Please pardon me for taking an entire month to update and post to this site. Here I am! Here's the scoop: DJ has continued to persevere through his every-other-week treatments of chemotherapy and to go to work on the week in which his health mostly returns. The children and I have thoroughly enjoyed our days of summer vacation; but now the countdown has begun and we are gearing up to begin school next week on Monday, August 27.
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| August 7, 2012: our family at the celebratory dinner of Alex's birthday at Big Bubba's Bad BBQ |
Alexandra Bigelow, she who is headed to high-school for the first time, celebrated her 14th birthday in early August. She is very excited to have been chosen to play on the Paso Robles High School freshman volleyball team! Brooke will also begin attendance at a new school as she and her buddies have been promoted to 6th grade at Flamson Middle School. Brooke and Caedmon took golf lessons this summer, something that makes their father incredibly happy and hopeful, and she is planning to play a session of Fall Ball (softball) this September through November. Caedmon is our remaining elementary school child, and he is happy that his buddy Logan will be in the same second-grade class at Georgia Brown Elementary School. He needs a haircut! That's on my "get ready for back-to-school" list of things to accomplish in the next 5 days.
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| Brooke loves animals, and she was happy to spend time with this goat at the Living Desert Animal Sanctuary |
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| Caedmon taking some practice swings on the golf course |
Today will be DJ's 11th treatment of this line of FOLFIRI chemotherapy, which means that he is oh-so-close to completing the 12-treatment prescription. YAHOOO!!
Thank you for your love for our family, for your expressions of support and encouragment and service to us. God's grace is beautifully granted to us through you, and I am humble and grateful.
The end, for now!
