Claire( St Jude Patient)

She was diagnosed around the same time as REgina was. SHe has Diffused Brain Stem Glioma. Yesterday , after MRI, they got the news nobody was expecting. Claires tumor has been growing. Regina, Claire and another St Jude patient Brooke sang and danced together in St Jude talent show.

Please check out Claire diary. http://www.livejournal.com/users/tatomupdates/


We spent some " Kitchen" time together In RMH , in Memphis, Tennessee. Claire and Regina used to play together when they got a chance. :)

Party part2

Like in every party things don't always go the way they supposed to. First I forgot to serve my wary favorite apetizer. Smoked salmon rolls with garlic cream cheese. I just but them into the empty vegetable drawer and forgot. There were about 200 rolls. :( So, now I will be eating salmon and cheese next 2 years( I freezed them ). lol

I also had planned little speech, but it got so grazy in our house, and it was impossible to get everybody to listen so I just sayed eh, who cares, they came to our house to eat not to listen some weird speech. ;)

Then of course, I wanted to take group picture with all the kids that came to our house, but I could not get all the kids into same room. lol, when some of the kids stayed still and waited patiently when I arrive with rest of the kids, then those rest of the kids dissapeared on their way upstairs. lol, so there you go. What a great organizer I am. I also did not get to spend enough time to chat with people :( But regardless of all the things that did not go the way I wanted , Party was great success. :) Money well spent. :

We also had facepainter Carrie, who did wonderful job, and she worked hard for 2 hours. :) Thank you Carrie.

Today Regina has been behaving her best. :) I got little upset about her room being very , very messy. I told her IF she does not clean up her books, dolls, and trash, she is not allowed to play for a while. After I sayed that, I went downstairs to eat. 10 minutes later Regina came down and told me that she had abig surprise for me. SHe asked me to close my eyes, she held my hand and leeded me to upstairs. And guess what??? SHE CLEANED UP HER ROOM. All the dolls were lined up, books were in a nice pile, and she even folded her clothes. :D It was her first time ever to actually clean her room like that. Usually she just threw things into toy box. Then she was in mood for more cleaning, and she helped Gabriel to clean his room :) Great!!!!!!!

Now they are having their lunch

Regina with her Favorite mermaid ;)

Me and my tresures :)

just one room full on people( every singe room in my 2 story house was filled with people)

Neighbors :)

Maire and Leila( from Estonia, but living in CA)

THANK YOU from Regina and Gabriel

Dessers and Pizza

Mashed potatoe hedgedog

Me and littlebit of food...

Heather - The butterfly, and Regina The Kitty Cat. :)

Sindy( she is about to give birth ) , I and Nick :)

---WE SURVIVED---

It is sunday morning. It is awful quiet today in here today. Yesterday our house was filled with chatter and laughter and facepainting fun. Today , we only have fun memory of it.


About 70 people showed up in our hause. Party extravaganza started around 4 pm when first visitors showed up, and from there it took about 30 minutes to fill up our house with friends and neighbors. Last people left around 2 AM( yes party lasted from 4PM- 2 AM ) And best of all, wheather calmed down, rain stopped and we could not have asked for a better weather to grill :)

I want to thank you all of you who were part of our " little celebration". I want to thank you for the hugs, for engouraging words. I want to thank you for being here with us, I want to thank you for all the gifts Regina received last night- she had fun opening them today :D I want to thank you for the great dishes you brought with you . I want to thank you for eating the food I prepeared for you to enjoy- I had fun greating what you ate last night ;)

There are not enough words to describe how wonderful I felt last night. It was great to see you all to come here and celebrate something so big - new beginning. I know Regina will grow up to be something "big" she will move mountains when she will grow up :) She has thought us so much through out this journey- patience, love, respect. She has thought us to fight without violence, she has helped us to grow stronger and she has helped us to undertand that not everything is about what it seems to be it is, it is always more to things. You just have tho look harder, think more and appreciate what you got and tresure it :)

Thank you ...

PART1

Wish me luck - and REMINDER!!!!!!

OH, I am geting scared. Some of you know that on Saturday we have huge party. And it is getting bigger every minute. I thought that at most around 50 people will show but since it is such a huge event- We are celebrating Reginas life - and so far 80 people have signed up. AND make things worse , seems like weekend will be rainy and I have to make sure all 80 people will feel comfortable in my house. OH, I have no Idea how will I manage to keep things under control on this saturday. :)

**** IMPORTANT****- to all of you who are planning to attend this party( who have allready replied to evite, and invitation letter

IF YOU , OR YOUR KIDS are sick( cough, cold, etc,) please think twice before you are planning to attend this party., Reginas immune system is still recovering and we are very cautious about being around sick people. Better safe than sorry, she still gets infections very easily and recovery may be slow and painful
I want to thank you all of you who have called and told us that you or your kids are sick and you can not attend. If you have questions please call me. :)
949 290 6958( my cell) or email dianatan78@cox.net

I can not wait to see you all on this saturday around 4 pm. :D

I went to walmart and got some silk flowers and glued them to curtains. I also got one princess canopy( I think that what it was written to bag )and hanged it over her bed. :)

Thumbs up :D

Yesterday was busy day.( February 14th)

Morning started with droping Gabriel off to daycare. Then me and Nick went to buy new patio furniture. After that, me , sija and Regina painted Reginas room half pink. It took 3 coats of paint to get the color we wanted. Then, around 4.30 pm My dh decided to go to gym. we had reservation to restaurant 7PM. And he promised he'll be back 6pm. Suddenly he calls home and tells me he will be late because he had accident. I did not get all the details because Sija answered. When he got home, his hand was wrapped .

You know those workout chairs or benches that you can adjust to upright or flat position? Well, he started adjusting one and halfway through adjusting bench fell, and his hand got stuck - between his thumb and index finger. He lost lot of blood and he sayed he almost fainted because of that. He just finished his cardio, and his blood was still flowing hard, so thats why he lost lot of blood. :(

After he got home, we got dressed and went to Aliso Creek Inn to have our Valentines dinner. He could not drive his manual car , so he drowe my car instead. Dinner was wonderful. Lots of food. For apetiser they had shrimp kabobs and white truffle and potatoe soup. For main dish I had crispy crust salmon , and for dessert I had dark chocolate heart. I was stuffed it was lot of fooood to eat but worth every dollar ;)( Dinner price was fixed, so if I had skipped dessert and apetizers , I still had to pay the full price)

Then we drowe around looking for movie theater to see Hitch. But movie started too late and we ( I) did not want to wait couple of hours. Around 9.30 we went back home and watched CSI Miami. Sija had her friend over, and so 4 of us watched csi.

Today I added finishing touches to reginas room. It is still not ready and has to be accessorised.:)

Artist in Training ;)

Honey, Please, Pink is not your color. !!!