a new school year and remembering

Here we go.....another school year is in full swing.   

 Abby is in the 7th grade and she wants to be a nurse when she grows up. 
Erin is in the 6th grade and she wants to be a pharmacist when she grows up. 

Samuel is in the 4th grade and wants to be a football player or dirtbike rider and a pastor when he grows up.

It is amazing how much more prepared I felt this year compared to last year. Last year it seemed we were still adjusting to being home and getting back into our lives. Thursday is the one year anniversary of Dave's surgery. In some ways it feels like 100 years ago and in some ways it feels like we just left the hospital. He is doing very well from his surgery he had June 1st. He had an incisional hernia repaired and has been taking it easy all summer. I constantly tell him how ready I am for him to be back at 100%. I will be glad when he can pick up heavy things like bicycles and boxes. :) He has his next scan on October 2nd. We are still going every three months for scans.   Today while we were taking a walk, we talked about some of the feelings we had on this day last year.  To put it simply...we were both afraid. We had gotten the worst case scenario from the doctors and were praying for the best.  We are so thankful that it went well and Dave has no evidence of disease one year later. 

 We had some new family pictures made this week (thanks Abigail.....we love them!!) Tomorrow we will remember and be thankful for the good outcome of Dave's surgery and Friday we will celebrate his 39th birthday!!