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The Bunch Get Ready For A Party

 

H, C, and Baby Wesley 

Back in the day it seemed we had parties all the time. Just having family come over to celebrate with us yielded almost 20 people. Unfortunately through the years we have lost grandparents, let go of others, and had health issues effecting the mobility of others. Our parties are now about 10 or so. We use to have birthday parties for all 4 kids, Easter get togethers, Christmas celebrations, and July 4th cookouts. The kids have since grown up so there aren't any birthday parties, COVID took out most of our get togethers and they never really came back. The past couple of years we have sort of started to throw a couple of get togethers, but nothing like we use to. They are more small, simple affairs, which is a lot less stressful and I feel like I can enjoy the moment more with our loved ones. I always enjoy seeing everyone and it feels like we never really get to spend a lot of time together so I treasure the time that we do get. This weekend we planned to have a small cookout to celebrate our Aunt and her husband coming down from Pennsylvania for the first time in about 7 years! We were so excited! C and H were coming down and my in laws would be here.  A invited her boyfriend. T invited his girlfriend, but she had a softball tournament so she couldn't come. Unfortunately, our Aunt had an issue with her trailer brakes and getting the issue resolved took about 4 days so she wasn't able to make our cookout. However, we decided to still host it because we really wanted to see our in laws and C & H. It ended up being an impromptu baby shower for C & H. A and I had collected a mountain of stuff the past few months for Baby Wesley and we gave it to them when they were here.  I can't believe that no later than November 29 the baby will be here! We are all so excited!! Actually the induction is scheduled for November 29 in the evening so he will most likely be born on the 30th. We are driving out this next weekend to help them put on her official baby shower. We have a pretty busy October so no trips this month, but we are most likely going on one in November, but we haven't really planned it out yet. We're toying with the idea of Branson, but gas is just so expensive we may not go quite so far, but then again Branson is one of our most favorite spots. A has been talking about another Universal trip, but that is definitely too far for our November trip. 

My Dad has been doing really well! His counts are just slightly below where the doctor would ideally like them, but they are holding steady even between treatments. Unfortunately, my Mom just had her mammogram come back with a mass. It's not unexpected. My entire maternal family line has had breast cancer so I expect both the girls and I will have it at some point too. Fortunately, science has come a long ways in the past 50 years and it can be detected early. My mom gets her mammogram done every year and they caught the tumor early enough that she should not need radiation or anything. I am taking her in next week for a lumpectomy and after that she will just have to take a pill once a month for 10 years. 

The little mama♥️

A got Baby Wesley the cutest sweater made.

A also found a cute little T shirt from the zoo gift shop....she actually found like 5 things, but held herself back😂

It had been 10 days since we had seen DC. I was worried that the she had drowned in the same flash flooding that hurt the donkey, who by the way is seeing the vet on Tuesday. She's been doing pretty good hobbling around. We do have 2 houses for DC, but she hasn't gone into either yet. I hope she does before it gets cold. We also plan to put a house on stilts farther back on the property so maybe she'll go into it if it's higher up and away from people.



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