Thursday Night Movie Premiere

Ladies get your fancy dresses out, or use this as a great excuse to go buy a new dress and make your husbands dress up for a change. Make it a date, get a babysitter, you don't want to miss this event. I have posted about the movie premiere before on my blog. It is this Thursday. Details are on Jennifer Ireland's Blog. Chris Ireland and the board of the Jennifer Ireland foundation have worked extremely hard to make this a success in honor of Jennifer's life! The proceeds go to young men and women fighting for their lives with cancer. They have asked me to be the first recipient and will be honoring me at Thursday's event. I am extremely honored and hope this brings awareness to her foundation so it can help many people.

I know it is last minute but please consider purchasing tickets and attending this Thursday's premiere. It is organized to be similiar to a Hollywood Movie Premier. I am going to buy a dress so I can look famous, hehe. It will be so much fun to feel like I am in Hollywood for a night. Don't we all dream about that, well, maybe not all of us. You can purchase your tickets by going to www.jenniferirelandfoundation.com. There is a link to get tickets. They are $100 of well spent money and I believe tax deductible. Thank you all for your wonderful support of Jennifer and me. (Again Bartles and James statement, ha)

Thank you Chris Ireland and the board for considering and choosing me for this honor. I only hope that it will bring awareness and help many others.

I had my 7th round of chemo today. It was a bit more difficult. I had a few more waves of nausea today than in the past. I am doing fairly well now though. It just didn't go quite as smoothly as the past several have been. I met with my oncologist today. I have a urinary infection, evident with blood in my urine (you already know about my BM's, I might as well not be shy now). I will be taking antibiotics for a few days. Otherwise things are pretty good, we are sticking with the same regimen for as long as I can tolerate it and/or until we notice that the cancer cells have shrunk or have disappeared. Thank you mom for being with me, and having a small break down moment together. Thank you dad for being Mr. Mom and taking care of Ella. You are an incredible grandfather to her as well as Keaton and Avery (my sister's kids). I love you both so much.

I noticed two younger girls in the treatment center today. One, I already met, has the same cancer I do and is only 38 years old. The other girl I haven't met. It was the first time I saw her. My nurse stated that there seems to be many more younger patients in there lately. I don't know what is going on, but nobody is safe. Not to scare the bejesus out of you all. It is just shocking and not fair! Please pray for all these people, they need it as much as I do. Also please continue to keep my family including my husband, parents, sister and family, in laws, etc. in your prayers, they are going through this with me and suffer sometimes just as much. My husband often bares the brunt and I do feel guilty that I am putting him through this. It isn't fair to him but he sticks by me and unconditionally cares and loves me. I am blessed.

Here are a few recent photos of Ella, Mommy and Daddy. As you can tell, she loves her daddy. Mommy got a new haircut. (Still all mine, yeah!)



Everyone have a great work week. I hope the weather improves so we can all get back outside and get some sun and Vitamin D to perk us up. I hope to see you all Thursday evening and of course some of you for the pub crawl which is coming up this Saturday (I will get details out to you all later this week when I get more info). Live life to the fullest! Shawndra