emma's journey

our sweet emma kait (my brother and sister-in-law's precious 10 year old daughter) has received all of her results and was officially diagnosed with stage 3 non-hodgkin's anaplastic lymphoma.

please check out her blog (emmakaitstanphill.blogspot.com) to read all the details.

she (and her family) is a beautiful example of trusting our Lord in the middle of the darkest trial she has ever known.

thank you to all who have been praying to this point, and to all those that continue to do so.

our love from here to you ek.
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something to laugh at

needed a little extra help making myself smile today...

here's what i came up with...

and this(the boy does his own hair!!)...

then i found this...a throw back to selah's early days of dress up...


samuel's throw back days to when selah dressed him up!


not sure about this one...perhaps someone just tooted??

face of faith

please check out emma's new blog, where there will be updates on our sweet emma...
"emmakaitstanphill.blogspot.com"

you can also get there from my blog...see "blessings in my life".

thank you all, again, for praying!!!!

emma

no real news yet on our sweet emma...
they finished all the testing in order to stage her cancer, but will have no results until nest tuesday.
last night they were hopeful to go home and have a restful weekend in their own beds...but as they were getting set to leave, emma began having increased back pain, nausea and headaches.
so, the discharge was stopped.
the frustration of it all was overwhelming...
but, God is in control...we know this full well.
"What is true in the light is also true in the dark"-K. Wolf


if you are intereseted, you can read emma's beautiful story of her baptism on her family's blog, "Stanphillstory.blogspot.com"

thank you again for all of the prayers!!! emma and her family send their thanks!!!!

emma kait

life can change in an instant.

for my sweet niece that instant was today at 3:30pm.



that's when our precious emma kait was told she has a type of lymphoma.


my brother and sister in law packed her up and drove to a hospital in sacramento tonight to begin life changing tests, scans, line placements, blood draws and painful biopsies.

they hope to stage her cancer in the next several hours/days and then begin the proper course of treatment.




it seems unreal...definitely unfair.

i know God is still on the throne...still in charge...and even more heart broken over this than i.

if anyone reading this believes in it (or even if you don't) please pray for our emma.

pray for peace, strength, mercy, rest.(especially for jon and rebecca, emma's parents)


pray for healing, grace, perseverance, wisdom.

pray for God to be glorified throughout this whole ordeal.

we love you ek!

who was sacagawea?

selah did a book report/oral presentation on a native american female patriot at school recently.

she picked sacagawea.

who???(i had no idea!)

well, after reading her book with her (twice) i now know exactly who she was. (more than just the cute indian girl in "night at the museum"!!)

she had to dress like her patriot...(that is a baby on her back)

lucky for us she looked just like her!

perhaps when elia is in school, she can pick barbie!!

she was an american patriot, right?

not quite

we were dressed...
(we heard it was cold there!)


we had faces painted...


we had wings, and BBQ and even chocolate cake...


we were ready...

but apparently it takes more than awesome fans to win a super bowl!

dang it!

maybe next year!

to our trusty Steelers fans...we love you!!

here we go....

our formative years...



from LA to Baltimore...

kids walking through the house humming "here we go...Pittsburg's going to the super bowl!"


we are getting ready!

saturday samuel

...turned seven!
his breakfast choice...

sticky monkey bread and sausage




then he went to the santa monica pier with his daddy and his buddy jude! (sorry no pics...i wasn't invited!)


his dinner/dessert choices...the yummiest ribs, tri tip and chocolate raspberry cream cheese brownies ever!


(he requested that we sing "happy birthday", but the "you look like a monkey and you smell like one too" version!)


his favorite presents...

a new bike and some cool "bey blades" (aks dan, he bought some for himself too!)
happy number seven buddy!
we love you!