LSU vs. Georgia @ Athens

Early Friday morning Caleb, Steve, Susan and I headed out for our long 9 hour road trip to Athens to watch the LSU game. Athens is the neatest little town, the stadium and campus are walking distance to downtown. The downtown area has the cutest little shops and the best restaurants with beautiful old brick streets. The weather was perfect and of coarse the game kept our stomach in knots until the last seconds! Geaux tigers! This was a much needed get-a-way for both Caleb and I, and we really had so much fun!

Easy entertainment!

Yesterday morning while I was tiding up the house and Isabelle was playing I noticed that it got really quite and I could no longer hear her little feet walking around, so I knew she had to be in some kind of mischief. Well this is how I found her, undressed in our washing machine! She had taken off her dress, thrown it in the washer and climbed right in. I could not help but die out laughing, and then she stared laughing with me! How she took off her cloths and climbed into that washer without making a peep I don't know, but it was a great and humorous way to start off a Monday morning!

Thankful for beautiful weather!

After many weeks of nonstop rain it is so refreshing to have a beautiful day of sunshine!

Celebrating with family

A couple weeks ago Caleb's granparents from Kingston, TN drove 10 hours to see Isabelle. We rarely get to see them so it was such a treat for them to come into town. We all gathered up at Mrs. Vada Lynn and Mr. John's for a wonderful dinner. It was so great spending time with both of our families.

20 days down and 1 more to go!

We have great news, Isabelle only has one more day left of her treatment! We can not wait to get back to our normal routine and not have to schedule our lives around the 6, 2 and 10 treatment times! However, I can not complain too much about them since they are what healed our sweet little girl! Thanks again for all of your sweet prayers. We could have never made it through this difficult time without the love and support from our wonderful family and friends!

Isabelle "cooking" preparing her tailgate food for the LSU game

Our Little Miracle

Caleb and I wanted to thank everyone for all of your sweet prayers that you have prayed for Isabelle. As most of you already know Isabelle has been very sick these past couple of weeks, She was diagnosed with Viral Meningitis-Encephalitis which caused her to have a Seizure. It all happened so fast, two Thursdays ago we went to our pediatrician for an appointment because Isabelle was running 102.7 fever, the doctor drew blood and said it was a typical virus, no big deal. She sent us home with instructions to alternate Tylenol and Motrin for the fever, and just to let her rest. Other than the fever Isabelle seemed to be doing fine, then on Saturday I noticed that she still had fever and was really, really sleepy all day. So I called our pediatrician to see what she would recommend and she suggested that she might be dehydrated, not to worry. Well the next thing we knew we were the Lake Village ER, Isabelle is having a seizure and we are waiting for a helicopter to fly us to Children's Hospital in Little Rock. When we arrived in Little Rock they ran many, many test to find out the sickness. To treat the virus Isabelle would have to complete 21 days of Acyclovir antibiotic. After 6 LONG nights in the hospital Isabelle was recovering so well that the doctors thought she would be better finishing her treatment at home. I never thought that I would be so excited to be heading back to Lake Village AR! So 1 PICC line(a home IV) later and we were back to our favorite place..........home! Isabelle is receiving her treatments through her PICC line 3 times a day at 6 am, 2 pm and 10 pm. Only 8 more days to go!

Thanks to many, many prayers and support from our family and friends, Isabelle is healing perfectly! She is such a strong little girl and she is a miracle! She is back walking everywhere, talking all the time and smiling big! We are so blessed! We could have never made it through this difficult journey without the love of our family and friends. Thank you again!

God gave us our sweet little Isabelle back, and we thank him every day for that gift. This is the smile that we prayed so hard for to see again!