Good News and Bad News

John left Saturday Morning for a 10 day elk hunt in Colorado! Yes it has been some LONG days, but I have to remember at least he will come back. And my hubby sure does LOVE to hunt so I'm glad he gets to have this experience. He does not have service in the mountains where they are camped at, but he did call early Tues. because they had climbed high enough to get some service. cutting out but at least he could say he's fine. Well after that we got the call Tues. evening that John's Grandfather was poor. I had not been able to even tell him this let alone he passed away this morning. But John was headed to town and called me just this afternoon so very very excited. He got an elk!!! A 6x6 Bull:) I had to then tell the poor guy the news. His grandfather was a very sweet man. He has been having some health issues for a number of years so I am glad that he is heaven and pain free.

My handsome hubby and his elk!!

Busy Busy!!!

It has been a long time since I last posted! We have done soo much I don't know where to start... I guess here are 2 pics of my little viking:)



With paci and blanky of course!
2 weeks ago John and the kids and I headed to Evansville after John got off work. Went to the mall for about 1 1/2 hours then to Gatti Town!! Kids favorite:) Mya had lots of fun in the new bouncy house.

Here she is bowling, she does really good!!



Jayce then Mya the bright blonde and Hailey Mya was not a fan of this ride!
I'm not sure where Mya gets the blonde hair either. It is really light, lots lighter than the others hair ever was.


My two girlies

Over this last weekend we camped at Montgomery for Turkey Trot! Lot's of fun. Relaxing and got to see lots of people we do not get to see very often. Mya raced a turkey for the first time. She is only 2 but I knew she would do it and she LOVED LOVED it. My other two there is NO WAY they would have at 2.

Me Driving Turkey she says now!!

Hailey racing

Jayce Michael made it to the next round

Jayce riding rides with friends

Hailey and Miss Grace!

Mya and Hailey:)

Mya is a animal LOVER and so we have to go dip minnos out of the lake and she plays with them in the bucket ALL the time. She was very content at the campground if she had her bucket of fishies!

This was actually a baby bass I think!

Such a tomboy:)

Saturday morning daddy is leaving for 10 DAYS to Colorado! We are so sad:( Hunting elk in the mountains. Hopefully it will go fast.

10 Years!!

I can not believe this is our 10 year anniversary!! Seems like I've known John forever, yet it seems we just got married:) Make sense?! I love this man he is a wonderful husband and father. Here are a few wedding pictures from that special day. It was at my parents house the home I grew up in. Outdoors. I loved it!!







Mr. and Mrs. Raber!!

Mya Faith has changed!! Let me tell ya this girl is 2 for SURE!! She is a little stinker and full of ENERGY!! This is a pic of me trying to take a picture of her, it is so hard now she just laughs and runs away.



She does still LOVE to help mommy though. Today she had to help do all the cleaning and no she will not keep her clothes on anymore either.



Yesterday Hailey had another appt. at Riley. Afterwards we took the girls to ride the people mover! (Train) Mya loves dinasour train and she loved this ride too! But it broke down while we were on it and so it took a lot longer than we thought! Kinda scary when your stuck inside up so high.

This is before the doc came in Hailey wouldn't let me take a picture of her.

Mya was facinated with everything!

The doctor called tonight and Hailey's urine test FINALLY looks a lot better!! PTL! The protein came down quite a bit. Hopefully it will keep coming down:) John and I are so happy to have such a wonderful Anniversary gift:) I love my family!!

First day of School!!

My babies made it on the bus this morning!! It was so hard to let go again, but I know God will give me the strength to push on:) I did cry for awhile last night after they went to bed. i think it was bad again this year since she has been so sick and I worry too much I guess!! They have been very excited though. Could not get them to fall asleep last night. Praying they have a WONDERFUL first day:)


My 3rd grader and 1st grader!! Of course NO pretty hairbows for her, she is all girl very changeable, one day all prissed out and the next absolutely not!! Ha!!

My 3 sweethearts!! Mya wanted to get on the bus! She kept screaming me me go!!

Sunday afternoon John, John's dad and Jayce went to a bow shoot and guess what??!!! My little guy got 1st place!!

We went camping a couple weekends ago for just 1 night, but it was a wonderful night, not hot!! The kids had lots of fun!! Mya can pedal bike herself now:0

Jayce and his camping buddies

Friday night Jayce went to a sleepover and we had a sleepover for a few friends of Hailey's She has WAY TOO Many friends we can't invite them all at once!! :)

Mya, Hailey, Kylee, Grace, Jenna and Ava!!



