some of our Christmas break pictures

Small update

Doing well and enjoying Jack and the holidays.

What a fun week

We spent the week in Boise before Emily's last last last set of treatments. She has an MRI and CT scan today (Tuesday) a bone marrow biopsy the next day and then cranial radiation once a day for 8 days. She will get her central line out and hopefully get to eat subway and soft serve ice cream.

In Boise we stayed at the house and relaxed a lot. It was our first full week of taking care of Jack at night and I think we did pretty well. Some nights he would wake up every 4 hours some nights it was every 2. One night he slept from 10pm until 8 am...it was my turn to wake up with him that night and it was amazing lol.

We made it in time to go to the family party to watch my Brother in law Matt Warnick win big on Who wants to be a millionaire. We are proud of him and are glad that him and Sarah had a great time.

We attended 2 trunk or treats with the family and my Dad and I even got second place at our home ward's Chili cook off.

We carved pumpkins with Jake Vp and his lovely parents and girlfriend Amy. Jack loves being passed around and I think he likes having big dogs sniffing at him and stealthily licking his face.

My mom got a new cat. He's a Siamese kitten named Simon. Pretty cute. Emily doesn't like cats so he was tolerated more than anything lol. I love animals so it was fun to wrestle and make him jump.

The picture of Emily's nails show you when she got the chemo treatments. Kind of like rings on a tree.

Sunday night Brian and Hillary Walker, and  Jason and Ivy Thurston met up with Emily and I at Jason's parent's house. We brought our kids too. The Walkers have a little 15 month old named Abbey. The Thurstons have a 2 year old named Oliver and then we have a nearly 5 month old (Jack). We snapped a picture of all three of them. I'm pretty sure Brian got a better shot than I did. It was a lot of fun seeing them interact with each other. It was even more interesting to take a step back and reflect on growing up with all of them and then see their kids.

Jack is doing great. He is speaking his own language and even started to roll from him back to his stomach! His hands are becoming more accurate at grabbing things and nearly anything makes him laugh or smile. He also doesn't like big stuffed bears.

Thankfully Emily's mom is with us again while Emily is recovering from her biopsy and potentially the radiation. We appreciate her sacrifice coming here and for all the love that our mothers and Grandmothers have shown Jack.

Counts are still up

We are doing good. Counts are still going up and Emily only has one more day of her antibiotic at home. Jack has his 4 month shots on Wednesday and we aren't looking forward to that at all. On Thursday they are going to run tests on Emily again before they clear her to do the cranial radiation in November.

In the mean time we are going to head to Boise on Thursday or Friday and be there until November 2nd. It should be a great getaway.

Link to donate for Emily:

https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/81bb/emily-s-entourage

We are home!

Yesterday Emily's counts went from 11 to 100. We woke up this morning and miraculously they went from 100 to 1200!
Needless to say we were excited and 5 hours of waiting later, we finally made it home. Turns out that we weren't there for nothing because they did find a strain of strep in her blood that was causing the fever. It's all taken care of and Emily is healthier than when we got there (a nice change to our usual hospital stays).

She still has to take antibiotics through her lines so they are going to send a nurse once a day for the next 6 or so days to the house. We are both happy to be out of the hospital even though the doctors, aids, and nurses were all so fun and amazing.

Jack is doing great and loves to read. I got the official acceptance letter to Westminster as well. Made for a good day.

Link to donate for Emily 

https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/81bb/emily-s-entourage