What a crazy few months!

Okay so now that the holidays and birthdays are over I will try to be better. I know I say that all the time but this time I really mean it. :) So I took the girls to Sacramento a few weeks ago for their cousin Hailey's baptism. It was so much fun. We left on Sunday and drove all day and got to Sacramento late that night. We had to stop about every hour so Jaycee could go potty and Jordyn could get out of the car and run. I think that was the first road trip I have ever been on and never felt the need to potty!! Thanks Jace!!! We went with my parents and my grandpa Simmons. We took all the kids to the Jelly Belly Factory. That was a lot of fun. It was way busy. We just happened to pick the busiest day of the year for them. Isn't that the luck. The next day was Hailey's baptism so we just relaxed all day long. The next day we left for home. One of these days we will stay out there more than a few days. But we had to get home so that I could go to the Sugar Bowl with Josh the next day. We stayed in Baton Rouge instead of New Orleans. It was so much fun. I am so glad that Utah won. It made the trip worth it. I ended up getting sick on the day of the game and actually had a fever during it. But aside from that I still had a ton of fun at the game. I just had to take breaks from standing and cheering. Before the game we went and walked around Bourbon St. That is one crazy place. The day after the game we went to the LSU campus. That is a really cool campus. All of the buildings are really old and have awsome architecture. I can't believe how big their football stadium is. I think ours could fit on the field of theirs. Anyway... we had tons of fun and hope to be able to do it again. Oh and Jaycee lost her first tooth!! She is growing up!! :( Here are some pics of the week.

Jaycee is so funny!

I have to just tell you the funniest thing Jaycee said the other day. We were at my parents house on Sunday night and Jaycee, grandpa and me were sitting on the couch. She said "grandpa do you like the Utes" and he said "yes" her response was "then why is your tree blue"?. We all laughed and then he blamed it on grandma!! I will try to get better at blogging I promise!!

Oh my heavens!!!

Okay so it has been a crazy couple of months for us. I really don't care for this time of year. We have 14 bithdays from October until December plus Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas!! I am so sorry I haven't posted anything both of us have been really busy at work too. Things are going great with us now. Jaycee has her first loose tooth. When I noticed it I just about cried, she isn't my little girl anymore she is a big girl. She goes out and plays with her friends by herself when she can. I can't believe that she is all ready 5!! She is so funny and such a girl. My friends little boy was having dinner with us one night while we were watching him and he has a lot of food allergies. I told Jaycee and Jordyn that they can't give him any of their food. Jaycee rolled her eyes at me and said "I know mom, I've heard that like 3 times now"!! She makes me laugh. Jordyn will maybe make it to the age of 3, but she is a hoot too. She was getting in trouble at the store the other day so when we were driving home she told me that I was mean and that I needed to go to bed and not get out. I was very happy to ablige by that. Then yesterday we were at my parents house for Sunday dinner and my dad couldn't figure out how to hang up the phone so Jordyn yelled "grandpa you just push the button". That is how she will make it to the age of 3. Hopefully I will be better at posting! Here are a couple of cute pictures of the girls at the circus. They had a blast!!

Josh's Party

We had a lot of fun at Josh's party. I hope you all did too. Thank you so much for all that came. I am so glad it is over and we can finally move on. I will hopefully get some pics of the party up. The few that we have, thanks to my mom that she actually took some. We brought both our camera and camcorder and didn't use either. Our kids are going to hate us when they get older because we don't have any pictures of them!! Thanks again for all of your support, it meant a ton to us. So we will now start posting about our family and the funny things the girls do. Thank heavens they do otherwise Jordyn wouldn't make it to the age of 3!!! We love you Jordie!!!

Yeah for no more treatments!!

Sorry, I really hope to get better at this blogging thing. Especially since I will now have some help with everything. So Josh finished his radiation on the 6th, he got pushed back a day. He went in on the 3rd or around that date and the machines weren't working, so he had to come back on Monday. Anyway..... The radiation was a piece of cake bran (snap) :) It looks like Josh has a slight sunburn on his neck and jaw. He said his throat got a little sore but not too bad that he would need medicine for it. He has almost all of his hair back. The only place he doesn't is where they radiated. Hopefully it will come back there too. If not I guess it will just be a good scar to remember what he went through and survived. Thank you to everyone who has helped us during this tough time. We wouldn't have made it through with out you. We look forward to seeing you at our party!! Mike and Bethany we will miss you!! Also sorry about the change in our layout and the no pictures anymore. We had a little bit of a glitch switching the background. Josh didn't want the pink anymore, I don't know why because pink is awesome!! We will get the pics back up and maybe add more with Josh's new hair. We will continue to blog but now we will talk more about the girls. I feel like we have been living on pause and now the play button has been pushed and we can finally move forward.

Radiation

So Josh started radiation on Monday. I don't know how he does it. They made a molding of his head that they put over it during the treatment. Then they strap it to the table so he can't move. I have a hard time breathing just thinking about that..... Anyway it only takes about 5 minutes for the actual radiation. He said it isn't too bad. He has been fine so far, we will see how it goes. I think we can handle this after the Chemo. Hopefully it doesn't get too tender. But we will see. Thanks again to everyone that has helped us. Even if all you did was read our blog. It all helps more than you will ever know. We love you.

A light at the end of the tunnel....

Sorry, it has been a while. I thought I would be able to keep this up so everyone is always updated on Josh. So he had his scan and everything is gone!!!! So no more cancer. Josh starts radiation on Friday and he will have 16 treatments. They originally thought it would be 20 but we will take the 16. The dr told us that radiation is like an insurance policy. So even though the cancer is gone we still need to make sure it really is. The only side affects Josh will have with this is fatigue, but not like with Chemo more like he wont want to go out and mow the lawn so he will be with us instead of sleeping. He will be a little tender around the area they are treating and will have a sore throat, but they do have medicine they can give him if it gets too bad. We will definately take that over what the Chemo did. Thanks again for all of your support and prayers. We wouldn't be able to make it through this without it!! I will try to post something after Josh starts radiation to tell you what it is all about.