A week ago today Troy, and I, Lauren, Luke, Tyler, and my sister Penny made a flying trip to Oklahoma City. My dad had been in the hospital with a blood clot on his lung and we decided it was time for a suprise visit!! I am pretty sure it was a big suprise! :) He was shocked a we were happy to spend a couple days visiting him and his wife, better known as Nana Kim!
September 28th, 2009 will be a very remembered day in the Truitt house!! Andrea took her LAST dose of steroids tonight!!! I'm not sure how much she comprehended the significance of the moment but, I will say, the rest of our family sure did!! You could probally have heard the shouts of joy clear down the street!! She will take her last chemo on October the 3rd and I'm sure there will be more celebration!!!
Hugs of joy!!!
Opening up for the last dose!
Can a person get any help around here???!!!!
This is what happen when you are a mom with an 18 month old who is left to his own devices while you are trying to teach 5 kids school! :) I guess Alex was hungry and he decided if he was going to fix that problem he would have to take matter into his own hands! He did a good job of it....at least he did a good job of making a HUGE mess! When its baby # 1 or 2 you promptly correct them, when it is #6 you quickly get the camera and then blog about it! :)
September brought the long awaited date for our vacation in Branson, MO. We left our house on Saturday morning and landed in Branson that afternoon. We stayed at a beautiful condo right on Table Rock Lake. We could look out our back deck and see the lake. It was a very much needed relaxing week! We spent the first day, Sunday, just relaxing and enjoying the peaceful quietness! I think I would like to have a vacation that was a week of Sundays!!!!!
Monday the boys stayed at the condo and enjoyed some kyaking, playing basketball, picking up seashells and doing a lot of nothing. Lauren and I headed to town to the outlet malls and spent some "girl" time together. On Monday night we went to see "Shepherd of the Hills". It was a great evening although pretty chilly! Thankfully we had hoodies and blankets! Alex did great! He was a little scared when they started shooting the guns but got over it real quick!
The boys waiting....not so patiently!
Lauren, Alex, and Andrea.....waiting
The end of July and the first week of August found us making our yearly trek to our Family Church Camp. This year our camp was held on a beautiful campground in Dickson, TN ( in other words...the middle of absolutely nowhere!!) The kids were totally impressed by the awesome creek that ran through the campground....I can't say the moms were so pleased....piles and piles of wet clothes which add up to piles and piles of laundry. Need I say more?! It really was a great place for the kids to play and stay cool! I will admit I even ventured down and waded for awhile! :) Here is Andrea and her cousin Alissa Jones. The first thing they did after lunch every day was to head straight for the creek!
We had a great camp this year! I really didn't want to make the trip because Troy had to preach a camp in Idaho the same dates so he couldn't come with us. This and the fact that Andrea had just had her big chemo and was on steroids didn't really sound like fun to me. We all missed him being there really bad but we did have a great time getting to see all of our friends and family and we also had some wonderful services! We made it home in one piece and have had a couple weeks of not to much happening....well we wish we had experienced a couple weeks of not much happening! :)
