Tulips and Rembrandts

For Ava's 3rd Birthday, friends gave us their timeshare in Timber Creek, MO, allowing us to began this precious tradition of getting awa...

Friday night we left the city for our annual weekend to celebrate Ava Day. May 24 marks the day she was born at a mere 2 lbs 11 oz, and the...

What sweet mercy to spend Easter together. We are socially distant and masked up for another week, but at least we're in the same apartm...

“I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭121:1-...

“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” ‭‭1...

She did it! They were in and out in 20 min, home before Matt's virtual ALS clinic started at 8:30 and we got to spend the afternoon #pai...

Today Elizabeth had to venture out from our quarantine cocoon to get her blood drawn. Matt took her into the hospital and without touching a...

Hello! I’m finally coming up for air! 😅 Quarantine has been for us, like it has been for so many. We’ve relished in even more together...

It’s been so long since I’ve posted any updates about our family or Elizabeth’s transplant recovery. Honestly, I’ve been battling with lo...

If our best laid plans had worked themselves out, we would be sitting in the hospital waiting area today while Elizabeth underwent a living ...

I'm sorry I seemed to drop off the face of the earth as soon as we hit the front door! After a few days of adjustment (read a little le...

She's home! First the girls had to soak he every minute of media time (notice the 👀) 😂, then we got the third rundown on all her medic...

Thank you so much for reading these updates, and responding with your encouragement and prayers! Your support during this time ha...

Visits from two different therapy dogs 💗 Breakfast treats sent from a friend 💗 Having two new friends from @tgcwestside as pa...

If I tried to give you the play by play, it would take me 6 paragraphs, so I'll simply say, praise be to God, Elizabeth is on the mend! ...

After almost a week of steady improvement, today Elizabeth hit her first significant bump. She began having heart rate spikes, then develop...

She's back from surgery, mostly comfortable after some big bumps in her pain support, and now we're starting the last leg of Phase 2...

Elizabeth is back in surgery to close her abdomen this morning. They expect it to last between 1-3 hours. Leaving is the worst part. I snap...

Tbt The girls' first Scout overnight camping trip! 🙌🏼 We were only 13.1 miles from our front door, we were gone for exactly 24 hours, ...