It's been a while

Well, we've been busy. We got to take a vacation to Pagosa Springs, CO with my family. Grant was ok'd to leave town as long as we got his numbers checked before we left town.

When we went to the clinic, he did so great. He picked which finger he wanted to get poked while we were in the car and he held it up the rest of the way. I guess he didn't want to forget which one it was. We had a plan to try to count to 40 before Maribel got finished squeezing his finger. It was a good plan, except Grant told me he needed to say 'ouch' before he counted. That's exactly what we did, but we only made it to 20. She was fast! No crying! His numbers were "normal" and we were free to go.

We left last Friday night and drove all night to arrive in Pagosa Springs about 6 a.m. on Sat. The boys did great sleeping in the car. Grant was SO excited about going to Colorado. We did a little of everything. We snow skied 2 days. We went snowmobiling and sledding. We got massages. We even played a little racquetball and wallyball. And, of course with my family, we played games every night. :) There were 10 of us that went. We had a blast. I think it snowed everyday, so the snow was great. Grant absolutely loved skiing. I think he wore out his Grandpa and Uncle Keith. He loved riding on the swing (lift) and looked over the front like a puppy dog out a window. He skied with an "edgy-wedgy" on his skis to hold them together. By the end of the day, he was wanting to ski on his own and begging to "go one more time". I'm so glad he liked it. One great thing was, that for the one day that Grant went skiing, I forgot that we were treating leukemia. I guess I just was more worried about him getting down the mountain safely. ;) Or maybe that we were just doing "normal" things. Trent liked being out in the snow and loved wearing his snow boots. But, he had on so much to keep warm that he couldn't get up if he fell. He would just yell "tuuuck" (stuck). The week just flew by. We left Colorado on Thursday night to arrive home early Friday morning to over a foot of snow and some rough roads. Now we are just trying to recover from vacation and get back in the swing of things.