wow

what an incredible day... i'll let bridgett post an update on the details... but she did great!! thank you everyone for the support getting us to, and through, this day!

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One week and counting.........

So here we are one week out from the BIG DAY.....yes Marathon Monday. It is about 4:30pm now so hopefully by this time next week I will be finished with my amazing journey. Well here are a few pics from yesterday on Easter Sunday from Myrtle Beach, one shot after church and the other from the beach.

Gps was only off by an hour and 40 minutes ...

GPS bug

According to our Garmin, we will be in Myrtle Beach by 11am tomorrow morning. GPS programmers appearently forgot to account for children in their eta calculations.

Here's a look back of the past week.............

So it's been a while since we've updated the site, so here are a few notes from the week... The boys had a blast on St. Patrick's Day. We went to Maguires to celebrate with the family. Liam slept for the first hour, then woke up to have a few sips of Guinness then do some Irish dancing.

My marathon training is going well, a little sore occastionally. I actually ran a half marathon this past weekend down in New Bedford. The first eight miles went smoothly, then I hit a wall for the next three, but in the end, I finished strong and had a time of 2 hours and 13 minutes.

The boys are doing well and we are all sooooooooooo excited for the nice weather to come so that we can be outside all day long. I wanted to thank all of you who have donated to our "first giving" marathon site. We have reached the committed amount and now I am looking to be one of the top three fund raisers on the MGH team.... only 32 days to go!!

Snippets anyone?

It might be time for a haircut again, but since I got into a lot of trouble for sneaking Liam out for a second one, I'm staying out of it this time....

It's official

Bridgett is on the The MassGeneral Marathon Team Fighting Kids' Cancer ... One Step at a Time .

Our fundraising page has been set up!! Thanks to Sharon, Liz, Mark & kids for being the first to donate! Only 68 days to the Marathon, so we have a way to go to meet our goal. Thanks to all who who have donated in the past to team team Julie and Liam. Although we'll miss not being paired up for a third time with Julie, we are so excited to have Bridgett running. You can use the link above, or the widget to the right to get to the page. THANK YOU!!

The time between scans goes so fast, compared to the days leading up to, and the day of the scan. This last one was no different. December and January flew by, and it wasn’t until about a week ago when the sleepless nights started.. but we made it through another one. Everything was good, and its hard to believe it’s been almost a year since finishing chemo. We now move into a new scan schedule, instead of every three months, Liam will now be going every four months, so we (hopefully) won’t be back to Mass General until June.
Liam can now resume getting his vaccinations; he made it up to the six months schedule before halting those. He can even go see his regular pediatrician now… wow. Next time in to Boston, we’ll meet with Dr. Yock, the radiation oncologist. They’ll be keeping eye on chest and surrounding areas… For now, we’re back to the snow and counting the days till spring!

Everything is looking good...

Initial look at the scan is stable. Liam is his typical loopy self following the sedation, Full report later this afternoon..

More snow!!

The boys continue to enjoy the snow, Bridgett however, would probably appreciate a few warmer days and less ice on the roads... Training some days has her out running before the crack of dawn. Today we were out for almost two hours before Liam fell face first into the snow from the top rung of the slide ladder... at that point, everyone seemed to have ice forming on their faces... How many days till spring?

Happy New Year!

I won't bore you with the usual excuses for the lack of blogging lately... its a good thing, life just has us buzy with all sorts of "normal" things. This year, we were able to make lots of Christmas parties that we'd been absent from in the last two years. The kids are not letting the cold get them down, even today in what felt like below zero temps, we were out sliding around. All in all it was a great holiday season and even rang in the new year with the boys watching "WALL-E" on the movie machine but see picture below as they only lasted until about 10:30pm.......

So what other big news is there to tell...........oh yes, I Bridgett am running the Boston marathon this April for Liam and MGH. I have been training for several months now and although I still do not entirely enjoying running, I am starting to like it a little.....no not really! I will look forward to updating all of you with more details on this but for those of you who know me you are probably thinking that I am crazy and how can she possibly do this.....well you are right but everyday that I get out there and run I see Liam's face and that gives me the strength I need to finish that workout.

Well enjoy some xmas pics and there may be a few more on another camera chip that we can't seem to find and Happy New Year to you all.

Elf Yourself!!

....and make sure to email us your elves too!

So looking back, it's been about a month since we posted any updates (beside pictures that is... and even the picture have been sparse!) The kids are doing well. If I think about the last month, I know it was busy, but I can barely recall what's been going on!

We did get our tree up this week, and hopefully we'll get some shopping in this weekend, provided we don't get snowed in... the kids seem to be excited about Christmas. This is the first year I've been able to use the "Santa's watching" threat.

Liam is becoming more talkative by the day. A typical run on sentence might go like this... "juice, red juice, juice where are you? there it is, oh yes juice" he loves to talk about juice. and airplanes. A new favorite activity to note... he and Troy love to tease the dogs.

It's coming up on two years of blogging... just like the last month, I'm not sure where all the time went. Having the blog though, at least allows me to go back and see.... I'll try to get some more updates in over the next two weeks and wrap up 2008 with a bang. Bridgett has some updates to post too, ranging from running, to kidney stones!! We briefly had the camera operational enough to take some blurry pictures last weekend at the Flynn Christmas party. We had to borrow Kendra's for the haircut pictures, and Marianne's for the Christmas cards!! I finally broke down today and ordered a new one online... hopefully here by Christmas.