Ethan Farley

Please keep my friend Rhonda Farley in your prayers. Today her precious 7 week old son passed away at 2:50pm. In her words, he can now be in heaven with his brother and sister where his Papa can watch over him and he is no longer sick or in pain.

baby Ethan

Things with Ethan are not good. His organs are shutting down and they don't think he'll make it through the weekend. Still holding out for a miracle. Please pray for Rhonda Hall Farley and her family.

Enjoying 3 at school...

I am enjoying having all 3 kids at school. Week 1 the kids were ready to go. Channing was just dying that she had to wait til Wed. Then she was super upset that she didn't get to go back until the following Monday.

The first full week of school for the boys was a success. Sullivan got a couple of check marks but is that really a bad thing? They were for talking so I'm kinda glad he's already found a buddy. Now he's just got to work on the talking thing...or at least getting caught at it.

Dalton definitely has his work cut out for him this year. Lots of homework for 5th graders. His teacher really wants to push him this year...which means I'm going to be busy with lots of homework this year too. You would not believe how big he has gotten and how much he's changing. At our last checkup he's almost 4'11" and 85 lbs! And his voice is changing. He's squaking all over the place. Next Craig will have to teach him to shave. He has a little mustache growing!

Channing Gail's first full week of school went great too.

On the first day, she allowed me to walk her to class and asked for me to eat lunch with her. After lunch though, she was ready to go home and got a little upset when she realized she had to go back to class and I was going home! Day 2 I got to walk her inside school but she said she didn't need me to walk her to class...her brother would do that!
She still wanted me to eat lunch with her so I caved after she said she'd miss me if I didn't eat lunch with her. How can one turn this down? Day 3 she said she didn't need me to walk her inside. I could drop her off in the car line and she'd be just fine. So, I'm officially pulling up in the car line and dropping all 3 off. ***tear***

Pink day


Green Day


Blue Day


Red Day

Please Pray for my friend Rhonda's 3 week old twin Ethan

Ethan update: He has multiple brain bleeds in his capillaries, mainly on the right frontal lobe. They predict he will have cerebral palsy and some other deficits but unsure at this time. He also has swelling on his brain. He is on continuous plateletes and fresh frozen plasma to try to help with clotting. My friend Rhonda made it clear tonight that they love their son and are willing to take care of him no matter what deficits he may have. Ethan has fought this far and they are not going to give up on him now. At this time they are saying he is not a candidate for a liver transplant because of the brain issues.

School starts this week

The kids start back to school this week. I'm going to miss having them around but they are ready to get back to some structure. Channing Gail (as she wants to be called this year at school), only goes on Wednesday this week for a staggered day of kindergarten. She is so excited about kindergarten she can hardly contain herself. My last little one is starting school. Where did all my time go? What's next....college?

Praying for my friend Rhonda

Please pray for my friend Rhonda. She had twin boys at around 32 weeks, I think and one of the little fighters (Ethan) is really struggling. Diagnosed with enterovirus and having difficulty with liver and kidneys. Praying for miracles!

update from friend:

They are having a hard time getting Ethan's bp up and stablized tonight. There is also the detection of a heart mumor that was not there before. My heart is absolutely breaking but we are never going to give up on him or God. We are seriously considering the transfer to Cinci...Jamie is consulting with a specialist from there this evening to help us in our decision.

Happy 5th Birthday Channing Gail!

Last Sunday my sweet girl turned 5. She even starts kindergarten next month. She thought she got to start Kindergarten on Monday since she's now 5. She doesn't quite understand how all that works.

For her b-day she received a new bike but there aren't any birthday pics yet because her bday party is being delayed until Aug.



I wanted to wait until school started so she could invite her new friends from school. So, look for pictures coming after Aug 21. We are having a Hannah Montana impersonator come put on a concert for the girls. I'm so excited. Channing invites everyone she meets to her party! Who knows how many little girls will be there. Some of Sullivan's former 2nd grade classmates are dying to come.

Here's a few pictures of things that kept her busy this past year as a 4 year old...

At the ball with Grandpa...

Posing for a photos for a friend's clothing line...


competing in a cheer competition with young champions...


Playing thing 1 at brothers' school....

gymnastics at the Redbird game....


learning to swim.....



Graduating preschool!