Team Deacon

Around Christmas time I mentioned that for Christmas Mason wanted his friend Deacon to get better. This is a childhood friend of mine Shari and her precious baby Deacon. She and her husband have had a difficult rode with their precious little boy. God has been doing miracles in his life daily. Deacon was born with many abnormalities in his brain. He is also missing his corpus callosum. In December, they were told to take Deacon home from the hospital and enjoy their days with him. Shari and I prayed over this precious little boy in the hospital. I cried right along with her. I'm happy to say that Deacon continues to grow and all tests have come back negative. They have a rough road ahead of them but God continues to do miracles everyday in his life. She and Matt have many difficult decisions to make over the next few months. I'm asking my blog family to please keep their family in your prayers. Mason keeps Deacon's picture in his crib and every night we ask God to continue to heal Deacon. I believe children are never too young to begin a prayer life. Thank you for keeping this family in your thoughts and prayers.

After Christmas we went to see Deborah in N.C. Mason was able to play in the snow for the first time. Ummmm let's just say he was less than impressed. :) Here he is with his girls Ella and Ava. My college roomate Lori lives down the street from my sister. These are two of her five kiddos :).

Birthday Party for Jesus

This is the highlight of the Christmas season for our family. For the past 40 years my parents would have a birthday party for Jesus every Christmas night. (For the record they started before I was born :) ) Four years ago, Kevin and I took over the tradition and we love ending our Christmas day reading God's word and celebrating the true meaning of Christmas. Mason was a shepherd this year. As you can see from his pictures it was not his favorite role. Mason has some sensory issues. He is very sensitive to sound. Everytime we would all start singing he would cry cry cry. Like the amazing parents we are, we looked at him and laughed and told him
We don't sound that bad !!! Christmas memories. They are the best. :)
Cole was baby Jesus. Isaac and Mason were the shepherds. Layla was our beautiful angel. Dilynn and Callahan were Mary and Joseph.
This is my precious friend Sarah. She is in Haiti for the next 6 mths working with children with special needs that have no family. Please keep her in your prayers. She is an amazing blessing.

Christmas Day!

I love my new car!!!!! Thanks Emmy and Ty Ty

I love my pirate ship from Aunt Le Le and Uncle Kevy D!

Grandpa and Grandma bought me my very own castle! I love my swing and slide.

Christmas in Tallahassee

Mason and his great grandma!!




Mason is in Love with Gradma :)

I loved Santa

I told Santa, I wanted my friend Deacon to get all better for Christmas. (We'll tell you Deacon's story in our next blog)

Look at my cool new braces

Shriners hooked Mason up with some awesome "jean" patterned braces. We are forever grateful for all they do for our little boy.


This is my new girlfriend Katie :)

Little "P's" 30th bday party

As you can see Mason was not as excited about his outfit like we were. We had fun at Priscilla's 80's themed 30th bday. Our little man would have fit right in in the 80's.

Happy Trunk or Treat

Mason is doing just great. This year he was dressed as a hopsital patient and Kevin was a doctor and I was his nurse. We had a blast at trunk or treat!! Too bad everyone at church thought something had happened to him. (Even though we were there that morning and he looked great. ) We laughed and told them he was perfectly fine. :)

Mason's Miracles

Hey, I'm sooooo sorry it has taken this long to update my blog. The past two months have been a blur. I started my full time job with the Florida Virtual School. (love it) I've been going to several trainings in Orlando. We found a house and closed in 21 days and have been moving this past week. Needless to say between the house, working and Mason my plate has been overflowing. I appreciate all the sweet comments I've been getting curious about Mason. That means so much to us and I promise I'm back and will update frequently. :) Mason is doing great. So many amazing miracles God has given us. The one that we are most excited about is he now weighs 20 pounds. Thank you Lord. I didn't think we would break in to the two's but he did it. He's doing better with keeping solid foods down. He takes an ounce or two by bottle. The majority of his feedings are with his tube but we're making great progress. The other exciting thing is he sat by himself for 30 seconds at therapy. Yipeeeeee!!!! Of course we were crying, taking pics and he just looked at the three of us like we were crazy and he didn't understand why we were being so dramatic. I couldn't believe it. This is the one thing that I have prayed that God would allow him to do. Being able to sit and play is my dream and so I'm waiting patiently for that day but until then I'm content with 30 seconds. He is starting to say DaDa and MaMa a little. He tries so hard to talk and moves his mouth. He is growing up and we couldn't be more proud of his accomplishments.
Those of you who do not live around us, we moved back to Pinellas County. This has made a huge impact on our lives. It used to take us an hour to get to therapy and an hour back. Now it takes 8 min. Church only takes 15 and our pediatrician is 5 min. away. I was explaining this to a friend. It blows me away when God makes a path so straight and clear that you know no one could have done that except HIM. I don't know why that catches me off guard. God is constantly blessing our lives but I love when I look at a situation and know for a fact only God could have done that 100%. We love our home and we are forever grateful to be closer to our friends. I know there is more to tell you. I don't want to put it all on one blog. I promise to continue to update. Until then we will celebrate God's amazing Miracles and thank him for his goodness.
Love you all, Wendy

Look at me I'm sitting for the first time. Thank you Lord for Miracles!!!