Now the site is set so that flowers do not expire.

We are now asking anyone who is able to plant a new flower when they can.

Darcy talked about going white water rafting for over a year - ever since I told her they do that close to where Matt is going to college. When we were in Chattanooga 10/8, the whole way there, and the whole way back, she said she still wanted to do that. I told her we would and she said, "Is this one of the things that we have to wait for Mommy to get better to do?"

I thought of the vacations and other activities for which I have said that. And I thought of how quickly Matt grew up. So we did it. This is us (l-r) - our guide, Tater, Darcy's friend Kristina, me, Darcy's friend Hadley, Darcy, and Leza (a guide-in-training.) If you watch this animated picture a couple of seconds, you'll see some of the action we saw.

See the whole story, including why Matt didn't go and where Marcy was, on the 10/14 and 10/15 daily posts.