Life is not always as one plans.

Well, I didn't think we'd find ourselves in the hospital again so soon.  Poor little Asher has another respitory infection.  You may remember we spent five days in the hosital last March when he had RSV, then there was an unrelated surgery in July, another minor surgery in January, and now our poor little guy has pnemonia.   All being unrelated I know we're blessed he's not facing some chronic illness, but we sure haven't expected this path God's taken us down in learning to trust our son's health and well-being completely to HIS care.  There's nothing quite like seeing your otherwise healthy three month old put on oxygen, your 8 month old be taken screaming from your arms back to the operating room and watch him come out of anesthesia, or holding down your squirmy 17 month old while they dig around in his tiny arm to find an vein for an IV while he's screaming and sweating a fever over 103 degrees.  It's challenged us as parents, but we are blessed God holds his hand, and ours each and every day.  (And we are thankful for modern medicine!)

I've got a whole slew of posts on the back burner, half written, but as my title of today's posts so aptly declares, "Life is not always as one plans."  We've been living an absolute whirlwind since Easter, it seems.  I'll do my best to at least get the post of him in his adorable little Easter suit, egg dying and hunting (and all that cuteness) up on here later today.  :)

Since Easter, we've planned and celebrated Eric's 29th Birthday, planned and unfortunately had to postpone (on account of Asher in the hospital) a family baby shower for my little sister's first (due in a couple weeks!), finished planning for, laundering for, packing for, AND taking a ten day vacation WITH Asher and my parents to Costa Rica (where I lived and worked for a year and a half in my single days), spent one day back at home trying to do laundry and buy the basics at the grocery store while also comforting a sick little boy (who I didn't realize was quite as sick as he was!), and now are on day three here at the hospital.  Fun times.  It really has been up until this last week!

Anyway, the little guy is stirring, so I'd better go.  Here's a few teasers for putting up with my prolific writing above without a single photo, and our month and a half long drought on the posting front. 

To come:

Easter... 



















Asher's 17 Month post...
  (oops, sorry, guess those pics are still on the camera at home!)

Costa Rica...  gorgeous country, gorgeous weather, wonderful time!

And maybe we'll post a couple pics of him being such a trooper in the hospital.  :)  Sorry, I don't have any pics of that now, all of those are on the phone which is deader than a doornail at the moment, and I'm without a charger here until Eric can relieve me for a trip home.      

We continue to appreciate your prayers as Asher continues to heal!   (We were admitted Wednesday afternoon sometime shortly after our 1:30 doctor's appointment, and he's been on the mend rapidly since!  We have hope we'll be able to go home sometime this afternoon.  The doctor will be in sometime over lunch to check his progess!)  Anyway, thanks again for your prayers!

Meagan