Life as we know it

This is Zoie helping mommy blog :0  She loves technology!   We have had such a wonderful and blessed week in our house.  With Zoie feeling better, we have actually made plans and got to get out of the house.  We enjoyed a fun coffee date with grandma followed by some Easter shopping at Target.  If any of you moms are like me, I could go to Target everyday.  It's the one store I don't get sick of.  I always find a cute shirt, dress, or leggings for Zoie, I love the smell of their Up and Up brand baby cleansing wipes, and probably use them too often, so we always need those, and I feel like I'm always browsing their book section for a new good read.  Zoie rocked it in speech this week and we were told her vowel sounds are coming out more.  We are working hard on the "P" sound by "popping" tissues in the air.  A little like blowing them outward, just with the "P" sound.  Derik got to come home early Wed and enjoy doing Zoi...

You know God is on your side when he sends you for a random checkup, the doctor calls the hour before and tells you he wants a blood draw, and your kiddo ends up having elevated lipase levels, that would have never been caught any other way and could have been terminal. When they checked Zoie's lipase (pancreas) levels on Wed morning, they were at a 6,000.  Ours would all be at a 100-200.  When she had pancreatitis in Aug, her's were at 4,000.  Obviously her panrease was ticked off....or at least those were the doctors words. I always feel horrible when I start bawling at the doctors office because I am always so tough.  I usually at least hold back the tears until I am in the car.  All Zoie's GI doc kept telling me was that he was so so sorry.  And then there was me, who kept bawling :)  Everything always turns out okay, and I should probably carry around a note or something that says, "head up, chin high, Zoie will once again get through this."...

I cannot believe it's that time of year already; Spring is in the air, and that means we are gearing up for our second year of joining the Great Strides Walk for Cystic Fibrosis!  This year I changed our team name to "For the Love of Zoie."  For all of you who have our purple bracelets, that's the name of them, so we figured we would go with that.  It seemed fitting :) This year the walk will take place in Fort Collins again, on Saturday June 8th.  They usually ask you to show up around 8 to check in and gather as a team, then the walk starts at 9 am.  Its a 5K (3.1) miles.  Last year we had about 25 walkers join our team.  Our goal this year is to have 50 or more.  We were able to raise around 1,800.00 dollars last year.  I set our team goal at 5,000 this year.  It's a bit of a stretch, but I would love to help the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation out for research as much as possible, because it could mean a longer life for Zoie and so many ...