Happy 18th Squish!

 Wow!  I can still remember your “birth” day.  A sappy post beginning, but the truth.  We love your personality and your humor (usually 😜). You are fun to be around and we enjoy your huge wealth of knowledge.  Keep on reaching for those dreams (cattle rancher 🐄).  We are excited to see where it takes you!

December 2023

 It's been a busy month!  Between choir concerts and piano concerts, MMA and wrestling practices, parties and work, physical therapy, surgeon appointments and other medical things..we are tired!  :)

Here are a few pictures from the past month:

Reprising his role! It was such a cute party!

Rosie won Best Costume in her age group:

WE have the BEST youth!!  So glad these peeps are such great friends!

November 2023: Thanksgiving

 

When I say I have the best family, I'm not exaggerating.  My sister, Kiera, invited us to her home for Thanksgiving and bought the tickets for us.  It was a literal miracle and we are forever thankful for her and her family.  We laughed, we played, we traveled to Universal and the kids hung with their cousins.  I was sick the ENTIRE time (spent all of Sunday in bed), but was able to get some meds before we left and started feeling a little better (even with the small reaction to it). 

Trying Butterbeer

Dance parties! 

Beach day (That was the actual sunset. No doctoring of the pic)

November 2023: The accident

I'm trying to block out this night.  Everything is still pretty vivid.  Walking up to the scene of an accident with lights flashing and flares blazing, is not how you want to find your child.  By the grace of God and so many prayers and miracles.  He walked away from this crash without a single scratch on him.  Not one.  He had a little bit of a rash where the seatbelt had been.  But he was otherwise unharmed.  He had xrays and a CAT scan done.  Zero. Zilch.  A miracle from God.  There is some mighty work this boy needs to accomplish.  Hopefully he'll be able to figure it out. 

I thought I had cried all of my tears out the night before (Tuesday), so when we came upon the accident scene the next day, I thought I was good...

The sheered down utility pole he hit.  That massive pole was 6 inches tall after the van hit it.  

Where he left the road: 

Until I found the Toyota Sienna symbol.  I lost it.  I'm not sure what happened or what came over me, but as I type this a month and a half later (December 19th), I am tearing up.  It's symbolic in some way, but I'm not going to delve into it too deeply.  I would be a blubbering mess. 

 Apparently, I'm still pretty emotional about it.  Going through these pictures is like going back to that night.  It's heart-wrenching, but also so peaceful to know that he is still alive.  God is so mindful of us.  So thankful our Spencer Boy is still here with us.