GRANDMA

It has been a month since Grandma's surgery. Her miracle surgery. A surgery we were told was never going to happen. But a blessing she received a year before, when her cancer journey began, promised that she would be healed, so we had faith that all the doctors were wrong. And they were. The chemo (devil stuff by the way) shrank it instead of just slowing it's growth like the doctors said. And a couple of months ago we heard the best news ever. Mom and I were headed in to one of my kids' end of year programs and she got a phone call from the nurse. She said one of the surgeons decided he thought he could remove it. After 5 weeks of radiation, she went in for a whipple surgery. It was come with it's own set of problems. But she is alive, healing, and most importantly, cancer free. She went from a 5% chance of making it a year (no chance of cure or remission or survival) to being cancer free. This picture is one month post surgery. Our first outing was of course to Walmart for food. Haha. 

JAY

The first pictures are pictures Jay took with my phone and Grandma's house one day. He begged to borrow my phone so he could take a picture of his car track he had built. He took A LOT of pictures of it and more. Lol. I only posted a few of them. 

I also just have a couple of random pictures of him from the month. I love when he sits on Ty's lap. I'm afraid those days are numbered as he's getting so big. Ty won't be able to hold him while at his computer for much longer. I don't remember what they were doing but it looks like he might be attempting to play candy crush on Ty's phone. Haha. I also got a picture of him with his latest lego creation. He amazes me with what he can create on his own with no guidance. Legos and I have a love hate relationship... they are great for his imagination and creativity but BAD for the bottoms of my feet! He won the Garcia's on going art contest and got a free kids meal and his picture up on the board. They only kid that hasn't won yet is Lily... which is funny because she's our artist in the family. Haha. 

HALLOWEEN

We went to our ward trunk or treat ... in the snow... it was cold! Then we went to Grandma and Grandpa Gordon's house for dinner. Traditionally we go out for dinner but this year Grandma was still healing from surgery so we ate at their house. The kids went down the street at Grandma's to do some real trick or treating while we visited in the warm house. As we were pulling out of the driveway to head home, my phone dinged telling me someone was at our front door. I watched a teenage girl empty our candy bowl into her bucket. I guess if she really wanted all those dum dums she could have them. We had more candy than we knew what to do with (and I didn't put the best candy out on the doorstep anyway... lol).

 

LILY'S BIRTHDAY

Lily got to celebrate her birthday for 3 days!!! Her party was the day before her birthday. She said she wanted a unicorn birthday party so naturally we went to New Sweden Farms so we could ride a unicorn. We also had tons of fun with all the other activities there. 

We went out to dinner and gave her presents from us on her actual birthday the next day. She wanted Pizza Pie Cafe... one of her favorite places! Then on Sunday we had a family get together for cake and ice cream. I think she had a fantastic weekend! She's getting so big! 9 years old!!!!