Farewell 2009!

All Brian and I could talk about the last couple of weeks was how happy we were that 2009 was almost over. It seemed like such a bad year for our family. The only good thing we felt happened this year had to do with Jaxon. Today I thought about EVERYTHING that happened this year and realized it wasn't as bad as we remembered. Let's review...

JANUARY

- I went to my annual "womanly" check up and the mid-wife found a lump on my thyroid.
FEBRUARY

- Jaxon got is first 2 teeth!

- Lola came to visit

- I met Dr. McDreamy & had an ultrasound done on my thyroid

MARCH

- I had a Fine Needle Biopsy done on my thyroid (OUCH!!)- Jaxon learned to crawl forward (literally, minutes before we walked out the door to hear the worst news)- I was diagnosed with THYROID CANCER

- My grandmother, Abuela Chabe, went into surgery and never fully recovered, leaving her on a ventilator.

- Went to Puerto Rico to visit family.

-The Bunch Triplets were born! APRIL

-Brian & I celebrated 5 years of marriage- I had a total Thyroidectomy

MAY

- Jaxon turned 1!

- Jaxon had his first haircut

JUNE

- Jaxon spent 3 weeks in Tucson with Lola & Abuelo

- My teaching partner got a full time job at district office, which meant I had no one to job share with.
- I was on an icky 2 week low iodine diet

-I went radioactive and was isolation for 1 week

- Was told there were no traces of Thyroid tissue left in my body & Dr. McDreamy did the BEST thyroidectomy possible!!

- JAXON WALKED!!

-Jaxon become a swimming school drop out

AUGUST

- We took our first family vacation to San Diego

- I went back to work full-time for a few weeks
- Rebecca & I had a girls trip to Chicago!

- The district hired a teacher to job share with me.

SEPTEMBER

- I turned 31.

- My new job share partner quit (on my birthday, after only 2 days of work!) I had to go full time until we found yet another replacement

- I had my first post-cancer follow up. Dr. Edwards told me I have an antibody which is skewing my blood tests and isn't giving him accurate information on my tumor marker. This means I most definitely have to have ANOTHER radioactive iodine treatment in June & I MUST NOT get pregnant until at least January of 2011.

OCTOBER

- The Bunch Family came to visit

- Brian turned 33 - Jaxon fell in love with horsesNOVEMBER

-FINALLY found someone to jobshare with me! I started working part time before Thanksgiving - Traveled to Tucson for Thanksgiving with the Pearsons & Rios Families

DECEMBER

-Went to the Zoolights in Tucson

- Grammie Sue had knee revision surgery

- Spent Christmas with family in Tucson

So, I guess the good out weighed the bad, but I must say, it was the hardest year Brian and I have ever had. I am thankful for the many blessings we did share this year.

We are most definitely looking forward to whatever 2010 will bring us and we hope it is all good.