Baumgarten Family Blog

The boys haven’t even had there birthdays yet this month but we have already started celebrating them!!

We went to Vegas over the MLK weekend and did birthday’s Hofbrauhaus style. Steve did a shot of jager and got paddled and Nolan did the chicken dance!

On Sunday we went to Fleming’s to celebrate! Can’t pass up their prime rib special! And took my parents along to celebrate their anniversay and my dad’s birthday which are in Feb.

My final cake decorating class was on Monday and our last project was to decorate a cake. So, Steve got his birthday cake early.

But that’s not all. We have a happy hour for Steve on Friday and then Nolan’s big birthday bash on Sunday! It should be fun.

We wanted to have an Angry Birds birthday party for Nolan but you can’t order the cake yet from Fry’s. So, I decided that it was time that I learn how to decorate a cake.

This is my first attempt. Mind you I have until the 29th for perfection. No pressure!

First let me just say, I don’t know where the days go. Purhaps it’s the multiple projects we going on at any given time.

The first update is on my mother. She is recovering nicely and is trying to take it easy to ensure maximum healing. She got her biopsy results last night. Thankfully, the cancer was completely contained and she shouldn’t require any additional treatment. That’s good because now she can focus on a trip to Hawaii!!

As for me, I will spend most of the day at the Mayo Clinic. I still don’t have a difinitive diagnosis let alone a treatment plan. But hopefully, today will shed some light on that. My tests from my hospital stay showed that there was sludge in the gall bladder, GVHD in the stomach and inflamation in the bile ducts. The liver pathology report said in one spot there was GVHD and in another that there wasn’t. So I do meet with the liver doctor today to discuss that. I will update as I know more.

Lastly, an adoption update. Yesterday we had to go to the Homeland Security Immigration Office fo be finger printed. For there it should take about a month for thier approval. Once that is approved our dossier is complete and can be sent for translation!!

Part of our dossier requires family photos. Our agency suggested we send a candid from in front of the Christmas tree. Fortunatly, we haven’t taken it down.