Oh Happy Day

So as you can tell, our "Oh Happy Day" has finally arrived.

This is us patiently awaiting their arrival. They had music blaring and everyone was is great spirits.

The firetrucks........thats how I knew which direction they were going to come from.

The crowd of people......there were just as many people to my left.

Everyone got really excited when the firetrucks turned on their flashing lights, we knew then that it was close (12:30)

The firetrucks spraying water on the buses as they rolled in.

Here come the buses

The soldiers in formation

After they called "Fall-out"

Here he comes....

A sweet reunion with Miss Macky......she didn't know what to think.

One happy girl!

One happy family!
They played Etta Jame's "At Last" during this time....what a perfect ending!

The buses as they drove away, left a formation of our soldiers.

















Our soldier's marching forward.....they just had to play that song.

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy 3rd Birthday Mackenzie!

Happy 3rd Birthday Mackenzie!!

"Happy Birthday" at school

Our birthday girl, getting blown away in the wind. There were gusts up to 35 mph!

Mackenzie with her pal, Ryan.

Mackenzie with Damien

We couldn't even have her blow out a candle, because the wind would've done it before she even had a chance.

Ballet Lessons

Mackenzie had her first ballet lesson today. It was so cute! She did really good about following directions for about the first 15min of it, then kinda went off on her own. She'll get into it eventually.

10 Laps!!

Mackenzie completed 10 laps at the trike-a-thon today! She really enjoyed it, and even started going pretty good towards the end. Thank-you all who donated to St Jude's.

Our little miracle!

As a lot of you know, Mackenzie got tubes in last Wednesday. The procedure went very well. While she was sedated, they did another ABR (hearing test) on her. Her results came back as NORMAL!! I truly believe that this is a miracle from God. Mackenzie was diagnosed with a sensorineural hearing loss which is irreversible, but here she is now with "normal" hearing and she doesn't have to wear her hearing aids anymore. They did say her left ear was still "a little low", but she doesn't have to wear them anymore, and it shouldn't hinder her.

There are two types of hearing loss, conductive (which has to do with fluid behind the ear-reversible if caught in time) and sensorineural (which has to do with something wrong neurologically-irreversible). When they did Mackenzie's initial hearing test, the one where they found she had a hearing problem, there was no fluid behind her ears. They did multiple tests to ensure it wasn't fluid. Plus, the type of hearing loss she had (high frequency loss) is associated with sensorineural. Conductive loss generally creates a low frequency hearing loss.

Mackenzie has been seeing the ECI team here in Killeen, and even the deaf education specialist that Mackenzie's been seeing for the last year is flabbergasted about the whole thing. She doesn't understand how this could've happened either. Like I said, I truly believe this was a miracle. The doctors may have misdiagnosed her on that original appointment, but where was the fluid? Also, for all you pessimists out there, the same audiologist did her ABR both times, so there is no difference in technique or interpretations! Praise the Lord for he is good!!

St. Jude's Trike-a-Thon

Today Mackenzie got to ride her first tricycle! She did pretty good. We had a few steering issues and pushing issues, but by the end, she was steering pretty good. I still had to push her most of the time, but I think she'll get better and better. This is an early b-day present for her. Her school is doing a Trike-a-thon for the St. Jude Children's Hospital in a couple of weeks and she can raise money by riding her trike around and doing laps. If anyone is interested in donating $1 per lap, let me know and I'll mark you down for this great cause. I'll even send you a pic of our little princess while she's doing her laps!

Easter Egg Hunt

Mackenzie had a really fun time at the Easter Egg Hunt this year. She didn't get a lot of eggs (she acted kind of shy at first), but she really had a blast. Her favorite part was after when they got to eat cookies and sing songs:)
Counting her eggs (she really counted them, she's getting quite good at her numbers)