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Previous Updates These
updates
are dated from January 12th, 2009 until December 2010. More
current updates are
located on the "Updates 2010" tab. You can also find some previous
updates on the "Updates 2006", "Updates 2007", "Updates 2008", and the "Updates 2009" tabs. Thank you.
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| | December 2009
| The holidays have been wonderful and keeping us very busy. We have been spending time with family and enjoying every minute of it! Not much to update on. Lindsey is doing great and growing like a weed! I hope you all have had some wonderful holidays and have a Happy New Year!
| | | October 2009
| It has been awhile! Lindsey's AFP results came in on September 4th. I got the call on our way to Disney World. Her AFP is down to 1.2. Great news! We have now graduated up to the 6 month check up! So exiting and scary!
We went on a last minute trip to Disney. We had a great time. September 8th was the 3rd Anniversary of the day we were told our baby girl had Cancer. This year we made it a very special day. I had a surprise for Lindsey. I told Lindsey that Cinderella asked if we would have dinner with her and celebrate her being cancer free! Lindsey
was so excited!! It was beyond words! It was fantastic! She loved it! Dinsey made the day so special! When we got there Lindsey said "Mama, I didn't know my Princess was real" She had a great time! I will get some pictures
posted soon!! We then had dinner and met Cinderella, Prince Charming,
Lady Tremaine and the 2 wicked step sisters. When the step sisters
came around she said to each one "will you do me a favor?" then they
asked what and she said "will you please be nice to Cinderella" It was
too cute. Then when Cinderella came around she said "Will you do me a
favor?" Cinderella asked what and Lindsey
said "Will you come over to my house and play with me" It was too
sweet. Then a couple of them asked if she was celebrating and she said
she was celebrating being cancer free. They thought that was awesome.
The manager came over and said a couple of the characters had expressed
that they loved what Lindsey was there
celebrating and wanted to do something special. so they asked if we
could stick around. We did.. They brought out a big barbie cake and
all 5 of the characters came over to her. It was wonderful!
We had a great time at Disney! Lindsey can't wait to go back! It was still pretty warm but we managed to enjoy ourselves.
| | | July 10th 2009 Cow Appreciation Day
| Yep! You read that right. Today is Cow appreciation day. Dress up like a cow and get free food at Chick Fil A. I made us all some cute cow outfits. You can see the picture and vote for Lindsey here http://www.showusthecow.com/photos.php?view=browse&tag=LINDSEY%20LONG
Lindsey could win free Chick Fil A for a year. If you do vote for her, be sure to click on the link in your email to confirm your vote! Thanks everyone! I hope you like our shirts!
| | | May 30, 2009 Happy Birthday!
| 4 Years ago today we welcomed a beautiful baby girl into our family! Thank you God for 4 amazing years with her, and here is to a million more! We had a WONDERFUL day celebrating Princess Lindsey's 4th Birthday. We stopped to pick up Casey's girlfriend on the way to Lindsey's Party. As she gets in the car Lindsey said "I didn't know you had a duck." Oh my! That made me laugh so hard. There was a duck walking across the lawn and I guess Lindsey's just assumed it was their duck. Kids are just too darn funny. That kept me laughing all day! Then we were off to a fantastic Princess party at the Groovy Pad. Lindsey and her friends got their hair done, their nails and their make-up. (The boys got tatoo's and got their hair sprayed with different colors.) Then they got to play in the Princess Castle and the Enchanted forest. They were able to dress up like Dragons, and Pirates and Princes and Princesses. Everyone had a wonderful time. You have to check out Lindsey's Princess cake that my friend Renee' made for her. It was just absolutely beautiful. I will post pictures on the photos page. I almost didn't want to eat it, it was that pretty, but I am glad I did eat it because it was absolutely delicious! Thank you so much Renee'. Then we went to Chick Fila for dinner. They were having a birthday party there for some kids, and Lindsey got to join in. Then it was off to the movies. We went to see the movie "Up". There were a couple parts that scared Lindsey, but for the most part she liked it. It was a little sad if you ask me. After that we headed home to open the rest of Lindsey's presents. She got a new dollhouse and she just absolutely loves it. She said it was what she always wanted and asked how we knew it was her Birthday. I can not believe my baby girl is 4 years old. She told us that she doesn't want to be 4 she just wants to stay 3. Me too baby girl! She is growing too fast. Where does the time go. Thank you to all that helped celebrate our Little Girl's Birthday and for all that have sent Birthday Wishes her way! Here is to another wonderful year! God Bless you all! (Check out the pictures)
| | | May 15, 2009
| Lindsey made her debut on the radio today. Star 102.1 was doing a radiothon for East Tennessee Children's Hospital. She sang Itsy bitsy spider and ended with You are my sunshine. It was so darn cute! She even said on the radio that they took out her cancer and made her a princess. We are just waiting for all the recruiters to start calling her now!! Kim from Marc & Kim and Frank in the morning said she had kept it together for the entire radio thon until Lindsey got up there and started singing, she was in tears, as were quite a few other people. I am trying to get a copy of the segment. She is such a sweetie!
