Our life is perfect.... even when it's not!!!
June 27, 2007
Sewing/Embroidery Machine!!
Does anyone know where I can purchase a sewing/embroidery machine?? I have been trying to find one and I even went to Uniquely Yours and talked to Kelly (the owner) and she doesn't know where to purchase one for a home only the big industrial kind.. If you know or know someone who wants to sell one please let mew know! THANKS!!!
June 26, 2007
FUN IN THE SUN!!
Here are a few more pictures from the lake this past weekend. Colby was going to kneeboard but right before we started to go he decided he didn't want to try. Last year he tried and got water all up his nose and was not happy.... Maybe he will try again later.
SMITH LAKE !!!!
We went to Smith Lake this weekend with our friends Chris, Christie, Aiden & Haylee bug. Thanks guys for letting us come with yall, we all had a great time like always.. I was looking at pictures from last summer at the lake of the kids and OMG they have all grown so much. Here are a few pictures of them this year. Aiden & Colby kept getting ice out of the cooler and eating it like it was candy. Of course Haylee did what ever Colby did. He love these 2 like they were his brother & sister.
And this was his present!!
We got him a 4 wheeler for his birthday! He had been driving Chris & I CRAZY about wanting one for the past 2 years. He said he was not a little boy anymore and that he was big enough to have his own. He now thinks he is a pro at riding it. We go to Grant's track to ride sometimes b/c as you can see in the picture our backyard now looks like a track itself.
Colby's Pirate Ship Cake
Check out Colby's Pirate Ship cake we had for his 8th birthday this year. We got Publix in Hueytown to make it, the entire ship was cake. Colby loved it and it was so good.....
June 21, 2007
Please pray for these Families - they need all of the prayers they can get!
Please pray for the families of Ethan Powell, Madison Beck & Evan Thomason .
This is the e-mail from one of our church ladies about what is going on with Ethan Powell.
Please pray for this family and for this 6-month old baby.
He is now 6 months old and was diagnosed with AML (Leukemia) at 2 months.
You can visit Ethan's website at (ethanpowell.com) and click on updates to follow his progress.
God has already answered SO MANY PRAYERS for this baby and He can do it again.
Ethan was not supposed to survive the first 72 hours after his diagnosis because his blood counts were so bad.
This is what Ethan's parents were told today.
So... imagine that you walked into a room and heard 'there is a good chance that your child is going to die' for the second time. Not in so many words, that is what we were told.
Then we were given a list of how this may happen over the next few weeks. The top 5 are as follows:
- relapse- organ failure
- infection
- graft failure (in other words... his body would reject my cells)
- graft vs host (basically this means my cells would attack his body)
Now, remember these are considered more likely because his marrow is 'empty'. We will try to explain that better in the coming days. But for now I would like for you to focus on the something. Rather than look at where we are going, I am going to request that you sort of cheat ... AND REMEMBER WHERE WE HAVE BEEN! Remember what all Ethan has overcome through God's divine hand. (1.6millions white blood cells, relapse, and on and on)
We are asking that you hit your knees and pray with all that you have. We are pleading with you to BELIEVE WITH US... PRAYER WORKS!!!
Madison Beck -Pray for the Beck family they are from McCalla and Madison was diagnosed with ALL (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia September 6, 2005. She has been through so much for a 8 year old I couldn't imagine what she and her parents and family are going through. She is doing better but Madison now has gallstones. The stones cause a problem since she is on chemotherapy and at any time may have low counts causing her prone to infection. Chris, Colby & I ran into the family at Milo's by Wal-Mart and Madison is a sweet little girl and her mom is sweet as can be. Pray for Madison and her family.
You can go to her caring bridge site at www. caringbridge.org/visit/madisonbeck
Evan Thomason - Please pray for the Thomason family,m they are also from McCalla. Evan was diagnosed with stage 4 high risk neuroblastoma he was diagnosed in late July of 2006. This little boy and his family have been through it all. He has had alot of pain in his leg lately, and this is the last update I got about what was going on with him. I go to his site everyday to check and see how things are with him. This is what his mom wrote: Evan's MIBG scan shows no change whatsoever and his bone marrow is pretty much the same, as well. The leg pain is very questionable. An Xray that was done on Monday (which is not a reliable test) determined that Evan had disease progression in the leg. The MRI (which is much more reliable) shows swelling in the area where Evan has disease but it can't be determined whether it is progression or something else, such as an injury or cell death. They just flat don't know. Because Evan has never had an MRI before, they can't compare it with anything.This was the conversation that we appreciate our doctor having with us but one that is very hard to stomach. The fact is that there really are not a lot of options left for Evan. There are a few Phase 1 and Phase 2 trials that have not been proven to work for neuroblastoma at this point. Basically, we were told that there is no hope for curing Evan. It is no longer a matter of "if" this progresses. It is a matter of "when". No time frame was given because Evan still continues to feel and act well and no sure signs of progression are evident. Dr. Furman is willing to continue to treat until all options have run out or until we ask him to stop.
