School's out, Summer trying to arrive.

Summer has come and the kids are out of school. The pace hasn't seemed to slow down.

During the Memorial Day weekend McCall played a Soccer Tournament. She and the Red Devil team finally got the monkey off their back and came home Champions after playing in the finals 3 years in a row. Great job!

Callie tried out for Level 4 team gymnastics and made it! Now that she is in level 4 she will be training to compete at locations around the Wasatch front. Her season starts September and ends around Thanksgiving. Now she will start going to the gym 3 days a week for three and a half hours, thats ten and a half hours a week! If I was going to the gym that much each week I would be Mr. Universe!

During the last week of School McCall played in a 3v3 tournament for fun and to keep her active. Last week she had soccer camp at Skyline High where the second year coach Yamil Castillo instructed the athletes. Thursday through Saturday was the Utah Glory soccer tournament. McCall played quite well and her team finished undefeated and Champions of the U14 division.

For many of us watching this last soccer tournament, the best part was having Carla be there to watch two games, including the finals. Her recovery is moving in the right direction.

Last post I wrote about Carla having CMV and a blood transfusion. Since then, the CMV tests have come back negative and she only has to take medicine for that for another week or so, then she can get rid of that pill (She was on IV med for the CMV, but switched her to pill). Ever since the last blood transfusion her counts have been improving. The biggest bummer of all for her on that transfusion day was on the way home and driving by the U2 venue at the University of Utah where people were on their way to the concert. We had tickets to see them since last year when it got canceled. Our friends Sarah and Dave were kind of enough to buy the tickets from us. If I may quote Sarah, "I'm not trying to rub it in or anything, but, it was probably the best concert I've ever been too." No comment. :)

Daily progress is really hard to chart for recovery, but if you look at it weekly, we feel that Carla is making progress. If you count helping with laundry or other chores, which I do, then we have progress. The body takes a bit of time to heal and get used to its new blood. Her 100 day milestone is coming up in July where she gets evaluated and hopefully start the reduction of the immune suppression medication.

Yesterday the kids went swimming for the first time at grandma and grandpa's condo since they relocated last fall. They said the water was warm and the pool deep. We are sure this will be the first of many days at the pool.

Thank you Jensen's, Garn's, Steven's for dinner the past few weeks. Jenny, you have been such a great friend coordinating for us. Everyone is just amazing. We cannot express enough thanks and love to everyone. I continuously think how fortunate we are to have such incredible support. We love you all.

The Hennessy's