Walk-a-thon in memory of Lindsay Bear

Just as last year our family will be walking in the Children's Hospital Boston Walk-a-thon this coming June. Last year we had a blast traveling to Boston and doing the 2 mile walk. This year we are walking 7 miles for this wonderful hospital.

While Lindsay was at CHB she had excellent care! The staff and doctors were great not only with Lindsay but with Laura, Jon and family members. I was able to visit Lindsay twice in her 6 weeks stay and I was able to see it for myself. They truly are great. We are very excited about going again this year.

We each have to raise money for this event. Would you consider helping Garrett and I out with this? We would love to raise as much money as we can while remembering our sweet Lindsay Bear. If you are intrested in sponsoring us, you can make a donation at either one of these sites (or both if you feel led)

Thanks in advance for being willing to help us out.

Julie's Page : https://howtohelp.childrenshospital.org/walk/pfp/?ID=HJ0104

Garrett's Page: https://howtohelp.childrenshospital.org/walk/pfp/?ID=HG0013

Our Group at last year's Walk

Prayers Needed for my Aunt

We are asking for prayer for my Aunt Jeanne. (My mom's sister) She has just been diagonsed with Stage IV Ovarian Cancer. As this is coming as a shock we are leaning on our GOD to carry her and her family through this time! She has 2 kids whom are both married and the sweetest little granddaughter Ainsli.

My Aunt is so special to us. She has always loved us and thought of us has her own. She loves our kids!!! We have such great memories from growing up being spent with her and my Uncle Mark.

So we ask that you pray for peace and comfort for them and that they feel the love of Jesus wrapped around them and that they know there are people pray for them.

Aunt Jeanne, we love you so very much and we are so glad that you are apart of our lives and the lives of our kids. We are praying for you and Uncle Mark. We are here for anything you need!!!!!!!!!! You will beat this, we know you can!!! Love you so much!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We hope that you all had a very great Christmas! We sure did!!! The Houston's had a busy day but enjoyed watching the kids really get into Chrismtas this year. In our house, I can never sleep on Christmas Eve and we are always up early. We woke the kids up at about 6:45. Emma didn't sleep well the night before so she was pretty tired. She really understood Santa this year so it was so fun to see her face when she came out in the living room. She was a tornado and tore through her presents. Ethan on the other hand, we had to force him to open more presents after the first one. He was happy and content with what he had in his hands and didn't need anything else.

We then headed to the Welte house where we opened gifts with Granny, Pop, Unlce Zach, Unlce Jon, Aunt Ra-Ra, Tanner, Case, Grandma Laurel, and Grandpa Van. By mid morning Emma wasn't acting herself and we figured out she had a fever. After breakfast we decided it was best not to travel an hour to be with more family. Gar and I headed home with the kids for naps in hopes that would make them feel better. However, while they were sleeping we had to take our tree down. It had been dying over a couple weeks and it was looking really bad. Needless to say, by the time we got it out of the house there were only a few needles left on the floor. Lots of cleaning to do.

On Saturday Ethan started with hives all over his body. We took him to the doctor and figured out it was a food alleregy. Still not sure what he ate.

So we had an exciting Christmas weekend! :)

Emma's 1st visit to the ER

This past Friday we had quite the interesting day! Emma and our dog Lola were playing together. This is a very normal thing in our house. The next thing I knew Emma was screaming and holding her lip. Lola had scratched her lip and taken a nice piece out of her bottom lip. It stopped bledding right away. I called my mom in a panic and her and my dad and brother came over to check it out. Needless to say, my mom, Emma and I went to the hospital. After waiting for 5 hours.. yes that's right 5 hours. She was getting 5 stitches in her lip by a plastic surgeon. It was a horrible experience for her and for ME! I sat behind the curtain listening to her scream for me and cry. I CRIED the whole time. It was awful!! :)

She is doing very well, but her mom on the other hand is driving her crazy worrying that she is going to hurt her lip. We take her in 2 days back to the doctor for him to look at it and I guess take them out. Check out some of the pictures to see her little adventure...

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Happy Birthday Kenzie Rae

Today is our niece Mekenzie's birthday!! We are wishing her a HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Mekenzie is #2 of 5 kids. She loves babies and is great at helping out with the kids. She is going to be a great babysitter in a few years and a great mom when she is older with kids of her own. Kenzie this week just got her cast off of her wrist. She broke it a few weeks back. We look forward to celebrating with her tomorrow.
Love you Kenzie

Happy 13th Birthday Zachy

Today is my little brother's birthday! I can't believe he is 13. When he was born I was only 12 years old. I remember wanting my mom to have twins. :) That would have been interesting!!! I wanted to be in the delivery room when he was born. My mom and dad were fine with that until it was actually starting to happen. They got worried that it would scare me. But I really wanted to be in there. I was able to see Zach being born and I loved it!! He is a great uncle to all his neices and nephews and they all just love him!!

So with that said, Zachy we love you TONS! We hope you have a really great birthday today. Enjoy! You are now officially a TEEN... AHHHHHH that's scary! :)

Happy 5th Birthday Tanner

Today is my nephew Tanner's 5th birthday. We are hoping he has an excellent day. When I told Emma this morning that it was his birthday she got sooo excited. She LOVES birthday's.

Tanner is a big brother to his little sister Lindsay and his little brother Case. He is an amazing kid. When his little sister Lindsay was in the hospital for 6 weeks is was soooo wonderful.

Tanner, Aunt Julie and Uncle Garrett love you very much. Emma is so excited about your birthday. We hope you have an extra special day. Sending you big hugs buddy. Love you!!!