We hosted our party on Saturday night! We had lots of Family and lots of Friends come!! I think we had 100 people! The weather was perfect and the Hot Chocolate was delicious. Stadlers won best seat in the house. Jana and Sean won everything else – not really but kinda. Millie won a gift card and bought the 1st Hotel Transylvania Movie. Another Successful Year!
A fun family night at Pete and Amandas watching Packers and Brewers get the wins!
Harper is home from his mission! I still think that it’s neat that he served in Sacramento CA and so now he’s familiar with my home, the weather, the type of people. Welcome Home!
On September 25th Emily had her brain surgery!
She went in early in the morning to get prepped and was in surgery for 3-4 hours. The plan was to remove the most infected and most swollen temporal part of her brain. They said there should be little to no side effects. They did a biopsy of the tissue/tumor/brain that they removed. They said that surgery was successful and went well. Emily spent the next week in the hospital. Mostly in the Cardiac Unit to monitor her hearts response to surgery. The dr.s and therapists have all had to juggle who and what attention to give.
This is an xray of her heart with Pacemaker. And the picture of her head stapled back together after surgery!
The night before surgery we went to wish her well:
The Morning of surgery I went to the EARLY session at the temple:
We got to babysit Becker and Bennett for part of the day on Tuesday and Wednesday. They enjoyed Cali’s trip to the orthodontist and all of our kids enjoyed holding and feeding Becker:
Ben spent one of his lunches at the Hospital with Emily and Michelle:
Now Emily is back home with her Mom and Dad. We are all working to help her and the family while Schyleur is away getting some help.
The Biopsy Results via Michelle and Dad (October 8th):
Emily has a Grade 3 Anaplastic Astrocytoma. The dr actually said this was a good one because it should respond well to treatment. After treated it most likely wil grow back but he can’t guess on when. They just have to watch it.
Treatment: First 6 weeks- Chemo pill every day with radiation M-F each week, then radiation is done. Round figures: rest a month, then chemo pills the first week of each month for the next 6 months.
Side affects… with radiation she will be fatigued, loss of hair where they do the radiation, possible problems with memory, thinking and focusing for four to six months, her hearing may be affected she may hear ringing or her hearing may change on that side, her smell may be affected which then affects her taste and her appetite.
Chemo side affects are fatigue, nausea, constipation.
Lots of Prayers being said for Emily and the rest of the family!
A LOT of Potty Training going on. Tiago is very close to “giving all his diapers to the babies.” He has honestly been kind of fun to train. And I’m trying to night time train the other two youngest 🙁 Lots of wet beds and laundry going on over here.
Wednesday nights at the soccer field with Cali.
Thursday Night ward auction and Pony Rides:
My Cute Preschool Girl:
We babysat Cove on Friday Night!
And we had a bunch of cousins over to celebrate Millie’s Birthday!!
Saturday all of our soccer games got cancelled AGAIN so we worked in the yard, trimming and pulling bushes. And Finding a snake!
A little Halloween Prep:
Lots of Hot Wheel Races all week too!
And our poor dog has been limping around again. He’s getting old and frail 🙁
We had a stay at home but busy weekend for Labor Day.
We finished eating the watermelon!
We “babysat” Alex!
And we spent Monday morning brunch at Pete and Amanda’s and enjoyed their new hot tub.
Cali is playing great defense in her soccer games and they’ve been winning!
Family Home evening in the backyard while we wait for the homemade peach icecream to be ready:
Brother Rob brought Braden and Bryce out to Utah to go to BYU. We had to have some arcade and pingponging.
Another day with Bennett. Millie and Tiago had to show him their new homework on the computer.
Ben got to go to the fancy barber shop with the work guys:
We spent a couple of days helping Emily and Schyleur move out of the condo and into the parents basement. Micah donated some of his Pokemon cards to us so the boys had to organize them:
Michael happened to be in town for the first BYU game of the season so we hung out with him and watched the Cougs beat Arizona.
Ben’s watermelon baby from his garden.
And our neighbor hooked us up with a Gauntlet Legends arcade!
Babysitting Becker and Bennett! With Emily having all of her health issues we’ve been able to help by babysitting a little. Our entire house is baby hungry:
Raymond Charles Becker
October 28, 1926 – August 13, 2018
Married Gladys Ludwig on December 17, 1949.
On Friday August 24th we went to Grandpa’s funeral. The funeral was in Lindon at the church across the street from the Osmond Senior Living Center where he lived. And then we went out to Utah Veterans Memorial Park, Camp Williams in Bluffdale for the interment because he served in the Navy around 1944.
The US NAVY had 2 people there to play Taps and then give the flag to Kris and thank her for her dads service. It was really neat!
After the burial we all went to the stake center where mom and dad live in Alpine and they fed us lunch while we chatted with family and reminisced about Grandpa. We had our Nettesheim crew with Rick and Savannah and then Lloyds family with Kirk and fam and Megan and baby.
This picture is one of the last times that we took the kids to see their Great Grandpa. We will miss him and his love and service.
Soccer time for Cali. One game Wednesday, 2 games Thursday, 1 game Friday:
First time playing against Mia!
These 2 munchkins always want to come with me 🙂
Hanging with the Matt and Jamie family at the games:
Cali played lots of Defense! She played almost all of every game. She gave it 100% and was really strong at her position! They didn’t win any of their games but there was lots of improvement.
Friday nights game got over at dinner time so we decided we NEEDED to eat at Golden Corral! The kids loved the variety and mostly the dessert bar.
