it's that time again

Monday is scan day!  It has been 4 months since the last one.  I will post results when we see the doctor on Wednesday. 

Has it been a whole month since I have posted here?  wow.  Our school year is going well.  Everyone is working hard.  This summer we made the school room into a bedroom for Abby so now we have most of our school day in the kitchen and sun room.  This seems to be working well for us. The kids are taking a few classes at a local co-op.  They love this.  Abby is learning to play the French Horn this year.  Erin and Samuel are taking piano lessons.  Samuel is playing soccer in Jville.  Oh how I love the Fall.  The air is starting to feel cooler. The leaves will soon start to fall. Even the smells are wonderful. I love love love this time of year.  I always have. 

Dave will have his next scan in 2 weeks.  We are looking forward to a quick trip to Houston.  The kids are going with us this time.  I don't feel anxious about this scan.  I don't think Dave does either. He is doing really well.  He looks healthy and feels good.  So thankful!!

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!!

love this song

Our House is For Sale

We put the sign out today!  It is kinda bittersweet because we love this house so much.  We know that it is time to move though. We are not going far.....just moving to Jacksonville.  We have always loved Jacksonville and it will put us closer to JSU. We have been talking, praying, planning, painting, and all the stuff  that goes into getting ready to sell your home. Click on the link below to  Take a look at the house here!!

Delayed

Ok!!  So we are still at the hospital.  The doctor didn't think Dave was quite ready to leave this morning and then did not want us to leave late in the afternoon. We should be on our way home in the morning.  We were sad not to leave, but it was a good thing.  Dave had a rough day of nausea.  Alrighty then.  Gonna read and try to get some sleep....cannot wait to sleep in a bed!!

almost time to head home

Dave is doing really well.  He is getting to go home tomorrow.....and I am driving him.  All 12 hours.  Yep. 12 hours.  Stopping every two hours to let him walk around....and me too.  I'm sure I will need to stretch my legs too. :)  He has a big ole incision site.  He also is going home with one drain in his abdomen.  I was wondering why they did his surgery the way they did, so I asked the doctor.  I know that most of the time hernia surgeries are done by laparoscopy and it is an outpatient surgery.  They chose to do Dave's surgery the way they did because he already had such a big incision from the cancer surgery and they needed to be prepared if he ever had to have another abdominal surgery. We sure hope he doesn't, but you never know.  They actually went in and cut out the tissue and sewed it all back up.  They did not use any kind of mesh with him....for the same reason, in case they ever have to go back in.  Now that is my explanation from what the doctor told us.  Anyway, he is doing great.  We discovered the show Duck Dynasty today.  We watched like 5 episodes.  It is hysterical.  Dave made me turn it because it was all he could do not to laugh and laughing with a big ole incision does not feel good.  He had to take pain meds and now he is asleep.  But seriously, I think that may be my new favorite tv show.


 I am missing Abby, Erin and Samuel like crazy.  I cannot wait to get home and spend the rest of the summer with them!!  Hopefully this will be our last big time away from them for a long while.