Prayers Needed

CALLING ALL PRAYER WARRIORS

I’m requesting your prayers for a little girl about to face a big surgery.



Let me introduce you to Eileen Elizabeth (aka Ellie).

Ellie was born on October 18th, 2005. She was born without a pulmonary artery and with a hole in her heart. This defect is called Pulmonary Artesia with VSD (hole in the heart).

There are currently only 2 doctors in the US that will do the aggressive surgery that Ellie needs, so on April 3rd, Ellie and her family will be heading to California to have the surgery performed on Friday, April 7th.

Ellie’s doctor will be Dr. Hanley at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.

A little about Ellie’s surgery from her Mom:

“Dr. Hanley will do one of two things when he gets into the operating room…he will hopefully get to do a “complete repair”….which is taking Ellie’s two collaterals and making them one…connecting that to a donor Pulmonary Artery and closing the hole in her heart. This would be the BEST outcome because that would mean that she would only need to have the donor piece replaced every 2 to 5 years…depending on her growth…and everything going OK. If he gets in there and does not think he can close the hole right now…he will put a shunt in which would get more blood flow going thru her collaterals and make them grow bigger. We would then have to do the complete repair surgery at a later date. HOPEFULLY all will go well and Dr. Hanley can do a complete repair and a successful surgery.”

Please pray for GOD’s anointing upon this situation; pray for Ellie’s healing; pray for anointing upon Dr. Hanley as he operates; and pray for peace and strength for her family.

Thank you - and I will update as soon as I know something.

I John 3:21-22 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.

We've Been Reviewed

HOUSTON - WE'VE BEEN REVIEWED!!!!! We have confirmation from the CCAA that all August LIDs have been reviewed and are now in the MATCHING ROOM!!! We're moving in the right direction!!!!

As of right now - June, July and August are in the matching room.

As I said in a previous post - it's still probably going to be a few months before we hear any specific news regarding our Emily.

Boy, for someone who really doesn't have a whole lot of patience --- I sure am having to be patient. LOL

Third Day Concert and 7 Months Down

3/23/06 marked 7 months of being logged in at the CCAA (China Center of Adoption Affairs). When we started this journey, the time from login to referral was averaging 6-7 months....well here we are still waiting, and it appears that it will be at least a few more months before we hear anything. Grrrrrrr!!!

We went to see Third Day in concert (who I have wanted to see for a couple of years), and had a great time. The David Crowder Band opened for them....and it was quite a show. http://www.thirdday.com/


The David Crowder Band







Third Day

World of Wheels Car Show

On Saturday (3/18) John & I went to the World of Wheels Car Show in KCMO. We had a good time and saw a lot of beautiful cars, trucks and bikes. Here are just a few of my favorites.



John said he is going to build Emily one of these rad wagons. LOL



This green Camaro is called 'Toxic'.








This truck is called 'Hero Truck' and if you'd like to see more pics here's the link: http://www.fastcoolcars.com/Heros-truck.htm


This truck is absolutely amazing.

































And the best part about the whole thing is that I got a new car....check it out!!!



(LOL - cool huh?)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

HAPPY ST. PATTY'S DAY!!!!

Wow - it's been awhile since I updated our site.

To be honest, I've been in a "waiting funk" the past few weeks. I haven't really been down, but I haven't been up either. I'm ready to make our trip and get our girl!!!

I do have things to update about (ex: the nursery is almost done), so I'll try to get to that next week.