Kyler Spider

Kyler was just so cute on Halloween. We only did a little trick or treating because of my health and his health, but you would never know it!! Here he is counting his loot and telling me all about the treats he received. We answered the door and Kyler gave out treats while the older kids went to more houses with Dad!!

I must be rubbing off on Kyler! Here he is taking pictures of his treats!!

My adorable little Spider!! It's hard to believe that Cameron, Dallyn and now Kyler have all worn this adorable spider costume I got at Old Navy years ago!! It's sure been fun!!

Carvin' Pumpkins

Well I'm a few weeks behind, but here are some photos from our Family Night carving pumpkins...the older three kids all drew up plans of what they wanted their pumpkins to look like.

Kaylie makes plans!

Scott helped Dallyn carve his after Dallyn drew his picture!

Kyler enjoys taking out the pumpkin seeds!

Stereotactic Radiosurgery...Again..one year later!

Yesterday Scott and I met with my new Radiation Oncologist, Dr. Shriev at Huntsman Cancer Center. He told us our different options for treatment and we agreed that the best course of action is for me to receive additional radiation to the tumor bed, or tumor cavity.

The radiation therapy will be the same amount of radiation, or possibly a slightly higher dose, as I received back in Dec of 2008. When the pathologist looked at my tumor after surgery he found a good amount of viable cancer cells so its important that I have this radiation treatment. In CA it was called Gamma Knife. Here they call it Stereotactic Radiosurgery. It's the same type of treatment, but with a different brand machine and a slightly different process.

Tuesday I was fitted for a head and face mask that I'll wear during my treatment. I also had a CT scan. Today I have an MRI and my doctors will take all these different tests and they will calculate the right treatment plan/dosage for me. My radiation therapy will be a one time treatment on November 9th. I will lose my hair again in the treatment area, but I'm hoping that this time the section will be much smaller and hopefully it'll fall out ONCE and not in little bits over a 5 month period! So I'mtrying to be optimistic!

Considering some of the other possible treatment options, Scott and I feel like this is a great option for me and hopefully will be successful. My radiation oncologist and brain surgeon recommend it so we feel good about it!

Anniversary Present

Two weeks ago we celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary. This is the gift Scott gave me! We had an extra headboard in a queen size and our bed is a King. Scott was looking at it one day and figured there had to be a way to turn it into a King sized headboard. I had wanted a headboard for years!! We've never had one!! We were too cheap to buy the one that matches our bedroom furniture that we got 7 years ago!!

So above is the before photo and then below is the after photo! Scott cut the headboard, added 2 fence posts to the middle and then painted it! He's amazing and I was so surprised! How fun!! =) Thanks for the great gift!!

Star Wars in Concert

Last night Scott and Cameron went on a Father and Son outing to Star Wars in Concert!! It came through Salt Lake City on its tour and so since I have a few Star Wars crazed family members we couldn't pass up this opportunity!! The actor that played C3-PO narrated while a live orchestra played through songs from both the new and old Star Wars movies. Scenes from the movies projected on a gigantic screen while flashing lasers and fireballs added to the scene.

Here is Cameron with Wedge Antilles and C3-PO in the background.

Here is Cameron with Wicket and another Eewok. There were lots of displays to look at before the show so Scott and Cameron went early to get some photos...however, the lines were still really long so they opted for taking more photos of the costume displays rather than waiting in lines.

Darth Vader, a storm trooper and an Imperial Guard happened to walk by so Scott got a photo of them even though they didn't wait in line for a personal one.

One photo Cameron really wanted to get was with a Jawa so he waited for this one. Isn't it cute? Scott said the Jawa actually should have been shorter than Cameron...but he's still pretty small! The guys had a great time and its something Cameron will always remember.

More Star Wars Photos

Here is Scott with Yoda....so cool!

And then Cameron with a bunch of neat characters....he was loving it..and he wore the appropriate shirt too!

GoodBye Steroids....and hopefully goodbye restless nights!

Well I have officially said farewell to my least favorite drug of all time...Decadron...aka..STEROIDS!! I'm so glad to have this horrible drug behind me and hopefully this time will be for good! I've been on an elevated dose post-surgery as that is standard procedure for Craniotomy patients, so I've been dealing with the side effects. I took my very last pill the other day so I'm looking forward to getting my old self back. It takes about one month for the steroids to get out of my system completely so I've still got a little while to go yet but I'm so happy to not be taking them everyday!! Happy day...