Long Beach

Last week we go to Long Beach! This was our second time there. Mom spent time on the beach, shopping, and painting! But the highlight for her was fulfilling her dreams of riding a horse on the beach!

Round 4

I got to take Mom to round 4 of chemo this week! She is doing pretty good, but tired! Also enjoy this fantastic photo of Clel, who has also made the list of Mom’s favorite nephews!

Girls Camp

Momma has been busy of late! On Thursday she went to the temple! Then on Friday she went and spoke to the girls in our ward at Girls Camp for their Faith Walk. She really looked forward to that and loved preparing it. She really loved going up to camp for a few hours. When she left camp, her and Dad went to a friends cabin for the night, where they went canoeing and enjoyed the outdoors.

Waves of Happiness

Took a family trip to the Oregon coast! We had a blast jumping waves, and collecting shells. We also stopped in Tillamook and went to the creamery... twice! On the way home we stopped in Multnomah falls! Thanks Aunt Tam, Aunt Wenda and grandma for joining us!!

CT Scan Results

Today Mom and Dad met with the doctors to get the results back from the scan on Friday. The scan shows that the tumors have grown, but that the hormone levels in her blood have decreased by ~75%. We are very encouraged by this because tumors usually create or feed off of hormones. So the decrease means that the chemo is hurting the cancer. The fact that the tumors were larger was actually expected because it took us 8 weeks to start chemo after the diagnosis. Overall we are very happy and very positive about these results.

Favorite Nephews

{Mom's new favorite nephew's, Tanner and Tyler.}

Sunshine and Streams

This round of chemo has been so much better!! Mama is feeling really good! She is still tired, but she has some energy. Yesterday she wanted to go to the store with Aunt Wenda, and today let me take her for a walk! Of course afterwards she needed to take a nap... but what energy she has got we’ll take!!

Also enjoy these cute photos of Mom and Dad... at a sad time because I wasn’t there to add more sunshine. But they still seem happy for some reason...

{Summer of 99}