Light the Night

Back in November I got the honor of being Team Captain for Team Cooper Hardy in the Light the Night walk in Charleston. It had been a nasty day all day but stopped raining long enough for us to walk that evening in honor of Cooper. Much to our surpise our team also placed 2nd in team fun raising and we had about 40 people show up to walk with our Team! We look forward to next year!

Halloween Weekend Fun!

We had a fun busy weekend with family and friends. We joined some friends of ours Saturday night for a hot dog roast and hay ride for the kids. We had a blast the kids were wiped out at the end of the day. Halloween night we went to the fall festival at our church. Kyle was in the dunking booth and was such a good sport cause I know that water was freezing.He got dunked a good many times The kids enjoyed eating popcorn and cotton candy and getting on the inflatables. Madison cried the whole time he was in the tank. We then went with some friends for some door to door trick or treating in Gilbert. The kids had a blast doing that as well.

Painting Pumpkins

Landon's First Food - Carrots

He's really not so sure.......

Gavin's MRI and Cyst Update

GOD IS GOOD!!

We went and had Gavin's routine follow-up MRI to check to see if the cyst in his brain had grown any. He did great. He only cried for a few second when they did his IV. He was so brave but he was in such good care. It took him a little bit to wake up but he did great and was back to normal immediately and requested pumpkin donuts from Krispy Kreme!
Well.....the Cyst is GONE - We could hardly believe it. These cyst rarely go away but the MRI showed no signs of the cyst. This was such a relief. I think in the back of our minds we always watched for any little sign that the cyst may be effecting something, we always wondered will this require a shunt or major surgery. But we no longer have to worry about this. GOD IS GOOD!

Orlando - Nick Hotel

My friend Dee Anne invited the kids and I on a last minute trip to Orlando to te Nick Hotel. I decided this would be the last time I could do something like this on such short notice during the school year (since Gavin will start school next year) so we left on a Sunday and came back Wednesday. I was a little nervous cause this was the first time I had done anything like this without Kyle. We had breakfast with Dora, Diego, SpongeBob, Boots and Little Bill. We watched movies in their 4D theater, we went to their onsite waterpark, we watched a live spongebob show. The kids and I had a blast.

Landon - 5 months

I am behind - Landon turned 5 months on Sept 22. Here are a few pictures of him at 5 months. He started doing so many new things at 5 months. He started scooting, got two teeth, starting sitting up. Time is going by so fast. He's such a happy and good baby!

Light the Night - For Cooper

As most of you have read Kyle's cousin's little boy Cooper is currently fighting Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia. Please continue to pray for him and his family. He is back in the hospital due to fever and has been there since Sunday. We are going to be walking in his honor at Light the Night on November 4th at Mt Pleasant Memorial Waterfront Park. If you would like to come walk with us or donote money to help find a cure for blood cancers please follow the link below. Every amount is greatly appreciated to help fight this. You never think it could happen to anyone close to you but when it does you have to try and do everything you can to find a cure.

http://pages.lightthenight.org/sc/charlstn10/cooperhardy

Pray for Cooper

Last week we got bad news that Kyle's cousin Melanie (who is more like his sister than cousin)that her little boy Cooper got diagnosed with ALL Leukemia. We are all saddened by this news but we know that God is the great physician. We were able to drive to Charleston last Tuesday Night and be with him and his family and Kyle got to go back down on Sunday to see them. Please continue to pray for Cooper and his family during this extremely hard time. If you would like to keep up with Cooper and how he is doing please visit his caring bridge site.

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/CooperHardy

I was so glad that Kyle's Mom got to take Gavin and Madison to Cooper and Dixon's Birthday party a few weeks ago.

Madison Starts Dance

Madison had been begging for months to take ballet. So I signed her up for tap and ballet. She has been going for a couple of weeks and LOVES it! She is always ready for the next class. I hope she continues to enjoy it!

Fripp Island

We decided to head to Fripp for one last weekend at the beach before it gets cold. We really enjoy Fripp's relaxing atmosphere. Kyle was able to play golf a couple of times and we went out on the beach every morning and basically had the beach to ourselves. We were able to find a bunch of sand dollars so my goal is to do something special with those. The beach was so peaceful - even though Kyle and I both got stung by jelly fish.

Gavin and Madison's First day of 3 and 4 year old preschool

I can't believe how fast time flies. Gavin started 4 year old preschool (I can't believe next year he will be in kindergarten) and Madison started 3 year old preschool. They are both going 4 days a week Monday-Thursday and they both enjoyed their first week of school.

Landon - 4 months

Landon turned 4 months on August 22nd. I CANNOT believe how fast it has flown by. It definely goes by quicker with each child. Landon has been by far my best baby. He started sleeping 12 hours at night at 3 months. I couldn't believe it since Gavin has never slept 12 hours and Madison was one before she started sleeping 12 hours. He is such a good baby and has such a sweet spirit. I look at him everyday and realize what a miracle he is and how blessed we are that God protected him during my pregnancy. At our 4 month check-up he weighted 14 pounds and 6 ounces and was 25.5 inches long. He is defintely going to be the tallest of my three.

Happy 3rd Birthday Madison

Well we celebrated with Madison at Larry's Giant Subs with ice cream and arcade fun instead of Chuck E Cheese but of course we had to start our day with the birthday donut. Usually I can say that the year flew by but between 2 and 3 with Madison seemed to last 5 years. So glad we are past our terrible 2 stage.