Science experiment!!!!

Today me, my mom, Brett and Owen are the making a science experiment!!!! it is rock candy !!!it will take a long time to make it is really cool because we get to make it!!!!! they look like crystals!!

this is my mom pouring mine in its cup its my 2nd fav color!!

this is my mom pouring mine in the cup to pour in the cup that makes the crystals!!!

this is mom pouring Brett's in the cup that pour's it into the cup that make's the cystals!

The finished product!!! Now we just have to wait!!

Did my best!!!!!!!!

At first I was not going to be in the winter jublee but then I said that I wanted to be in it!!!! I did really good!!!!!

Brett and his sillyness

Brett is really silly!!! he is so silly he cracks up everybody in the family HA HA!!!!! nice hua hua!!!!I think boys are just that way all the time:) ben my cosuin is silly too:) love gracey

The aldi queen is my mom:)

My mom is the aldi queen!!!! ha ha ha that is the best huh huh!!!!!! she is the 1 at shoping!!! and she loves to shop to!!!!!! I love her to!!!she is the best ever!!!:)

good the docter said it looked good!!!!!

YES!!!! the docter said it looked good were my chest tube was :) yeeeeeeeessss!!!! ha!!!ha!!ha!!! I crack myself up!!!!!! haha!!!!!! who ever is reading this is going to crack up to!!!! and I forgot to say hi :) love gracey

I WENT TO SCHOOL!!!!!!

I went to my school because Brett's winter jubliee practice was today!!! I had to go the doctor after it so we stayed and watched he was so cute!!! I also got to go in my class and see all of my friends! It was so good!

I Miss you:(

I miss you lauren you are the best ever:)

I wish you were here right now:)

he's a rockstar!!!!!!!!!!=good at it:)

Josh my cosiun loves to play guitterhero. he thinks he is a cool dude:) he is good at it too. just so you know we are at the wilderness last year:)

simons baptism!!!!

on sunday we went to simons church for his baptism . for the church sirvis it was the boringist thing you could ever amagin and I had to be in there the hole time!!! graceygirl

I am geting well!!!:)

I feels well again it feels good!!!!! I made a sign with flowers made out of colored foam and letters made out of colored foam it says chloes bedroom:) it was my 2 time out of the house and I went to wallgreens!!!!!!!! I got some gum from grandma:) my cosuin came over her name is emma and abby and ethin. we played and played!!!! I am happy

The best grandma!!!!!

My grandma betty is the best ever:) she is so nice !!!! she has a nice smile!!I love her so much the boys do to:) love gracey

my cat

This is my little ozzie.
my crazy cat.
he is so smart that he watches tv:)

Well Wishes for Gracey!!!

I thought it would be a good idea if everyone left a comment/well wish for Chloe on this post. She LOVES getting comments on this blog, so I think once she's able to come here and read them all she's going to be thrilled! You don't have to sign up for an account, I just ask that if you do an anonymous comment, please sign your name to it. We're going to read these while she's laying in her bed for words of encouragement.

I know that Ryan and I have been so encouraged by your words on FB, so we want these comments to be specifically for our Gracey!!!


P.S. Take a look at some of her posts from the last couple of weeks - they are so stinkin' cute!

Chloe's story - in her Mommy's words

{Days and days leading up to the accident Chloe has been BEGGING me to get her hair cut - short and on an angle like mine. I was dragging my feet about getting it done, because I just love her long locks.}

I was at my friends house with 4 of my girlfriends when Ryan called me. He told me to go pick up the boys from a friends house, because there had been an accident with Chloe. I'm not so good in emergency situations, but I knew that I had to be with my girl. Thankfully, our friends who had the boys, offered them to stay the night and keep them the next day if needed, so I didn't even have to worry about them. Also, my girlfriends worked out a plan so that I didn't have to drive to the hospital by myself. Looking back at that - that was huge. I don't know if I would've made it there!

