Merry (late) Christmas!

 All Jace wanted for Christmas this year was NOT to be in the hospital...or have to go TO the hospital on Christmas Day....and his wish came true!! Woo Hoo! We spent a wonderful Christmas Eve and Day with friends and family, and Jace had a miraculous recovery from his December 23rd flu...

I guess we had to have our typical scare, though, right? During the early morning of the 23rd, Jace became violently ill with the flu...and we were all sure our weekend plans were going to be altered.  His fever reached 102 at 4 am...BUT, our Christmas MIRACLE came in the form a nurse who agreed to work at the office one last morning for the few people who needed chemo. We didn't have to go to the hospital, because she was there to communicate with the doc.  A long story made short is that our sweet nurse saved Jace this time.  You probably guessed that I cried thankful tears as we drove Jace home Friday at noon.

My heart is so full thinking about the sacrifice this mother of four young kids made for some of her patients. Jace left the office feeling 100X better than he went in, and he didn't get sick again. Here are a few pics to show how great this year's Christmas went:

Hayden and Jace playing the Kinect--Christmas morning...

Jace helping Peyton open her present at Grandpa and Grandmas' house.:)

Jace and Reagan, his sweet cousin.

I have a ton of pics from Jace's December LP and chemo...but they are sad. The above pics tell the real story... Jace is doing great. He's playing basketball for the first time this year, and he seems to recover from the chemo treatments a little quicker each time. This is our last winter to get him through with his low immune system...

Eleven months of chemo left!!

We can do it.

Merry Christmas.

We love you all.