"Princess Frogie"...

Today Julie and I were at the Clovis Trade days, a monthly, weekend-long trade show for crafters and other vendors. We were selling the custom children's clothing that we design and make. 

 We met a Grandma, her daughter and her daughter's 2 children. The Grandma noticed a photo of Ambrelyn we had displayed. Ambrelyn reminded her of her Granddaughter. Grandma began telling us about her Granddaughter (from her other daughter), Katie. 

Katie is 4 years old, her Kidneys and intestines are failing.  Katie is currently semi-comatose due moraphine to control the pain from an incurable rare cancer.  Grandma said that Katie was likely going to die soon.  She said that although she dreaded losing Katie,  she would be grateful that Katie would no longer be in pain when God takes her home. 

We began to realize who Katie is... 

4 year old Katie is the little girl in Clovis with Pancreatic Cancer, an extremely rare cancer in children and a cancer that is rarely curable in adults. We have prayed for Katie, there have been fund-raisers for Katie. 

Katie has the same Cancer that we were almost positive Zavy had, but didn't. It makes me wonder why one family goes through it all and another is spared. Don't get me wrong, I am  incredibly grateful that our son did not have cancer and that he has been healed, I just wonder is all. 

Grandma showed us some beautiful photos of Katie and her mom, Katie with her little bald head.  She is a beautiful child. They call Katie "Princess Frogie", a fun, silly nickname not unlike those that so many of us have given to children we love.  What is amazing is that we had a dress, a sweet silly little pink and green dress with frogs on it hanging on our rack... a dress embroidered with "Frog Princess" on the bodice. It was in Katie's size. The dress was one-of-a-kind...

God is simply amazing. 

The family sees the dress and is in tears. This dress was made to be Katie's, but by the looks on their faces we knew that there was no way that they could afford the dress today. Katie is in the hospital nearly 2 hours away. With the price of gas today, I am sure that they needed the money to travel to Lubbock to see their sweet Katie. 

With barely a glance between us, Julie and I put the "Frogie Princess" dress in a bag and handed it to Grandma to give to her Katie. She had told us of how she was at the hospital just yesterday that she said "How's my Frogie Princess?" to Katie and that Katie lifted her little arm and touched Grandma's head. The rest of the family in the hospital room drew in their breath, shocked. Remember, Katie is semi-comatose and has not responded to anything in a few days, yet she responded to this. Grandma and her daughter were overwhelmed with emotion from receiving the dress for Katie.  Julie and I were overwhelmed also.

We were blessed to be Katie's "Dress Angels".

Although the feeling we had from giving this dress was overwhelming and we were so emotional, please know that this is NOT about Julie and I giving the dress.

It is about the fact that...

 God knew that this dress needed to be made... 

He put the idea in our heads...

 Katie's Grandma was at "Trade Days" today...

 so was the dress...

(The dress had been at many other shows, loved by many, but never did it sell)

 Our sample book was opened to Ambrelyn's photo (we change them constantly throughout the day!)...

 Grandma spotted the photo...

 it reminded her of her Katie... 

The words "Frogie Princess" came up ...

 the dress was given...

 None of this is a coincidence...

 It is GOD. 

Please pray for Katie, for her family and for those that need to be touched by this precious child while God still has her here on earth. 

May you be blessed....

Adult Married things........

Well we did it!

We went to Amarillo to  do "adult married things" as Haileah has told her teacher! It was wonderful to spend time alone together and that is all you need to know as far as that goes!!!  :o) 

The concert with Josh Turner and Carrie Underwood was AWESOME!!! We were in the second row at the end of the "runway" that came out of the middle of the stage!!!!

Both of them sounded great, just like on the album and both were gorgeous and so sweet!

Here is just a tiny bit of video of Josh. He is on the actual stage during this part. You can tell how close we were! that was cool! Unfortunately my batteries needed charging and my camera died after a couple of short videos and pictures. I wasn't able to get any of Carrie Underwood or any of Josh on the runway. Oh well! 

On Thursday we went to the AQHA Museum and looked around at how the quarter horse came to be. It was a pretty neat place! 

It was awesome and we had a BLAST! I cannot wait 'til the next time we get to go away, I am just hopeful that it will be for much longer than one night!!!!!!

Thank you Julie for keeping the kids! It is so incredible to know my kids are at their second home when we were gone! I love ya so much sister!

Thank you Sarah for being on the field trip with Julie, and all the kids and taking care of Mika before she passed out from heat exhaustion! I love ya sister!

Cowgirl Cutie

Ambrelyn was playing around tonight and stole her brother's worn out cowboy hat. She just looked too cute!!!!

Dirty Photos

Hi~

I have some dirty pictures to share with you~~~~~~

Are you ready????????

Here they are......................

There was a wind storm on Saturday... or maybe we should call it a sand storm. We were at a get together with our Sunday school class and I left a window open in the kitchen.... ONE window. It was beautiful when we left for the party and I had no idea we were expecting wind. So when we got home this is what we walked into!

