I'm Finished

I just had to post and say that I'm done with my treatments! I had a busy day yesterday so I didn't put it on here, but I"M DONE!!! I am feeling great and so grateful for that. My skin is doing well. One of my doctors asked me how I was planning on celebrating and I said that I'm headed to Arizona to the sunshine. I go in 4 more days. I'm very excited to see my family that's down there! My hope is that when I get back I'm feeling up to being a regular mom again. If I keep feeling this well then I know it will happen.

I am so thankful for all of the support I've gotten! I can't even begin to thank everyone that has helped me and my family. We are so blessed to have so many people who love us and care about us! Thank you for the prayers, meals, rides for me and my kids, hugs and words of encouragement. We made it, and I can honestly say that it wasn't too bad. I know that is because of so many prayers in our behalf. Thank you for your love! Last night Sam said, "Mom, I'm glad you made it through your treatments and you didn't die." I told him that I'm glad too. So sweet! I do feel blessed! I don't think he worried that I would die. I know I never did!

Catching up!

This is going to be a crazy post. Just lots of pictures so you can see what we've been up to.


Sam lost his first tooth this week. It has been loose for so long. Just as he was heading out the door to school I was brushing his teeth and saw the tooth just hanging there. I got a paper towel and grabbed the tooth. He jerked his head away and started screaming at me that it hurt and he didn't want it out. Well, too bad--it was in my hand. Then it bled and bled. He was so mad at me that I had pulled it out. After we got the bleeding to stop he was so excited to go to school and tell his friends that he'd lost a tooth!

After I put the picture on of us on Christmas Eve I got quite a few comments of how tall Jed was. That next Sunday I realized how little his suit was on him. I knew it was time for a new suit so we got online (that's pretty much all the shopping I do these days) and ordered this. I still can't believe that I'm old enough to have a son that wears a real man suit! (He's had lots of suits they've just been little boys suits.) On Sunday Jed and Victoria sang in a wonderful youth choir for Stake Conference. I sat and cried at the army of future missionaries! I also measured Jed. Well, he's almost 5'10''. Exactly the same height he was the day before school started. He grew 8" the first 9 months of 2010. Hopefully he'll keep staying this size for a while before another big growth spurt!

By far my favorite part of Christmas this year was watching my kids make gifts for each other! I loved how excited they were to make and give their gifts! The next three pictures show the excitement of Jed giving Julia and Emilee their bunkbed he made them.

Finally, here are pictures of almost everyone in their new Christmas Pajamas. You can tell who was taking the pictures. I realized after that we should have taken a picture of the three girls in purple pajamas since that's what color mine were. Maybe next year! :)

We are doing really well! I have 4 treatments left this week--just Monday through Thursday. I am doing well most of the time. My biggest complaint is my burn. It hurts really badly and keeps me up some nights with the pain. I am very anxious to be done! I did give in and quit driving. It just hurt too much. I hope to be able to drive again soon. It's so hard to not be independent! I can see the light at the end of the tunnel now.

Happy New Year!!

As 2010 came to a close I thought back to all we did during the year. My heart was full of gratitude at all we accomplished and what a wonderful year it was. I do hope that 2011 will be a healthier year, but I can't imagine that it could be better than 2010.

We had a very nice Christmas at our house! It was a nice day, and I was so grateful that I was feeling better. I had spent most of the week before Christmas feeling very green. Maybe just looking pretty green!

Our Christmas tree. This is pretty much all of the decorating we did.

The whole family on Christmas Eve

We've had a wonderful time with my mom here. She's been a life saver for sure! I've been able to just take it easy and she's cooked, cleaned, done laundry and much more. We will be so sad to see her leave tomorrow! I am on the downhill slide with my treatments. I have 13 more to go! I will be finished on January 19th. Then on January 25th I am heading to Arizona for a little sunshine and rest before I get right back to life in February. We are all sad to have the kids go back to school tomorrow. We've enjoyed our time together!

I've tried to get other pictures where I want, but can't so for today that's all the pictures! :)