Old friends,new friends and one heck of a long post

Skye and Mackenzie....new BEST friends! Means SOOOO much to me to see them together. Shows how far we have come from our "rockstar" days!

Warning to all that might be reading...this is a LONG post. With so much to update and so much going on, I have to log this all in for my own memories, don't feel obligated to read it all.

The past weekend we had a fantastic weekend with old friends, new(er) friends/family. A few weeks ago my old roomate from college found me on Facebook and we have rekindled a wonderful friendship. Jeff and I were roomates in college before and when Aaron and I met. Needless to say, we were more like family than just friends. I have missed Jeff and his message on Facebook to find me has meant so much. It is like we picked up right were we left out.. plus mariage and kids. It has been awesome. Last weekend we met up with them to go camping and also along for the ride were our wonderful neighbors. Cheri is actually related to Aaron in a long trail of family, and they really are like family to us. We would not have been able to make it through all of this without their support...emotional and physical. They were right there for us the night we found out about Aaron's mom having cancer and have been there for us every step of the way. They mean so much more to us than just neighbors.

Group camping photo: Jeff, Monique and Skye...Austin, Me, Aaron, Mackenzie and Turner...Cheri, Mason, Dustin, Trevor, Brendan, Scott

Absolutely crazy to see our kids together...during impromptu beach day
Did I mention impromptu - poor Austin didn't have a swim diaper, he was having some serious drag in the drawers before I finally just stripped him down. As I said, he would have made the perfect trailor park baby!

This weekend we are meeting up with Jeff and his family for our first 2 night camping experience and we can't wait. We might get some rain, but it will just make the memories stick all the more. There might be a mud fight in our future!

Tomorrow I am headed down to Mexico for my lil sis' MRI. They found a suspicous spot on her tibia this week through an xray done for an unrelated knee issue she has been having. The knee is fine, the spot is unrelated. We are praying for a benign spot. Mom called me tonight telling me there was no need to be there, but how could I not.

Denise's test came back great this week. The chemo is working. I will be there in a week and can't wait. She'll be finishing up round two of chemo the day I arrive, so I'm hoping that I'll be able to be valuable while I'm there.

All in all, yes I've got a lot on my plate, but I'll take it. I still have an unbelievable life, amazing kids, amazing husband, amazing family and friends. To point....today I came home to a beautiful vase of flowers. Now mind you, getting flowers delivered is not a normal occurence...but my wonderful friends, Kelly and Fran, had sent me flowers lettin me know that they are always here for me. It completely brightened my day and refuelled me. THANK YOU ladies...what an amazing feeling you gave me, it was like walking in to a big hug.