Category Adalyn

Holy Crap – It’s been a year!

First off – THANK YOU to EVERYONE who helped out in any way for this party.  We really couldn’t have done it without you.  We are endlessly grateful to have so many amazing friends and family.

We had Adalyn’s party on June 15th (a week before she actually turns 1) to maximize my time between treatments and take advantage of being over a week removed from the last one.  It worked well, as I was slow but had a great time and got along just fine.  The day started with a whirlwind of activity that had both sets of Grandparents with all hands on deck.  There was cleaning, setting up tables, chairs, canopy and games and picking up food...

Happy Birthday to our baby girl!  Our lives changed in an instant (2:44 p.m. to be exact) one year ago today. She has been such a blessing and we couldn’t be more proud of her.

Here’s our baby, Adalyn Grace, one year ago.

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We’ve been a little late in posting, so time to catch up.  Nana Mistretta came for the week and we kicked it off with a pool party.  Adalyn loves the water and got a kick outta having a pool.  The weekend weather was beautiful and we all had a great time.

Treatment #6 took its toll.  Prior to the treatment the doctor explained that he had been waiting for me to level out where most people are at this point.  Apparently, I was in a very high percentile with how well I was handling the chemo thus far.  That was great news, but it was then followed with “so, you’ll probably feel really bad the rest of the way because it’s finally catching up with you.”  Boy, was he right.  For the first time I missed work on Thursday and only made it till 10:30 a.m...