Arianna is such a trooper!!!

Yesterday Arianna had a procedure in the Heart Cath Lab.  They put her to sleep and inserted a catheter into her main artery and into the heart.  They were taking pressures of the interior of her heart to be better prepared for her surgery. When they were trying to put her to sleep they could not get her intubated cause the tube would not go down her trachea, they called in a pulmonary doctor who came and did a scope and found that her trachea did not develop normally and when you get below her vocal chords it narrows to a very tiny size.  He also found she has a second right lobe to her lung that is non functional and serves no purpose.  Anyways, they were able to get her to sleep in a different way and they performed the procedure with no issues.  However, the findings are exactly what they expected, but we did not expect to hear the news that she will be ICU for 4-5 weeks after her heart surgery.  Her little heart is enlarged so much they said her recovery will be tough and long. She is scheduled for June 16th, which gives us time to plan. We were not expecting such a long hospital stay and the hospital is over an hour away from our home.  Our plan is to find a sitter to come to our house daily and watch the other three kids, while I travel back and forth daily to the hospital and Shawn works.  I will probably stay one or two nights per week at the hospital and we hope for our whole family to stay the weekends down there so we don't have to travel.  It will be a long process for all of us, but we will get through it and Arianna will feel so much better afterwards.

Please continue to pray for little Arianna, she has gone through so many medical tests lately and now her upcoming surgery, but she is such a trooper.  Yesterday after her Cath lab procedure he had to lay for 4 hours flat on her back and she did such an amazing job!!  God brought this little princess here and into our lives for a reason and He will heal her and give her an amazing life.

Thank you all and God bless!

Mothers Day....

Mothers Day was beautiful and full of love and joy!!  Arianna was baptized, we celebrated both her baptism and Mothers Day with wonderful loving friends.  We are fortunate to have very special close christian friends who love us and nurture our marriage and relationship.  They are always there for us through thick and thin, ups and downs and they always remind us of Gods love for us and His intentions in our marriage covenant with Him.  How awesome is that to have such friends, we love you Michael and Billie Becker and Steve and Kim Hofbauer!!!

Arianna was so beautiful in her baptism dress and full of smiles as usual.  We are so blessed that God gave us the opportunity to bring her into our family so she could bless us with her immense love for others.  She is a true light of God!!