| | | May 10, 2009
AFP Update
| Well I see that time got away from me again! What a busy couple months we have had. I am going to have to get some new pictures posted soon. We have all been doing great! Lindsey just had her 4 month check up on May 5th, 2009. We received the results on on May 8th. She had a chest x-ray, and ultra sound and an AFP test. They all came back just fine. Her AFP is 1.9 which is just awesome (Under 10 is normal).
So what have we been up to? Well enjoying life as much as we can! We had a wonderful celebration for Lindsey's Remission Birthday on Valentines Day. We celebrated at Chuck E Cheese and Lindsey had a ball. We then served dinner at the Ronald McDonald house that night in Lindsey's honor. We also attended the Dance Marathon at the University of Tennessee. Lindsey had so much fun. Once again she got Smoky (UT Mascot) to jump in the bounce house with her. He also played basketball, tic tac toe, and even danced with little Miss Lindsey. She would hardly let him out of her sight. Then it came time for the talent show. I forgot about it. When I was asked what Lindsey was going to do for the talent show I said I didn't know. They asked if maybe she would want to dance with Smoky, and I said that sounded great. So Lindsey and I walked towards the stage, and they went to get Smoky. Well we were up at the stage and Lindsey just walked up on stage and grabed the microphone like she knew what she was doing. Then she sang "You are my Sunshine". Oh my gosh. I was in shock and didn't even have the camera ready. It was absolutly beautiful and pretty much brough tears to my eyes. When she finished everyone was screaming! It was awesome!! They loved her. (America's youngest American Idol?). I can't really think of what else we did in February. In March we had a very fun and eventful Spring Break. We visited some of the local museums, a petting zoo and went hiking in the Smoky Mountanis. I will find some pictures to post. April was a fun month as well. Lindsey and I drove 10 hours to North Carolina to celebrate our friend Tristan's End of Chemo Party. I took a picture of Lindsey with Tristan. I will try to post it as well. May has been fun so far. We went to Dreamnight at the Zoo for the Hematology Oncology Kids and Families. Lindsey really enjoyed the Owls. She thought it was neat how they turned their head around. On Friday May 15th is the Radio-thon for Childrens Hospital on our local radio station Star 102.1. Be listening around 3pm and you may get to hear a cute little voice singing You are my Sunshine. It is hard to believe at the end of this month we will be celebrating Lindsey's 4th Birthday. She has come so far! I can't believe my baby girl is 4. She wants to have a princess party. She will show you the scar on her belly and tell you that is where the Doctor took out her cancer and made her a princess! She is such a sweetie! Thanks for checking in on us!
As a side note. I have just started selling Stampin' Up! If you are local and would like to attend one of my classes or attend a workshop please send me an email. If you would like to place an order and learn about this month's special please contact me. My website is www.kristenlong.stampinup.net. Thank you!
| | | February 13th, 2009
Lindsey the TV Star!
