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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008President Bush signed the Carolyn Price Walker Conquer Childhood Cancer act yesterday and the beautiful Eden Adams was there to see it happen. See the awesome article below. I don’t want to sound complainy and say “finally” but this has been the School House Rock bill singing “I’m Just a Bill, Sitting here on Capital […]
Great Week Off Chemo
Friday, July 18th, 2008Sam with his cake Boys with the Casitllo Gang at Legoland Sam’s volley Andy readying for killer forehand 😉 Sam “dropping in” to mini bowl at skatepark Charlie skating Sam has had a great week. The boys have been going to tennis clinic every morning which they are liking a lot, then swimming on Monday […]
Eight
Monday, July 14th, 2008Sam turned eight today. He had a big weekend. Cupcakes and two baskets at Friday night’s basketball game, lunch out with Dad yesterday, laser tag party yesterday afternoon, home for a late night swim with his brothers and all his new pool toys and today, we went up to family day at the park where he went down the slip […]
Happy Pre-4th!
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008The boys are doing fine. They’ve gotten over their coughs are back to regularly scheduled summer.  Sam and Andy have been taking some desperately needed swimming lessons this week. They are both strong swimmers but have no form or function whatsoever. I was chastising myself after watching their first lesson – thinking to myself “How […]
Trip/Home/Summer/cough
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008Me and the Three Wild Indians at Bandelier Sam and Charlie on Grandpa’s tractor Sam guiding on the river. I dropped the throw-away camera in the water -thus the spots. Good thing I didn’t bring our good camera on the river. Andy guiding on the river Andy jumping at Bandalier Sam climbing up to the […]
Numbers Update
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Wohoo! VMA 9.5 (down from 12) and HVA 15 (down from 46) Isn’t perspective funny? Six months ago I would have had a heart attack at 15 HMA and now I’m happy as a clam. Celebrating actually. Red blood is down to 8.3 and with one more day of irrino we may slip below 7.5 on our vacation. […]
We’re Off
Monday, June 16th, 2008After a big Father’s Day Breakfast, homemade cards from Sam and Andy and an hour of basketball at the park, Neil hopped on a plane to Vermont yesterday for meetings today and tomorrow with Drs. Sholler, Durden, Brown, and Meryl Whitmer, Paul Brunskow and Pat Lacey. No need to comment on the different facets of fatherhood […]
The Tale of Two Cities
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008In Normal City we are rushing around doing all of the end of the year stuff for Sam. He a puppet show in class yesterday, he was the narrator and the snake in “The Tortise and the Hare. “ He did a great job and we all went to see it. Today is the summer birthday […]
Guess Who Won at Bowling?
Saturday, June 7th, 2008 Just a quick update, just wanted to post these pictures, they made me laugh because someone has his hands up in practically every picture Alex’s mom showed me from bowling. We started chemo again this morning. Basketball “draft” was last night. Sam and Andy both did really well and Charlie threw a football into the middle […]
Quote of the Week
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Last week after the CT scan Sam and I went out to lunch together at Konos. Konos is a little surf shack right on the boardwalk with one of the best breakfasts (and lunch) in town for not much money and basically smack dab on the edge of the Pacific Ocean.  You wait in line to […]
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