Finally a post!

Where to begin??? So much has happened since my last post. Let me begin by saying that Luke has been doing good. He has been healthy our only concern right now is the fact that his muscle tone has gotten worse lately and yet we have him on more Baclafen then ever before. We begin a new medication tonight called Dantrolene, we hope that combined with the Baclafen will help loosen up his way too tight muscles. Bending him lately has been a challenge, though we know that when I go away he always tends to get tight, he continues to stay that way even though I've been home over a week now. The Dr. told us that it would take a few weeks to see if there will be any positive changes with this new medication. If this one doesn't work we may begin thinking about a Baclafen pump, though I really don't want to go down that road.

The rest of family is doing good. Amy just got back from her 10 day missions trip to the Domincan Republic, she went with a team from our church to minister to the people there. They were kept busy daily with lots of meetings and manual labor. I had a wonderful time on my cruise to "no where", I hope to go on another cruise again someday and this time take will take Gordy with me. It took me a few days to get my land legs back, I felt dizzy for about 3 days, but praise God that is all gone now. The day before Mother's Day I blessed my Mom by taking her on a wonderful day full of exploration to some new beaches that we've never been to before and new area's of our Rain Forest here in WA state. We really do live in a amazingly beautiful place, y'all should come visit us if you ever get a chance.

I hope that you all had a wonderful Mother's Day this year. It was not a good day for me after getting home from my wonderful exploration day with my Mom and friend Yoli, I got very sick. I went to bed that night with horrible chills and fevers, the next day was spent entirely in bed, though I did get up for a few minutes to follow Ezekiel's home made map that lead me to his beautiful home made Mother's Day card. I spent the next day in bed also, I'm feeling better now, though still feel a bit weak and am not at 100% yet. It's weird but I believe I've had more health issues than Luke lately, my thyroid has been acting up. Today I found out that I have Hashimoto's Disease, it basically means I have a thyroid who can't decide if it wants to be hyper or hypo, not much fun that is for sure. It seems to be something that is in my genes, my mom suffered from the same thing until God healed her about 10 years ago, therefore I know that God can heal me also and that is what I'm praying for.

I realize that this post is long enough and I don't even have any pictures in it to share, that will have to come soon. But I need to share a few prayer requests with my fellow prayer partners: Noah is very, very sick and desperately needs a touch from God, Valerie Grace also needs a touch from Jesus right now, check out their prayer links for more information and please keep Luke in your prayers that his precious little body would loosen up soon. Of course it goes without saying that if any of you ever need any prayer or know of someone who does please let us know so that we can pray for you, faith is increased by numbers!

Love in Christ,
Luke's Mommy Suzi