Business as usual!!

I hope everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving! We had actually had 2 Thanksgivings.  We celebrated at our house with my side of the family on Thanksgiving day. We had almost 30 people over!! The chaos was great, I loved every minute of it!  Then, the Sunday after Thanksgiving, we went to Jon's brothers house and had a little celebration with grandma and grandpa Bottroff (Jon's grandparents) and our 2 families! It was so fun and I want to thank my sister in law for opening her home to us after literally giving birth to twins a month ago! She is just amazing.  I have so much to be thankful about this year! It is so crazy to think it was just a year ago that I almost died 3 times within a 1 months times span.  But holding a new baby can do WONDERS for the soul! I think I am becoming addicted to holding the new babies! Since they have been born we have been over there about 7 times (including hospital visits) to see them! LOL!! Angie (my sister in law) is probably sick of us!  I just have to share a pic of me with the babies!

Me holding Sierra (looking at camera) and Sydney!

 

 

 

I also had a birthday!! I am now 35 years old! That just seems unreal! Wasn't I just graduating high school? So my sister and my cousin (with the help of a few others) threw me a big party! My dream has always been to go to Hawaii one day, but I doubt that ever happens, so they brought Hawaii to me! It was a great night and I had an absolute blast!! Here are a couple pics from that night!

 

 THE AMAZING CAKE!!!!!!

 

 Me with my party planners, Betsy and Shayla (yes, that is baby slobber!) 

 

 FRIENDS!!

Dee, Tawnya, Krista, Me

Susie

 

 PLAYING LCR!!!

 



MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY

 

 

Well, there is really nothing new going on with me! I am kind of starting to run myself ragged! My doctor keeps telling me I need to rest more, but I feel there is no time to slow down, especially now with the holidays coming.  I can not sleep even with my sleeping pill! I don't know what to do! I just feel like there is not enough hours in the day!  My last dr visit and chemo was the Monday before Thanksgiving.  He told me to stay on the couch and do nothing for Thanksgiving.  I told him that would be a little tough considering I am hosting a party of about 30 people! He flipped his lid. He said, "I don't know what I am going to do with you?!"  I just told him life has to go on.  I think its funny, people actually ask if I take daily naps!! Let me answer that for you... NO!!!!! I have 3 kids!! I am getting about 5 to 6 hours of sleep daily. I fall asleep around 2am and wake up around 8am.  Sometimes it catches up with me and I will be on the couch and the next thing I know I am waking up and I didn't even realize I had fallen asleep, but I have been drinking a lot of coffee to combat that!

 

On the kids front... Jonny and Joey are still in counseling!  Jonny just ended his Soccer season! I am always sad when it is over. Now Jonny and Joey both start basketball in December! The kids are all also in a couple of Christmas programs next month and both Caylee and Jonny will be celebrating their birthdays! I will still be having chemo every other week despite being the holiday season.  Dr P refused to let me skip this month.  He said he wants to stay on top of it, instead of letting it get away from us! So Jon will be staying home from work more because the kids will be home from school for 2 weeks and I can't do it alone! Pray for our finances! I feel like we catch up, get behind, catch up, get behind,...Right now we are behind.  But, I fully believe the Lord will come thru, he is always faithful!!

 

Ok! The prayer requests!! Continue to pray that the cancer shrinks.  i would really like to see the numbers come down faster than they are. They are still only, "Trickling" as the Dr put it!  Also pray for Joey that we get his meds under control and figure out his correct dosage! Also, pray for Caylee to get potty trained, still having problems there! Pray also that her valves heal by themselves by August!!

Keep praying!!! HE IS LISTENING!!!! Love you all!!