I just realized that some of my posts were never published. OOPS, Dang that's frustrating. Oh well. So now I have either published them for the first time or they are on the blog a few times. Have patience with me I'm a beginner blogger. :) Thanks for my great friends and the support you give me and My family. I have friends come up and apologize for asking about Cole. They are worried I'll get tired of people asking, but how could I get tired of knowing we are supported and cared about??

This is Kaitylyn and my Mom in Adelyn's apartment in Logan.  I took this picture when we were getting Adelyn settled into her new apartment.

Hello Everyone, Last weekend Erika, Kaitlyn and I spent the weekend with Cole and Taleena. On Saturday there was a surprise bithday party for my sister Shelley. It was a great party and she was surprised!! Cole and Taleena were able to be there and enjoyed seeing a lot of the family. We spent a relaxing Saturday and Suday with Cole and Taleena and headed back home on Monday. I just talked to Cole on facetime. Tomorrow he starts his week long session of chemo. He isn't too excited but at least it's another week closer to the end of the treatments. In a week or tow they will do another scan to check his progress. Thanks for all the prayers! Friday and Saturday is Jr. High State Wrestling. Our family will be there in Richfield to support Daniel and the CV team!!

I have been having technical difficulties so I couldn't post pictures the way I usually do. If you have questions about any of the pictures just ask!! These pictures were taken during the Christmas break.

I missed a week, sorry.
A lot has been going on.  It has been nice having the Christmas Break!!  I was looking forward to having my whole family home on Christmas but it didn't turn out quite like I wanted.  The good part was that Addy did make it home after leaving work at 10:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve and making home at 3:40 am Christmas Day!!  Duke stayed up all night and called her every 20 minutes!!  Such a dedicated and worried parent.  I fell asleep for a few hours but when she got home we stayed up for 2 hours visiting.  Crazy I know!!  But we had lots to catch up on.  :)
We were all up at 8 to start the exciting day.  Kjerstin, Kurtis and Sophie were able to come and spend the afternoon with us and enjoy Christmas Dinner and some fun family games.  My parents came down for dinner and visiting as well.  It was good to have them here.  Daniel, Kaitlyn and Erika enjoyed all the company!
The hard part was Cole and Taleena couldn't make it. With Cole having radiation and chemo it really took a toll on him and he has had a difficult time recovering.  In my last post I mentioned he had been trying to recover for two weeks.  Well, it has taken another two weeks and 3 or 4 more transfusions to see any progress.  The radiation hasn't allowed his body to recover like he usually does after a chemo session.  And so he had been down in bed for 4 weeks.  He has tried really hard not to get down but he kept hoping each week he would get better and then he wouldn't.  I was talking to Cole and Taleena the end of last week and Taleena had a Dr. appointment and the baby is measuring a little small.  But everything looks good.  They will do another ultra sound in another week to make sure the baby is growing.  But on Saturday, December 30th, they spent the night in the hospital because little Aspen was trying to come early, too early.  The Dr.'s monitored Taleena and the baby and got things under control and they were able to go home the next morning.  Taleena has been put on modified bed rest.  While I was talking to Cole, and they are both down in bed, Cole told me that Taleena has taken good care of him and now it's his turn to take care of her.  They are so good to each other it amazes me.  They always say they are doing OK but with Cole having painful side effects and Taleena having premature labor I decided to get a ride up to Salt Lake with Adelyn on her way back up to Logan on Wednesday.  We had all planned to go see them for Cole's birthday  (Jan. 4th) so everyone else came up on Friday.  Kjerstin, Kurtis, Sophie and Erika were able to come up Thursday evening.

It was so good to be able to spend a few days with them.  We had time to visit. Facetime is pretty good but nothing like really being there.  I don't think I probably helped much just a few dishes and I got to try out their new vacuum.  The best part was just being there.  I miss having them in Cedar.

Tomorrow Cole will have Chemo but it is his last week of radiation!!  After this week I pray things start looking up.

I'll try to post some pictures tomorrow.  It's getting late and I still need to down load the pictures from my phone.  Big day tomorrow, kids are back in school and so am I.