Christmas is here we made it through the year yeah!!!!!!!!!!!! The girls took their very first fantastic photo with Santa this year...BEAUTIFUL.....but I'm bias I guess. We are ready and the girls are very excited to spend a holiday at home since last Christmas.....they both never want to leave the house since we returned from Vancouver, I'm mostly good with that except when we have no food in the house and the girls are fighting not to leave the house.....is that weird.....lol.

Everything is getting back to normal for the most part just living our day to day lives with nothing to report, hence the no blogging. We didn't think any one would be interested in hearing that we've been hanging out together, watching movie, playing games and simply just enjoy being back home. Brenn and Sam started their Christmas holidays from school, Scott is working tomorrow but then is not having to be back to work until Wednesday next week. I've been preparing our house and meal for Christmas...life in a nut shell.

Brenn had her second treatment of maintenance but the first here in Prince George last week, it seemed to go alright all in all. The hospital staff on the pedi's floor was great, Brenn wasn't scared and they made it a good experience for her. She was ill from the chemo the next day so she stayed home from school (Scott and I will need to set our alarm so that she can have an anti-nauseant med in the middle of the night), she started Dexamethasone again and it as last time hit her hard. The worst part of treatment for Brenn seems to be being on the steroid....she is unable to control her emotions, becomes ultra sensitive, she is sleeping half the amount of time she normally does (which does not help her emotional stability), she is angry all the time.....the worst of the worst is she does not know why she acts/does what she does and this confuses her. This is part of her protocol to fight off the cancer, as a parent it is hard to watch and expect her to function in a normal environment...but this is what is saving her life and so this is what we must do. None the less we are so blessed to be home with two healthy children for the holidays.

Merry Christmas to all of you, thank you for your thoughts and prayers this holiday season.

Love the Smiths