August 10, 2013
Today Woodvalley Tennis had a tournament and pool party. Natalie was able to bring one friend to play tennis and then to swim afterwards. Natalie invited her...
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2013
August 9, 2013
A nice surprise for Nathan was we found out that Karis was across the hall from us. She’s been going through dealing with cancer as well, and her family is t...
August 8, 2013
This is the first day of our second to last round of chemo.
August 2, 2013
A few weeks ago Malia signed up for a package from Cancer Stinks, I don’t know if she found it on the web or Facebook, but his package came today. He was pre...
July 30, 2013
Finally! Our last day at KU-Med! We visited with the doctor and he told us that everything is looking very good. We have a follow up visit in a month which i...
July 29, 2013
Today was another big day, he got moving maybe a littler earlier than he should have and fell asleep in the playroom. We got dressed in Pj’s today and tried ...
July 28, 2013
Well, good news, today we got upgraded to a regular pediatric room! It’s a very fancy room, has a couch a bathroom IN the room with a shower and everything! ...
July 27, 2013
Nathan took another trip to the playroom today, Jim and Ramona got to see him up and playing around. Each day he seems to get more and more energy, so it’s a...
July 26, 2013
Getting pain med’s every few hours makes for long nights, thankfully it looks like his fever is starting to level out. We talked with the doctor this morning...
July 25, 2013
Another long night, Malia and I have taken to sleeping in shifts. Malia get’s the “bed” until about 3 and then switches to the rocking chair until morning. H...
July 24, 2013
Last night was a rough night, Nathan started to wake up on his own, so they had to give him more sedation to keep him down. In addition to that he started ru...
July 23, 2013
Today is the day, we got moving very early this morning, he cried a little for milk when Malia woke him up, but she was able to calm him down. He got his las...
July 18, 2013
We met with Nathan’s oncologist today, mostly to set our mind at ease. It’s been a few days since visiting KU Med, and we’re still rather worried about the w...
July 16, 2013
Today was our trip to KCK to talk with the doctor’s at KU Med who will remove the tumor from Nathan’s liver. I would love to say that the process was fast, e...
July 12, 2013
What a busy week! Malia got call from KU Med, we will go down Tuesday for lab work, and the surgery was moved to the following week. This is not what we want...
July 11, 2013
Nathan’s Oncologist called Malia today and told her she had spoken with the surgeon about Nathan. We are supposed to head to KU Med on Tuesday for lab work, ...
July 10, 2013
I got a call from Nathan’s oncologist late in the morning. The first thing she told me was that she hadn’t heard back from the surgeon at KU Med, so she didn...
July 9, 2013
Malia and I went to Olive Garden for our anniversary dinner. It’s been awhile since we’ve been out without the kids, so it was really nice. While it was only...
July 9, 2013
Today was our 19th wedding anniversary, and we spent most of the day at the hospital. Today was Nathan’s final cat scan before surgery and this time around t...
July 4, 2013
My all time favorite holiday! We took some cute pictures of the kids with the flag in the morning, but really didn’t do much most of the day. In fact the kid...
June 28, 2013
Swimming lessons started up this week! I took my lunch break to take Natalie to her lessons today!
June 28, 2013
Nathan started to run a fever late in the afternoon, Malia had said at his chemo earlier this week that it looked like his molars were coming in, and that si...
June 23, 2013
We decided to get Nathan one of those trikes that had a handle on it. That way we could take him on walks and he could peddle along, but unfortunately when w...
June 22, 2013
Today was a very busy day for the family. In the morning we had “Tykes on Bikes” which is an annual fundraiser for the Topeka Learning Center (I think). This...
June 18, 2013
Today is the last cycle of chemo before Nathan has his surgery. If things progress well we should be looking at the middle of July for the surgery to remove ...
June 7, 2013
Natalie had her second tennis lesson today and Malia thinks she’s doing very well. There will be a camp on June 22 and I think we’ll probably take her to tha...
June 7, 2013
Nathan had his final chemo session for this round today and Natalie went with us. This is the first time that Natalie has joined us during one of his treatme...
June 3, 2013
We enrolled Natalie in tennis lessons tonight, she has been asking for this for about a month now so she’s pretty excited. Now if we can just get her to look...
June 3, 2013
We made a trip to visit with the Neurologist today. Nathan’s oncologist wanted us to meet with a neurologist to get a baseline of Nathan’s neuropathy. In som...
