Life has been pretty hectic lately and I’ve decided to not even try and update the blog for the last month.  Most of what is on my heart is on the deeper level and I just have not found or made time to process and write the way I need to.  I’ve been out of town for 12 out of the last 30 days in 3 different states (visited my parents and helped my soon to be sister-n-law with some final wedding preparations in Colorado, traveled on a business trip with Daniel to Salt Lake City, went camping in Arkansas with some of our great friends, The Westers), helped Daniel’s brother’s family get ready for their move from Nashville back to Texas and said goodbye, planned two wedding showers, celebrated graduations, birthdays, and engagements, bought a fridge, started dancing lessons with Daniel, hung out with my 242 girls and friends, and have been preparing for the upcoming family wedding this next weekend and the trip to Texas.  Whew!  It has been a whirlwind of fun and change and I am looking forward to a hopeful respite after we return from the wedding.

But……

My precious friend Emily whom I have blogged about numerous times before is currently in the 6-8 hour surgery that should provide her a new chance at LIFE.  She is undergoing the lung transplant surgery that she has been waiting on officially for the last year but for many, many years as she has battled Cystic Fibrosis.  I am anxiously awaiting the news of the success of the surgery and have decided to stay in Nashville at least most of today so I can update her blog quickly for her other family and friends.  You can check that out here.  I ask that you pray for her, for her family, for her doctors, for the donor’s family, and for me as I make decisions and seek to love her and support her during this major life change.

Here’s the last picture of us I could find but this was from last summer.  I know we’ve taken more since then!