We started the month with a girls trip to Las Vegas. It was for Jennifer's 50th birthday but since it was also my birthday it was all the better. We started the weekend on Friday, my actual birthday, with breakfast at my parents. Then we drove to Las Vegas, which went by so fast when we just talk and sing songs the whole time. We stayed at this nice Marriott off the strip which was great. That night we ate dinner at PF Changs and then had tickets to Michael Jackson One: Cirque de Soleil. It was sooo good. We were so stressed cuz we almost walked the entire strip trying to get from dinner to Mandalay Bay and walked in 2 minutes before it started. As we walked in and tried to go to our nosebleed seats in the back corner, they told us we could move up and placed us in the front section center. It was sooo great. We were so excited and the show was incredible. The next day we sat out by the pool, did some shopping and ate dinner at BJs Pizza. Then it was home on Sunday but it was such a great and fun trip!
While I was in Vegas, Shane took the kids with Shad and family to Usana Ampitheatre to see Jurassic Park as the Utah Symphony played along. They had fun and I was glad they liked the movie and weren't too scared. Jaron made a little 'friend'
The next weekend I drove the kids up to Eagle, ID to visit the Pace's. It was a fun weekend. We went to downtown Boise one day, Brigitte and I got to go out to dinner one night and then we just hung out playing. The kids always have such a fun time together and makes it an easy and fun weekend.
Jaron was star of the week in Kindergarten. I got to go tell the class all about Jaron and then Shane got to be the Royal reader and go read Jaron's favorite story to the class. He read 'The dog that cried Wolf' aka known in our house as Moka.
Maybe the biggest event in our house this month was that Aria lost her first tooth. She had been wiggling it a ton and had told me she was going to pull it out. I didn't really believe her and actually had thought she would cry and be so scared when it came time for it to come out. But sure enough she walked into the bathroom (I didn't even go in there cuz I didn't think it was loose enough to actually come out) and she walked out with the tooth in her hand! She was so brave and so excited. The tooth fairy came that night and gave her $5 for her first tooth. Siena is very jealous and asks almost daily when she is going to get her first loose tooth.
My sister Lori was diagnosed this summer with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Yes the exact same chemo I had 10 years ago. Crazy...and they say it's not hereditary! So I got to go with her to one of her chemo treatments. She went to a different clinic but it was still weird to watch everything they did. She got the same chemo regimen I got but only did 6 treatments instead of my 12 and didn't have to do any radiation. They also found that if you take Claritin when you get your Neulasta shot that it reduces the bone pain...crazy how things have changed in just 10 years.
Speaking of 10 years...I hit my 10 year anniversary of being cancer free. I decided to have a mini celebration one night. I went and got some sugar cookies and celebrated with the kids. I told them the whole story of how I had cancer, when I had it, how I lost my hair, etc. They had never heard the story so it was good to tell them.
We got to go to a BYU Football game with Jennifer from tickets from her friend. It was so fun to go to a game as it had been 5 years since I had been to a game and the first time taking the kids to a game.
Ridgeline also had Grandparents day. I got to help in 1st grade and it's always fun that my parents live close and get to come and attend each year.
