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It feels great to have so much energy, but I can't always do anything.  I can't be outside doing activities at over 85 degrees, so unless we swim or do stuff in the morning....  We went to see Up  this weekend, and we loved the dog Dug.  He reminded us of our doggy Dillon.  Squirrel!  Bear finished robotics camp at Kal's school district, and Bunny starts volleyball camp at my former high school in a few weeks.  She is doing a developmental volleyball league right now with the club volleyball courts.  They have one week left of games.  They have only won one game, but they are still having a lot of fun.  The entire team from the YMCA moved over to the youth league, so they aren't having to get used to new teammates.  Since this is our team's first time doing volleyball here, it took a little bit for them to get used to it. 

Yesterday was my Sweet Bear Bear's 13th birthday!  Yay!  We all went to Dave and Buster's and took our friend Drew along.  The food was really good there.  Bear got his traditional chicken fingers, and Bunny, who is on a new BBQ kick it seems, got ribs.  She had sauce all over her chin at one point, but she managed to stay clean.  She even shared at wet wipe with GrammyRose who was all saucy from chicken wings.  Very sweet!  Bear was sitting next to Bunny, and she kept wanting to steal his fries.  He didn't like that idea, but it wasn't like he was eating them.  Silly Bear. :)  Now Drew has had the full Rose-Kal Family initiation.  We'll see if he still wants to be friends with us now. :P  If he doesn't then, I will break the leveling pact on CoH!  Muahahahahaa!  :P  The two big ManKids played shooting-flying-fighting type games while I played my favorite ticket games.  The kids spent almost their entire first load on their game cards playing crane games.  Bear has never had luck with them (just like his Mommy).  Bunny on the other had won a giant, white stuffed seal, a Love necklase, a watch for her, and a watch for Bear. :)  The awesome thing was that when Bear was upset about not winning the watch, she just walked up and said, "Here [Bear] I won this for you."  It was so sweet, and he got much happier instantly!  I raked in the tickets at my little coin drop game (where you try to push the coins off of the ledge to win tickets).  I ended up with 1900+ tickets.  W00t Mommy!  Bear had about 800, and Bunny had about 500.  I got a giant stuffed poisoned dart frog.  He is now named Ribbert, and he will meet his purple shimmering poison dart frog girlfriend Cha-Cha whenever she comes out of storage. LOL  Bear spent all of his tickets on that nasty Sweet Tart gel in those tubes. Icky, icky, blech....  I think he bought 5 tubes for 800 tickets.  Bunny didn't have many tickets, so I let her have the remaining 300 on my card.  She ended up with a thumb trap, two tart gel rope kind of candy - not sure what it was, and 2 nasty Sweet Tart gels.  She ended up eating one in the car on the way home, and then she gave Bear the other one.  He promptly got excited because even though he had just eaten one he would still have 5.  ROFL  We headed to GameStop following lunch so the Chicklets could spend their GameStop giftcards and allowance monies.  (Is that the word cousin SA commented about Bear saying when he was about 3?)  Anyway...Bear picked out his 5 games fairly quickly.  We lucked out that his birthday fell right during the Buy 2 Used Games/ Get 1 Free.  He got DS, PS2, and maybe one other platform games.  Bunny had great, great, great, great difficulty choosing.  OMGosh did she take a long, long, long, long time.  I think we aged another year. LOL  She didn't have as much money or gift card amount to spend, but she still could have found a lot of great games.  I had a feeling that she was just wanting something really expensive and was sort of stalling to avoid asking.  I finally spotted her the owed allowance to get her a new PSP game since she only had one, and Jared had 4.  She ended up spending her money on Disney Dance Dance Revolution.  I tried it, and I think I need to do the tutorial a few hundred more times. LOL  We really want to see DaddyKal try it out.  He was not interested, but I told him that maybe they have a "tap your foot" level. <snort>  I think it will be a fun way to exercise when pulmo-rehab is finished.  I need to find a way to repair our Wii Fit disk so I can do that again.  Any advise on how to clean or repair a Wii disc?  I want to do the step program on there.  I need to find creative exercises to add to my Total Gym, treamill, hand weights, and exercise bands.  We will walk outside with Baby Brudder more now that he has a new lead.  I think he might have eaten the other one. ;)  The Wii Fit and DDR will be great for days that are too hot or when I am too lazy to get out of my pjs.  That happens a lot. What?!  I like 'em.  Who wouldn't be addicted to comfy pj pants after more than a year of being in bed all the time and never getting out of the house.  I probably own all the Old Navy pj pants ever made!  Ok maybe just half. :P  I think I am going to post some birthday pics up here and maybe some Guitar Hero pics on the Christmas post.  Have a great week!

