Merry Christmas!


photography

My husband has a new hobby...photography! Please check out his website when you get a chance...thanks!

cardio report

We received wonderful news at the cardiologist today. Ethan's heart is working great. There have been no major changes and so we can continue treating him as a normal little boy! The cardiology staff is continually amazed at how well he is doing and so are we. Thank you, Lord!

halloween snapshots




fit model

Isaac has a part-time job...he is a "fit model" for LEE jeans. He started this past spring and it is a pretty good gig for a 6 year old. He tries on jeans and shorts for the LEE employees and they look at how the clothes fit him...are the pockets too low, how easy was it for him to snap the jeans himself, is the length just right, are the seams even, etc. He doesn't mind it too much and the ladies just love him.

Over the summer, he had the opportunity to do a couple of photo shoots for the boy's fall line. One was for the online catalogue and the other for the sales rep's catalogue. Check out the online photos here! In the first row, he is pictured 2nd and 4th. In the second row, he is 1st and in the fourth row, he is 3rd.

anencephaly...

...this word has forever changed my sister and brother-in-law's lives and the lives of our entire family.

My sister, Stephanie, is pregnant with her first baby. On October 1, she and Andy found out that their precious baby has a fatal birth defect...anencephaly. She is 22 weeks pregnant. Words can't describe the shock, devastation and heart-ache that we have all felt the last week. It is a road that we would have never dreamed we would travel down. Steph and Andy need your prayers - our whole family needs your prayers.

I wrote this in my journal a few days after we found out: We don’t praise God for this bad circumstance…we praise HIM for who HE is in spite of this bad circumstance. He is Sovereign, Just, our Refuge, our Strength, our Counselor, our Hope, our Redeemer and our Restorer.

You can follow their story here.

birthdays...

Ethan turned 4 on September 28 and I turned 35 this past Friday. A lot happened in the week and a half between the birthdays and I will explain that in my next post. Just like any other child, Ethan is excited to be getting older, but me...not so much! There are things that happen after age 35 that I am not looking forward to. I still see myself as a 25 year old...when does how I see myself catch up to how old I really am?

Ethan had a batman party and in his words, it was "awesome." I really don't know why he wanted a batman party. We have absolutely nothing batman in our home, but that is what he wanted.


Much to Ethan's delight, Brice made a special appearance as "batman", but I won't post any of those pictures! I thought he might post some on his blog, but he hasn't yet.

I had a great birthday. We went to our favorite pizza restaurant for dinner and then to a highschool football game. We had to pull out the layers, hats and gloves...perfect football weather.


Other than the fact that Ethan (he refused to smile) complained the whole time about being thirsty and hungry, we had a great time! Brice and I had a glimpse of our future while we were at the game and it was frightening. Just picture a bunch of middle school boys yelling, running up and down the bleachers, hitting each other, stuffing nachos into their mouths, spilling hot chocolate, bumping into annoyed adults, oblivious to everything around them, except their other crazy friends. Yikes!