Enjoying Life!

Steve and I have been enjoying life these past 4 months. Life "seems" to have returned to normal. You know, life before cancer. When he began the new treatment I have to say I was worried that he would not do well and have severe side effects that would limit him in many ways. As each month went by I was waiting for it to get worse. Boy, was I happy to be wrong. I don't want to minimize the side effects he is experiencing. Sometimes they are hard for him to bear. But through it all he has continued to do pretty good. He's done so well we've been able to go out of town a few times.

First we sent to Solvang in June to celebrate our fourth anniversary. Here is Steve outside of our hotel. Looks pretty good huh?

Then we went to South Lake Tahoe during the first week of August. We love spending time in Tahoe. It's where we went on our honeymoon. We just love the fresh mountain air and we get to spend time bicycling, swimming and going for walks around town.

From Tahoe we headed off to Reno for "Hot August Nights" and to see Steve's son, Dane. He we are at one of the venues, "Victorian Square". Dane took this picture of us. He did pretty good. And below is Steve and Dane at one of our favorite restaurants, Los Tres Hombres. Even though it gets pretty hot in Reno, Steve and I are very grateful that we were able to go.

Please, please keep us in prayer. The months ahead bring much uncertainty. We go to UCLA in September to find out if Dr. Schiller thinks Steve should and can have a stem cell transplant. If he can it will be a very tough road. If he can't we are unsure of what will happen next. God will have the final say.

But in the mean time Steve has begun some very ambitious projects. He wants to get the outside of the house painted, the garage a new roof and completely redo the front yard! A brand new planter bed with a new tree, plants and pavers. And do it all in the next 3 weeks! Yikes!