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Friday, March 7, 2008 12:05 AM CST

Here is the link you can go to for viewing some of our Make A Wish pics!


Hello Again!
I know it has been a long time coming..so sorry. Since the last update in September a lot has happened...all good!
In October we went to Orlando! Jake could have cared less about Disney World. The resort we stayed at Give Kids the World Village was the most amazing place on earth!!!! We all fell in love with it and wanted to stay forever!! Ice cream all day long, two pools (one of which was right outside our villa and it was the smaller pool so it was like our own private pool), Awesome Merry-G0-Round, Castle, Dino Putt-Putt, a Train (really a trolley like thing) that picked us up at our villa and took us anywhere on the resort or just for a ride, Christmas on Thursday night complete with Santa, presents, fake snow and much more....Jake fell in love with the beach and most importantly SHAMU! Also he developed a passion for airplanes and jets. He flies one on a daily basis (in his pretend world). We hit Sea World on our last full day there and I am so happy because he was finally starting to come out of his shell and talk to characters so it was truly magical for him! We honestly hear about Shamu and Sea World on a daily basis,so yes we will be heading back to Orlando, but next time it will be without the magical Make-A-Wish button and accomadations. We cannot thank Make-A-Wish and Give Kids the World enough. Truly amazing what they do for children and what they did for our family. Absolutely precious memories that we will hold in our hearts for a lifetime! I literally have over 1,000 pics of the trip and will have to download a few to my computer soon so you all can see his joy. Thankfully the Give Kids the World Village provided FREE photography service. Each time my memory card was full they would transfer it to a disk in slideshow format and they also provided us with a video camera and did the same! Talk about rolling out the red carpet. If anyone is heading to Sea World we would highly recommend the Dinner Buffet that includes the Shamu Rocks show...we all left that night in tears. Eating next to Shamu was awesome and then the show...WOW! Odd how killer whales left us all so emotional! Thank you, thank you, thank you Make-A-Wish! And extra big thanks to our Make-A-Wish ladies who were so good to us and Jake!
After the trip we went back to normal life. I panicked that Jake may have relapsed because he was acting like a normal 3 year old (tired, cranky, not eating, etc) thankfully he had a check up in December and he is all CLEAR!!!! Next visit December of this year!!!
Then Chad and I decdided to start looking at homes since the prices are so fantastic right now........Well, we fell in love with the second house we saw and it was ours 32 days later......Jake is thrilled! Even though he was not too happy about leaving the plantation....this meant no longer being a few hundred yards from Papa and Baba. However, he has really adjusted well!

He is doing fantastic in school. He is obcessed with numbers!!!!!!!!! Seriously almost scary. Just enrolled him in Pre-K4! What a blessing!

Hope all is well and look forward to updating pics soon!

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