The Waltons: May 2009

Today is Joshua's third birthday. Grandma, Aunt Donna, and Aunt Kim took him and his brothers and cousins out to Chuck E Cheese's for his birthday. Jeremy is still in California and I am here in Palestine, so neither of us are able to be there with him, but Grandma assured us she'd take lots of pictures :) I will post them when I receive them.

This past month has been an interesting one. My Dad is doing better and will be returning to work this weekend, Praise the Lord! His radiation has been effective and has shrunk the tumors in his brain by a third. The radiation will continue to work for about three months, but we know that his life is in God's hands. He starts chemotherapy this Tuesday (June 2nd) and will have treatments administered one day every three weeks for 6 cycles (one cycle being one administration). Lord willing this will help to reduce the cancer and, Lord willing, stop it's growth for quite some time, although the doctors are only hoping to increase his quality of life for the average of 12-14 months that someone with my Dad's stage of cancer typically lasts. He is still in God's hands, though, and we know that God can work miracles if it is His will. Oh! I also got the privilege of shaving my Dad's and Grandpa's heads! Dad was losing all of his hair from the radiation so Grandpa said he would get his head shaved in honor of my Dad and I got to shave both of them! Grandpa let the boys help! :)

The boys have been having fun going back and forth between Houston, where Jeremy's parent's live, and here in Palestine where my parent's live. I have some pictures of the boys playing with Grandpa that I will post for you here. Thank you all for your prayers and support of our family through this!