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Yo ho ho - me hardies.......

here are my favorite pirates. (Nate's current favorite thing is pirate legos). He even watched Yellow Beard (one of Michael's favorite movies) and now walks around quoting the movie. Michael has never been so proud ;)

Go Ravens

It is soccer season here in Australia. Nate has joined the Curl Curl team and Michael is the team coach (I volunteered him to get Nate on the team post the registration deadline). We just had game two and we are off to a solid start....you may recall last year's first game was full of tears. Not this year- Nate is loving it and playing aggressively. He seems to be a natural defender.

And of course Reese is his biggest fan :)

Check out some pictures:

last chemo session

Wednesday was my last chemo session (hooray! yippee!)....let's hope it was the last forever. It was a bit odd at the hospital- no fanfare, crown or singing. No celebration at all. You get to know the nurses there going every two weeks over last four months....plus you know me I had to bring in homemade baked goods. Oh well. At least my oncologist thinks I am a rock star- in that my body handled the chemo (extra often and high doses) remarkably well.

Michael took me out last night for a celebration dinner at a new fancy restaurant that just opened in Manly. Here is picture of me in my wig- although it looks a bit off center already - and I hadn't even drank yet.

What's next you ask? I get seven weeks of recoup and healing for rebuild my system prior to surgery. My lumpectomy (the tumor is now only 1 cm) is scheduled for June 4th. The about two weeks later after recovery I will start the last part of my treatment plan- radiation. Daily for 6 weeks- ugh.... But I'll deal with that later.

Unfortunately that means we won't be able to travel to Seattle in July as I had hoped. But when we do come in August/September post radiation I will be done with all my treatments!!! I might even have a little new hair by then. It should start growing in about six weeks....still fuzz for now.

family picture on Manly beach:

date night photo: