Updates and Anniversaries

It's a little ridiculous that I haven't updated this blog in a full 3 months!  We have been so busy with work and life that I have had no time to think of anything else.  Our summer was magnificent.  We took a trip to the coast, went to a Giants game, visited family, took a few weekend getaways, and traded in our old car for a Toyota Highlander.
We are moving up in life!
Willie has been feeling fantastic!  Our only complaint, if we had one, would be that we are becoming too busy between our two businesses.  This is a great complaint to have and we feel so very blessed for the success we've had in business and health. 
Today we celebrate 9 months since Willie got his new cells.  It's hard to believe how fast the time is flying by.  We also celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary last Thursday. We took a trip to Reno for the weekend to celebrate.  The highlight was a trip to Scheels which is a HUGE sporting goods store that is so big it houses a Ferris wheel!  I have been talking about riding it for a year and couldn't wait for our spin.
It was so much fun!  I could have stayed in the car next to my husband spinning round and round forever.
Life after cancer is a curious place.  There was a time when we had to adjust our expectations of life and our future and adapt to our new reality, but mostly we have returned to life as it was before Willie got sick with one stark difference:
Everything has changed.
I have found that my capacity to love has grown beyond my own ability to understand.  We are able to find joy in the simple things in life and laugh with greater ease.  We empathize with people in their own challenges and understand that everyone walks their own path which shapes who they become.
And we are always in the process of becoming.
Our future is bright and our hopes and dreams are limitless.  We go back to Stanford this week to check in with Willie's doctor and hope to be moved from every 6 week check ups to every 8 weeks.  He continues to take immunosuppressant drugs to keep his body from rejecting the new cells and we are in the process of weaning him off of those.  They hope to have him off of these entirely by next summer. 
And life goes on.
I am writing this in my living room as Willie lies next to me on the couch and flips happily between 2 football games.  Kona is lying at the foot of the couch and he intermittently scratches her belly and talks to her. 
I am complete.
Life is good.
"Happy football season!" Says Willie.