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will post more later but if you are local you can see Lindsey on the
news tonight! There will be a little blurb at 5pm on ABC Channel 6
(WATE) then the full story at 10pm on Fox Channel 43! Be sure to let
me know if you see it! Lindsey will be signing autographs! I will
write more later!
Ok I am back! I hope some of you got to see
Lindsey on TV. She was very excited to see herself on there! Good
thing I taped it because she wanted to watch it over and over again!
Here is the link to the story they wrote on her at wate.com http://www.wate.com/global/story.asp?s=9842428
Be sure to sign in and leave a message on the news website, it only
takes a second! You can read the story they wrote, and also watch a
short clip that was on the 5pm news. I also posted a video on
youtube. I don't really have any technology that I can use to get it
from the TV to the computer so the video is not that good, as I just
used my regular camera, but you can still hear it and get most of what
is going on! I hope you enjoy the video, be sure to drop us a line and
let us know what you think! Here is the link to the 5pm video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omi4Hpo2rnY and here is the link to the 10 o'clock one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M2BJK1xtQ0
As
you see in the video we spent the morning handing out Valentines at the
hospital! Lindsey's little buddy Evan joined us and was a big helper!
He helped us carry in some of the gifts that we brought to the
hospital. (A big thanks to Evan and his mom for helping us today!)
The hospital was very excited about the 11 boxes of stickers that we
brought in today (or at least they put on a good show!) Lindsey also
gave her doctor an envelope full of stickers that she had picked out
especially "for the doctor that made me all better" as she would say.
She collected 137 packages of stickers and marked each one on a map.
She received stickers from all 50 states, the Virgin Islands, Canada
and Australia. A huge thank you to everyone that sent stickers in
honor of Lindsey! Those stickers have been delivered and will be well
taken care of! I am sure they will give quite a few kids something to
smile about!! Thanks again everyone!!! Also a big thank you to WATE
for coming out to do the story on Lindsey! I think that it was
awesome!
Tomorrow will be Lindsey's 2nd Anniversary! We will
be going to Chuck E Cheese's again for lunch! She is very excited
about ther "Anniversary Birthday" as she likes to call it! We will
also be serving dinner tomorrow night in honor of Lindsey at the local
Ronald McDonald House. It will be a very busy day, full of
celebration! Thank you for checking in on little Miss Lindsey!
| | | January 12th, 2009
AFP results and general update!
| Well
it has been awhile. I have been meaning to sit down and right an
update, but time just got away from me. So here is the last 2 months
in a nutshell. They have been wonderful to say the least. We went to
Alabama for Thanksgiving and had the best time. We invaded my sisters
house, there were a total of 16 of us at her house. My sister n law did
all the cooking and the food was awesome! It was great visiting with
all our family.
December 7th Lindsey, Brodey, Riley and I headed
down to Atlanta for the Lighthouse Christmas Party. It felt like a big
family reunion. It was great to see so many of our friends again! The
Lighthouse Family Retreat has become very near and dear to us! They
are awesome! December 13th we went to the Christmas Celebration for
Children's Hospital. It was at the movie theater and we got to see
Madagascar 2. It was a good movie. The kids also got a bag of gifts
and got to see Santa.
Then in mid December we had a visit from my
Dad, Mike, from California. It was the best! He was only here for a
couple days and we made the best of it. We wish he could have stayed
longer. He helped my sister and her family drive out from California
and I will have to say that was my best Christmas Present this year!
My sister, my brother n law, my niece and my nephew will now call
Tennessee home! We took Grandpa Mike to see some of the great East
Tennessee attractions!! We saw the dancing Christmas Lights at
Shadracks, we went to the Bass Pro Shop, and we went walking around in
Gattlinburg and Pigeon Forge in 19 degree weather! It was wonderful!
We were sad to see him head back home. His next visit needs to be at
least a couple weeks so we can hit ALL the stores!
