So my hat is off to my cousin, Baric. He called the Cardinals football team and told him about Kristoffer. If you know Kristoffer you know he loves to take his shoe off and use it for a tee so he can be the kicker. So the Cardinals told Neil Rackers (their kicker) about Kristoffer and he came to see my Kristoffer. He brought him his own game ball and a hat and pictures. Kristoffer told him he could kick the ball higher and he told Kristoffer that after the superbowl he was coming to Kirtland to see. It was precious.

These are picures of Kristoffer today in the toy room. He is having a good day today.

My sweet Kristoffer

As some of you may already have heard we have had some recent bad news. On Wednesday, Kristoffer had a fever and said his stomach hurt. I took him to Urgent Care at 7p.m. They did an x-ray of his abdomen and saw a mass but didn't know what it was so they sent us to the ER. They did a CAT scan and found a tumor larger than a grapefruit on his left kidney and several walnut size tumors on his liver. Needless to say I am devastated. We were life flighted to Phoenix Childrens Hospital early Thursday morning. They did a CAT scan of the lungs and found no tumors. Finally a little bit of good news. On Friday morning the doctors performed a biopsy on the kidney tumor. It is very large. They think it has grown just over the past 3-6 months. We will hopefully get those results soon as some tumors are better than others. Kristoffer has been quite a trooper through all of this. The biopsy was quite painful because they had to cut through muscle and move intestines around to get to the tumor. He didn't do much but lay in bed the first couple of days but today we were able to walk him to his wagon and take him to a special toy room for the children with cancer. There I said the C word. It is horrible to see him suffer and not be able to make him understand. Through all of this even if he is in pain when the nurse walks in and asks how he is doing he says, "great." He is such a special boy. The plan for right now is to hopefully get the results of the biopsy tomorrow, then we will start doing scans of all other parts of the body to make sure how far it has spread. Hopefully nowhere! Then we will form a plan for his chemotherapy to shrink the tumor so that it can then be removed. We are hoping to do most of the chemo at UNM so that we will be closer to home to be with our other children. I will try to keep everyone updated through this blog daily. Thank you to all who have prayed, fasted, sent gifts, or helped with my children. The outpouring of love for this child has been amazing. We can feel all of this love for him. He is our special boy. I will keep you all updated and try to figure out how to post pictures of our little trooper.

Christmas!!!

Connor got a new garage for his cars. This was the first year he really believed in Santa. It was really fun!!


Kristoffer got a new spider-man bike from Santa. He was very excited!!



My girls were very excited Christmas morning when they woke up and saw that Santa left them a Wii!!!!


Playing guitar hero!! This is one of their favorite games. I am terrible at it. Maybe when the kids go back to school I can practice and try to beat them.


Jonathon and Kristoffer love the Wii too!

Congrats Maggie

Maggie finally graduated from nursing school on December 13th. We are very proud of her. It was not a moment too soon since she is due in February.


Maggie reading the "nurses pledge."


Wesley and Maggie at the pinning ceremony.

Katelynn's Birthday

Katelynn had her 13th birthday this month. She has been acting like a teenager for a while so it's about time she legally became one.




Thanks to all who made her birthday special. She had a wonderful time.

Kristoffer's Christmas Program

Kristoffer had his Christmas program yesterday. It was so cute. Kristoffer is painfully shy when it comes to getting up in front of people so we didn't think he would do it but we were proud of him. He did a good job. Sorry the video is a little shaky but I was trying not to laugh.

My Anniversary

On November 23, 1996 I married Jonathon for eternity in the St. George temple. I have been in love with him since I was about 16 years old. Marriage has definitely been harder than I thought it would be but it has also been wonderful. I love him more every day.