When I got to the hospital, I walked in her room, and Ryan was standing to the side watching about 8-10 people working on our baby. I lost it. They took us to a consultation room and just let us hold each other and cry. There was nothing that we could do to help our sweet baby girl and we felt so helpless. We prayed right there for her and asked for the Lord to heal our Gracey girl. Thankfully, my two friends who drove me there were there for me and just let me talk and cry. I was numb. It totally felt surreal - like it wasn't happening. I didn't know what to do. The only thing that I could do for her is to get people to pray for her. I had Susan call Joan at my church to put Chloe on the prayer chain; people posted it on Facebook, and from there it just snowballed. My baby girl had hundreds of people praying for her!

Chloe was going to get airlifted to The University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital, but before they left, they allowed us to go in and see her. Nobody should have to see their baby like that - NOBODY. It was awful. They handed me her little purple hoop earrings and the clothes that they cut off her body. Up until that point, I thought that she was unconscious and not able to breathe, but it was then that the doctor told me that they did that to her on purpose because they didn't know the extent of her injuries.

The flight team arrived and as they were preparing her for the flight to U of C, they noticed she had some air in her lung. They immediately scanned her lung to find out that she had a collapsed lung and then put a tube in her chest. The doctors from U of C said that the doctors from St. Anthony's placed the tube perfectly, and that they did everything just perfect for our girl. Once they completed all that she got on the helicopter and headed to U of C.

Ryan and I got in our car, still in complete shock that this was happening and headed to U of C. Our Pastor Kris texted us on our our way telling us that he was with Chloe at U of C and to drive safe. Ryan and I can't explain how much of a comfort that was to us. To know that someone was with her meant the world. My mom, brother Len, sister-in-laws Tara and Jen and cousin Rachel were also waiting for us in the waiting room when we got there, and that was so comforting as well. We had to wait a bit for the doctor to give us a report, and to have those people with us was just awesome! Thanks guys!

The doctor came in and gave the report that she had a small bleed on the brain on the back right side and a fracture on the front left side of her skull. Prognosis at that point was good, but it was basically a waiting game - the first 72 hours are crucial.

They finally came to get us so we could see our girl. Of course, Ryan and I cried and cried and just held on to each other. Shortly thereafter, our family members came in to see her. It's hard to see anybody on a ventilator let alone a 7-year old girl that you love dearly. We all shed some tears and then tried to get some sleep. I say tried, because honestly I didn't sleep a wink. My nerves had got the better of me and I was having trouble with horrible thoughts, so I was pretty much fighting with the devil all night and standing beside my baby. I would sing to her, pray for her, rub her head - anything to try to comfort her.

Morning FINALLY came - and she went for a CT scan. I was walking to the bathroom, and realized I knew one of the nurses. I stopped and talked with her and cried with her, and then she asked if she could come see Chloe. Of course, I said yes. She looked at her and how she was trying to wake herself up out of sedation and her vitals, etc. and she told me and Ryan "she's gonna be fine." After that she asked if she could get us something to drink. I asked for a Diet Coke while Ryan asked for a coffee. Little did we know that she was going to go to au bon pain and bring back coffee, diet coke, muffins and danishes. She was my little angel that morning (and pretty much proved to be my jem that night when she got everything we needed to take showers! :) She was awesome! Thanks Karen!)

While we were waiting for results I called Mel to give her an update and she told me that she was walking up to the hospital with Katie. Just what I needed! We waited so long to get the results, but the doctor said that if all came back with little to no change, then we would start to take her off the sedative and try to extubate her. The doctor came and said that there were no huge changes from the previous CT scan, so we were going to go along as planned with getting her off the sedative first to see how she would handle the ventilator. Well, let me tell you, she had a cheering squad in that room. People just kept showing up and we all just stood quietly by her bedside to see those beautiful eyes! She was fighting coming out, but she just wouldn't wake up enough for them to extubate her. My brother Paul and sister-in-law Kristin, niece Dana, Brian, Jori, Fritz, Jen, Heather, Jen, Rachel - we had a crew! (sorry if I forgot anybody - it's not intentional.) My brother and his family were getting ready to leave and she still hadn't woken up yet. My brother started to talk to her and tell her that they were leaving and they would really like to see her before they left. She started to really move around (her hands were strapped down the whole time) and FINALLY opened her eyes and woke up! The joy in me and Ryan's hearts when we got to see our baby girl's eyes was amazing. The respiration team quickly got into action to get her extubated and that went off without a hitch. They took the tube out of her nose and she was awake and telling us she was thirsty. She kissed us, she smiled at us it was just amazing! She was in and out of sleep and about 9 o'clock, Ryan and I decided that we needed some much needed sleep. I hadn't slept at all the night before, so sleep came very easily for me. I woke up around midnight to the nurse talking with Chloe. She was telling the nurse her name, holding her fingers up to tell her age, and gave a thumbs up! Oh it was just magnificent. To see my baby interact after so many hours of not interacting was just amazing!

