tami and john am enjoying reading about your family home evenings up the canyon your kids are so fun cant wait to see you all again  mom

Making cake balls with daddy

John is making cake balls for desert and caleb clearly is "helping" daddy.  Helping daddy eat them that is!!

Dads treatment plan

So the treatment plan works like this....on the first day of the cycle (which is 21 days long) dad will get a shot, which is the new drug.  On the 8th day he will get another shot.  Then wait til the end of that cycle.  After 2 cycles (I think, its hard to know what dr. Zanghari is saying all the time) they will run dad through a bunch more tests and see how he's responding to the treatment, then reevaluate the plan and go from there.
On Monday or Tuesday we will meet with the research team and they will be able to explain things in more detail.  The medicine is only available here because its still in research stages, so dad would not be able to go any where while he's on it. 
As far as his leg goes he seems to be doing great!  Can walk short spans without his walker and doesn't seem to be in much pain from it. 
 

Kyle and Sophia playing super puppy after church

Drove passed this truck in lehi today, thought you might like the pics.  Is this the one jaime took you to see?

Good morning grandpa and grandma!

James Henry napping at the hospital.

James Henry is dehydrated.  We are at the hospital getting him some fluids to help him, until he can get over whatever bug he has and get his digestion back on track.

James Henry just playing and smiling at me

Da boys

A little rock climbing in st. George

Caleb saw the "red mountains" and wanted to go see them so bad!  So we found a trail that went along some mountains and he got to some serious exploring!  Jeremiah got to collect some red rocks for his collection too.  I love St. George!

Dad in the hot seat!!!

We took dad to get his ears checked and try out some new hearing aids!  The put him in this booth thing while they did the test- it was good for a laugh anyway. :)

How to eat a peanut butter sandwich

Take the bread apart.  Eat the jam by licking it off the peanut butter.  Eat the peanut butter by scooping your finger through it, and then licking your finger til the peanut butter is all gone.  Then put the bread back together and act as if nothing has happened!

Valentines Day at Buckland Manor

We had adobo, with rice and green beans.  And everyone got at least one valentine!  That's how Buckland Manor does valentines day!

Kyle

He is eating the yummiest treat ever! COOKIE DOUGH!! You know I am right! Just admit it!

Trian show

Happy birthday grandpa!

The boys couldn't come to the hospital to sing to you, so we recorded them for you!

Watch "Happy birthday from Caleb!" on YouTube

Watch "Happy birthday grandpa Godfrey!" on YouTube

Tasha's sexy shorts at the dr office

Jeremiah's science fair project

He also did a science fair project on magnets and got a participation award. He had a lot of fun working on his science project!

Jeremiah at the art contest awards

He took first place for the photography category in the K-2nd grade division. I think there were only a total of 2 projects in that category/division.

Jeremiah at grandma & grandpas apt

Jeremiah and I went and stayed the night with grandma on Saturday night.  She stocked up with puzzles, coloring books, bubbles for the kids to play.  She found a dollar store and went crazy!

Sophia loves her papa!!!!

Mamma's boys!

I turned on some music so the boys could run around and get out their energy.  They had some good dancing, and a few good wrestling matches.  Then caleb got a little too excited and bit jeremiah pretty good.  So every thing came to a screeching hault!  Literally, screeching!  Then they were both ready to sit and be quite for a bit.  They both wanted to sit on me!  So here's the picture of them both sitting on me!

There's also a picture of jeremiahs bite- it hut pretty bad, poor kido!

Hector's new tree!

The cat loves the new cat tree john made foor him!  He plays on it for long periods of time and hides in his little box from 3 wild boys.  Good job honey!!

Graph of dads cancer levels

the solid line is dads cancer level.  The left side of the graph is where he was before any chemo.  The dash lines at the bottum of the graph are what zanghari said are normal levels.  So dads cancer has come way down, but started to go back up already.

Dad will be admitted tomorrow, the 19th at around 11.  He will get chemo for 4 days, then 24 hours after that they will start the stem cell transplant.  This time in the hospital will be 3-4 weeks again.  Keep the pictures and stories coming!

Thanks for sending all the pictures - we love them.  Tami - what a great mini-sermon.  You have a writer's talent.

Vic, Jan, Kali, Natalie, and last but not least, Andrew - thanks so much from the bottom of our hearts for the 12 days of Christmas gifts.  We loved them all.  You are all special and I certainly hope you are all getting well from all the illness going around.

We are now in our apartment until the middle of February at least.  Would love to have you all visit.  Cliff's schedule is - Jan 11 - testing, Jan 18 - meet with Dr. Zanghari - Jan 20 - inpatient in hospital for 2-3 weeks for second round of chemo, then transplant.  Hopefully he won't be too ill.  Dr. Zanghari's nurse said this second round of chemo should be easier than the first which I don't understand because it is a lot heavier dose than the first round.  Don't know how the transplant will work but it should be good because they are HIS stem cells and not someone else's.

Cliff was bumbed out because he will be in the hospital on his birthday - Feb 4.  Maybe I'll have the nurses decorate his room with train pictures and balloons or something.  When we left the hospital the first time Cliff was pretty depressed - as I'm sure I would be too, but I don't know how I would feel having my birthday there.  He will be 71 years old.

Our love to you all

Mom

New apartment

We moved mom & dad into the huntsman apartments on friday.  They will have the apartment for the duration of dads next round at the hospital.  Its a small 2 bedroom, but very sufficient for them.  I ment to take a picture today while I was there, but forgot...next time!

Update from sister big. I added pictures of the apt.