A Day at the Ocean & AWESOME News!

well, today we decided to go to the ocean. of course it wasn't the hottest day, only reaching 77 degrees, so the water was absolutely freezing! the kids had fun, toya and jordan loved jumping the waves, and the girls loved running from them...lol. we collected rocks and saw our first jellyfish, atleast that's what we think it was. here is a picture, tell me what you think. as i said, i have NEVER seen one in my life. we didn't touch it, cause i didn't feel like getting stung,just in case,here is the pic:



the girls LOVED crawling in the sand, i'm not sure why, but in the slideshow, you will see several shots of them doing this. they also loved sucking the salt water off the rocks they were collecting, disgusting i know, but they couldn't be stopped. as soon as i would tell one of them to stop, i would turn around and the other would be doing it. anyway, here are a few of my favorite pictures from today. the rest are in the slideshow:

Kaylee and Kelsey (with their new swimsuits i got at old navy for 6.99)

Kaylee's Footprints

Kelsey's (with aunties going the other way)

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after the ocean, we went to eat. while we were there, we ran into brendon dunn's (the little boy we collected money for) grandparents. they had just come from the hospital and had some AWESOME news to share. they said that brendon's PET scan came back with no signs of the tumor. it is gone! he is officially in remission. i just received an update from his mom, so here it is:

SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2007 11:09 PM, CDT
We received some very exciting news today... After viewing the PET scan we found out that the tumor is GONE!!! No where to be seen.. It is 3 months to the day since Brendon was diagnosed and the tumor is gone! We are so excited! Brendon is now technically in remission.. He will continue on with his chemo to make sure it doesn't come back, but we know that the chemo is working! Today was the first time that Brendon wanted to see any of his scans and he was so surprised to learn that the tumor was gone. He cried and just kept hugging us. It was a great moment! He called his uncles, grandparents and aunts and told them all the good news. It was a great day! We also were able to leave the hospital today. We were discharged around 8pm because Brendon kicked butt on getting all that medicine out of his system! He's amazing!!

We will put more pictures up as soon as we can. We are all pretty tired, but we wanted to get the word out as soon as possible! We still have unpacking and all that good stuff to do.. Thank you for the prayers and love. We truly believe that Brendon is doing so well because of the support system that we all have... It helps him to know that so many people love him. Thank you all so much!!

Much love and excitement, Amber & Andy

after, we drove home and i dropped ALL FOUR kids off at grammy's house for the night once again. to be honest, i don't usually leave them there till about 8pm, so really i just go home, clean a little and get ready for bed. i don't get alot of free time, but enough. i don't like to be away from my babies for too long yet. the big kids are different as they have been doing it since they were two, but the babies are still my babies. Anyway, that is all for tonight! :)

just a quick note too, my sister sarah (the one having her first baby) has a new post up and is looking for people to help with baby names. if your interested, go look at the list she has and let her know what you think, plus did i mention she is already 2 cm. dialated!!! i went early with ALL of mine, so maybe she is following into the same pattern (she's not due till 8/19). anyway, her's is the first one listed under blog's i read. next, my younger sister has started a blog as well, so you can check her's out too (her's is the 3rd one down). anyway, i promise that is it now! :)