Tuesday

I didn't go to the hospital tonight, it is a rough night for her, so please pray for her as she processed everything. I am hoping tomorrow is a better day and I can visit her then. On a positive note: Her surgery on her right leg did go good!

Also, Hollynn started walking today! Happy Birthday to me :)

Monday Update

Hannah's surgery will be in the morning at either 7 or 10. She's ready to get it over with!

Very awesome news: Gina met with dr.'s at Sarah Cannon center and made it into the trial! Yay! She will have a week more of radiation and then a 10 day period to 'clean out' then will start the trial.

I am going to visit tomorrow afternoon so I will update again tomorrow night.

Hannah update

I'm going to be updating the blog on Hannah for the next little bit because there are so many people praying and wanting to know how she is, this seems like it would be easier than sending emails, fb, and texts to so many.

Meemaw and I went up Sat. afternoon and it was so good to see her smile. She did wake up yesterday and we talked for about 1o min. until she went back to sleep. She could whisper and nod her head. She gave me several smiles when I was being my normal corny self. She is so ready to get her right leg operated on so that she can start getting better. Typical Hannah!
She has a plate put in her right knee on Tuesday, so be in prayer specifically for that on Tuesday. An update on the surgeries she already had: she had 2 rods put in her left leg, for her tibia and fibula. She also had a screw put in her right wrist. She should be in Vanderbilt for several more weeks and then will move to a rehab facility. If there is not a rehab facility for her to go to then she will remain in Vanderbilt until she would be ready to go home. She is suposed to get her own room today and move out of critical care. I know this will be a big help b/c that gives her mom a couch to sleep on and their own bathroom and lots more room.
Pray for Brian's family as he is laid to rest today.
Gina goes tomorrow and meets with a Dr. about a clinical trial. Prayers that she can get into this are greatly appreciated.

I know this week at the barn will be hard for many of my girls. This has really shaken lots of them. Four went to see her today and I know more will be headed up over this coming week. We are going to spend this week in prayer and I'm sure I'll be answering lots of questions. I love that I have a tight knit group who genuinely care for each other and I know they are some bold prayer warriors! Let's all keep lifting up Hannah, Gina, and their family, thank you all so much.

Hannah...

For some of you, this may be a repeat, but I want to share this on the blog, the more people praying the better! I totally believe in the power of prayer and need you to join me on this one. You guys know how crazy I am about all of my students. I spend lots of time with them and we talk lots more than just horses! Some of these girls I see multiple times a week and most of them I text with on a regular basis, fb, etc. This isn't just a business! I'm crazy about most of these girls (yes, I said most! ha!). One in particular has been spending more time at the barn lately, looking at buying one of my favorite horses, CC. Hannah has been my student for over 3 1/2 years and here lately I have been praying and crying for her mother Gina, whose cancer that started out in her breasts and spread, recently spreading to her liver and spine. I just cry out to God, "Just say the word and she's healed. Your words are power, you don't even have to say it, just think it Lord, and it'll be done." We need a miracle here.

Well, Wednesday afternoon Hannah was involved in a bad wreck. Her father passed away. She was life flighted to Vanderbilt where she is still in critical care, but praise God, she is improving. She has yet to wake up, but thankfully, now it is induced. They have backed her sedation off a bit and she will raise her arm up every now and then. And just this morning she was taken off the ventilator and breathing on her own! Her lungs were bruised badly, but have improved so much, another praise! She had her left leg operated on yesterday and her right wrist. They wanted to also go ahead and operate on her right leg at the same time but her platelets were low so the Dr. was concerned about bleeding so her right knee will be operated on another day. She had to have a blood transfusion so I'm sure this had to do with a lot of it. She has a long road ahead of her physically for recovery, but will make a full recovery. I can't wait to see her run down to the barn again and her goofy self hug her lesson partner, Kamy, like they haven't seen each other in years. She does this every week and every week I tell them how they are such weirdo's! I can't wait to see her get on Daisy and jump the cross country course, or master her flying lead change. Riding horses is one of her favorite things and I'm glad it's only temporary that she won't be able to do it.

I already thought Hannah had too much on her for any 14 year old girl. Isn't being a teenager hard enough sometimes, who should see their mom go through a ferocious battle with cancer? And now one second she's riding down the road with Brian, and the next time she wakes, days will have passed and her dad is gone. Please pray for her mom as she prepares to tell Hannah this nightmare. Please pray for Gina as well as she continues her radiation. They moved it to Vandy and gave her a room to rest in so that she doesn't have to ever be far from Hannah. Please also pray specifically that she can get into this clinical trial coming up. Pray strength for her as her body was already weak. In that same thought, she is also very strong, please just pray. If there is any scripture that you would like to leave as a comment, I will include it in a book I am making for Hannah so that she will have pics of the horses and encouraging notes from us. Thanks in advance for your prayers.

Took these pics several weeks-a month ago, but love looking at how much these two can enjoy each other.

