a temporary home

 We are HERE!!!!

Saying, "See you soon!"

The day went pretty much as expected. Our flight landed safely. Yada yada. Skip to the good stuff.
Ok, I will :)

Once we got off of the plane and headed towards baggage, there was a huge sign in neon advertising for St. Judes. It took our breath away.  I had to snap a quick picture:

So cool!!!

In the baggage claim area, we were greeted by a St. Jude Shuttle driver.  There was a sweet little girl in our shuttle only 5 years old. She was arriving for her "maintenance" appointment. She has been C-Word free for 3 years now. One thing the mom told us is that, "it gets easier". It was in the tone of her voice... I knew she was right. This is going to be an incredible place.

About 20 mins. later we arrived at St. Judes! It is close to the airport which is so nice. We went in to the hospital which isn't like a hospital at all! The walls have paintings and everything is so bright and cheery! In the waiting room, there are bean bag chairs with video games. I could go on and on. Now that I know that it's ok to take pictures, I will take lots tomorrow. There are signs everywhere saying no cameras so I was afraid to take a picture tonight. The nurse told me though that as long as it's of Kayla (or if we have the other parents permission) we can take all the pictures we want. SO... I will! It's INCREDIBLE here!!!!!!!!!

Once checked in, we went into the "medicine room" to have the doctor on call check Kayla out. Ok, the nurses are AWESOME!!!!!! They played rock, paper, scissors and had kayla cracking up. We kept walking around with our jaws dropped at this place. Then the doctor came in. Dr. Ross. He was so fun! He was hysterical. He went over some things to expect tomorrow.  It's going to be a busy day, but nothing too traumatic.

Our room is sooooo nice!!! It's like a small hotel room. There are two queen beds. A couch. Two TV's w/ dvd players. A small dining table. Granite counter tops. It's so nice! We will only be at the grizzly  house for 2 nights (estimate). Then, when we get transferred into the Ronald McDonald house, we will have an address. I will post it. No worries :)

It's super late. We have to be up early tomorrow. All is great here so far. Kayla is exhausted, but in a really happy mood. No pain tonight at all! I can't wait to update tomorrow with some awesome pics.

For now, we are safe and sound. All is well. Anthony was asleep when we called, but he is doing great. We will call him tomorrow for sure!  Ok, night night everyone.......