Celebrate the New Year

We will be spending the New Year celebrating the life of my grandfather, Herschel, who passed away last night. Please pray for my family who are traveling to Mississippi from all over the country.

Hope your New Year is filled with joy!

Merry Christmas!

May your Christmas be filled with the Peace and Love only Christ can bring!

MIA

I know I haven't blogged in too long, but we have been very busy...

Lots of our time has been spent searching for our camera :(

Please pray we find it.

Hope you have a very wonderful Happy Christmas Week!

It's that time of year...

...for Christmas PJ's and Santa hats! (click photos to enlarge)

Yes, he's wearing CARS Christmas PJ's.. wha?

Little Miss Curious!

turns into...

Caroline has been getting herself into a lot of "whoops" lately! We took her to the ER Sunday night for a bump on her head. She is doing fine, but we were glad she went because we found out she had an ear infection. She is so curious all the time... getting into things she shouldn't. I have decked our house out with child locks, again... and baby gates, again. I cannot turn my back for one second. She's quick, curious, and too smart for her own good but man-o-man do we love her!

Enjoy the short video of her bouncing... Thanks to our great friends the Arnold's, we are borrowing a jumperoo! Don't know how we lived without it!

Boomer Sooner!

Saturday, Tony and Tobin were blessed with Tickets to the OU game! Since Tobin was born, Tony has wanted to take him to a game! Tony and I went in October and the whole time we were there Tony kept saying how awesome it would be to take Tobin. Well, someone called Friday night and said they had two extra tickets... so who went? You guessed it! I snapped some pics before they left for the game. They were so excited!

okay- can't get them in the right order... the first pics below Tony took from his cell phone at the game.

view from their seats!
So excited!

Tobin in the stadium!

Tobin's seat!

These are the pics I took of them before they left...

Tobin got so scared of the shotguns shooting and the fireworks and the screaming fans, that I had to pick them up early. Poor baby was crying hysterically unless they were out of the stands. He was terrified! So, we finished watching the game on the TV! That was not how Tony envisioned his first OU game with Tobin would turn out. Oh well, there's always next year!

Platelets are producing!

I just wanted to update everyone...


Today I went in for my weekly Labs. My platelet count today was 249K! I went 5mg down on the steroids this week and my platelets went up 20k! Praise God! This was the first time that I went down on the steroids, and my platelet count didn't go down. This is great news! This means my body is producing platelets again, and we are trusting God fully for healing. Keep praying for full remission!

on another note: I thought this was great! the Platelet Disorder Support Association has really helped me understand my ITP and has so many great resources of support. I thought this was funny: A stress ball that is shaped like a platelet. What's so funny about it you ask? Stress causes your platelet count to go down. Teehee! I told Santa I need one for Christmas... we will see.