And in case you are wondering...they don't always run around in just underwear!

Happy Birthday!

Our little man turned 4 on Sunday. Where is the little one year old who would fall asleep on my chest every night? He's growing up way too fast and I love the little boy he is becoming. He's sweet, smart, and so funny. Such a ball of constant energy, and the best big brother. Melts me still with those big brown eyes. He loves going to church and constantly talks about Jesus. He loves to sing...at the top of his lungs. Could eat blueberries, apples w/peanut butter, and tacos for every meal. Constantly asks me "Why?" I seriously bet I hear it 100x's a day! Gives the best hugs. At night when I check on him before I go to bed, I thank God for making him just for us, we are truly blessed!

Big Changes

Our best friends who live in AR now stopped by and stayed for a night last week. Isaac is 5 months older than Hudson and Hollynn is only 4 weeks older than Grace, how awesome is that!

Mandy's cell phone is way cooler than mine and took all of these pics.

To say these two had a blast together is an understatement. They stayed up til almost 2 a.m. playing since Mandy and Ryan didn't get here until after 11 that night. Jason and I were laughing at them as we listened to them on the monitor that night. We put their beds next to each other in the floor and they just giggled and then it just stopped and they were out!

I have only a few minutes to share some big changes coming our way. I'll try to be more detailed in a later post. Jason has accepted a job as a youth pastor at Friendship FWB, which is about the same distance we travel now to go to Bethel. There are so many emotions wrapped up in this. It's exciting and scary all in the same breath. We are very sad to leave the place we've called home for 8 1/2 years, we knew it would happen one day, but that doesn't make it any easier. But the people at Friendship have been very encouraging and seem to be excited. So with a little tear in my eye, I'm looking forward to this adventure, Jason is too! Hudson already has made a few friends there and I think the transition on him will be easier than I had originally thought. Jason starts August 1st. He will continue to have Carney Lawn Care as well. Please pray for us as we take this big step!

What We've Been Up To...

He loved this hat from VBS and obviously loved the sucker he had that night, too!

If I had a dollar for every time he laughs this hard, I'd be a millionaire!

Jason gets home tonight from his second mission trip this summer, we are ready for him to be home! We are surprising him with an ipad 2 and we cleaned, unpacked, and organized his office for him, I can't wait to see his reaction! His office was pretty much a bunch of boxes and papers and I figured he wouldn't get to it until winter, so me and the kids spent 3 nights in there working then Will and Casey came over and put together book shelves and hung things on the wall. I'll have to take pics.

We've been staying busy and doing fun stuff this summer, last year I wasn't exactly Mrs. Fun so I've enjoyed getting to do fun stuff with the little man and lady. We've seen three movies so far, Cars 2 by far his favorite. We went to Holiday World a few weeks ago and it was awesome, I can't wait to go back next year. I've never seen Hudson so tired as he was on the way home, but he had a BLAST! There are 2 more blastball games left, and our boy is definitely the team clown!

Hollynn update...I'm not sure if she's going to skip crawling or not. She does this weird army crawl but she rolls up on her left hip and pushes herself forward, it's quite funny. But she does it just so she can get close enough to something to pull herself up. She is much more concerned with standing and walking (holding your hand) than she is crawling. She is starting to balance some without holding your hands. She LOVES any animal, I mean jump up and down squeal when she gets close enough to pet them. I'm hoping we will have our fence up by the end of this month so the dogs can come home, they kids will both love that as will I, Jason well...not so much.

And I've been busy training and teaching. I'm up to teaching almost 30 people a week (so much for not adding new people, huh :) and I have a nice group of training horses in. Three of them I will eventually show, so that's always exciting. I am so blessed with a job that my children can come to and they both love being outside!

That's all for now, a sweet little boy just crawled up in my lat, and Jason's almost home :D

Blastball!

As corny as it sounds, blastball really is a blast! Hot but lots of fun. He has 6 weeks of games and these pics are from his first one. The funny thing is when it's his turn to bat he runs so fast up to the plate but when he hits it and everybody is yelling ruuunnnn, he moves more like the turtle! Then when he gets to base, it honks, so he jumps up and down on it several times. At one point during the game he pulled his hat down over his face and walked around like a mummy! I just sit there and laugh, if that's one thing this child can do, it's get a laugh out of you!

Just like last night when we were on our way home from the horse show, he was getting Hollynn to say mama (yes, mama is her first word, it's awesome! I'm going to try and post a video of it). She said mamamamamama and then he said, "Mom, she said it!" I said, "Well, you are such a good teacher." To which he says: Hollynn, you want me to teach you spanish? Say gatto (not sure if I'm spelling it right, but it's cat in spanish). Say gatto. I asked him what does that mean? And in his best buzz lightyear voice he says, "It means to infiniti and beyond"!

Creek

Don't worry, he's blowing bubbles not drinking!

This girl loves water!