Please pray for all of these families and thank God everyday that you have a healthy child and a healthy family.
This is the e-mail from one of our church ladies about what is going on with Ethan Powell.
Please pray for this family and for this 6-month old baby.
He is now 6 months old and was diagnosed with AML (Leukemia) at 2 months.
You can visit Ethan's website at (ethanpowell.com) and click on updates to follow his progress.
God has already answered SO MANY PRAYERS for this baby and He can do it again.
Ethan was not supposed to survive the first 72 hours after his diagnosis because his blood counts were so bad.
This is what Ethan's parents were told today.
So... imagine that you walked into a room and heard 'there is a good chance that your child is going to die' for the second time. Not in so many words, that is what we were told.
Then we were given a list of how this may happen over the next few weeks. The top 5 are as follows:
- relapse- organ failure
- infection
- graft failure (in other words... his body would reject my cells)
- graft vs host (basically this means my cells would attack his body)
Now, remember these are considered more likely because his marrow is 'empty'. We will try to explain that better in the coming days. But for now I would like for you to focus on the something. Rather than look at where we are going, I am going to request that you sort of cheat ... AND REMEMBER WHERE WE HAVE BEEN! Remember what all Ethan has overcome through God's divine hand. (1.6millions white blood cells, relapse, and on and on)
We are asking that you hit your knees and pray with all that you have. We are pleading with you to BELIEVE WITH US... PRAYER WORKS!!!
Madison Beck -Pray for the Beck family they are from McCalla and Madison was diagnosed with ALL (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia September 6, 2005. She has been through so much for a 8 year old I couldn't imagine what she and her parents and family are going through. She is doing better but Madison now has gallstones. The stones cause a problem since she is on chemotherapy and at any time may have low counts causing her prone to infection. Chris, Colby & I ran into the family at Milo's by Wal-Mart and Madison is a sweet little girl and her mom is sweet as can be. Pray for Madison and her family.
You can go to her caring bridge site at www. caringbridge.org/visit/madisonbeck
Evan Thomason - Please pray for the Thomason family,m they are also from McCalla. Evan was diagnosed with stage 4 high risk neuroblastoma he was diagnosed in late July of 2006. This little boy and his family have been through it all. He has had alot of pain in his leg lately, and this is the last update I got about what was going on with him. I go to his site everyday to check and see how things are with him. This is what his mom wrote: Evan's MIBG scan shows no change whatsoever and his bone marrow is pretty much the same, as well. The leg pain is very questionable. An Xray that was done on Monday (which is not a reliable test) determined that Evan had disease progression in the leg. The MRI (which is much more reliable) shows swelling in the area where Evan has disease but it can't be determined whether it is progression or something else, such as an injury or cell death. They just flat don't know. Because Evan has never had an MRI before, they can't compare it with anything.This was the conversation that we appreciate our doctor having with us but one that is very hard to stomach. The fact is that there really are not a lot of options left for Evan. There are a few Phase 1 and Phase 2 trials that have not been proven to work for neuroblastoma at this point. Basically, we were told that there is no hope for curing Evan. It is no longer a matter of "if" this progresses. It is a matter of "when". No time frame was given because Evan still continues to feel and act well and no sure signs of progression are evident. Dr. Furman is willing to continue to treat until all options have run out or until we ask him to stop.
Please pray for all of these families and thank God everyday that you have a healthy child and a healthy family.
June 18, 2007
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY CHRIS & DADDY
I hope everyone had a good Father's Day yesterday! When we all got up Colby gave Chris his card he made him(he already got his present Saturday), I will have to take a picture of it and post it. He was so proud of what he had done, he had drawn 2 dogs one was Chief and the other was Baby on the front of it and on the inside he had drawn 1 dog and wrote I Love You Daddy Happy Father's Day! Chris told him that, that was the best card he ever got. I asked Colby the other day if he wanted to pick a card of for Chris and he told me he was making him one.. When we got ready we went to church which was a very emotional sermon for all of us, before the service starts Bro. Jimmy always asks you to come to the alter if you need to pray about anything or anything so Chris, Nat & I went and to say the least we were overwhelmed with emotion. When we got back to our seats they began to sign a song and I looked down beside me where Colby was and he had his hands on his face and he was crying. I asked him what was wrong and he said he missed his Pop. My heart sank, our poor baby was so upset, he has had a rough year with everything that has happened. We miss my dad alot and it doesn't seem to get any better, sometimes I have to ask myself will things ever get any better? I am hoping and praying that all of the EXTRA crap our family has to deal with will go away very soon, maybe they will move. We probably wouldn't be so lucky! Anyway sorry about being kinda ugly but hey sometime you just have to say it like it is. I want to that everyone of you who have prayed for our family and who think about us on days like this, and thank you to all of our friends who have been there for us when we need you we really appreciate it and love all of you!
June 14, 2007
Haylee-bug
This is my best friend Christie's little girl Haylee. She just sent me this picture and I had to share it with yall. Isn't this little one cute as can be???
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