Happy New year and a pic marathon

This has certainly been an interesting year.. Full of surprises and ups and downs. The year has ended much better than it began. It began with seizures... and were ending with none. Today, Dawson has been seizure free 98 days!!! 98 days!! We have celebrated each and every one of them and give praises to the healing hand of God. For he has delivered Dawson from the seizure monster.

In my heart, I know he has been healed. The enemy still likes to play games and mess with my mind though. I am finding its much harder to have the kind of faith to believe that he HAS been healed than the faith it took to believe he COULD be healed. Strange I know, but its true.

After EVERYTHING God has done for me and my family, I somehow still find it within myself to doubt him.. I have SUCH a long way to go!!

But I stand before you today, and proclaim victory in Jesus name over seizures.

Dawson is doing so good. He is so happy. He is learning so fast.. He has great distance to cover to get completely up to speed but he is making up ground fast.... Christmas morning we walked in with him and all eyes were on him to see his reaction.. He looks around with his sleepy little eyes and then he says... " PRESENTS!!" We didn't even know he knew that word!! Speech is coming along very nicely.. slowly but surely he is communicating. We are still so amazed at what life is like with a slain seizure monster.

We go public places without a second thought about what Dawson will be like.. We go out to eat in restaurants ( something we didn't even DARE to try) most of you know what Im talking about.. Its just so amazing.

So we wave goodbye to 2010 on a very good note.. This year has been full of spiritual growth. My best year in 40!!

Hope you enjoy all the pics from our holidays.

Love to you all

Jeff

Also, We had our first white Christmas that I can ever remember.. White Christmas in Alabama!! Just doesn't bet any better than that..

Also again, If you notice the pics with Dawson's cut eye and shiner... He got in the way of a vicious ping pong match between me and Madison on the Wii.... Thank goodness it was Madison who hit him and NOT me!!

Merry Christmas

Wishing all of our friends near and far a Christ filled Christmas this year..

MERRY CHRISTMAS with much love to each and every one of you


Jeff, Allison, Ashlyn, Katelin, Madison, and of course Dawson

little santa

Hanging out all Santa like... enjoying being seizure free. His phrase of the week this week.... " HO HO HO"

We are of course loving it. Loving seizure freedom and all the great stuff seizure freedom brings!!

Also appreciate all of you and your many prayers!!

This week we have also been singing our ABC's. Seizure freedom = Developmental gains.. Hes got a long way to go but hes catching up fast.

Our love to all of you

Jeff

Tomorrow would have been a bad day

If today was going to be the day the day it was going to be 79 days ago, then tomorrow was going to be a long day. Because 79 days ago we were in Memphis at Children's Hospital talking to Neurosurgeons. Those same neurosurgeons had just days ago had found a malformation in Dawson's right frontal lobe. 79 days ago we were told that the best chance Dawson would have for seizure freedom was to have brain surgery and have a portion of his brain removed. 79 days ago we scheduled brain surgery for Dawson based on our faith, and the fact that we believe God led us directly to Memphis for a specific reason. We did not at the time know the reason, but we both felt it.

79 days ago, while in that same hospital, Dawson had his last seizures. So just in case your math isn't as good as mine, tomorrow would have been the first day of a two week, two brain surgery process. So today, instead of packing for a two week stay in Memphis, instead of spending the day filled with worry and dread.... Today, we instead are kicked back at home, enjoying a seizure free little boy. A little boy who in the last 79 days has shown remarkable progress in catching up on developmental delays that having seizures since he was two months old has caused.

When we scheduled this surgery, I had today specifically in mind. I wondered how I would feel today.. I wondered how scared i was going to be knowing I was going to place my 3 year old on an operating table. Knowing I was going to have to kiss him goodbye. Knowing I was going to have to watch him endure two brain surgeries. 79 days ago I had no idea that God had different plans for us and different plans for Dawson.

So instead of spending the day in fear, and worry, and living with all the questions that I knew I was going to have.. ( like what will he be like after they remove part of his brain??, What if the surgery is not successful and now we've complicated it by having this surgery done?? ) Instead of all that.. my thought process is one of gratefulness and thanksgiving. Thankful that God's has undeniably intervened. I am so grateful for Dawson being seizure free and grateful that his EEG is now normal.

You certainly can believe what you want, but IM telling you that Dawson is a child who has been touched by the hand of God.

A little boy who was ravaged by numerous seizures daily, who couldn't say more than one word at a time, who was violent and developmentally delayed has been transformed into a seizure free kid, who is as sweet as can be, who is full of hugs and kisses, and is now speaking more and more freely with each passing day.

79 days ago, I had no idea that our lives could have changed as much as they have..

Thank you God for your healing hand!! Guess whos having a seizure free Merry Christmas this year????

Your love, support, and prayers have meant the world to us. Thank you

Jeff

Busy weekend and Pic marathon

What a busy weekend so far.. Not a whole lot to say so I will let the pics do the talking.. We took Madison to Huntsville Friday night to see Disney On Ice Princess Classics. It was a great show but I think Allison and I liked it much better than Madison did...

Saturday morning we went back to the Christmas tree farm to cut down the tree we tagged a few weeks ago.. Grandmom and Granddad went with us and everybody had a blast. This was our first time visiting this place and I think we have started a new family tradition.. They operate out of an old barn which I think is what makes this place so cool. Santa was there, they were serving hot apple cider that was warming on an old wood stove, two mules ( Jack and Jill) giving wagon rides.. It was just a lot of fun!!

Came home, got the tree up and then we had Madison's birthday party.. Thanks to everybody who came!! and a special thank you to those who drove in from out of town to help us celebrate Madison's 6th birthday. You guys are very special to us!!!!

Hope you enjoyed the pics

( and today is 72 days seizure monster free!!)

Love all of you bunches!!!!!

Jeff

ready for bed

Our happy little boy has been seizure free for 69 days

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