The kidney stone experience we don't want to repeat.

This turned out to be a little more than your "run of the mill" kidney stone experience. By Saturday night Brian spiked a fever, which was still there Sunday night after 24 hours of antibiotics. After talking to the Doctor, it was decided to get him to the hospital. By the time they got him to a room and hooked up to morphine he was in excruciating pain. It took an hour for the morphine to start working. Finally, sleep came. The next day the Doctor did a procedure to remove the kidney stone for him. After seeing it, the Doctor said he would not have passed it on his own anyway. He is now home and recovering. What an ordeal!! This is one of those experiences that you can't help but question God and say, "Why, why does he have to experience all this pain?" This is the kind of question that we may never know the answer to. But we can rest in God for the strength we need to endure. I am reminded of the word picture I heard one time that says our lives are like a beautiful tapestry that God is weaving...the only problem is we can only see the underside...God can see the beautiful tapestry being created from the top. He knows what is best and it is times like this that our faith is being strengthened.

When it rains, it pours...

...and I'm not talking about "Hanna". I'm referring to trials. This time it was Brian's turn. He woke up in the middle of the night with such severe abdominal pain we made a trip to the ER. After a very intense few hours it turns out he has a kidney stone. Yes, he has now joined the club of men that know what it feels like to have a baby. Some friends from MFI came and picked up the kids from the hospital. Then I was able to stay with Brian until we knew what was going on. It was very scary for a while but God had his hand on our family and we were well taken care of. We are all together at home now getting some much needed rest. The stone should pass in the next couple of days....just in time to prepare for Hurricane Ike...

Hanging out with the family on Labor Day

We started out the day with a scavenger hunt around the house for the kids which ended in finding a prize of a bowl of ice cream with M&M of top. Mmmm!! Brian put up a swing in the tree in the front yard and the kids are loving it. No one has hit the tree yet. We are waiting to see what tropical storm Hanna does as it has been lingering over the Bahamas. Forecast call for it to turn into a hurricane. Pray that wherever it goes that it be a mild storm. Enjoy the photos. We added some to the slide show below as well.