A Thousand Words Thursday

Brent got to (re)meet Coach Snyder from (ASU).

Back in 1999 Brent along with our Jacob meet Coach Snyder during a meet and greet the ASU football players.

The reason for this meeting was after Coach was RX with cancer too , Brent reach out over the Internet waves and has become pen pals on their blogs.

Brent was so happy to finally meet him after all this time.

Until Then,

K.U.

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A Word From My Hubby

chemo free
Posted Feb 19, 2009 6:52pm
I haven't written in a while so I thought I would update a little. First things first, I've been chemo free for a little over 3 weeks, and it feels good. I have taken advantage of the things I wasn't able to do on all the chemo medicines, most if not all involved being able to eat stuff that I wasn't allowed to before. I wasn't able to eat sushi, which I really like, or things like blue cheese salad dressing, or brei cheese (any cheese that has live mold cultures), honey, etc... you get the idea.
For Valentines day, Katrina and I decided to go out on the 13th to avoid everyone else, and went to our favorite Irish pub/ restaurant (they actually built the place in Ireland then dissassembled it and shipped it to Tempe and built it) they have very good food, not just traditional Irish cuisine but new Irish cuisine as well. Of course, the Guinness is the best part of the evening. I continue to oil paint, and for a Valantines day present I did a painting for Katrina, a butterfly in a buch of wildflowers (off a picture from a trip into the white mountians). The butterfly theme is from our honeymoon, staying in Monterey, at the butterfly grove, where the monarch butterflys come in on thier way to Mexico.
Jacob finishes up another season of NFL flagfootball this Saturday, they have the championship tournement, and it could potentially be a long sfternoon, depending on how many games they win. He has started taking lessons on the viola in school, and was selected to try out for the district honor strings orchestra, one of only 5 kids in his whole school to recieve this honor.
Colleen continues to be involved in the brownies, and has started taking soccer after school.
Jesse is in his terrible 2s, and continues to try to use the potty chair, but it's a struggle. He will be getting glasses next week, so that should be interesting.
I am in the thinking stage of trying to put together a fund raising event for the UofA cancer center. I am looking at doing something a little different than the norm., and I think it will be very succesfull, but I'm not giving out details until I'm able to put more pieces in place. If I'm able to pull it off it will be March of 2010 (colon cancer awareness month). So stay tuned for more info.
Last but not least I was able to attend an ASU basketball game for the first time this year , with Jacob. We saw them play USC, and it was a lot of fun. You don't get to see the full beauty of Herb Sendeck's defense on T.V., but what an impressive thing to watch in person. I look forward to watching how far they can go in the NCAA tourney.
God bless all of you,
Brent

No News Is Good News ...............

As a saying goes, "No news is good news". Well have do have news and it is good just the same. Brent went down on Tues. for his chemo and doc check up. They told him his last two CT's looked the same and nothing hasn't really changed so...............................
Brent is on a two month chemo break. Then he will have another CT at that time and if the CT looks that same then he will go for another 3 months and another CT to follow that. Praise G-d for this. This news has found him in great spirits. We don't use the "R" word and not "celebrating" it to much for how it was short lived last year from April to July being in "R". But we are pleased and happy just same.
Until Then,
K.U.

And The Winners Are.....................

Thank you all so much for stopping by my blog and entering my very first giveaway.
I had a hard time picking the winners. Yes I said winners. I used www.violetcottage.com to pick three numbers 1 to 92.
Drum Roll Please...........................
# 78 becca
#11 mommaia
#55 jen
I will e mail each of the winners. Thanks for playing and look back for future giveaways.
Until Then,
K.U.