Valentine's Love

We had a lovely Valentine's week. Jason's Mom was staying with us from my surgery so Jason and I took full advantage and went out on a date. Luckily I was feeling up to getting out. It was so nice for Jason and me to spend time together and just talk while we ate at a fancy restaurant (since we have unfortunately become food snobs...).

The girls had a lot of fun too. They, especially Kate, are really into making crafts. I declared our front door the Valentine's door so they could display all their pictures. MeeMaw brought up a bunch of Valentine crafts so they had fun making them with her and me.

We finished off the week with a stop by my parents. I think everyone was exhausted :)

Happenings

Here are a bunch of pictures from the last couple months of my chemo. Most of these are when the kids were with Jason and in Nashville or Columbus with Jason's family!

Katherine is FIVE

I am in disbelief that my first tiny little baby is now five years old! We decided to do a family party this year. Keep things more simple and just spend time together. Jason took the day off work and we all went to the Aquarium. Everyone had a great time. Luckily we went on a weekday and early in the day so it wasn't crowded at all. I think the highlight for Kate was the Dolphin show. She was mesmerized and could have watched the dolphins do tricks all day. Abby liked it until the "scary pirate ship" part with the rain and thunder. She was sitting on my lap and started rubbing my arm like she does her pillow :) Liam had a blast. He thought everyone was clapping for him so he would laugh and clap along!

I really am blessed to have Katherine and love the little girl she is becoming. She is kind, considerate, smart, artistic, creative, thoughtful, sweet, helpful, pretty, and always fun to be around. I love the "grown up" time we can spend together. She is definitely still a Daddy's girl too :) And she is an amazing big sister to Abby and Liam. I'm excited to see how she grows in the next 5 years!

New York

Jason and I had a great opportunity to meet with a specialist in New York regarding my case. He is a world renowned doctor and was so nice and took a lot of time meeting with us. He had actually been following my case all along. My parent's have old friends who live in New Jersey and the husband picked us up at the airport, drove in traffic to the hospital, waited while we talked with the doctor, then drove us to our hotel. My parent's have not seen them in years and they did all this for us. Again, there are so many kind and good people. We decided to make a little trip out of it and stayed for two whole days. It was so nice! We walked around Times Square then went to eat at a really good and quaint restaurant. The next day we went to the Museum of Natural History and spent about 6 hours there and still didn't see everything. We're dorks like that :) It was so nice spending that time with just Jason and me. We had the best time and wished our trip had actually been longer! Our hotel arranged for a car to take us to the airport and apparently they were out of town cars because a limo showed up for us. We left in style with a fun little surprise :)

 Riding in the limo!

Jennifer's TN Shower

Jennifer had her first wedding shower while we were in TN for Christmas. Unfortunately, the morning of the shower a snow storm and iced roads prevented a few people from coming, but many were still able to be there and we all had fun! We were able to spend time with family and the shower made me even more excited for her wedding. It's getting closer!

Emily, Jennifer, Evan

Nancye and Julie

Jennifer, Evan, Marti

Dad, Nancye, Liz, Julie

Jan, Liz, Mom, Kaleigh, Dad

Kaleigh, Marti, Jeanie 

Kaleigh and Marti

Emily, Jennifer, Evan