California - Sea World

John loves to travel. It is not always kind to John's system, and while he had some issues this time, nothing that would keep him from having a good time! He was excited to ride on the airplanes, thrilled to run through the airports and even excited to see family when we landed in California. After a long ride through more traffic than I have ever seen before and ever care to see again, we finally landed at our hotel and he was off to sleep. The next morning my mom, nephew, Mark, John and I headed out to San Diego to go to Sea World. We had a wonderful time. John was mesmerized by the shows, especially the Blue Horizon show with the people on swings and diving into the water and parrots flying overhead and dolphins jumping and such. As soon as we got out of that show though he took the map and pointed, he was ready to play in the water and what a great time he had.

John 2008

John 2007

John 2006

John 2005

John 2004

Furiously...

...getting ready to go to my nephew Wyatt's wedding, and then flying, celebrating, flying and getting back home. So I'm loading up old pictures of John, some may have been here previously, some maybe not, but in this time when we are waiting to see how John's gut is going to react to the steroids and feeds and all that kind of stuff it's just nice to see how far the little monkey has come. Thank you to everyone who has prayed for him and for us, you have no idea how much it means to us to know how loved John and we are!

So here's where we started, 2003, still in the NICU, but even then bright eyes, that watched everything and a little spirit that seemed like it was ready to take on the world.