Sunner Birthdays

Two Days before my big surgery we had a combined birthday party for Dallyn and Kyler. Dallyn turned 6 and Kyler turned 4. It was so fun to be able to invite all their friends over for a water party. We bought one of those inflatable waterslides and it was a blast! Here are the kids waiting for their turn on the slide.

Dallyn going down the slide for his first turn!

Kyler trying out the slide...looks pretty fun!

Here comes Kyler...getting sprayed by a friend at the bottom of the slide. This slide was really fun to have this summer. As I was in bed recovering from surgery the kids had a blast playing outside with the waterslide!

2 Month Post-Op MRI

Well yesterday was my 2 month Post-Op scan and meeting with Dr. Jensen. Other than the fact that it was a really LOONG day, things went well for my appointments. My last scan was July 17, the day after surgery, so this scan showed a great reduction in the swelling which is great. You could see the cavity where they removed the tumor and it looked great. The chemo wafers were completely gone...you could really see that on the scans as well.

Dr. Jensen said he is really happy about what he saw. He said our next focus is to figure out how to keep this tumor from coming back!! Yes, I agree with that! He said he is going to meet with the tumor board today and will call me tonight with their consensus on whether we should radiate or just let it be and watch it! I'm all for that!! =)

Swim Team!

I don't have photos yet but I wanted to share Cameron's news that he made swim team this past month!! He's been really excited about this and has been working hard all summer taking lots of classes to improve his stroke!! He is following in his father's footsteps with the swimming. I just hope I'll survive the busy schedule of driving my children to yet one more activity!! Cameron currently is in a theater class and takes piano lessons and scouts..so adding swimming to his life will make him the most busy of my children...hopefully he will do well with it since he loves swimming so much! We shall see!! =)

Kaylie's Birthday Bike

This past week Kaylie turned 11 years old. She was born on Labor Day 11 years ago and she thought it was so cool that she had her birthday off of school this year. Kaylie was surprised to get a new bike for her birthday. She has been wanting one for a long time. She has had 2 garage sale bikes but never a new bike so this was quite exciting.

Here she is amazed at the gift...

The Happy Birthday Girl!!

Then Dad threw a wrench in the plans...turns out he bought two bikes for Kaylie and she got to choose which one to keep. There were good things about each bike and here Scott is educating Kaylie about the differences. The one big factor was if she wanted to keep the Schwinn she had to pay us $40 since it was more expensive then the Target bike. She debated a lot the pros and cons of each bike...she debated for about an hour trying to decide which bike to choose. I thought it was a great lesson she learned through this experience.

And the verdict is...

Which one should she pick..its a hard decision???..Drum roll please....

She chose the Blue Schwinn Bike...its really great!!

Here is Kaylie enjoying her first ride on her new bike. It took a little bit for her to get used to the hand brakes. She kept moving her feet backwards like she was used to with her old bike!

Grandparent Gifts

My parents gave Kaylie an eleven special collector doll for her birthday. I used to collect these when I was little too! So it has been fun for Kaylie to collect some of them as well!!

Grandma Salisbury gave Kaylie a cooking set...looks like a theme this year!! Grandma and Grandpa Wright & Great Grandma and Grandpa Black gave Kaylie some money. Thanks to all the grandparents for your kindness!!

One thing the children really look forward to on their birthday is getting to eat sugar cereal!! Since I don't ever buy that stuff this is their chance to choose any cereal they want! These were Kaylie's choices....complete with donuts!! It makes me shake in my boots to think of these sugary treats, but it sure makes their birthdays special!

Sibling Gifts

Kyler gave Kaylie a purse with a few surprises in it! =)

Dallyn gave Kaylie a Kids Recipe Box since she is wanting to get more into cooking.

Cameron made such a nice card for Kaylie and he helped his brothers make cards too since I wasn't feeling well. Their gifts were so thoughtful!