I couldn't fall back to sleep. I think I had finally come to a point where I knew my baby was going to be o.k., I finally got my girl back! I cried....and cried....and cried. It was a really emotional time for me. I did go back to sleep about 4 and slept on and off until 6. All the while I would hear Ryan asking her what her middle name was and she would reply "Grace." It's just music to our ears when she can tell us what her brothers names are and what her birthday is.

We've had a few minor set-backs today, but nothing major! What they had originally thought to be fractures on her vertebrae are no longer there - they didn't show up on the second x-ray!! Another answer to prayer! They did find a non-displaced frontal sinus fracture. Nothing that needs operating, just monitoring for right now. No wrist fracture like they had thought.

She's been really sleepy today, which the doctors say is normal. Sometimes she's acting a bit confused and that's o.k. too. She's going to just need some healing time and I think before you know it, she'll be good as new. I'm going to guard her with my life, but she'll be good as new!

Ryan and I have sobbed over her bed because we didn't know what her future held for her. Last night, I sobbed over her bed because she's got a story that she's going to share in the future that includes God's healing power and the power of prayer! Oh, I can't wait to tell her all about it!

Oh, and the first thing on the agenda for her future? She's getting her hair cut!!! :)

Gracey girls weather forecast :)

Gracey girl at the weather forecast it will storm again at 1:12 :)please come again I LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!

A fun night with grandma and grandpa;)

On satrday my grandma and grandpa came to our house!!!!!!! we had pizza from pizzahut and had pop with it too!!! the boys had fun playing golf on wii;) I know that it will be fun when grandma and grandpa come!!!!;)

The deals from my mom

at aldi you can get 3 box of mac n cheeefor1.00. at aldi you can get milk for a1.49. at other stores it is 2.00 or more. that is the for now!!!!!!!!

Family vacation

coming soon

2010 has come!!!!:)

2010 has come. I hope it is a good year. I have waited for a long time for this year and it has finily come :) I love the snowflaces thay are pretty . this year is going to be fun I just feel it. love gracey:)

My world

My world is awsum and supar because I have good grades I think I am good at math too!!!!:)

My two brothers!!!!!

This is my brother O. he is 4 years old .you can tell we are at the lake because he has goggles on his head. my little O.

this is my brother B. he is 5 years old. we are in our own boat. he is waiting to go tubing. my little B.

Lunch time;)!!!!!!

Today I helped mom cook lunch we made noddles and soup and sandwiches.it is fun to cook with her. I can not say how much I love her. she's the best mom in the world;) I made eggs one time too!!!!!and I made toast too!!!! love Gracey

The cool thingsI love to do

The first thing I do that I love in my life is make friend ship bracelets with my own style. that is just my thing:) the second thing I love to do is to swim. I love to feel it :) that's the thing 's that I love!!!!!!

Going to auntie kaite's house for new years eve!!!!!

For New Year's Eve I went to auntie katie's house. I saw cally and anna to!!!! the boys spied on us . the girls painted nails I put hearts on my nails and toe nails too!!!! the adults yelled and screamed during the card game. I could not evening hear the movie!!!! when it was new years we yelled happy new years and had sparkling juice it was the best ever:)

My family Christmas

This year I thought it was the best christmas ever. I got an Ipod nano that is orange it is really cool . I was so excited to see what I got. my good cousin of mine Simon got a dsi. my brothers got a ds. my other cousin Ben got a ds too! my grandma and grandpa got my family a wii too! i love it so much!!!!!! WE WENT TO 3 CHIRSTMAS PARTYS!!!!!!! that was my favaorite christmas!!!!!