Fair Pictures

Here are some pictures from our first weekend at the fair.

Fair Friends! Our fair neighbor Anna Scott loves Landrum and is a huge helper!

Landrum and I are so proud of Jared! Great job on the triathalon!

Quick story: Landrum was exhausted Friday night after playing hard at the fair. We put her down around 7 and didn't hear a word from her. Jared went up to check on her around 8 and this is what he found! She had reached onto the ledge above her crib and found Jared's wallet. She then proceeded to empty all of its contents and spread them all around her crib. I found a $10 under her!

Loving the sawdust!

Update

Jared's mom finished up her chemo last night. She handled it really well all through the week and is only starting to feel some of the effects today. Her fever has gone up and her white count is very low. This is all expected and part of the process. She is starting to have some body aches and a bad head ache but otherwise is still doing well. She will have her biopsy this Friday and we will know more after that. Please pray for early remission and a clear biopsy so that we can move forward in this process.

We spent this weekend at the Neshoba County Fair and will head back up on Monday afternoon after my doctors appointment. We missed Debbie desperately as the fair is not really the fair without her! She is the life of our cabin! We still had a good and fairly relaxing weekend. Jared knocked the Heart of Dixie triathalon out and I was so proud of him! He completed the triathalon in a lot better time than he expected and felt great afterwards! He said he really enjoyed doing it and I am so glad that he was able to do it this year - the 30th running of the triathalon! Landrum and I were so so proud to cheer him on at the finish line!

Tonight is a really special night for us as well - Jared is being ordained as a minister. Another reason we have to be so proud of him! He and our good friend Craig Curtis (who was in Turkey with his wife Katie while were there) are both being ordained at Pinelake tonight and we are looking forward to a very special time with our family, church family and friends!

Pictures are soon to follow I promise!

Jared's Mom

Well it is hard to write this post, at least I did not think I would be writing it so soon. Jared's mom's cancer has returned. We found out today. She went in for her regular monthly check up and her counts were off. The doctor went ahead and orderd a bone marrow biopsy for today and checked her into the hospital. We received the results this evening while we were up at the hospital with her. The leukemia is back. She will begin 7 days of 24 hour chemotherapy tomorrow morning. They will do a follow up bone marrow biopsy in about 2 weeks and if it is clean they will begin building her counts back up so that she will be ready for a stem cell transplant in 6-7 weeks. She has already had her healthy stem cells harvested so they are ready whenever her body can handle the transplant. Unfortunately, she will not be able to have this transplant done here in Jackson and will have to go to UAB (in Birmingham) to have her transplant.

Please keep our family in your prayers as we battle this together. We know that the Lord is control of every one of our steps and has each of us in His arms. Please pray for Debbie, for strength, comfort, peace and for the ability to fight this disease. Pleae pray for Stan, that he will be able to offer her the comfort she needs and that he will have peace and strength as he battles with Debbie. Thanks so much for your support and prayers.

First Tooth

Yes you read that correctly. Landrum is 15 months today and is JUST NOW cutting her first tooth. Well one has cut through the gum completely and is slowly working it's way in, a second is close to follow I think. Can you believe it has taken this long? You have no idea how many times I was convinced she was teething over the past 15 months.. and now when she is really teething she has none of the classic symptoms! So that is pretty great... the doctor kept saying.."as long as she gets them by 18 months"... but would not ever say what would happen if they did not come in by then.... baby dentures? Ah well, not to worry - she is getting her teeth.

Otherwise - we are doing well. I am now 30 weeks pregnant - Landrum makes sure I go to bed each night completely exhausted. I feel great and am progressing well I guess. We will meet our son 9 weeks from today... hard to believe! I would post pictures of his nursery... if he had one. That is my next project... so there will be pictures one day soon!