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Oh What a Week!

      So much has happened this week that I couldn't decide what to blog about, so I guess I'll just have to blog about a little of everything! My great aunt Colleen was diagnosed with cancer about five years ago, and two weeks ago she found out it had spread to her brain. My grandma had saved up frequent flyer miles to use when her sister would need her, so she flew out from Virginia to be with her. Last Saturday, she picked Amy and I up from Provo and took us to see her. We had the most amazing time talking, laughing, and sharing stories and memories. We've shared so many memories with Aunt Colleen during her almost yearly visits to Virginia while we were growing up, and getting to see her even more as we each moved to Utah to come to BYU. The whole time we visited with her, she didn't once complain about her condition or the pain she was in. I finally asked her, "Colleen, how do you stay so positive when it would be so easy for you to be negative and no one woul