Summer's New Hair Cut

Summer's hair, unfortunately, was starting to fall out (no bald spots though, just thinning) because of the shock her body went through from being sick, rapid weight loss, and the wide variety of meds she's been on. The only real solution was to cut it so it didn't look so thin and to get rid of the weight of long hair. They ended up taking roughly 6-8 inches off!!
Also some other good news! Summer's primary care physician took her off 3 more of her meds. She discontinued the prednisone about 2 weeks ago and the extra meds were to control the side effects caused by the steroids. Her doctors are still closely monitoring her health and progress to ensure that everything will continue to improve.

Another Busy Weekend

Us after our nephew Connor's baptism. (Jon got to be one of the witnesses and in the circle for the confirmation. I am so proud of him for honoring his priesthood).

Us at our cousin Colton's wedding. (I think my face is starting to look less puffy! Or maybe I'm just hopeful!)

Jon is the life of the party. Especially when the DJ plays Michael Jackson!

The Diet Mountain Dew, of course!

Weekend Fun

Jon and I went to Midway with some friends this weekend to a friend's cabin. On Saturday we went to Jordanelle. We had so much fun!

4th of July

(Yup, Summer still has the stupid, puffy prednisone face)


Summer's brother Garrett and his girlfriend, Ashley

Olivia's first Independence Day

Happy Birthday Summer!

Today is Summer's 25th birthday! Happy Birthday!

Cute Little Olivia

Olivia can really move! Except she doesn't do a typical crawl, she does an army crawl. Whatever works!

Olivia has started saying "hi." She actually mimics the sound we make when we say it and waves her little hand around. It's cute but I wasn't able to get a good video of it! Oh, well. I tried!

Summer Buchanan, RN BSN!!

Friday, June 19, Summer took the NCLEX-RN, a national exam to test the competency of new nurse grads. Sunday, she found out her results: PASS!!! Now that that's out of the way, we can enjoy the summer!!

2 Year Anniversary!

Today is our 2 year anniversary from when we got married, which means it's been 1 year since we were sealed in the temple!

Air Show- June 6, 2009

Left to right: Amber & Brad Harris; Summer & Jon Buchanan; Julie & Andrew Buchanan; Mesha & Colin Buchanan



Saturday we went to the air show at Hill Air Force Base with Jon's brothers and sister-in-laws- Andrew & Julie; Colin & Mesha; and Julie's brother and sister-in-law- Brad & Amber.
I (Summer) am very sensitive to the sun right now, thanks to the prednisone, so I packed on the sunscreen, managing to get a little sun on my arms (farmer tan!) and cheeks (since they're still puffy from the pred- ha ha). Many of the other people we went with were pretty pink at the end of the day even though I offered my sunscreen!

Summer's Graduation Present...

Summer's lease was up on her 2006 Pepper White MINI Cooper so she decided to go for a new 2009 model! This time in Chili Red. It is her graduation present to herself! She also received an ipod touch from Jon :)

Graduation

I have very few pictures on my own camera from the nurse's pinning ceremony and actual graduation so when people send them to me, I will post them. Oh, and the toenails are to show my school pride! Disclaimer: I am still on prednisone, a drug I was put on in the hospital to put me into remission. This drug is very effective for what it does but has horrible side effects. One of them includes the "chipmunk cheeks" or "moon face." I obviously still have this, along with some of the acne it blessed me with. I am being tapered off, thank goodness! Either way, I made it to my graduation- round face, puffy cheeks, and all!

Olivia!

Olivia turned 6 months old earlier this month. Can you believe it!? She's getting so big and is very energetic. This is her in one of her new toys. She just loves to be the center of attention!

Happy Birthday Jon!

Today is Jon's 31st birthday! Happy Birthday Jon!

Graduation is almost here!

Summer picked up her cap and gown yesterday! Graduation is just around the corner!

Another update

Summer is continuing to get better and regain her strength. There is improvement every day, which is encouraging.
Since Summer was sick and then in the hospital, she missed a lot of school and clinical hours. There was a chance that she would not be able to graduate May 30th as planned. When she was discharged from the hospital her doctor released her to go back to school for the last week of classes and this week she received a release to be able to finish her clinical hours in the hospital. This is a big deal because she is still considered immunocompromised.
So she is working to complete the course work she missed and she has people pulling strings left and right for her to complete her clinical hours at St. Mark's Hospital.
This is awesome news because if everything goes as planned, all requirements will be met and she will be able to graduate on time!