Mom Update:

Mom had surgery on Friday the 17th to remove her sigmoid colon and a 4 inch tumor as well as 19 lymph nodes in the area.  All looks well, and the surgeon thinks her cancer is somewhere between stage 2 and 3 (there are 5 stages, 0 through 4) but will know more details next week after he presents her case to “the tumor board”.  She’s still in the hospital and will likely get to go home tomorrow.  I’ve gone up and visited her during lunch this week, and each day she looks and feels much better.  She started eating actual solid foods yesterday, so I’m sure that’s helping her feel better too!  Today she was in her own nightgown, and I took my lunch to the hospital and we ate in the waiting lounge on her floor rather than the room.  I think it was nice for her to get out and around!

Baby Update:

I had my 10 week checkin with the doctor on the 17th as well, and he said everything looks fine.  I lost 6 lbs in 3 weeks which he wasn’t too thrilled about, but wasn’t worried either.  I’m not actively TRYING to lose weight, I just have a lot of extra padding for the baby to live off of for a while, ya know?  He couldn’t get a heartbeat with the doppler so he brought in the little ultrasound machine and found TicTac just hanging out, saw the heartbeat and tried to wake the baby up with no luck.  Hopefully when I go back in 3 weeks for my 14 week update we can hear the heartbeat on the doppler.  I also get my full anatomy scan on September 17th and we should be able to find out the sex then.  Yay!!

Vacation Update:

Vegas was fun and hot.  More to update about that later.

Okay so first off, I apologize for taking *so* long to update.  Lots has been going on..

I’ll try to make this brief.. and then I promise I’ll TRY to update more often..

The Good

On June 3rd, we found out that I’m pregnant.. SURPRISE.. well, it sure was for us..
I’m exactly 9 weeks and 1 day pregnant now, due February 11th.  Exciting huh? Hah.. well, at first we were freaking right out, as I imagine all people that aren’t actually actively TRYING to have a child do.  But we’ve worked through the logistics and are slowly getting used to the concept that we’re going to um, be parents.  Which in and of itself, is pretty freaking weird.  But we’ll make do and in the meantime, we’re just trying to agree on some names. hah.

On the bright side, we’re leaving town on Monday for a 4 day vacation in Vegas!  Mike has never been to Vegas and ya know, in the summer, when its 110 degrees out, is the perfect time to go.  Rates are cheap and no one else will be there.. it will be wonderful!  While we’re there we’re planning to see the Tournament of Kings jousting show at The Excalibur and we’re going to see the Penn & Teller show at The Rio.  Should be a fun time!

The Bad

Around the same time, we found out that my stepmom has lung cancer and would need surgery to remove the nodules on the outside of her lung and esophagus.  She had this surgery on June 25th, they removed the bottom portion of her right lung and all of the nodules that were surrounding her esophagus.  I drove up to Spokane on the 26th to visit, spend time with her and my dad and just try to be there the best I could.  She’s since come home from the hospital and is on the mend.  Many prayers needed her way!

The Ugly

Just when I thought things couldn’t get worse, they do.  My mom called me today at work, and I know that if my mom calls while I’m at work, something isn’t right.  And well, something isn’t right.  Mom had her annual (?) colonoscopy today to be informed that she does indeed have, colon cancer.  They’re not sure how advanced it is, but are presuming for the time being that it’s not that bad, as she has had no symptoms.  She goes to see a surgeon next Wednesday to find out more details (of course, when we’re in Vegas.. ugh).  When asked if this is hereditary I was told yes, but the fact that she has smoked for a majority of her life, is overweight and eats horribly probably brought it on moreso than genetics as no one else in the family has had it.  That being said, I’m going to start taking preventative measures ASAP to be sure that I don’t get this when I’m older (or now for that matter!).  Luckily I don’t smoke and I’m not horribly overweight, so I just need to start eating better, which is something that Mike and I have needed to do for quite some time anyways.  And exercising.. we really need to get on that too.  As soon as I know more about moms condition, I’ll post that information, but in the meantime just keep saying your prayers.

By getting out of a bad loan and money pit of a car… We traded Mike’s Acura in on a new Jeep today.  Jeep was doing some great deals as far as incentives and interest rate and really.. we just couldn’t turn it down.

We still have the Element but I’m putting that on Craigslist tomorrow to sell it and we’ll have 1 car for a few months while we save up money to put a good down payment on something new and shiny for Mike (he wants some fancy sports car… ... )

So far I’ve only driven it a few miles, but I’m excited to take it camping and 4-bying..

Meet.. the unnamed Jeep (we really gotta figure out a name for him!)

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