Hopefully today will go quickly and my kiddos will LOVE school again!!

I am getting really bad about updating! We have had lots of fun these last few weeks, trying to do as much as we can before school:) Last Sunday we went to Holiday World and it was a beautiful day, weather was perfect and not extremly busy. John, Jayce and Hailey rode ALL the big rides. Hailey's first year to be able to and she LOVED it!! Yes doc gave permission which she noticed the signs on each ride, (are you sure mom it says I can't). I only rode the raven, will NOT ride the other two, and I did ride the wildabeast and pilgrims plunge(YIKES) so not like me, but the kids wanted me to so I did it JUST for them:) Mya had fun with all the kiddy rides also.
I know I always end the post with updating on Hailey, maybe everyone is tired of hearing it. But I would like to ask for more prayers, she has been really struggling this week. BP dropping REALLY low making her almost pass out and sick, trying to adjust it where she still can have a normal bp but needs as much Lisinopril as she can possibly handle to get protien in urine down:( This morning we had to leave church because she got sick again. I am really getting anxious about school starting in 3 days!! How am I going to send my girl to school when she keeps getting sick and bp not right! Please pray that this anxiety will subside and she will be doing well enough to start school on time. Thank You so much,
Sonya

Lots of pictures, and update on Hailey

This is mostly a picture update! LOTS and LOTS:) We have been busy. And they are backwards.
We went to the Loogootee pool sunday eve. with the Lengacher family, it was fun. Jayce went of the diving board for the first time and LOVED it, he went off over and over! Plus they both went of the slide. I didn't take much time to take pics and I missed poor little mya!



Jayce had an all-star tourney 2 weekends ago which was VERY VERY warm. But we had fun.

3 weekends ago we went to Big Splash in French Lick, my kids absolutely love to go there. Haily cried when we had to leave. Which that was pretty much the first fun thing we did this summer since she was sick and she usually does not act like that.

One very happy girl. Love this pic!!

trying to sit on the spraying water:)

Hailey is behind daddy, hard to see the little thing







4 weekends ago we put away corn. LOTS of corn, yummy. I love freezing corn each year though, we can get together and do it with family.

YUMMY!!

Jayce really did help, he loves to help us work.

We went back to Riley for Hailey's check-up again Tues. and since the HSP seems to be not quite as active, we are trying to reduce the predisolone some. Hopefully it will work. Last night finally at 8 the doc called with blood and urine test results. Not such great news. Her levels are pretty much the same as 2 weeks ago, which since the hsp was really active he knew the levels were high but was hoping it was because of the very active hsp. Now she has not had rash or seemed to be having any joint pain this time. he says that is extremly high and needs to be gotten down as soon as possible, will cause kidney damage. So he is completely doubling the Lisinopril (blood pressure med). Which they had told us was the most they wanted to give her:( To get the protein down in her urine. I was down a little last night and at times this morn. I start to but like a friend told me God is setting himself up to be glorified. we just need to hang on for the ride. We are still trusting and praising God!!

God Bless,

Sonya

Faithful Prayer

Well I wrote this blog out on Sunday night and had not posted it yet. When I went to look at blogs this morning The verse of the day stood out to me! It is the same verse i had in my post. I feel that God was nudging me along to post this:)


I have not blogged in awhile about Hailey, she feels good and rarely has pain if she does it's nothing like before. The steroids are suppose to be helping with that, and her blood pressure is under control with the medication. We went back to Riley Tues. of this week and They did more blood work and Urine test and it was a little worse in both. So her kidney's are still getting it hard. I am relieved that she feels so good though. Since the test came worse again we decided to anoint Hailey.
James 5:14-15 says Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up;

The preachers of our church came to our home last evening. We did it in our home to make Hailey more comfortable, it could be confusing and scary for a little girl to stand in front of many people on a Sunday. She did so well and she understood why and what we were doing. Praise God, we feel so at peace, God is in control and we will do whatever he has in store for her and us as a family. He is there and will get us through. I can't believe how I, myself have changed through all this, I feel so calm and sure, God is here with us and he will take care of my baby no matter what. I struggled with anxiety with this virus at the beginning and now I feel so calm. Thank you Kevin, Amanda, Carmen and Joanna for coming to our home and praying with us and anointing our sweet Hailey.

God Bless,

Sonya