Jordan

We had our IFSP (individualized family service plan) yesterday with the people from DDD. We wrote some goals and talked about our next steps. Jordan will be getting a speech therapists that will come work with him each week, a Devolpmental specialists that will also work with him a few times a week, and maybe an occupational therapist. So that is where we are. We hope with all of these in place he will catch up to where he needs to be and no other problems arrise. We will still be talking with our peditriction on if any futher tests need to be run and hopefully soon we will get tubes in his ears. Thanks so much for your past and continuing prayers. And I will keep you up to speed as we hear or find out things.

Peace

Looking out at those waves and knowing what is going on in my heart and in my life I felt a peace that I have never known. God, the God who made all of this, the God who controls all of this, is going to carry me through this time in my life and I will come out on the other side, it may be months or years but I will come out. And even though I am tossed about in the waves of life, I know who made those waves and who controls them and I have nothing to worry about even though I feel like they are going to pull me down and I will drown. I won't because God will give me everything I need to rise above those waves. What a promise he gives us and what a reality that became in my life that day just standing there and taking in the beauty.

Califonia

Gabe and I went on a great trip to Califonia just last week. We have had this trip planned for abotu 6 months which seemed like forever and it would never arrive. But it did and at a time when we both really needed it. I posted a few of my fav. pictures on here, you can see all of them on my flicker site. Well we got the Southern Califonia city pass, which gives you admission to 5 different parks. We had a pass to disneyland and Califonia adventure, sea world, san diego zoo, univeral studios. We left on sunday after a meeting and had until the next sunday afternoon to come home. So each day we did something different. We went to universal studios on Monday that was fun, I went on the scarest ride of my life, the Jarassic park ride, it had a 84 ft drop, I thought I was going to die, really i thought I was going to die. Then on Tuesday and Wednesday we did disneyland and CA adventure. They were fun, we definitly loved CA adventure more and hope to take the boys there really soon. On Thursday that day was just an adventure from the start. We got up really early so we could head to San Diego to find that our van had been taken over by ants, A LOT of ants, everywhere. So we headed to a car wash and had everything vaccumed and washed and then bought some ant spray and sprayed the heck out of our car and then drove to San Diego almost choking on the fumes. But at least our ants were gone. The zoo was fun, really hot and a lot of walking but oh such beautiful flowers all colors and kinds. I loved it. Sea world was so cool, we didn't ride any of the rides but caught a few shows, petted some rays and even petted and feed some dolphins, that was my favorite part. On Friday it was our free day with nothing really planned so we got up early went to the beach which was so incrediable. The we went back to CA adventure, I told you we really loved that place. Everynight we walked around and ate at Downtown disney, we loved eating at Tortilla Joe's very good food. And wanted to hit something with live music but no one played live during the week. On Saturday we headed home but stopped off in Pasadena so see our great friends Mark and Kim and had lunch and spent most of the afternoon there catching up. That was our great vacation and I hope you enjoy the pictures. We did miss the boys so much but I think they had such a great time with friends and family while we were away.