Christmas this
year was the best! It was the first time in more years than I can
count that all my siblings and I have been together. We celebrate
Christmas at Mom's house. She made all the wonderful food and it was
fantastic. We had aebelskievers for breakfast and an awesome Turkey
and Ham with all the fixings for dinner. There were 22 of us there,
and it was a housefull. We had so much fun from Air Hockey tournaments
to Guitar Hero Tournaments. (I have to say that I won the Guitar Hero
Tournament!!). It was great just being able to spend some time
together as a family. We all stayed a couple nights at mom's house to
have even more time together. Then on December 29th most of us headed
to Dollywood to enjoy the rides and shows one last time for 2008. It
was a little cold, but we made it through the day.
On New
Years we all got together at my house. It was the same group from
Christmas, the only one missing was my brother. We added a couple
others so I think the total count for New Years was 25 people. Most of
them spent the night. We had a great time being together with our
family and friends to welcome in the New Year. I hope that you all had
a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.
January 8th
brought us to Lindsey's 4 month check up. We went in for a chest x-ray,
an ultra sound and an AFP check. Lindsey did great as usual. She got
so many stickers for being good through the visit. She decided to
decorate mommy with all her stickers. I wore them proud for the rest
of the day (which I got quite a few weird looks for at the mall later
that day). We then had to wait for test results till Monday. I made
sure our next appointment falls earlier in the week so we don't have to
wait so long for results. It was ok. We had a birthday celebration
for Brodey on Sunday the 11tt, he will turn 13 this Tuesday. Lindsey
had so much fun singing Happy Birthday.
So that catches us up to
today, January 12th, 2009. I know what today has in store for me, well
no not really but I know what it could hold. Lindsey wakes me up as
she does every morning, "Wake up ma'ma, its morning!" Then I get a big
hug and a kiss. We lay in bed a little while longer to snuggle and
watch a show on TV. Then we get up and are ready to face the day. I
know that downstairs there is a blinking light on my answering
maching. I know that there are test results on that machine. We have
waited for days for the results and now they are finally here. Do I
really want to know what they are? A part of me wants to run down and
push the button and hear the results, the other part of me just wants
to enjoy the day a little bit longer before we hear them. So I decide
to change the laundry and read Lindsey a book. She then reads me a
book and we laugh because she had a hard time saying "velvety". Then
finally we go downstairs to get some breakfast. I glance over and sure
enough there is a blinking light on the answering machine. Once I
push that button, there is no turning back. The results can take us
down one road that means we have to gear up to fight another battle, or
the other road which will take us to another get out of jail free card
for 4 more months. So finally I go and push the button, I hear, "Hi,
it's Dr Hamilton and we have Lindsey's results." Then he proceeds to
tell me that everything looks great and there are no worries!!! Thank
you GOD!!! Oh I forgot to mention that after we left the hospital on
Thursday, after her tests, as we were driving off the car to my left
side passes by and can you guess what the picture was on the back
window of that car. If you have been following Lindsey's story long
enough you will know that it was none other than Our Lady of
Guadalupe! She once again was there for Lindsey, telling us that
everything was going to be just fine!! Thank you so much our Blessed
Mother!!! As you can see our New Year is starting out just perfect!
Thank you God!!
We are getting ready to celebrate Lindsey's 2nd
year anniversary, Feb 14th. We will go to the hospital and hand out
valentines to all the children on the 13th since the 14th is a
Saturday. We also want to make a donation to the Oncology Deptarment
in Lindsey's honor. So we asked what they could use. She said they
were doing pretty good so I asked if they could use any little things
like crayons or stickers or paper or makers. Miss Anna said they have
enough crayons but can always use stickers. So we are on a mission to
collect a box full of stickers in honor of Little Miss Lindsey. Thanks
to all my friends on the cricut message board, we almost have that box
half full and still have more coming. If you would like to donate to
our collection, please email me at mail@lindseyann.net. I will be sure
to post pictures when we have them all collected. We want to take
these stickers with us on February 13th so please have them to us by
then. I think this is a great way to honor Lindsey. Now I am off to
update the Even More Photos section. Be sure to check it out. Also
check out the About Us tab for our family Christmas Picture! Thanks
again for checking in on Lindsey and the family! God Bless you all!
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