Cancer Can Wait for Camp Quality

Some of you may already know, but if not...  Logan's cancer has come back.  He has had a couple of episodes of fatigue and I was concerned and took him in for a checkup with his cancer doctor.  His blood work looked okay, but just to be sure they sent out his blood for a chimerism test (genetic test).  That came back a few days later that he is only 99% donor.  For the last 2 plus years he has been 100% donor meaning that all the blood in his body has come from his new donor bone marrow so they were concerned that it is now showing only 99%.  It could have been a glitch or a false read but they wanted to do a double check.  The only way to know for sure is to do a bone marrow aspiration where they draw blood directly from his bone marrow and send it out to lab for testing.  We were shocked when the results came back 30% luekemic.  All this drama happened right before Logan was scheduled to leave for Camp Quality, a summer camp for children currently undergoing treatment or survivors of cancer.  His doctors felt like we caught this relapse early enough that they could delay treatment until after camp... SO... here are some photos of Logan at camp this week.  A little biter sweet but precious non the less.

Marshmallow shooter wars..

 Learning to tie knots... 

 Arial Yoga

Using a pulley system to pull a truck

Making new friends...

 We pick him up tomorrow morning and get to enjoy the weekend at home as a family.  Next week, the chemo begins.

Summer Fun!

We have been busy with filling our days with fun this summer.  Here are the highlights from June and part of July...

Amanda was invited to walk the field before the Royals game on Girl Scout Day at the K.

 Here are a few of her girl scout friends hanging out at the game.

We also took advantage of a cool summer morning by taking the dogs to the park.  Hunter was too funny putting his "hands" on the window.

After our hike we stopped by a local frozen yogurt place to enjoy a cool treat.  The dogs got a treat too.

4th of July weekend brought some heavy rains.  Logan and Amanda did some singing in the rain.

We have been on a few hikes... this little girl cracks me up!

She also has been a great friend to our next door neighbor.  Lots of dress up parties at my house!

The kids and I have been wanting to hide our own geocache and this summer we made it happen.  Check out the photos to see if you can find it!

We also checked out a local indoor climbing gym to test our upper body strength.  Logan thought it was pretty awesome.  I really DO have two little monkeys!

 I even tried it a little... but I can't keep up with those little whippersnappers!