the cutest

"Mom, I'm ready for my milk now..."



"What, no milk yet?"



"Okay, then I'll just eat my frog..."

An Inspiration

Here is the blog of a lady who is truly an inspiration to me. Her name is Angie Smith and she is blogging about her sweet baby girl Audrey, who is now an angel in heaven. Her faith is amazing. I thought I would share it with all of you. Just a warning: don't attempt to read at work!

Please keep Coy in your prayers today. We are going in to see Dr. Hittner at 330 to see if he needs treatment for his ROP. It also seems he is developing a cold or something like it. He's a bit stuffy, and he doesn't like the saline drops down his nose! (However, still eating (4 oz!) and saturating good.)

"Put me in Coach...

....I'm ready to play!"

I'm a growing boy!

March for Babies and prayer requests

On Sunday, April 27th, we participated in the March for Babies walk sponsored by the March of Dimes! We had t-shirts made, "Team Pray for Coy" on the front with his picture and birth stats on the back. The walk was such a blast! Thanks for the bottom of our hearts to all those who donated to support our cause! We raised way over what I was expecting! Thanks also to the Carroll family (and Miss Beth all the way from LA) for walking with us! (The baby is Cousin Ryder; Coy stayed home with daddy.)

Now I am asking all of you prayer warriors, who helped bring Coy back from the brink of death, to pray for the following families:

• Katherine Arnold Wolf--(for some reason, I can't get the link to work; here is the address: www.katherinewolf.info) Katherine Wolf is a 26 year old new mother who suffered an AVM, arteriovenous malformation, on Monday, April 21st. She immediately underwent a critcal 13 hour brain surgery and later emerged in a coma. She remains in ICU while showing steady signs of improvement. Her baby boy is just 6 months old. Please visit her website and keep this precious family in your thoughts and prayers. They are asking you pray Mark 5:41, "He took her by the hand and said to her, "Talitha koum!" (which means, "Little girl, I say to you, get up!")
• Sullivan Farrar- Baby Sully was born May 1st, 2007; he was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) on July 12, 2007. As he just celebrated his first birthday, he is fighting for his life at St. Jude Medical Center, receiving T cell injections. His leukemia has begun to grow rapidly, jumping from 2% to 12% in the past few days. Please pray for baby Sully to fight this leukemia!

I do not know either of these families personally, but have found them through the web and have grown attached to both. We know our God can perform miracles, he demonstrated this through Coy. Now ask him for complete and total healing of Katherine and Baby Sully!

weekend update

"I cried out to God for help; I cried out to God to hear me. When I was in
distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring hands and my soul
refused to be comforted. I remembered you, O God, and I groaned; I mused, and my spirit grew faint. You kept my eyes from closing; I was too troubled to speak. I
thought about the former days, the years of long ago; I remembered my songs in
the night. My heart mused and my spirit inquired: Will the Lord reject forever?
Will he never show his favor again? Has his unfailing love vanished forever? Has
his promise failed for all time? Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in
anger withheld his compassion? Then I thought, "To this I will appeal: the years
of the right hand of the Most High." I will remember the deeds of the Lord; yes,
I will remember your miracles of long ago. I will mediate on all your works and
consider all your mighty deeds. Your ways, O God, are holy. What god is so great
as our God? You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among
the peoples. With your mighty arm you redeemed the descendants of Jacob and
Joseph." Psalm 77:1-15

I love this Psalm! How perfect!

Now another scary incident to report....(we really need your prayer of protection right now!) On Friday afternoon (about 1pm) I witnessed two men walking through the yard of my neighbor directly across the street (they looked as if they were coming from the back yard, although I didn't actually see them come from the back yard.) A car was waiting in front of our house driven by a lady and the two men got in and they left. THIS WAS REALLY SUSPICIOUS and my gut feeling instantly told me something wasn't right. I had a friend over who had just left minutes before, so I called her and asked if a lady was waiting in her car on our street. My friend said yes, there was a woman in her car waiting in front of the mailbox just down the street from us (she just thought the lady was checking her mail.) I asked my friend to come back and drive around looking for this car--she did, and found it close by, driving slowly, without a license plate on the front or back (she didn't follow them two long, just long enough to see which direction that were headed)! Red Flag! I called the police, told them what I saw, not knowing if anything had actually happened because I didnot see them carrying anything, but wanting to be sure. Two police officers show up at my house within minutes, and I was actually thinking to myself, "oh great, they're gonna think I'm wasting their time, because I didn't actually see anything..." I told them what I saw, they were very understanding and agreed that something didn't seem right. The police officers then went to check things out across the street; sure enough, a back window had been busted out, and the house was ransacked. Geezzz...this is twice within two weeks, right next door and directly across the street.

So, the police leave and attempt to find the car (I got a good look at it) and suspects. No luck. I am not as scared, but just absolutely angry, that people actually live this way. Go get a JOB! Do something with your life! If they come to my house, I have two very loud, 5lb guard dogs that hear and see everything! My husband is a hunter, so we do have guns in the house, I would never want to use these, but gosh, I'm starting to think I better know how! That's really sad! You all probably think we live in a bad part of town, we don't! Our area is very new, nice, and family oriented! By the way, no one was home across the street, and they didn't have an alarm. The police estimate the suspects were in the house for about 45 minutes...they took jewelery, money, and bank documents. I only saw the people for a few seconds after my dogs started barking very loudly at the door....I'm glad I did because they have two young children that come home from school about 3pm, they would have walked into their house destroyed....the police think my friend leaving our house frightened the woman waiting in the car, because within minutes, the men were exiting the house. Anyway---please pray for protection over our house! We really need it right now! I NEVER would have imagined something like this happening in our neighborhood!

On to Coy....he weighed in at 7lb14oz this morning! He's such a big boy! He is fascinated with things these days, loves looking at light especially. Here are a few pictures from this weekend....

Me with my two very ferocious guard dogs, Dixie and Sugar Pie....

"Mr. Milk Man"
"I love my play mat!"



"Okay, Mom, I quit, please take me out of this thing..."
"I love my daddy!"

I took a picture of Coy's first diaper and shirt next to a 3x5 index card....look how far God has brought him!

Coy and Ryder

Coy with Cousin Ryder...