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If those bright blues don't melt your heart I don't know what would. We are so blessed! These are some of our favorites from our family photo shoot. Hope you like them!

363 Un-Birthdays

Believe it or not our little guy is 6 months old! We decided to celebrate half birthdays in our house and here is a couple of pics of our little man and his first half birthday present, some squishy squeeky blocks! He is pretty good at sitting up now and keeps me pretty entertained.

Clear Eyes

An unbelieveable update on the vision front. We took Sullivan to the Opthamologist this week and the report was fantastic! Sullivan has absolutley no damage to his vision from the glaucoma or surguries so far. The Doctor said that if he hadn't read his medical history on the computer he wouldn't have believed me if I told him Sullivan had Glaucoma.
The main worry was nearsightedness. The first thing the Doctor remarked on was that "This kid is definatley not nearsighted!" After more testing he also told us that the optical nerves looked great.
We couldn't have asked for a better report.
Praise God!

We will call this day 'The Lord Answers Prayer' - Gen. 22:11-14

We are sooooo excited to post this new news! Sullivan's eye exam went great and we went home with NO EYE PATCHES!!!!! 45 minutes into the exam while Sully was under anesthesia Dr Joos came back to the parents waiting room and announced that the pressure on the right was a 9 and the pressure on the left was a ... ... ... bum bum bum bum... ... ... 14!
She told us that we would not be putting the valve in and that we would cut the eye drop medicine in half! Is our God awesome or what?!?!?
So many of you reading this prayed so hard for this and we are so blessed today by answered prayer. I wept the whole way home from the hospital.

It dawned on me as I was reading the passage I noted above (the story of Abraham & Isaac) that I have the authority as a believer in God and as a parent to mark a specific day or time in our families lives for the remembrance of God's provision/answered prayer.
Abraham named a specific place 'The Lord Will Provide' for God's provision of a ram in place of the sacrifice of his son. The scripture says "Abraham named that place 'The Lord Will Provide', so today it is said "It will be provided on the Lord's Mountain."

I have felt as though God was calling me to release Sullivan and his eyes and trust Him to provide for my son in ways I was not able to. Seemingly unbearable and impossible, I can't begin to describe the strength I have gained and the amazing lessons I have learned. When I replaced the worry with prayer and relied on the faith I have been cultivating in my short 28 years My God grabbed my hand so tightly and never left my side. Some of my most intimate moments in this sweet relationship I have with my Savior have been shared over my son Sullivan.

Today I call this day 'The Lord Answers Prayer' so that generations of the Pardee family will know 'The Lord has never left us.'

My Future's So Bright

Mother's Day & A Baby Dedication

I could very possibly be the luckiest momma in the whole world. This is what I woke up to on Mother's Day. My whole day was bright after that.

At our church we don't baptise the babies because we believe that children need to make that decision on their own when they are old enough to. Instead we dedicate them, which is more for the parents than the kiddos. Basically we dedicated ourselves to parenting in a way that would honor the Lord and bring Sullivan up to praise the amazing God that has blessed him and protected him so faithfully already.

Next to me is our children's ministry director Teresa and our Pastor, Raymond Vogtner (Sullivan's Tennessee Grandad) We are so blessed to have them in our lives as both our friends and spiritual leaders.

Madison Creek Farms - Mother's Day Early

We decided to spend this beautiful Saturday on this adorable organic veggie farm we stumbled upon. They were celebrating their season opening with a bluegrass band and fresh strawberry shortcake. Mmmmm! Sullivan loved the bunnies.

They also have a great garden of cutting flowers and you can pick your own bouquet.

Lazy Days & Sunday Best

Just a few recent pics of the babe.

Can Zaden Come Out To Play?

My girlfriend Lindsley came home for a visit and Sullivan and Zaden finally got to play!

Look how cute these boys are!

"Hey, what flavor do you have?"

What a party pooper. A cute one though!