Happy Birthday Carianne!

This will not be your favorite day but in the long run, this will help you live a healthy and wonderful life.  You are in our thoughts and prayers as you go through this surgery.  I had been home one day from my thyroidectomy when you turned 2.  Dad and Aunt Norma's family had gone all out on a birthday for you because we didn't know how I would feel or if the doctor's would even let me be around you and Heather.  I had gone through a week of intense radiation therapy.  In those days you were isolated from everyone while you went through therapy.  I love you so much.  We will be praying for you all day.  May the rest of the  year be one of your best years ever.