Truly Blessed

We received some wonderful news today. My mom finished up her last round of chemotherapy two weeks ago so she had to go for another CAT scan last week. She received the results today and apparently the cancer in her lungs is gone. She has a few spots on her lungs that they believe are scar tissue or dead cancer cells, but that's it. What a miracle! Dr. Ashbury said that the radiation office at Strong will be contacting us soon to set up an appointment to start radiation on the small spots still left on her brain. We are so thankful and truly blessed. Now my mom is just looking forward to packing on the pounds that she has lost while fighting this battle.

I will leave you with a picture of our little angel. It's amazing how much joy this little girl has brought to us during our "rough" time. What blessing she has been to our lives!

Hockey Battles Cancer (In Honor of Patty Guck)

Hockey Battles Cancer (In Honor of Patty Guck)

hosted by

RYH Squirt Minor AAA Hockey

Free cocktail / hors d’oeuvre happy hour 6:30 - 8:30

Live music by “Different Every Time” 8:30 - 11:00

Saturday January 23rd, 2010

Max at High Falls, 60 Browns Race

Free Parking, Silent Auction and Raffle

$20 Individual $35 Couple

Proceeds to benefit the Interlakes Foundation, where Patty Guck receives Chemo & Radiation Treatment

For tickets contact Brian Guck at brian@maksymum.com or Patty Guck at 305-1351

If unable to attend, and would like to make a donation,

please mail check payable to “Interlakes Foundation” c/o

Ann Wall

47 South Village Trail

Fairport, NY 14450

Isn't she just adorable? She's such a little ham nowadays. Oh how we love her!

Prayers Needed

I am so thankful to have a happy and healthy child. I think sometimes we tend to take this for granted. I recently found out that an old dance friend of mine has a young niece who is dying. It is just an absolutely heartbreaking story. If you believe in the power of prayer, then please pray for this family as they are going throughout the unimaginable. You can visit little Anna's website at http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/annamckinney

I think that dealing with my mom's illness has made me more sensitive to other family's battles with illnesses. We had no hope and someone how our prayers were answered. I really hope that everything works out for this family. It's just really weighed heavy on my heart lately. Thanks for reading my ramblings.

Crazy Mommy!

Here is a video that Jason took the other night. Grace is always doing something funny, but we never get it on video. We were playing before bedtime on Thursday night and finally Jason was able to capture it. Enjoy!

Grace Walks! + Halloween Dress Up

Really been slacking on the posts lately - but here's a couple new videos... Grace was a lamb for her 2nd Halloween (go figure). She didn't mind the costume too much surprisingly... We walked her around the block, but didn't go to any doors for candy... thought that would be a bit weird - but maybe next year as... she started officially walking last Saturday!

I was playing with her downstairs and stood her up in the middle of the room away from her shopping cart, and she walked right over to it (about 7 steps)! She's still trying to get a real hang of it, but is doing much better, especially when she wears her boots upstairs. She has only "ran" a couple times, but I'm sure that will be soon... we're in trouble, she is extremely active as it is!!

Anyways, enjoy the videos!

Update

On Monday my mom went in for a CAT scan to see if the chemotherapy is working. She had a scan of her lungs and her abdomen. Today she went in to receive the results. Fortunately, the cancer is stable. The cells have not grown or spread anymore. This is terrific news for now! Her doctor would like her to receive two more rounds on chemotherapy, then they will perform another CAT scan.

We do not know about the progress of her brain tumor yet. They will have her go for a scan of her brain in December. Apparently it will take that long to determine whether or not the radiation therapy has worked or not.

The doctor did say that she would like Peej to gain more weight. A few weeks ago she visited her lung doctor and he said that she should stay inside this winter. The cold is not very good for her lungs. Hopefully she will listen! We are just doing our best right now to stay healthy and keep mom healthy. Since I work with 5,6, and 7 year olds, this can be a bit difficult! Thanks for all of the prayers. We really appreciate them!

Grace's 1st Birthday

I have really been slacking on our blog lately. Everything has just been so hectic in our lives and I finally decided this weekend that I need to reprioritize a few things. Anyways, here is the long awaited post about Grace's 1st Birthday party.
We were so thankful that we were able to have such a wonderful 1st birthday party for our little p-nut. We could not believe the number of family and friends who were able to celebrate such a wonderful day with us. What a blessing! It was an absolutely beautiful day in the 60's and sunny just like a year ago when she was born. Here are a few pictures of the day.

Here is a beautiful picture of Grace and Daddy.

Grace enjoying her new wagon with her lambie.

Here's Grace's classic Grandpa Johnny face.

I decided that I would like to make Grace's cake every year as a tradition. This was the first time I have ever done anything like this. It was slanted, but it turned out pretty good.

Here is Grace not enjoying her cake at all. :)

Visit the gallery for more birthday pictures.

Thank you to everyone who took time out of their busy lives to make Grace's birthday such a wonderful day. We love all of you! :)

Grace Knievel

Since I have been working for the past few weeks, I haven't had time to post about our little Grace Knievel. She has been getting into trouble left and right around here. A few weeks back she figured out how to climb out of the crib. Fortunately, she didn't get hurt, but it was still frightening. We think that she used one of her stuffed lambs to propel herself out of there, so we took everything out.

She has developed quite the fascination with magazines and I often say that she will be a teacher some day. This afternoon Jason looked at the video monitor and he noticed that Grace was having quite the time in her crib. Watch the video and see for yourself!



Needless to say, Grace did not take an afternoon nap today. :)

Happy 11 Months to Grace!