It is funny, I used to be so good about making near daily
posts on this blog. Now that Kean is finished with treatment
(and hopefully cancer forever) I'm lucky if I check in once a week.
So here goes: our week in review-- and what a week it has been.
We had a church/neighborhood Rodeo-- the real thing.
From 3 legged races...
to jump houses that Kean didn't ever want to leave...
to massive egg toss competitions (come now, doesn't every
rodeo have an egg toss)?
The highlight had to be the pig chase--
yep, picture 100 kids madly chasing after a good sized
hefty, squealing pig with fifty bucks taped to its hind leg. And they
did it twice with two different pigs!
Byron and I even ran into an old friend from our single days in Arizona-
Maurice Matsumori.
Kean had a ball.... riding horses...
and deciding after all that Cotton Candy is a good thing.
I cursed him by telling everyone how well he's been doing.
The next night, we spent most of the night in the E.R.
Poor boy got a double whammy-
Croup and Stridor-- both respiratory issues.
He's fine now, thankfully.
Greer and I spent much of Saturday at the Music Theater of Idaho's offices
building a bathtub as part of the set for The Little Mermaid.
Then we raced home, scraped the paint off of our hands and arms
and did our best to clean up.
Our family was invited to the big Make A Wish gala event.
It was in the Stueckle Sky Building-overlooking
BSU's football stadium.
The views were stunning of our fair city (and
Greer looked just as stunning-- so grown up)!
My mom kept Kean and brought him up later
for the program. I was the keynote.
But we had a blast leading up to the dinner.
The attendees all buy "wish bucks"-- think monopoly money
they pass out to BSU athletes who pull off the craziest antics
to earn money.
They have players from all the big sports teams at BSU and
they compete to see which team can earn the most.
This guy was from the wrestling team. He showed off
a talent only a mother could be proud of-- he drank down a
water bottle through his nose.
Ick.
The football team sang and danced...
Reese's favorite was the gymnastics team--
they did back flips, cartwheels and all kinds of
bendy things down the hallway.
Holland was adopted by the Track and Field team
(she runs track for Eagle High)...
And this tennis player serenaded the family in French.
In fact, I think we had every team do something for our family
What a fun and crazy night.
All of a sudden, the BSU marching band came streaming out
of the elevators- playing their fight songs full blast.
They literally pushed everyone into the room for dinner to be served.
Once inside, some of the coaches spoke, we had more
players do some pretty crazy things
and we had a lovely dinner.
Well, the little bit I ate tasted fine.
I can't eat a ton and then get up and speak.
Suffice it to say, the speech went well, there were tears
in the audience and most importantly, people gave generously
to Make A Wish when all the talking was done.
We treasured our trip to Disney World, Universal and Sea World.
Looking forward to it kept us going for those three plus dark
years of Chemo, surgical procedures, vomit and hair loss.
And now, we have those memories-- and what amazing memories they are--
to always fall back on.
Thank you Make A Wish for an incredible evening and
a trip of a life time.
