lil Sarah

Thanks for praying for our little friend Sarah Faith. She is recovering well from a successful surgery and continuing to have tests done to determine the long term plans for her recovery.
Specific Prayer Request
-follow up with the surgeon on Wednesday
- injection for the rescheduled MIBG on Thursday, and the actual MIBG on Friday
- the following week we have a bone scan and another visit at the clinic
- pray that the remaining tests come back negative
- wisdom for us in finding the proper therapists for Sarah
- for her ataxic symptoms to go away

First Part of the Loan Approved

The bank has accepted our offer for the largest part of the loan with no counter offer (which is great!). Yet we still have to hear on the second part of the loan from the bank (it is a bit confusing to say the least) but the second part of the loan is where the bank stands to loose the most money. So thanks for your prayers and please keep them coming. They say we should know on the second part of the loan within the next week. We'll keep you posted.Thanks

FREE Pancakes Today

Press release from IHOP (Pancake place). They're giving away freepancakes all day TODAY (Feb 12, 7am - 10pm). It's a fund raisingdeal for Children's Miracle Network, so they ask for a dollardonation with your 3 free cakes. Enjoy. http://www.ihoppancakeday.com/

Sarah Faith

Asking for prayer for the Brewer's little girl Sarah Faith. The Brewers are our friends and our pastors, who have cared for us so.

From the Brewers Blog
"It is most likely that our little girl has cancer, a form known as neuroblastoma. This is cancer of the peripheral nervous system. One of the tumors is right next to her spinal cord, which is why she is experiencing the odd side affects she has been experiencing. From the MRI readings they received from SGH, they were not able to detect the second tumor near the liver and at this time are limiting it to the one tumor near the spinal cord. They will do further MRIs to confirm this. We will be home for the weekend for some much needed family time, and on Monday at 1pm, we will return to Hopkins to begin days of more testing: blood, urine, bone marrow, bone scan, another MRI and CT scans, all designed to learn more about the tumor before surgery can occur. The doctors are trying to get the surgery done by the end of next week. After surgery, we will begin treatment of some sort. The type and length of the treatment will be determined by what they find during surgery.At this point, we have been told by our doctors to be preparing ourselves for the likelihood of a treatment and recovery process that will take no less than six months.Please pray that the tumor is not intertwined with the spinal cord. If it is, we will have to have a neurosurgeon do the surgery with oncology surgeons. And please pray for a full healing from her all cancer and ataxia.Jen and I are so grateful for your friendship and ongoing prayers. We have been carried along by them. We are also being very well cared for by our care group and family, from visits in the hospital to simply being there with us in the down times. We are grieving a lot, but we are aware of God’s grace. He loves our little girl more than we do, and we trust him."

Who Knew....

I had such talented boys!!! Enjoy this lil show of our DANCING BOYS. Thanks Terry for this fun lil show!!

We've Moved!

We've moved out! And I know you are all wondering......but still no word on the house yet. Hope to hear soon (as always =) and seeking to wait patiently for the Lord's perfect time, place and plan. . Our Care Group guys helped to move us in on a rainy, cold Tuesday night. Thanks so much, never could have done it without you. Everyone worked so hard, we had help cleaning and moving. I'd like to say that everything went smooth yet it is more appropriate to say there was much grace for us. It seems like we are ever needing to grow in patience! So we've been moving since about Sept. and we were totally ready to be done. And done we were about about 1 in the morning, after the toilet flooding, clean-up, trips to the storage unit, more clean up, patching holes, more cleaning, tears as I a walked through the empty rooms remembering such fond times and finally jump starting the van battery which had died due to leaving the doors open too long as we loaded up.

We are both settling into wonderful basement appts with great families. My Mom and Dad are at Dan & Terri Kovlak's and Luke & I are at Joe & Jeanette Albergo's. Mom and dad's place has a mini kitchen so they are enjoying life with the Kovlaks, who have taken all of us in as family! And Luke and I are looking forward to spending time with Joe & Jeanette. If you would pray for Jeanette as well, she has cancer and has finished the standard chemo treatment but has had to continue treatment due to the nature of this cancer.

Just wanted you to know our home # is set up at our appt and of course we have our cell phones. Anyway I think that is about it. Thanks for your prayer on this house thing and for our family and of course every one's help. So appreciate it!!!Oh yeah, before I go, two great things that happened on Tuesday the 29th, Luke's Mom, Rita, celebrated her birthday and my Dad, celebrated 7 years. Tues the 29th marked dad's 7th year since his brain surgery. How grateful we are to have you both!

Pics from Dinner with the Kovlak's