June 2, 2012
The American Cancer Society has an annual survivor celebration. This is our first time going and Nathan and all the kids had a lot of fun! They had a photo b...
May 31, 2013
It was a beautiful day today, so after work we headed over to the local park to enjoy the sun and let the gets have some fun outside. It’s nice to see them p...
May 29, 2013
Nathan went potty like a big boy! He did this all on his own!
May 26, 2013
Nathan helped me pick out a new mower since ours died. He had a lot of fun on the riding mowers, but we settled for a push mower.
May 24, 2013
We get to go home today. Nathan’s oncologist came by today and talked to us about how Nathan is doing and how is body is reacting to all the medicine he’s be...
May 23, 2013
This is the start of our third cycle of chemo, we had hoped that he would have surgery to have it removed, but here we are. We stopped by the Cancer Center f...
May 22, 2013
We decided that we would take Nathan and Natalie out to play put-put. It was lots of fun, my sister, Jonyce also came with her girls and I’m pretty sure a gr...
May 21, 2013
My mom took Natalie and her cousins, Mary and Sarah for a day with great grandpa! I remember when I was a kid we would fly to Kansas for the summers and spen...
May 19, 2013
We celebrated birthday’s today, my mom likes getting everyone together every few months to collectively celebrate birthdays. It was a fun day, lots of family...
May 17, 2013
The first official day of summer for Natalie we visited the Zoo with Malia’s class. It was nice, Natalie got to pet an alligator!
May 16, 2013
Natalie’s last day of school! After today she is officially a fourth grader! Her class spent the day at her friend Leah Nigus’ farm. They had fun with the eg...
May 15, 2013
We got a call back from the doctor today, Nathan won’t be going in for surgery like we thought. While this is disappointing news, the surgeon believes that w...
May 14, 2013
Nathan went in for his cat scan today. This scan was to determine how much the tumor has shrunk. The hope was that after this we would be able to schedule th...
Final Concert
Natalie’s final concert was this evening. This year she learned to play the violin which she will continue next year. In addition to continuing the violin, w...
Field Day
Today was field day at Natalie’s school. After Nathan’s chemo we took him over to Natalie’s school for field day. It started out rather cool, and honestly it...
Cycle Two
The last day of chemo for this cycle. We are very excited! Nathan goes to Stormont Tuesday morning at 730 to have his cat scan. After that we have an appoint...
Labrynth Project
Natalie finally finished her project for history. She’s pretty creative, and it looks really good!
Star Wars Day
Introduced Nathan to Star Wars today, perhaps he’s a little young, perhaps not…but May the fourth is as good an excuse as any to camp out in front of the TV ...
Cycle Two
Second to last chemo treatment in this cycle, and hopefully the last until after surgery. The doctor told us today that if Nathan stays on track with how he ...
Steamboat Arabia
Today was the field trip for the third grade class, we visited the Steamboat Arabia museum in Kansas City. The Arabia sank in 1856 with about 200 ton of merc...
The Labrynth
Natalie started working on her final project for school today. Her project is about Greek mythology and she is making a labyrinth that the kids in her class ...
Round Two
We took Nathan to the Cancer Center this morning. Unlike last time, his bone marrow numbers were high enough so that we could go to the hospital for treatmen...
Good News
At lunch today I received a call from the oncologist who wanted to update us on the lab work for Nathan. Back at the end of last month we were told that his ...
Day Off
We were supposed to go the hospital today, but Nathan’s blood work came back with a low count. His platelets and white blood cells were ok, but there is some...
Five Senses
Today was the 5 senses fair at Cair Paravel. We gathered in the lunchroom and the parents had setup a table for each of the 5 senses, sight, touch, hearing, ...
Hair Cut
I mentioned earlier that Nathan is starting to lose his hair, so we decided to get hair cuts. We didn’t do anything drastic, but we did get it cut quite shor...
End of Cycle 1
Today was day 16 of treatment, and the last day of his first cycle. We were up pretty late last night with Nathan, he is starting to lose his hair and it was...
First Posting
This has been something that I have wanted to do now for the past several months and I feel badly that recent events have prompted me to get off my butt and ...
Cancer Center
We took Nathan in for his second dose of chemo during this cycle. This is our first visit to the cancer center in Topeka so it took a little longer than perh...
Zoo Trip
We decided to take Nathan to the zoo, it was a perfect day sunny and warm and all the animals were out and being very cooperative!
Sk8away
I took Natalie the CPLS skate party at Sk8away. It’s always fun going to those things with her, she is getting very good at skating. Although I think she is ...
