tony • dayle • karoline • brock • paxton: April 2009

Monday, April 27, 2009

Karoline and Ruthies trip to the Zoo!

Our church had a Mommy and Me outing to the Zoo today. Courtney and I decided to take our kiddos. It was great weather for the zoo. We had a fun little morning!

Fun weekend with cuzzies! Disney on Ice!

Marc, Ashley, Carly and Carson were in town this weekend and we were able to spend a lot of really great time with them.

Karoline, Carly and Carson

unkie reading to the kiddos

tony relaxing with the kids. fun filled night!

Getting ready to go to Disney on Ice!!

k loved uncle marc and aunt ash!

isn't this cute!!

proof we do exist.

carly using k's shoe to kill a bug!

a pretty CROUPy week

Karoline had a bad week last week. We were dealing with croup. Poor baby would cry whenever she would cough. It sounded like she was barking. We were lucky to catch it early b/c she woke up not feeling well on Monday. Lucky for me it reminded me that I had her one year apt that morning. Glad we didn't miss it and that we were able to get her in before she got to feeling too bad.

I can't find what I did with her stats for 18 months.

Her weight was 22lbs 9oz. I'll have to come fill in the rest when I find them.

She only had to get one shot but it was worse b/c she already felt bad.

Friday, April 24, 2009

Baby is all grown up....and i don't mean karoline!

My baby sister is graduating from college! okay i know she is already married but i'm feeling a little old. Brittany was in 4th or 5th grade when I started college. Yah! It seems like yesterday she was BORN. haha

okay enough of the looking back. I wanted to say what a wonderful graphic designer she is. She really puts me to shame. We went to her art show last weekend and I was super impressed. Congrats britt! I'm so proud of you! you are going to do AWESOME in the "real world".

ANYONE HIRING!?!?!?!? she is looking!

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Please Pray!

here is an update from jeffs caring bridge page. continue to keep him in your prayers. The surgery was a huge sucess!!!!! thanks for praying!!!!!

We are so relieved and grateful to God that Jeffrey's surgery went EVEN BETTER than the doctors expected possible!!  They were able to remove between 90 and 95% of the tumor! We will not know the pathology report until Saturday at the earliest, but the amount that they were able to remove without permanently damaging Jeff's speech/ability to move is nothing short of a miracle. Praise God. Thank you all so much for your prayers today.

Robyn is with Jeff right now. Unfortunately, he is in a great deal of pain at the moment, but we are hopeful that he will be able to get some relief from that soon. During the surgery, Jeffrey was woken up and due to a reaction from the initial sedation, he couldn't be put completely back to sleep so stitching him up was particularly unpleasant for him.

Once they have the pathology of the tumor back they will determine whether or not radiation will be necessary.  We are praying the it will be a grade 2 tumor. Please keep praying, but we are chalking today up as a major victory!

We are also so thankful to Dr. Meyer and the Neurosurgical Staff here at Mayo Clinic/St. Mary's Hospital. We have truly seen God work through them, and we are eternally grateful for their care of Jeffrey.

We are asking that you would please pray for Jeff McCoart. Jeff is a friend of Tony's...they played baseball together at OBU. He has a brain tumor. The tumor appears to be a low grade glioma...

probably a grade 2 with signs of transitioning to a grade 3. He has a 2 yr old little boy and his wife Robyn is 7 months pregnant with another boy.

You can read his caring bridge page for more info.

He is in surgery as I write this. Please take a minute and pray for Jeff, his doctors and his family.

thank you!!!!!!