Come and gone again...

Welp another year has gone by and I still hate birthdays.

This year I spent my birthday at Yellowstone National park. It was beautiful out and the sun was BLAZING.. therefore I am red from head to even my pinky toes... it all hurts!! Like a dumbass I FAILED to lather myself up with sunscreen and I took the beating!

Yellowstone is pretty dang neat, but after 3 days I was READY to go home!!!

We flew from Denver to Jackson Hole Wyoming... rented a mini van and camped in it for 3 nights and 4 days, it all worked out pretty dang good! I think I will take the kids this summer for a night or 2. Old faithful sprang, we saw the mud pots and sulfur gardens, more bison than I could count and beautiful scenery.

I also have been able to spend some time back home in PDX with the family... Emmy had her 11th birthday which cost me a small fortune, we painted ceramics and went to a movie had lunch and shopped with a couple of her friends and cousins, Loved it!!

Seeing my aunt sasa for the first time since her december diagnosis was extremly difficult. No one had warned me or even mentioned what/who I was about to see. She has lost nearly all of her hair and its now blond from black (her decision) she is so puffed up from the steriods and chemo/radiation that I literally did NOT recognize her, her eyes are different and her body, she is very weak and fragile, she doesn't talk alot like she used to. She went back to the oncologist yesterday and the cancer has spread to the otherside of the brain now. The family is hanging in there and coming to terms with the immenent lose and spending as much quality time as she wants. My brother, his wife and my uncle took her to Hawaii for 10 days where my uncle asked her to marry him again, they married again on the beach.