The Perfect Game!

Joel and Lauren were at Fenway tonight to see Jon Lester pitch a no hitter! Joel called home so he could be on the phone with Pa when the last pitch was thrown! He was one excited boy!!! - and Joel was pretty happy too! ;)

Its been a great week. Grant is like a normal kid on the Prednisone... I can't tell you how blessed we feel for this change in medicine!

We will spend the rest of the week preparing for the reception on Saturday. Lots of cooking and decorating to be done! We love throwing a party.... and this is going to be a good one!

See you there!

My new sister!

Joel and Lauren were married today in the Raleigh Temple. We will post wedding photos as soon as Aly gets home tomorrow..... This is our favorite from our photo shoot earlier this week at Fort Macon!

The happy couple is off to Boston for their honeymoon ---- Go Red Sox!

We will celebrate again at their reception this coming Saturday! We could not be happier! We have loved Lauren for many years and are so happy to welcome her to the family Hancock!

Relay for Life Changes

Due to the weather, the Relay schedule for the weekend has changed! We will try to make it back from Raleigh as quickly as possible so we can be at the lighting of the luminaria. Bonnie is going to take the kids in and walk with Grant in the Survivor Lap! I have all of the T-shirts for team members... I will be passing them out later today! Hope to see you on Saturday!

Carteret County Relay For Life New Schedule Saturday due to Bad Weather Friday Night

Just To Make Sure we're all on the Same Schedule for Saturday:

7:00 AM - 9:00 - Kids Walk Registration

10:00 AM - Kids Walk Awards Ceremony & Opening Lap - Main Stage

10:15 AM - 12 Noon - Games & Activities at Kids Walk Tent

12 Noon - Opening Ceremony & Invocation

Survivor Walk, Caregiver Walk, Relay For Life Team Walk all Afternoon till 9:30 PM

Introduction of Planning Team, Presentation of Special Award

Food Available all day. Entertainment from 2 PM till 9 PM - Music, DJ, Dancing, Schedule Groups will perform

9:00 PM Luminary Ceremony

9:30 PM Closing Ceremony

Best Birthday Present Ever!

I will post pictures from the birthday bash soon...... A good time was had by all! Thanks so much for all of the gifts and cards! Grant is one lucky fella!

Today, Kevin and Grant did the Chapel Hill Birthday Chemo Trip! It was quite an uneventful trip.... good blood counts, no spinal tap this time! And the best news of all....... The powers that be have decided to change the protocol for Grant's clinical trial and have dropped the Dex! NO MORE DEX! Can you hear me singing!!!!!! This is just the best news ever! We will still do steroids for 5 days a month, but will get to do Prednisone instead of Dexamethazone! Hopefully we will have a much easier go of things from now on! I can't tell you how good this news is!

I will post more birthday stuff soon!

Silly Hat Day

Smyrna is just outdoing itself with its fund raising this year. This was the kick-off for Silly Hat Day! from left to right... Jacy, Madison, Grant, Harrison & Kyler We love you guys!

We had a fun weekend at the Survivor Dinner. What I thought was going to be a 15 minute session of me playing dinner music turned into a 15 minute performance! Like, it was written in the program and everything! Aaaaggghhhh! Carrie and Dave Stroud were with us and thought that this was very funny! Anyway - thanks to some wonderful help from sweet Vanessa and Natalie Chazal, we brought down the house with our tunes! It really was a good time, although my nerves are still shot a little from the whole experience!

This week is busy for us... We did the dentist with Grant and Eden today which necessitated blood work on Monday. Thankfully, Grant's blood counts were as normal as they have been in the whole last year. ANC 2.2 !!!!! Holy Cow! Hemoglobin was great and platelets were off the chart! What a relief. I still have total anxiety attacks while we wait for his numbers to come back. It only takes a few minutes, but I still find a way to nearly lose my mind in those few minutes. I need a vacation!

Not happening any time soon though!

Later this week... Father Son Camp-out of Friday night. Kevin will get the joy of sleeping in the woods with the boys while Eden and I spend the evening choreographing a 12 minute medley of music from "Hairspray" at CCSA. This hopefully will be perfectly wonderful and everyone will learn their parts because this is our one and only rehearsal and will run 5 hours! I shall die! I'm not as young as I once was!

Friday evening, Joel Jr. will also have his Economics Departmental graduation from ECU. He is very excited to be graduating with honors and at the top of his class! Smarty pants!

Saturday we will have Grant's birthday party since he will be in Chapel Hill on Wednesday - the actually day of his birthday - doing a little chemo! What could be more fun that chemo and starting a round of steroids for your birthday! Well maybe, walking in the Relay for Life 3 days into the steroids, or going to my brother's wedding 4 days into steroids!

Could life be any more confusing.....

Yes.

I'll tell you more later!