8 days till Christmas

8 days till Christmas and my dad is home from the hospital. The homecoming is bittersweet because after Christmas he has to go back for another scan to see if what is going on has resolved, worsened or stayed the same. If it has stayed the course or worsened they will do exploratory surgery. So please pray it resolves! They still don't have an official diagnosis, but that takes surgery and they don't want to be quick to open him up. He is doing better so they are hoping it is resolving. On the xrays it looks "somewhat" better. They have three "theories". 1. some foreign object caused this, it will resolve and they will never know the cause. 2. crohns disease or 3. lymphoma, but we won't go there because that is very last on their list and it wouldn't make sense if that was it because it is slowly getting better. Also, his bloodwork looks great. So we wait and pray for the best.

Anyway ... not much new to report on Hailey. She is cuter than ever and so much fun! She is starting to love books and we spend hours with her pulling out all her books one by one, we read a page or two, she gets bored and hands us another book. She also has started to wave at everyone and say "bye".

We have alot of Christmas prep to do this week as we lost time last week with all that was going on. Wish us an event-less week with lots of holiday fun!!!

Here are a few more of our attempted christmas card pictures that my dad took. They have been on his computer all this time and I went to upload them today so I could share.

What you want me to sit in the chair?


For me?! You shouldn't have ...



With her friend Elijah who came to cheer her on!