Frankie Update

I think I e-mailed most of you yesterday with more urgent requests for prayers, but here's the latest update on Frankie. He is still hanging in there, but he's not "out of the woods" according to Meg. If you sign the guestbook, you can get updates e-mailed to you whenever Meg posts on the site.

Mark's B-day

Here's video, as promised, of Mark's birthday celebration on Monday.

Updates all around...

A reminder today to please say lots of prayers for Baby Frankie as he has a major surgery today. As of this blog, he has been in surgery for about 4 hours and the procedure was scheduled to take 4-6 hours so I'm hoping to hear good news any minute. It's a pretty scary thing, and it is considered open heart surgery...so please continue to pray for them. They have been through more than most people will ever have to go through in a lifetime, I just can't imagine how scared they are, but they really appreciate all of you thinking of them and praying for the care team, the family and especially Frankie.

One more update, my grandma could go home from the hospital as early as today. They are just waiting for one little function to happen (I won't go into detail) and then she can go home. Thanks for all your prayers there too! The docs are amazed at how fast she bounced back from surgery...they keep telling her she needs to slow down:) That's my Grams! Grandpa still seems to be doing ok at home alone, but I will be happy to have them both in one place so they can keep an eye on each other!

The Cow Jumped Over the Moon

Oh, no! Riley has decided that the cow shouldn't jump over the moon. Whenever you tell her the cow jumped over the moon her response is something like this "Oh, no!" or "Oh my goodness" or "Oh, my!" And now she has Zacky doing it too!

Dinner at the G-T's

(That's Grandma Trish and Grandpa Tom = G-T's) We had dinner at my parents house last night for Labor Day weekend...Dinner was FANTASTIC and Riley had her first corn on the cob all by herself! The picnic table the kids were eating at was ours when we were little!

Tonight, we're off to dinner with the G-S's for Grandpa Mark's b-day...Happy Birthday Mark!

And on the baby front, still no Baby Bartsch born yet. We thought for sure she would go in August, but today is September 1 and still no labor! That's good...who wants to have a baby on Labor Day...too ironic! My friend Aimee is due any minute too, so I'll have lots of baby news to report soon.

And remember to keep Baby Frankie in your prayers. He has his major surgery tomorrow to repair his broken little heart!

That's it for now...more to come after the b-day party tonight, I'm sure!

Practice Day

Josh and I will be in a wedding in October for Josh's best friend Jimmy and his wife-to-be, Erica. Yesterday the girls got together for practice hair and make-up. Here's a shot from our play day...you won't see pics of the finished product until after the wedding, that would ruin the dramatic effect! We got some really pretty dangly earrings and a cute glass nail file from Erica for our bridesmaid gifts...Thanks, Erica! I love them both...the earrings are going to look AWESOME with the dress!

State Fair '08

I haven't posted with picture in a while, plus most of my posts have been prayer requests, so I thought I'd do some more lighthearted fun posts this week. These are pics from our two trips to the State Fair with Riley this year (yes, TWO, and I would have gone more if I had the time and endless funds, I LOVE the fair!) Riley had her first Fudge Puppy (not shown, but it's a belgian waffle on a stick dipped in chocolate and this year covered with strawberries) She had some chocolate shake and snow cone...loved that! And tried some big fat bacon on a stick. She didn't like cheese curds as much as I thought she would and she wanted to try the Wine Ice Cream, but that was not in her Fair Food agenda...it was however in Mommy's agenda:) She loved the goats and the puppy barn and of course the HUUUUUGE fishies at the DNR exhibit. And she LOVED the Merry...or the Merry Go Round and Round as she called it! (Who is having more fun, Riley or Grandma?) She would have done nothing but that all day but big bad mommy told grandma no more so lots of tears were shed, but overall we had a great time last week!