Biopsy and Port
Monday morning he went under sedation and had a biopsy of his tumor done, and a port installed for the chemo. The port is just under his skin so there is not...
Easter Baskets
It looks like the Easter bunny found our house!
Hospital Visit
We checked Nathan into the hospital and he goes in for a biopsy of his liver and to have a port put in his chest so they can more easily administer his chemo...
Easter Sunday
We decided to have our Easter egg hunt the day before Easter. The main reason was because Nathan will be checked into the hospital on Easter Sunday, and part...
Initial Diagnosis
Nathan went in earlier this week for a regular checkup and his doctor said that his liver felt a little large and that we needed to take him to the hospital ...
Nathan’s 2nd Birthday
Nathan’s birthday! For whatever reason we tend to spread birthdays out over a few days, this year we had a family birthday about a week beforehand, and then ...
2012
Zoo Trip
This past weekend was Natalie’s last weekend before classes start tomorrow, so we decided to make it special. We visited the Topeka zoo, and then went bike r...
Site Move
Well, it’s been a very long time since I’ve written anything here, but I thought I would share some of what’s been going on lately. I’ve moved this site arou...
2011
Crown Center
Today was the last field trip for Mrs. Jernigan’s first grade class. The trip was to Crown Center in Kansas City and the kids all seemed to have lots of fun....
Site Update
You may or may not notice but I have updated the look and feel of the website. After moving to a new server, I have moved this over to .net and made some sli...
2010
Christmas 2025
Just winding down from a wonderful evening with family and thought I’d share some pictures.
Jonyce and Paul and a new name
November has been a pretty wild month around here! My sister arrived from Chicago with her daughter Mary, with her husband to follow a few days later. My sis...
First Sonogram
So here she is, I call the baby a she, Malia calls the baby a he, odds are she’s right. This is at 10 weeks, this is the first time Malia or I had ever seen ...
New House
I haven’t posted in a while but thought I would share some pictures from our new house! The gallery below will have pictures of the rooms which, for the most...
2009
First bike ride
Natalie learning to ride a bike!
Halloween
We decided to visit downtown Lawrence this year and it turns out that was a good decision. Lawrence has some fun people and entertaining people. We started o...
Halloween Costume
This year for Halloween Natalie’s choice of costumes ranged far and wide, but they always included wings! Malia and I worked the night before making wings ou...
Rees Fruit Farm Field Trip
Today was the CPLS kindergarten field trip to Rees Fruit Farm. The farm is located right on Hwy 24 and is hard to miss. We left the school at 930a and I had ...
Flyer
Here is the flyer that we leave at the house to hopefully influence people to buy it!
Pumpkin Patch
With my sister and her family in town this weekend for Mary’s birthday, we decided we might also visit the pumpkin patch! Natalie has been several times and ...
Site Changes
Nobody but me reads this..lol..but I changed the theme from the default Garland, to nitobe. I deleted several of the included header images, there were about...
Moved to a new host
I’ve moved to a new host and have copied over the content from here to the new server. I will leave this place up and point to the new server.
Parent Workday
I had a jam packed weekend of fun let me tell you! Actually it wasn’t too bad and I did wind up getting some sun out of it!
No Bathtub
Ok, so today I was supposed to work on my house to get ready for the open house tomorrow. Wound up spending all day working over at Malia’s sisters house. Th...
Last day of vacation
If only every day could start out like this. Woke up around 7a, Malia went off to work at 730 and I made a pot of coffee. By 8a I was relaxing on the back po...
Computer Recycling
Spent the entire day downstairs, got rid of all my old computer stuff. I took it to Extreme Recycling and I’m pretty sure they thought that all those compute...
Plumbing Drama
So Sunday night we had invited Malia’s family over for dinner. When I got home Malia told me that when she started to drain the tub, the toilet would gurgle,...
Realtor
Well we’ve had several more showings over this past week, it’s been rather exciting! In fact including today’s showings, we’ve had 8 since Thursday! There ha...
Realtor
WOW! Our Realtor is on the ball, the house just went up on Thursday and we have two showings today and one scheduled for tomorrow. Maybe the house will get s...
House Listing
We’ve lived in our current home for the past 7 years and in that time we have made many improvements to it. When I get the chance I will put up all the befor...
First Posting
Well, this is the obligatory first post I’m planning on updating it with things that are going on with my family. So feel free to peruse the posts and any im...