Thanks to my awesome hubby for cleaning up the heavy stuff! Thanks to Julie for the awesome help! We had to clean the cupboards inside and out, wash all of the dishes in the cabinets and drawers and of course, sweep, mop, clean counters, etc... it was gross!!!!!!!!!

Thanks to Cherie for the offer to help with a sick hubby and 2 sick kids on her hands. It is awesome to have good friends!

Adults ONLY!!!

So.......

Haileah's teacher pulls me aside today after school. Apparently Haileah told her that her Momma won't be going  on the field trip with her on 2 weeks. Naturally, Mrs. Jones asked "why not honey?"  Haileah's reply was as follows....

"Well, daddy is taking Momma away for the night to go do adult things. They are going to adult places and they're gonna do married stuff." 

In a feeble attempt to NOT laugh hysterically, Mrs. Jones said "well, that's good. Momma's and daddies do need their time together. " Haileah knowingly replied "Yeah, well, they ARE married and can do those things!"

Mrs. Jones said she had never seen my face turn so red before!!!!!!!!!!

Of course, I know what you were all thinking!!!!!!!!!!!! Shame on you!!!!!! :o)

In case you were wondering what we are actually doing....

For my birthday (yesterday) Corry is taking me to see Carrie Underwood and Josh Turner in concert in Amarillo  on April 30th!!!! No kids... just us adults (doing adult married stuff!! LOL)

Jori 

  

103.8...101.8...100.4... I am going CRAZY!!!!!

aaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

More sick kids!!!!!!  

GRRRRRRRRRRR!

 Why Why Why Why Why Why WHY?

Haileah is still running a fever.... 100.4, minor yes, but there? It has been 9 days now! She missed an entire week of school! She still coughs, is still crabby, and I guess we need to go back to the doctor :-(

Now Ambrelyn has a fever....101.8 and her head hurts! :-(

Andrew is 103.8 has a headache, sore throat and bad cough, his chest and tummy hurt (from the cough I guess)...... :-(

Kaylee stayed the night with Teri last night, she called and Mika has a horrible cough and her throat is red with a puss pocket..... no fever at the moment... :o(   or   :o) I don't know~

Can you hear me WHINING?!?!?!?!?

They eat well, run around, get plenty of rest and live in a clean house, so...... WHY ARE THEY ALWAYS SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????

ok... my rant is over.... (shrug)

birthday party, achy ears and a sicky chicky...

Our friend Tristan, a.k.a. the Monkey Master turned twelve this past week! He had an awesome birthday party at a sports place that has several trampolines, a rock wall, and a giant foam pit with a swing rope! It is a cool place where olympic hopefuls train for gymnastics. It was a blast!!!!! Happy Birthday Tristan! We love you!

Unfortunately Zavy and Haileah missed the party! His mom Sarah was so sweet she brought them cake and goodies from the party! 

Zave ended up in the ER Sunday morning with a horrible ear infection. We could not even touch his ear without him screaming in pain. It was very bad. the doctor said the inside of his ear resembled hamburger meat. We were actually given the same description a month and a half ago. In 2 weeks the ENT doc will check him for the possibility of getting another, bigger set of tubes. I believe this will be set # 6 or 7. the last set in December lasted all of 5 weeks! Zave's lymph nodes are swollen now, which is normal. 

However...... This is how his long term mystery illness began 3 years ago, with an ear infection. A week later the huge nodes appeared, 3 months later, diagnosed with mono. We waited 8 more months for that to go away. When it didn't they finally did an ultra sound  and then within 2 weeks we were in Albuquerque's UNM cancer unit! WOW!! that has been 2 years now since they told us they were sure he had lymphoma! We are so grateful for the healing he received and pray he will continue to be free from cancer! This does bring back memories and does  stir those fears a little.... but our faith remains and we are telling those fears to get LOST!

Please pray for continued healing on his body, especially his ears. He began allergy shots. Of 46 environmental items, he was allergic to 37! The doc said once he is on the shots for a while, his allergies will improve, and therefore his ears will too! 

Haileah is our sicky chicky! Her asthma is still not fully controlled. 

She has some sinus issues and a fever now, which has led to lots of coughing and at times difficult breathing. Her fever now is 101. The doctor checked her today. Her lungs appeared clear and he gave her 2 new asthma meds and a decongestant. If she isn't improved in a few days we will need to get a her a chest xray to check for pneumonia. We are really praying for healing for her lungs and asthma issues. It affects her in her activity mostly, and she loves sports, which she can no longer participate in. She ends up missing out on so much... including school and friends parties!  

Haileah began allergy shots this week and the doc is hoping that this could improve her breathing issues as well. We will pray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please pray for the Gramzow's health!  We need all the help we can get!!!!!!!!!

By the way, although it is frustrating and we hate to see our kids sick, we are still smiling! (at least most of the time!! )  :o)

Love y'all!

God Bless!!!