More Halloween Fun!

I wanted to share a few more photos from our Halloween festivities! Here's our Kyler boy trying out his lasso! =)

Kaylie and her favorite cousin trick or treating on Main Street!!

The whole group of them at Dick's Market for trunk or treating!

Kaylie was just a LITTLE bit excited about all the candy she ended up with!! =) It was a fun Halloween here and so nice that Utah observes it on Saturday, that made it really fun for my kids!

More Kitchen Developments!

Can you see the lights under the cabinets illuminating the counter tops?? I LOVE these!!

Here they are on the other wall....yes our counter top is still not finished, I can not get them to return my calls!!

I am in LOVE with this dishwasher! Yes, the stainless is great, but what I LOVE is the fact that it is a WHIRLPOOL GOLD like we had in California. I sure loved that dishwasher so now 1 1/2 years later we have one again!! Happy day!

Carving Pumpkins

Here are the kids with the pumpkins they carved the other night. I was using Kaylie's camera since my batteries died and so I couldn't tell what I was taking a picture of very well since it was dark! So I cut off a few of them...

Here are the boys pumpkins before they started carving!!

Kyler's is supposed to look like Mickey Mouse..I think Scott did a good job at that! Dallyn's is the most friendliest and Cameron's was the biggest!

Focused on Carving

For Family night on Monday we carved pumpkins. Here are some photos of each of the kids focusing on their work...don't know why Kyler does this silly staged smile these days???

Happy Halloween!

Here are my spooky ones! Harry Potter's son...


A rootin tootin cowboy wearing his Dad's old dress ups!!

Our family Smarty Pants!!

And the family wouldn't be complete without Superman!! =)

New Tumor Growth

I went in for my follow-up MRI on Monday and we met with the Neurosurgeon and Radiation Oncologist on Tuesday and the results were not good. I seem to have really determined cancer cells and they are just not giving up.

In September at my 2 month post-op scan my Dr. saw a spot that was concerning and so he wanted to watch it and rescan me in Oct. I just had that scan and what we found was pretty surprising! My tumor that was just operated on in July, is already growing back.

The tumor is growing back on the same tumor bed as before but in a slightly different location. It is the same tumor though, not a new tumor. When I had my operation in July there was a small section where the Dr. was unable to get a large margin. This was due to the fact that the resection was right along a major artery in my brain. They can't get any closer than they did in surgery. They took out all visible cancer cells and had hoped that that would take care of it. However, there is new growth in that area and they can not eliminate the whole tumor because of the situation with the to the artery.

So, the current treatment option is to have stereo tactic radio surgery for the THIRD time. This radiation will be whole brain radiation localized to a smaller area. In short, I will have a large section of my brain radiated in November. This time there will be 5 daily treatments of a high dose radiation. (And yes I will lose a lot of my hair!)

We are hoping that *the third time is the charm* for this as our options will be more limited now since operation is not possible with the artery involvement. We are pretty shocked to find out how quickly it has grown and my Dr's can not guarantee success with repeat radiation, but we are trying to stay hopeful.

I appreciate all the love and prayers and am grateful for the friendships I have with each one of you! You never know what life will bring, I hope you can all live life to the fullest! Hugs, Heidi

A Microwave Cabinet!

So the electrician came this past week and put in our electrical for the microwave oven that will go above the counter top. Scott modified the cabinet and here he is hanging it back up. Now we just have to buy a microwave (we have been borrowing one!) and then we have to decide on what color we want to paint our cabinets!! It's coming together though! Oh and we also got our under cabinet lighting put in last week...LOVE that! =)