The Black Ham: Sunday Aug 18th Update

So I am going to try and be better about updating the blog. It has been an emotionally rough couple of weeks. Not for any particular reason, but we can see the light at the end of the tunnel with Sarah's issues, but we still have a ways to go. Sarah's treatment should be done on November 29th this year. We still need to work out the details of what that means and when she stops taking medicines. We are looking forward to that. We need to have a party when she is all done.

A friend of ours has invited me to do a 5K in November that the LLS (The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society) puts on. It is called the Winter Pineapple Classic: www.winterpineappleclassic.org. I will have links for our team up soon, but if you are in the Seattle area and want to run/walk with us, let me know. More information will come later.

We planted a little garden this year. It has been good and bad. I think less than 20% of the seeds I first planted survived. We have planted a few more things since, and have started to see some success from the garden. We got 5 beans of the bean plants on Friday. Hopefully we can get a few things from our little garden. I don't think I have much of the green thumb that my grandmother did.

Gus has been growing and growing. He always wants to go outside and goes a million miles a hour. We had the Annual Amazon Picnic last weekend at Century Link Field. Gus spent 15-20 minutes in the bounce house until he bonked his head and came out. He probably would have spent hours in there if he could. It was a fun Saturday with the family.

We have been fighting a cold or something in the family. Sarah is home from Church today because of it. Hopefully, we will recover quickly. Thanks for all the love and support.