Please visit Reagan's website:
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/reagankkenyon
Love,
Shauna
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Water, Water everywhere
To all my Minnesota friends, I apologize for this post..
It has been so beautiful the past week and a half. My sisters Krista and Kelsey decided on Saturday that they were bored, so they went and bought two slip n slides :) Sidney and her cousin Daylen came over to play as well.. it was much fun. Colton loved to stand at the end and watch them slide but HATED getting water in his face.
I am so blessed, he is such a happy baby.. especially when he is OUTSIDE!!!
Mom and dad and Kelsey are home.. BOO FOR THAT!! I hear all these horror stories about in laws from hell and I just have to secretly laugh because I truly am so lucky!! I would live in their backyard (ok, build a house in their backyard) if we could..
Enjoy the pictures:
Hard to believe they are 21 and 17!
FUN FUN FUN
Dalen
Loves to clap
My water baby
Close up
Sunbath time
what a SMILE
My girl Sid
Best Friends
It has been so beautiful the past week and a half. My sisters Krista and Kelsey decided on Saturday that they were bored, so they went and bought two slip n slides :) Sidney and her cousin Daylen came over to play as well.. it was much fun. Colton loved to stand at the end and watch them slide but HATED getting water in his face.
I am so blessed, he is such a happy baby.. especially when he is OUTSIDE!!!
Mom and dad and Kelsey are home.. BOO FOR THAT!! I hear all these horror stories about in laws from hell and I just have to secretly laugh because I truly am so lucky!! I would live in their backyard (ok, build a house in their backyard) if we could..
Enjoy the pictures:
Hard to believe they are 21 and 17!
FUN FUN FUN
Dalen
Loves to clap
My water baby
Close up
Sunbath time
what a SMILE
My girl Sid
Best Friends
Sunday, March 22, 2009
So proud
Over the years, I have found many reasons to be proud of my hometown Ft. Sumner, New Mexcio.. but this takes the cake.. This article is in the Clovis News Paper this morning: (there is a picture on the internet, but copyrighted so I can't copy)
http://www.cnjonline.com/articles/sumner_1654_enmvarsity__article.html/fort_normal.html
Foxes' title gives boost to child
Sunday, Mar 22 2009, 12:38 am
By Eric Butler: FNM correspondent
Things were back to normal at the Kenyon place in Fort Sumner this weekend.
At least as normal as they can be.
Last Saturday, when the Fort Sumner Foxes earned the school’s first boys basketball state championship, little Reagan Kenyon was right in the middle of it all. Invited on to The Pit floor right after the Foxes edged Springer 67-66 for the Class 1A title, the 6-year-old girl was given the honor of draping the first-place medals around the necks of the victors.
She’s earned it.
In November, ironically the day after Fort Sumner won the Class 1A football championship, Clifford and Molly Kenyon were alarmed to find something jutting out of Reagan’s abdomen.
It was discovered that Reagan had a Wilms tumor, a cancerous tumor of the kidneys that typically affect children. Only about 500 such cases are diagnosed each year.
For Reagan, the tumor was the size of three softballs. It, and one kidney, were immediately removed.
“It’s kind of been surreal how it all happened. They won and we ended up there (at a Lubbock hospital) and she ended up staying because they had to take out one of her kidneys,” Molly Kenyon recalled. “She went immediately into surgery. We couldn’t hardly celebrate the state (football) championship because our world fell apart the next week.”
As she started chemotherapy treatments, Reagan Kenyon became a rallying point for the Foxes basketball team that included her brothers Zachary on the varsity and Reed on the junior varsity.
Shortly before participating at a tournament in Santa Rosa, the varsity and JV team members shaved their heads in support of Reagan. Though weak, Reagan was given the honor of starting each haircut.
The Fort Sumner players took the court with white headbands with Reagan’s name written on them.
“I called them little halos,” Molly Kenyon said.
At the state basketball tournament, Berry Stinnett and Skylar McMath were still wearing the headbands although their hair had grown almost all the way back.
“During the season, we found out that she had cancer. She shaved her head, well she didn’t really have to, but with the chemo she was going to lose her hair,” said Stinnett, who scored 22 points in the title game. “We kept her name on our headbands, because she was part of the team.”
Given the team’s winning run at the end of the season, Stinnett certainly didn’t see any reason to stop wearing the headbands.
“I’m keeping it,” said Stinnett, who will graduate in May.
These days, Reagan’s chemotherapy treatments have been reduced from once a week to once every two weeks as she improves in health.
“These boys, Zach and the other seniors, have been playing since kindergarten together. It’s been really special. They’ve been real supportive,” Molly Kenyon said. “I think in the end, it just kind of brought them closer. I think it did have something to do with them winning the championship.”
It’s unlikely anyone on Fort Sumner’s first boys basketball championship would disagree.
_________
I have never been more proud of a group of boys than I am of these Ft. Sumner Foxes.. not only for their championship but for having the grace and heart to love a little girl so unconditionally, and to include her in their victory.. you will all ALWAYS have a place in our family.. and we love each one of you!!
http://www.cnjonline.com/articles/sumner_1654_enmvarsity__article.html/fort_normal.html
Foxes' title gives boost to child
Sunday, Mar 22 2009, 12:38 am
By Eric Butler: FNM correspondent
Things were back to normal at the Kenyon place in Fort Sumner this weekend.
At least as normal as they can be.
Last Saturday, when the Fort Sumner Foxes earned the school’s first boys basketball state championship, little Reagan Kenyon was right in the middle of it all. Invited on to The Pit floor right after the Foxes edged Springer 67-66 for the Class 1A title, the 6-year-old girl was given the honor of draping the first-place medals around the necks of the victors.
She’s earned it.
