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On January 5th, 2011, Lily was admitted to the Phoenix Children's Hospital because she was experiencing pain in her legs and back. A week later and after what felt like a million tests, scans and biopsies, we had a diagnosis: she has a soft tissue tumor called Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma. A PET scan revealed a small tumor in her foot that was not apparent from the outside; it was not until the cancer had already spread to her bone marrow that she experienced any symptoms. This came as a total shock to everyone as Lily has always been healthy, active and full of energy. We love our darling girl and her sweet, happy, loving spirit. This website is for friends and family to stay connected during this difficult time.

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Simple Pleasures

Finding fun and many things to be thankful for this summer despite heartbreaking news.



We've had to stay close to home because Lily's juice has to be freshly made every hour.
Mammoth Sunflowers; one of my favorites
Our backyard's a-blooming even in the summer heat


Lovey, our love bug- she's so sweet
A very bountiful apple tree; a great blessing


♫ millions of peaches ♫ peaches for free ♫



We've been able to use lots of organic produce and herbs from my garden. Every morning I pick 8- 10 apples for that day's juice and in the last 4 weeks we have only bought apples a few times just to change up the taste of the juice.

Homemade tomato sauce over spaghetti squash. Lily actually liked this dinner.

It's hard to make things flavorful without salt and once you stop using it you realize how much of what we eat is saturated with it. Even though I rarely sprinkled salt directly on our food, I used canned tomatoes, vegetable broths, butter, cheese, etc. that are all full of salt!

Our chickens have free range of the yard, great for fertilizing and pest control. Not so great for their favorite garden treat- my swiss chard. We've been somewhat successful keeping a net over some of our vegetables.

I'm thankful for these beauties even though our current vegan diet excludes eggs.


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