Thanksgiving was great!  The dinner was yummy.  It was nice to be able to visit with most of the Lovell Family.  We missed Kjerstin, Megan, Teresa and their cute families.  And Falcon, Blake and his wife. Addy got to visit for a while but had to leave before the dinner to get back to Logan to work.  :(  I hope the cherry pie was yummy.

Yummy Pie!

Cole, Taleena & Erika

Playing Games after Thanksgiving Dinner

As I sit here trying to figure out what to write so much is going through my mind.  Cole starts radiation tomorrow.  He and Taleena are doing well and they continue to have the best attitude and outlook on life through  this whole "experience".  They are amazing.

I have struggled with some news that I, for several weeks, didn't want to really think about and I didn't want to tell Cole and Taleena knowing that they are going through so much I didn't want to add to their stress.  But during their visit for Thanksgiving I decided I needed to tell them that Grandma Mary (my Mom) had a mastectomy last week.  Her cancer came back but the very good news was they caught it very early and she will not need radiation or chemo.  She will be fine, another very tender mercy that it was discovered and taken care of.  Now she is recovering and doing well.  Sore and tender but doing well.  We went to see her and my dad yesterday and she looked very good.  She is a beautiful woman and I'm grateful for her.  

I'm so blessed to have such great friends and family with so much support on both sides, the Hatch's and the Lovell's.

If any of you have not head the song "Blessings" by Laura Story you should google it.  It is a great song that puts our trials into perspective. I know trials truly test us and I believe in miracles and faith.
Cole got another week to recover.  His blood counts weren't where they needed to be for him to have chemo.  Next week he should have his short week of chemo then the following week he will start radiation.  The following 6 weeks will be tough.  Thanks for all your prayers and support. 
A great friend of ours took Cole fishing yesterday.  He taught Cole how to fly fish.  Cole had a wonderful day!  Thanks Phil!
Addy is going to be able to come down for a few days but has to be back work Thursday evening.  It will be great to see her.  She is doing well in Logan, but she misses scenic Enoch ;)

Cole had an MRI on Monday.  We were very happy to find out that his tumor that was the size of a cantalope is now the size of a golfball!!  We were very happy to hear such great progress is being made.  He will now start radiation starting on Nov. the 26th.  For 5 weeks the radiation will be targeted to the large area where the tumor is and was.  The 6th week they will then focus the radiation only on the tumor.  He will continue chemo every other week, Monday through Friday.
It will be a hard 6 weeks but he is tough and we pray all will go well.
The Dr. said his bone where the cancer formed will always be weak and he will have to be careful... Cole being careful might be possible?!  I think he will somewhat because the Dr. said if it every gets broken or fractured there won't be anything they can do for it and it will be very painful.  I tried to get him to promise me that he would be careful but he just smiled.  He wants us to bring the motorcycles to the Thanksgiving gathering.  If you have seen the movie "Little Giants"?  It's a movie about a  little league football team and one of the Mom's sends her son to practice all bundled up in foam pads to protect him.  I told Cole I would make him one of those protective outfits!

We talked to Cole and Taleena earlier today.  They are doing pretty good.  It was a long week but he was able to have chemo.  He did have to have a transfusion on Wednesday and that helped. 
Tomorrow is a big day, time for the MRI to let us know what progress has been made.   Thanks to everyone for the prayers and those that were able to fast with us.  I know our prayers are heard and our fast recognized. 
Tuesday they meet with the surgeon to see if he will have surgery or radiation.  I'll keep you all posted!

Cole surprised us and came down to go hunting with Duke.  He wasn't able to have his chemo treatments this past week because his blood counts were down so Duke invited him to go hunting for a few days.  We didn't know if he would be able to or not.  Wednesday he called us and he was in Beaver, just about an hour away!  It was great to see him and they had a successful hunt.  I'll have to add more pictures when I download more.  Daniel was a mighty hunter as well. 

Some Good News...

Cole called today and said that he needed another week to recover before his next week long chemo session.  They met with the doctor today and he said after this chemo session  Cole will have an MRI to determine if he will have radiation or surgery.  After radiation or surgery he will have 8 more sessions of chemo.  His short week counting as a session and his long week counting as another session.  So he could be finished with chemo as soon as February!! That is great news considering they were thinking it was going to take until late summer.
Their baby is due February the 18th.  It would be wonderful to be finished with chemo and on the road to total recovery when their baby is born.

Hello!  This has a been an eventful week.  Daniel and Kaitlyn got their tonsils removed on Thursday.  All went well and they are recovering quickly.  They made it through two hours of church before needing to come home and rest.  They are napping now.
Erika and I went jogging late Wednesday night.  I told her I needed a head start up the hill if we were going to finish together!  I hurried up the hill and sure enough she caught up before we reached the "blue water tower".  We had a good jog! 
As we were jogging I remembered another late night adventure with Cole.  He was struggling to get his math finished for the day.  I think he was around 13yrs old.  I told him that no matter what time he finished we would take the motorcycle out for a ride.  What I wasn't expecting is for him to come wake me up at midnight telling me he was finished!!  I had promised so what could I do?  We went out and pushed the bike out front.  We decided in order to not wake up the family we should push it down the street a little.  So we pushed it parallel with the curb and got on.  It had to be by the curb because neither one of us had long enough legs to touch the ground with out the curb.  So off we went up above town, which is now full of houses, and had a good ride.  At the end of our ride we made it safely back to the curb.  :D  No one even knew we were gone!!  Great times!