In November, ironically the day after Fort Sumner won the Class 1A football championship, Clifford and Molly Kenyon were alarmed to find something jutting out of Reagan’s abdomen.
It was discovered that Reagan had a Wilms tumor, a cancerous tumor of the kidneys that typically affect children. Only about 500 such cases are diagnosed each year.
For Reagan, the tumor was the size of three softballs. It, and one kidney, were immediately removed.
“It’s kind of been surreal how it all happened. They won and we ended up there (at a Lubbock hospital) and she ended up staying because they had to take out one of her kidneys,” Molly Kenyon recalled. “She went immediately into surgery. We couldn’t hardly celebrate the state (football) championship because our world fell apart the next week.”
As she started chemotherapy treatments, Reagan Kenyon became a rallying point for the Foxes basketball team that included her brothers Zachary on the varsity and Reed on the junior varsity.
Shortly before participating at a tournament in Santa Rosa, the varsity and JV team members shaved their heads in support of Reagan. Though weak, Reagan was given the honor of starting each haircut.
The Fort Sumner players took the court with white headbands with Reagan’s name written on them.
“I called them little halos,” Molly Kenyon said.
At the state basketball tournament, Berry Stinnett and Skylar McMath were still wearing the headbands although their hair had grown almost all the way back.
“During the season, we found out that she had cancer. She shaved her head, well she didn’t really have to, but with the chemo she was going to lose her hair,” said Stinnett, who scored 22 points in the title game. “We kept her name on our headbands, because she was part of the team.”
Given the team’s winning run at the end of the season, Stinnett certainly didn’t see any reason to stop wearing the headbands.
“I’m keeping it,” said Stinnett, who will graduate in May.
These days, Reagan’s chemotherapy treatments have been reduced from once a week to once every two weeks as she improves in health.
“These boys, Zach and the other seniors, have been playing since kindergarten together. It’s been really special. They’ve been real supportive,” Molly Kenyon said. “I think in the end, it just kind of brought them closer. I think it did have something to do with them winning the championship.”
It’s unlikely anyone on Fort Sumner’s first boys basketball championship would disagree.
_________
I have never been more proud of a group of boys than I am of these Ft. Sumner Foxes.. not only for their championship but for having the grace and heart to love a little girl so unconditionally, and to include her in their victory.. you will all ALWAYS have a place in our family.. and we love each one of you!!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Colton's pool!
We finally have warm weather, so we decided to buy Colton his first baby pool.. he LOVES IT!! Well, he loves being outside.. and splashing and he kind of likes the pool :)
A little too big :)
New Pool
Such a handsome baby!
FUN!
Then he helped memaw and Pawpaw wash their truck.
A little too big :)
New Pool
Such a handsome baby!
FUN!
Then he helped memaw and Pawpaw wash their truck.
Zoo and Pool
MeMaw and Paw Paw and Kelsey are here for the week!! YEAH!! We have had so much fun! Here are some pictures from the Zoo!
Paw Paw and Colton
Colton's favorite guy in the whole world
Feeding the Giraffe!!!
Daddy and Colton again
Chillaxin in my wagon
A day in the Zoo
Momma look!
They were so close!
My grandparents :)
Paw Paw and Colton
Colton's favorite guy in the whole world
Feeding the Giraffe!!!
Daddy and Colton again
Chillaxin in my wagon
A day in the Zoo
Momma look!
They were so close!
My grandparents :)
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Visit with Grandpa Kenyon
showing off his abs
My thinking face
surprise
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I can do it
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WHEEEEE
OOPS
Favorite thing: Doors (second to throwing balls)
Look at that arm (dang red eye)
Little Man
My favorite hat
Cutie Patootie
Sweet kisses with Auntie Sue Sue
My dad had a load through Baton Rouge and so we got to go and meet him for lunch. He bought me some maternity clothes and also he bought Colton his first jungle gym!
Colton LOVES playing out side!
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Pictures
Hey all.. first off, another text from Molly saying Reagan's counts are good so she does not need a transfusion!!! We are so thankful!
I cannot believe it is already March! Time flies by :) Things in the Walker household are going farily well. I have been sick as a dog with this pregnancy, but hopefully now that I have reached the 12 week mark things will start to look up. We are thinking this baby is a girl.. based on heart rate alone (ANYONE have any stories about heart rate predictors) Colton's was always in the 130's and this one is in the 160's.. so we shall see... Leah and Brandon (Dana's daughter) found out that they are having a little girl! Anna Claire Brummel.. so sweet :) Yes, we have all gone a tad bit crazy with the pink but it is exciting.
Colton is in SUCH a fun stage right now.. I keep saying every stage is fun, but he is so loving. He is walking and loves to walk from Daddy, to Mommy, to Auntie Sue Sue, to Granny, just kissing on anyone who is intersted. He loves to kiss the puppy, the neighbors and from what Granny says, some 95 year old woman in the store :) No matter where he goes, everyone stops to talk to him and comment on how cute he is..I hope it does not give him a complex. His VERY FAVORITE word right now is Ball.. and he will sit for hours throwing his ball with Daddy (or anyone for that matter).
Krista is finishing up her last semester at Baton Rouge Community College.. no clue what the future holds.
Work is busy for both Jett and I.. but we are trying to stay sane :)
We love you guys and hope this finds you all doing well!
The Walkers
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Update on Reagan
Molly sent me a text this morning that said "Doctor called and everything looks good, nothing to be concerned about showed up! Praise the Lord!! thanks for the prayers! God is so good!"
Awesome news!!!
I know that Reagan and the whole family can feel your warm thoughts and prayers! We are so lucky to have so many wonderful people in our lives!
Love
Shauna
Awesome news!!!
I know that Reagan and the whole family can feel your warm thoughts and prayers! We are so lucky to have so many wonderful people in our lives!
Love
Shauna
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