Indian Summer

Summer is winding down. 

Today I rode horses with our LDS young women's group.  I enjoyed some quality time with my daughter Ammoriah.  She is riding Ruben.

 I was riding Taz.  We enjoyed beautiful Logan Canyon among our great friends, talking about everything under the sun.

 In the past week we've tried to enjoy outdoors as much as possible as summer turns to autumn.  Here are Ava and Amari at Logan Marsh. 

We've had particular interest in Willow Park Zoo this week due to a mother peacock sitting on three eggs.  Ava was so curious about the eggs, wanting to bring them home and raise them herself.  She settled for collecting feathers instead.  Ammoriah and Amari were happy to help find the good ones.

We bask in the quiet moments of normal life.  Life around here is anything but normal.  Tomorrow is a big day for us.  We learn weather or not this chemo is working.  We have put a lot of hope into this process, Mark qualified just moments after it became ready for public use.  He is the 4th person in the nation to use the MDM2 inhibitor (along with the gold standard treatment of Doxorubicin).  This process has been so hard on him.  In some of the darkest moments I asked him if it was too much to bear.  

Mark always answered, "not yet."

Sometimes when we have these big meetings with our team of doctors and nurses who help us make sense of the CT scan results, we are flooded with new information.  Unfortunately, sometimes we have to make big decisions in only a few minutes.  Sometimes our choices are obvious, sometimes they aren't.  The responsibility of making the best choice weighs heavy on us.