Cleaning and Coming Home

Guess who came home today?!?!?!?! This girl!

 So, Ainsley's birthday party was supposed to be on Friday, but she was in the hospital. The families of the friends she had invited got together and decided to give her a group gift: A clean house! The Ranch Creek Ward Relief Society had sanitized the place (it looks AMAZING) from top to bottom, and then today a carpet cleaning crew came and cleaned the carpets and the tile floors! Another tender gift from amazing friends was to have our van cleaned and detailed. The house and vehicle have never looked so good! GRATITUDE!

Today, Ainsley had not reacted poorly to the chemo, she didn't have a fever, and her doctor let her come home!!! We are so happy to have her back in our home and to have our family together. She looked at me this morning and said "Daddy, I don't want sisters to know I'm coming home today." I asked why and she replied "because I want to surprise them!" Surprise she did. Jenny and I went to pick up the older girls while Ainsley and Hudson stayed at home with Grammy. When we picked up the girls they were immediately asking when they get to see Ainsley and if she gets to come home today. We said Grammy was with her and we had to run home to get some things. When they walked in the door and saw her, the party was ON!!! (Like Donkey Kong for all you Duck Dynasty lovers...go Uncle Si!) The Smedleys are big fans of that show!

Ainsley was ecstatic to see her new bed when she arrived home.  For the longest time she finds a way each night to end up on the floor in our room at some point during the night. We try to lay a blanket down or something, but she won't have it. We decided that we needed to have a formal bed in our room for her while she is going through the chemo and to prevent her from laying on the floor when she inevitably joins us at some point in the night. This was what she came home to! Also, her assembled, beautiful, birthday bike that Daddy didn't get to put together before the hospitalization. Thank you Trevor and Mandy! 

A special shout out to someone that loves us in Utah and had these paper goods anonymously delivered to our doorstep. Seriously...you all think of everything!!!

Last but not least, today we also figured out how to get Ainsley to swallow some of the medicine she needs to take in pill form instead of the nasty liquids! A major feat for my big girl!  Similar, I'm sure, to the feat of her Daddy finally figuring out how to put paragraphs in his blog posts and have them actually stay that way after it is published.