Going Green (A Little)

Well all this "talk" on Allison's blog has made me think. Sooooo......today I needed to go to the bank and to the store for a few things. Now we only live about 4 blocks from both so I put Natalie on the back of my bike and Courtney and Alex hopped on their bikes and away we went. We left the car in the garage:) It was a fun thing to do too! I also remembered to grab my reusable shopping bag for the items:) Well I guess it's a start we'll see what this leads to:)

Quick update

I don't know if anyone has checked out the link about our friend Norah on the previous post about her surgery, but I wanted to let you all know that she is home and during as well as can be expected. We can't wait to play with her soon although it will be a tamer form of playing for a while:) Natalie can't wait to see her and to be honest we all are looking forward to seeing her and the family. Thanks for all the prayers and please keep her on your prayer list there will be more surgery's to come.

Happy Birthday Courtney!

Courtney is 9!!

We celebrated with a dinner at Chili's with 2 friends from school and they also spent the night. They had a great time swimming and giggling:) It was a fun evening with some family too! One more year 'till we hit double digits!

Norah's surgery

I just wanted to let you know that our friend Norah will be having her surgery today. It will start @ 7:00 am with pre-op and will last at least 3-4 hours. Please continue to pray with us for this sweet little girl and her family.

So far so good. At about 11:45 the doctors are still working to get through scar tissue and then they will be able to start repairs. She did very well with the anesthesiologist and waved good bye to her parents when carried into surgery. I'll update as I hear. Thanks for your prayers and concerns.

Another update from the family: The docotors have started the repairs to Norah's heart she is now on bypass according to the recent update. The doctors found a hole in her heart that has gone undetected until now. It is something that everybody has before birth and usually closes after the baby is born. Norah's did not. She has high blood pressure so the doctors are not sure if they will close the whole during this surgery. This little one went into surgery @ 9:00 and this update was done @ 2:30. She's such a trooper!!

As of 6:30 the doctors took Norah off bypass but found some bleeding that needed to be controlled. they put her back on bypass and sutured around an old stent. They then took her off bypass again and she was doing well. They now have a sponge with clotting medication neatly packed next to her heart and hopefully soon they will be able to close her chest. Keep praying!

After 4 hours the doctors were finally able to control bleeding for Norah. the last update came around 11:30 last night and her parents were waiting to see her in the PICU. they left her chest open a little bit to monitor her more and hopefully they will be able to close it up today. Her heart is functioning well. the Lord has seen them through this phase of this trial and we all know he will continue to be there every step.

I hope that this works I'm giving you the link to visit norah's caringbridge page so if you want you can read the updates and see pictures of her and her family. www.caringbridge.org/visit/norahkruschel