October & November update

Hi everyone,

We haven't secured this blog yet since we have to type out every email address that we would want access to it, and well, that will take a lot of time, so on w/ the update.

Birthdays: Oct 2nd was Keri's dad, Bob's, Oct 3rd was Doug's mom, Norma's, Oct 4th was Doug's brother, Scott's, and Oct 17th was Keri's mom's husband, Carl's birthday, Nov 14th was Doug's dad, Doug Sr.'s birthday. Alles Gute Zum Geburtstag everyone!

We decided to have a professional family photo session on Sunday, Oct 3rd by Gina, ginamazzaferrophotography.com , since after going to the dermatologist, it was discovered that Keri had a basal cell carcinoma under the left eye. So knowing that she would have a scar very soon, once removed, she wanted to get a "before" family photo.  Plus we have never really done one like this before.  Look for our Christmas card to be a nice one :-)

In Oct., the girls had so many sports games, it is hard to keep track, so between Kourtney's high school soccer, Alexa's 2 soccer leagues and select basketball and our cousin, Sean's, Skyline HS football games, we were busy nightly with some activity. We even went to the UW vs OSU game with my dad, Andi and the Andersons...what a game!!

Doug visited his sister, Deb, in Denver and made an appearance at our Colorado College 20th year reunion  (Class of 1990) and met up with some of our good friends from back in the day. He also met with some USA Hockey friends, old coaches, etc. He was also lucky enough to go to a Craig Hospital gala with Deb and Alan that he is still talking about how cool it was, the venue, the food, the entertainment and the company.

Keri ended up getting Moh's surgery on Oct 25th to remove the basal cell carcinoma. The Moh's surgeon had to go in 3 times to remove all the cancer, and ended up taking about a quarter size chunk of skin. Then the plastic surgeon made an incision an inch or so long from the corner of her eye to the crease of her nose. The next week, through Halloween, Keri had a black & swollen eye, but it's healing nicely.
For Halloween, the girls went out as an '80s aerobic instructor and a carrot.

November saw Doug going to Chicago for a USA Hockey seminar while Alexa's b-ball team won the Skyline Tip-off tournament over Veteran's day weekend -so much fun!  Kourtney's high school soccer ended with her being the 3rd top goal scorer on her team and then her ISC Arsenal '95 select team started up immediately.

Keri had one more surgery to remove a polyp that had been causing issues during her monthly treatments. It was a routine, go-under, out-patient surgery on 11/23 at Northwest Hospital -right in the middle of the Seattle snow storm and she was able to rest/work from home due to the snow throughout Thanksgiving week and weekend.

We had another wonderfully yummy Thanksgiving dinner at Aunt Tracie's; Friday Alexa had another b-ball tournament; Sat. we went to the most exciting HS football game we've ever seen when Skyline beat Curtis 35-34; and Sun., we hit the slopes of Snoqualmie- so easy - 30 minutes and we were on the mountain! 

Never a dull moment and in a blink of an eye, Oct. & Nov. are over.

December is upon us and we are busy scheduling all the sports games, holiday parties, skiing trips -Whistler, another PET/CT, and more house plans......should be an exciting holiday season!

We will have a Holiday blog Update sometime in Dec. so check back!

Happy, Healthy, Holidays everyone!
-Keri, Doug, Kourtney and Alexa (& Buddy)