We arrived home at 1:30am Sunday morning from our trip. We had a great time playing at the beach (not the ocean - to cold). It's always fun to watch the kids build castles and dig down as deep as they can into the sand. Chris did great. Every morning he took extra medicine and that seemed to help. Saturday, driving home he was really sick but he got us home:)
We also hung out with relatives. We all grow up so fast!! We realized it had been about 2 1/2 years since we'd last seen each other. One of the cousins hosted the party and our aunt prepared all the food. Lots of fun.
We were blessed that the weather was so cool in CA it made waiting in line at Disneyland a lot easier. I took the note that I had the doctor write for Chris just in case it was to hard on him but like always he refused and was cranky with all the "wheel chair" people who got to go ahead of us. We had to go to Disneyland because as Meg says "Katie is spoiled." Katie's favorite ride, "It's A Small World" will be closed in DisneyWorld so of course we had to go. Pirates of the Carribean and The Tiki Room are also different in DL (we like them better in DL). And we hadddd to eat some of our favorite foods that DisneyWorld doesn't serve (hard to believe). The Monte Cristo, hand dipped Corn Dogs, and Bengal Barbecue. Yum!!! (Did I tell you I only go for the food?!) Chris took ALLL of us on Space Mountain. I kept telling him we shouldn't take Katie (or me-I hate that ride) but he said "We'd be fine, she'll love it." Ya, NOOOOO you should have heard her (and me) screaming!! After that she was ruined she wouldn't even go on Pirates. We took her and she screamed and screamed and screamed and she had to be bent in half to sit down. We bribed her with everything we could think of to get her to stop so that the other people in the boat could enjoy the ride. She ended up getting a very pretty princess night gown:)
Sunday, after church and a nap we went up to the school to see who Taylor and Jacobs teachers were and who was in there class (Jacobs teacher had sent him a postcard-very cool). Chris couldn't come to school Monday morning (being gone from work 2 weeks) so I took pictures up there and then Chris gave them each a father's blessing. Of course I cried thinking about this being the last school year that Chris would be around for. Still doesn't seem real.
Taylor and Jacob started school yesterday. Bitter sweet for me. I miss them tons. They came home all excited about their new teachers. Thank you to all teachers. We love ya!!
Chris has meeting with doctor and then chemo this Thursday. It has been 3 weeks since his last one. Will see how it goes.
Ready for a good laugh?? On the way home we found out that our car has built in radio controls in the column and we even have satellite radio. Hee hee only took five months for us to find it:)
Love, Ricki