Helloooooo out there!

Hey Everyone, I have been keeping up with everyone else's blogs but have been kind of through a drought here on my own. I have been going back and forth on just stopping it all together because I have been so bad at it lately but it's a good way to keep up with my own pictures and I know my mom reads it :)....so I am going to keep it up. First...Happy Birthday Mom! I hope your day was as wonderful as you always make ours! Sorry I wasn't around to celebrate. Second...Happy 17 months to Peter! Our wild little guy is growing up quickly. Besides the days full of temper tantrums you make me laugh so much! Peter has not ceased to impress me with all of the new words he is spouting out each day. He is such a happy kid most of the time, always humming a song lately. This week was not so fun because we were all stuck in the house sick. My husband had the flu so he was quarantined from Tuesday to Friday in our room upstairs. I was running this place like a hospital. You have never smelled so much Lysol or Germex. Peter and I both had a cold or something less severe than the flu but enough to stay away from everyone else anyway. My company brought us four bags of food from a local cafe one of the days we were locked up here at the house and it was such a huge blessing! Salads, watermelon, grapes, oranges, bananas, cantaloupe, taco soup, King Ranch casserole, and bread sticks....there was so much that I ended up freezing two of the casseroles for later. My dad is still in Methodist Hospital in San Antonio. I haven't been able to go visit this week since we were sick and I am going to stay out until we are all completely well. He has zero white blood cells and anything could turn into something big. Initially when he went into the hospital they were going to start a 24 hr chemo that patients who get it often do not make it through the week. When he went into the hospital though his Dr. decided to try a new type of chemo drug for 5 days that was much less severe. The leukemia responded to it and now he will get that every month as long as he can or until his body can handle a bone marrow transplant. The Dr. told him this week if he doesn't start trying to walk more around the hallway at the hospital he will not get to go home and he will end up in a nursing home instead. I am really grateful for the time I have gotten to spend with him in the hospital. I have had conversations that would have never happened and have never happened my whole life. I know he is going crazy in that hospital room and hoping to get a few days at home eventually. Well if anyone is still out there let me know! Happy Fall!