(Not edited for spelling or grammar...too tired :P )

              

Wow what a busy two days we have had in the Rose/Kal/Bear/Bunny/Grammy household!  Monday was my usual pulmo-rehab appointment (shortened by one hour followed by my 2 hr IV), and I told them that I would not be there on Wednesday since it was Christmas Eve.  We went to my aunt and uncle's house for our traditional Christmas Eve pizza party.  Let me tell you that you have never seen anything like the awesome insanity that was our family!  W00t!  It started out all innocently with us gathering and eating nicely.  My aunt mentioned in passing the giant Nerf dart gun war that her immediate family had recently had.  I must admit that my newly "healthy" self was a bit jealous and intrigued by the idea; however, I didn't really want to be one of the shooters - just an observer.  A while later, the onslaught began!  I am not quite sure who started it, but I think it is a good bet that JG did. :P  My sweet baby cousin (okay so he is in his mid-20s) would run around through the kitchen, dining, family room to get his target.  Soon, cousins MT and JR were involved.  I noticed my two angel children grab up two of the six Nerf guns and eagerly join in.  I was still sitting at the kitchen table greatly enjoying the war!  Woohoo!  Then the most dangerous thing happened...an un-named cousin shot cousin SA.  She turned around with the most hysterical look on her face, grabbed someone's Nerf gun, and ran after the offender yelling, "Oh its on!"  I just about busted a new lung! :)  KalBot had to remind her to cock the gun first, but soon she was tearing after victims just like everyone else.  Uncle L, JG, and MT were running around with Bear and Bunny, and MT only tried to take himself out with the wall or door twice. LOL  His girlfriend was the best assistant to him because she would grab up all the fired darts and hand them to him.  He seemed to never run out!  :P  Finally it got totally insane with GrammyRose getting pelted in the head/body by almost everyone who had a weapon, and she finally started confiscating the darts as she was hit.  ROFL  Everyone involved was really laughing, and of course when an innocent bystander (like ME!) was hit, the shooter was totally razzed.  I just sat minding my own business at one point and felt a dart buzz my eyelashe!  JG will PAY!!  Muahahhaha!  I think my dear KissyBot shot me few times as I innocently read Eclipse (3rd Twilight book - THANK  YOU A.T.).  I will find a way to really get him back.  Hmmmm....maybe some Christmas photos of him on the blog.....  Bear and Bunny raked in the gifts, and they somehow even got me to sing along with the Guitar Hero World Tour band kit.  I never sing karaoke or anything, but I did a decent job with a Blondie song. :)  Thinking back to last year, I would have probably been asleep somewhere at my aunt and uncle's house, and then I would have been napping today and probably not been able to make it to my in-law's for dinner.  We had a great time there tonight, and my mom-in-law even mentioned how great it was that I was able to attend two party days in a row.  Amen to that!  There would absolutely have been no way last year for me to actually have enjoyed myself so much.  We had more than enough to bless us this year, and I hope that we can be good examples for people going through the same struggles.  I would have never expected to be in the great situation that I am in now.  I never really planned ahead for more than a few weeks because I knew that I would be getting sick again.  Even in the immediate days following transplant, I fully expected to be in horrible pain for a long stretch of time.  How wonderful it is that I have had such a relatively easy recovery.  My blood test from Monday showed that my new dosage for the new anti-rejection drug is finally good!  I have another bronch on 1/15 to see that everything is reversed from the acute rejection I showed in the last two bronchs.  I feel better than ever right now, and I look forward to newfound freedoms at the start of the New Year.  I will finally be able to drive and go out to movies/restaurants.  I am campaigning heartily for KalBot to take me to see Twilight over the break since I have a newfound obssession with it.  I blame Frazier, Ravyn, and many other online friends (along with my physical and respiratory therapists).  I had no interest in reading those "stinking" books.  Then I did, and UH-OH!  We are talking major fascination here.  LOL  I got the soundtrack and now I can't stop listening to Supermassive Black Hole by Muse.  I am in trouble.  LOL  If you have seen the movie, this is the song from the baseball scene. :)

Edited for pics 12-29-08