Business As Usual

After a nice relaxing Memorial Day Weekend, the kids are back in school and counting down the remaining eight school days until summer vacation. Hard to imagine that Kelsey will then officially be a senior and Derek a junior! All of the kids will be changing schools for next year- our new house is located in a really good school district and I think the kids will have lots of opportunities.

Kelsey has already taken her SATs and ACT for college and did well on both. She is currently looking seriously at attending North Dakota State University in the fall of '09 and is well on her way to getting applications...etc done. Her summer plans include getting a job and a driver's license as well as doing some volunteer work and possibly taking a college class online.
Derek and Kevin found a good Boy Scout troop here in Schertz and are hoping to get more involved this summer. Derek is also working on helping plan August's youth ACTS retreat for our church. Meri is looking forward to summer vacation although she will miss her friend Madison who is moving to Nebraska next month. Wil is getting bigger every day. He is crawling all over the house and into everything. He is very curious! His older brothers and sisters love him and are always eager to play with our littlest guy.

Pat is busy taking care of me and the kids. He has been giving me my twice daily shots as well as changing out my IV antibiotics. He was supposed to start an Emergency Medicine course but dropped his slot when I was diagnosed with Hodgkins. Hopefully he will get back into the course at a future date since he was looking forward to it.

Right now we are looking forward to cheering on our wonderful San Antonio Spurs in the NBA western Conference Finals against the LA Lakers. We have a nice BOSE surround sound system in the family room and the game sounds really great! (even better if we win!)
I am feeling good, just very very tired today- almost like having the flu. Overall though, I have no complaints. My stubble hair on top of my head is shedding and making me itch but otherwise- feeling good and kicking cancer's butt as usual!

I have a few DIY projects I'd like to get done around the house this summer. Mostly yard work- weeding the flower beds and planting some new things. It is incredibly hot right now here in south Texas- close to 100F and we are in a drought so it looks like we are in for a very long, hot summer already and it is not even June yet! We'd love to get a pool to help beat the heat- we'll see. My sister is coming to visit for two weeks next month- I'm planning on putting her to work helping me paint the kitchen while she's here. I'm sure we'll try and do some fun stuff as well.

We hope all of you are busy making your summer plans as the school year wraps up. Feel free to drop us an email or give us a call anytime. We'll be here- teaming up to fight cancer and thankful for all the wonderful people cheering us along the way!

Today's Glass Half Full: "Optimism is the foundation of courage." ~Nicholas Murray Butler