Anniversaries

This week, Mike and I celebrate four beautiful years of marriage! It seems unreal, and I feel so blessed to be able to be married to him. Last year was such a hard anniversary. A day before our anniversary, we got a call to head immediately up to the hospital. When we got up there, Ryker was puking and pooping massive amounts of blood. It was one of the hardest days of his short life. They had to manipulate Ryker's NJ tube and somehow ended up tearing his weakened stomach in three places. They had taken him in for emergency surgery and what was supposed to last only one hour took four. It was so hard and draining on our families. We spent the night up at Primarys (Mike on the floor on mats and me in the slanted bed. We got up every few hours to check on Ryker. He was amazing and ended up healing remarkably well.
This picture is of Ryker about a week after infant gastric bypass (because that was what they ended up having to do, cutting off half of his stomach).

I feel so fortunate to have Mike. He has been my support through everything. We are each others best friend. So many do not even know what it is like to me as close as we are. I am fortunate to be married to my him!

*By the way, because we were able to switch every thing to a more anonymous blog-site, we will not have to make this website private! Whoo-hoo! So no need to worry. It feels good to not have to worry about jeopardizing our family's safety, while being able to keep our blog open and continuing sharing our life with all our friends, family, and soon-to-be-friends.