Mr. Hustle

Kael attended a basketball camp last week for three days. He was the smallest one there by about 5 inches but we know he doesn't come by height naturally:) The last day they gave out awards and they awarded him 'Mr. Hustle'. On his birthday, the coaches put him on their shoulders and sang Happy Birthday to him and then lifted him up to the basket so he could dunk it! He had a good time and I even think he picked up on a few things. He came home dribbling under his leg and behind his back. Impressive!

We celebrated his 6th birthday last week - so exciting! He wanted a suit for his birthday and to move. Guess which one he got?!?! Matt got him a toolbox and tools. He has been hammering non-stop for a few days now. Thanks family for spending the evening with us and spoiling him rotten.

We had blood taken last week but it was unchanged from the week before. We go again tommorrow for more blood work and then we see where we go from here. Dr. Afify says if he isn't up this week we will for sure drop med dosages again. They are assuming his body is just trying to fight off an infection of some sort. We have been off of meds now for three weeks but hopefully tomorrow's counts are good enough to start them again.

Race for the Cure

Friday night we went to my sister's house to have a high-carb dinner and watch the twins open their mission calls. What an exciting time. I had never witnessed a mission-call-opening before so it was great to see two-in-one!! Jordan will serve in the Kentucky Louisville mission and Justin will serve in the Texas San Antonio mission. They leave on August 12th. Congrats lil' brothers!!

*Obviously with 9 siblings and being the youngest, not everyone could be in attendance. That is why both of them are on cell phones. There were about 5 others on their phones too, just so everyone was in on the action!!


Saturday morning we got up bright and early for the Race. Everything went smoothly . . . oh, except trying to park at the Trax station:) . . . but we were still early enough to get a spot close to the front! Thanks everyone for coming and running with us!! I had a great time and thought our team was represented well. Can't wait to do it again next year!

(Jordan, Rhonda, Peyt, Mom, Justin, Chelsea, Crystal, Me, Kirby, and Randi)

Just a few of the people there to support breast cancer research! I think they said there was over 18,000 people. Awesome!!

P.S. Thanks to the 'twinners' for staying and babysitting Trey and Kace and helping Mattie get on the bus* while I took Kael to clinic.



* Mattie is very independent when it comes to getting on the bus. I get stuck outside some mornings with chores and she is so good to do everything on her own. I guess she got all ready on Monday and a few minutes before the bus came she had to go wake the twins up and told them "if you want to see me off you better wake up!"

Clinic

We had clinic again on Monday, complete with back poke. His counts were way low so we will keep him home from school this week. It's pretty awesome we have made it through the year without having to take him out before now:) Dr. Afiffy was concerned with his biliruben #'s so she had them run blood work on his liver. One of them came back high (unconjegated) but the other was normal so we went ahead with chemo. I will take him to Logan Regional next Monday for a blood draw to see if we can send him back to school. We have taken him off his chemo he gets every night for now. The doctor thinks he is still just having a reaction from the higher dosages we had him on a few months back.
He was so cute when they were putting him out for his back poke. He was trying so hard to stay awake! They put the versed in and he just kept talking so when she changed syringes to the ketamine he says "I love this part". When he woke up he kept saying "where am I". (I hate that part.) He was wiped out and slept most of the evening but no puke to clean up!!! Back in four weeks:)

MIA . . .

The tooth has finally made it's disappearance! He lost it at school so we have no proof for the fairy. To bad that dang fairy forgets everything. She must have a no-tooth-no-loot policy. Taking applications for a new one:)

The kids had a Primary Talent Show. The following pics are what we took for their display.

Mattie: Painting

(totally staged and yes she is in her PJ's)


Kael: Basketball

Trey: Milking Cows

Kase: He didn't have a talent but here he is loving music. Matt had his headphones on the other day and he thought they were awesome:)

Check this DUNK!!!

JUST FOR FUN

Who Am I?

Vote on the side bar!!
A. Mattie
B. Kael
C. Trey
D. Kace