Welcome Fall

We had an awesome summer, it went by so fast! Jaycee started Preschool on the 30th of August. 

She was so scared the first day, it was cute.  She woke up at 3 in the a.m. and told me she was not going back to sleep because she did not want to go to school.  She loves it now.

Wesley misses her when she is gone.  He is always asking for her.
Wesley turned 2 on the first of October.

  How crazy is that? He is so much fun and we are so blessed to have him.  We celebrated over Conference weekend.  Conference was so good.
Wesley is still sleeping on the floor.  He has done much better the last couple days. Pretty much since his birthday.

For Family Home Evening/Wesley's birthday we went to Toad's fun Center.  That was interesting.  The kids loved the arcade games.  Jaycee and Mike went on the Go-carts, which we had to force Jaycee to go on, in the end she loved it. 

Then we tried to do the indoor mini golf.  Both the kids were afraid of the dark and the weird lights, so we switched for outdoor.  They liked that better. Overall me and Mike decided they weren't old enough to fully enjoy it.  Wesley wouldn't put his ball down so he went around hitting ours or picking it up and handing it to us.  We still had fun.  I told Mike that next time we should do a date night so we could fully enjoy it.  I want to try Laser Tag, Go-carts and maybe hit a bucket of balls. 

We finished the day off with Burger Bar and the park.

My Mom was supposed to go back into the hospital for her last round of chemo a couple of weeks ago.  She has been all sorts of sick so she hasn't made it back in.  We are hoping she can get feeling better so she can continue her treatment. I think they have her scheduled to go in at the end of October.  We're crossing our fingers.

I've also been canning like crazy.

  We've done 5 different kinds of salsa and just plain tomatoes.  It's been interesting.  Every time we eat it I'm afraid we're all going to get botulism.  So far there have been no cases.  Hopefully that continues.  I've enjoyed my garden this year and I'm already look forward to next year.  I've got some different things planned, chili sauce and jalapeno jelly, just to name a few.
I need to remember to post some motor home pictures...next time.

I love fall and I'm looking forward to all that it will bring.

CANCER

We found out a month or so ago that my mom has cancer.  Plasma cell myeloma is what it's called, basically it makes tumors that grow in/on her bones and breaks them. It is incurable and life expectancy is 2-10 years.  They are hoping, with her being younger then the normal person that gets this cancer, that they will be able to treat her more aggressively. This type of cancer is rare and usually causes kidney failure. 

In November she was having rib pain but couldn't remember doing anything to hurt them. Theirs not much you can do for a broken rib but give it time, and so she did.  In February when it was still hurting her they did an x-ray and found that she had two tumors. So this is how we found out she had cancer.  After a lot of tests and scans they found that she has tumors from her head down to her feet.

She started Chemo on May 17th and because she has so many health problems (tracheotomy, acid reflex stuff) she has to stay in the hospital so they can monitor her carefully.  It's hard because she is at the U of U hospital, kind of far away, and we all have kids that can't go to the hospital.  So I've only been to see her twice.  We take turns watching each others kids so we all get the chance to be with her.  She's been doing fairly well, they have her pretty drugged up. She's hoping they will let her come home in the next week or two for about a week, then she'll have to go back for stem cell injections and more chemo. Yuck!

She has had the best outlook and has been really positive. I think she's just happy to finally know what is wrong with her.  She's been in so much pain for so long.

Anyway, cancer sucks!