again i need to apologize for not keeping the blog up very well. there is nothing too new to report. ian had some testing done in pittsburgh today that went well. this weekend i'll start moving into our new house, plus we're running a 5k for brain cancer research in DC on Sunday.

Almost exactly four months until we get married. it's going fast, but at the same time i feel like we've been engaged forever. still praying that ian will be walking and standing at our wedding, but trying not to put my hope in that.

thank you for praying. please continue to pray for ian's memory and that he would initiate conversation.

i&l

As a side note, there is a camp in eastern Pennsylvania for children with brain injury who are in need of male counselors from June 13-18. My cousins have worked as this camp for years and asked if I knew anyone who would be interested.

For more info go to www.campcranium.org or email andrew.meschter@gmail.com

thanks:)

Ian had an appointment today with his neurosurgeon who did his original emergency surgery. On the same floor, just down the hall from the ICU that both Ian and Steve had brain surgery in. Hated to be there. And making me cry on so many levels, the doctor told Ian that he is the sickest patient he has ever had who has survived.

So glad he's alive. Wish Steve were too.

-L

Happy Birthday Weekend, Ian. Love you.

Sorry that I haven't been posting much over the past few days. On Monday I began a new full-time marketing position at a local bank, so our schedule is a little bit different.

Friday is Ian's birthday. I asked him how he felt about turning 25 and he said "awesome, it makes me happy." I asked him what turning 25 made him think about God and he said, "that He is merciful."

missing steve.praying for ian.waiting for 8/28.

Our First Place

We had a celebratory dinner in Pittsburgh last night to celebrate signing a lease on our first place as a married couple! Our friend Jessica who is a local relator helped us find a perfect ranch house to rent. I'll be moving out a month from now and Ian will join me in August.

"You that are lowest on the scale of visible joy, you that are broken like a shipwreck, you that are a mass of pain, you that are in poverty, will you give your Lord a good word? Will you say, 'Though He slay me, yet I will trust him.'

At our worst, we are better off than the world at its best. Godly poverty is better than unhallowed riches. Our sickness is better than our sinner's health. Our depression is better than the earth's honors. We consider it better to suffer pain equal to the torture of death than bathe in sin's pleasures. We will take God at all the discount you can put on Him. You can have the world with all the compound interest that you are able to get from such a sham.......

Sorrowful yet always rejoicing. Do you know this paradox? Some of us have known it for many years."

- Beside Still Waters

Headed to Pittsburgh today to see an orthopedic surgeon about Ian's knee. Hoping for some options, but the reality is there probably are none.

It's amazing how much we spend on trying to fix our bodies- bodies that aren't meant to last forever.

Thanks for praying

L