Tulips and Rembrandts

Thank you to everyone who prayed for Elizabeth’s night! It was so much better. Matt thinks he gets at least *some* of the credit, and in...

The last 24 hours have been both really good and really hard. First the good: medically speaking, Elizabeth is doing amazingly. Her liver is...

Friends, she’s out of surgery, and recovering in the PICU. We are blown away by God’s mercy.  Everything went so smoothly! ...

Friends, she's out of surgery, and recovering in the PICU. We are blown away by God's mercy.    Everything went so smoothly! The pre...

It’s amazing how quickly things have moved! Two weeks ago we got a call that moved up Elizabeth’s living donor surgery to  December 3. Reco...

It's been a while since I posted an update about Elizabeth's health... 💗 While we have known for a while that, due to both long...

Chick fil-a for my birthday dinner, strawberry pie for dessert...and breakfast. A morning FaceTime with Grandma...discharge paperwork...and ...

This is the face of a happy Hepatologist! Elizabeth is doing so well! She came directly to the floor (no ICU stay) and after just 18 hours, ...

Elizabeth is off in dreamland after a very uneventful morning . My mom is home with Ruby & Hannah and   Matt and I are busy waiting, and...

These past few months have been quite a test of our sea legs! The reality of a transplant is sobering and we have been eager to consider any...

A year ago, we were running through the snow to catch a cab to the hospital, so world renowned surgeons could reconstruct Elizabeth's he...

Welp, it's official. Elizabeth is on the liver transplant waiting list. So now we do what the list tells us to...we wait! Yet ev...

A pizza panini was Elizabeth's chosen reward for making it through this day! Could she look any more in love? 😍😂 * * THANK YOU for you...

These girls of ours are troopers. Some days they're working on math in the ski lodge, others, they're managing school work in waitin...

Nothing like a little (or a lot of) stress to reveal that I'm a comfort eater. Following the discovery of a benign but growing tumor in ...

In 2013, in the midst of a deep depression, struggling with anxiety and slogging though daily life with three small kids and a dif...

With all the social media spots to update, I sometimes drop the ball. I'm sorry I have been AWOL here! Those of you who read these upda...

6 years ago this morning, we were saying goodbye to our precious Ava Bean. In the midst of that, Elizabeth had been fighting a respiratory v...

What a full and wonderful weekend. We are thrilled to have all our chicks back in the nest! We are savoring the time to reconnect, even whil...

Birthday Dreams do come true! It took a whole day full of tests and procedures, but Elizabeth managed to get discharged in time to celebrate...