Please pray for our friend Cynthia

Hello all. Could you please pray for our friend Cynthia. She collapsed yesterday up at the school while mentoring her KIDS HOPE child. As of tonight they are still not sure what caused the collapse, but her heart stopped for almost 5 minutes. The school nurse started giving her CPR right away and then the paramedics arrived. She did not wake up at the scene or the hospital and then last night they sedated her to keep her under so that she they could regulate her heart beat.

Please also pray for her family and that God would bring them comfort in this time.  Thank you.

Two and a Half at the Gardens

2 1/2 at the Botanical Gardens
“Where’s Nadia?”      (Click the above photo to see the entire album.)

Nadia crossed two-and-a-half years old a couple of weeks ago, and we took her to the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens to take some nice photos. It was an overcast day and getting late, but after a bit of color-correction and some prodigious post-processing, you’d never know it from the photos. I think they turned out wonderful. Turns out college actually IS good for something. 🙂

Nadia is a delight, and we still feel privileged daily that God saw fit to allow us to be her parents. She is indeed our great blessing. To watch her discoveries, her happiness, and her delight in almost everything around her is something that we could not have imagined, and it is beyond anything we hoped for. Not a day passes without us at some point wondering how we could be so blessed. She is truly loved and we are truly fortunate.

Here are a few of my favorites from the photo shoot; you can see the entire album on the Photos page. One last comment…I was thrilled that I was able to capture so many shots of her happy, playful smile and attitude. We see that joyful expression constantly, but because of her shyness at events and when around new people, many people don’t often get to see that side of her. That really is her demeanor most of the time, as anyone who gets to be around her for any extended period of time will tell you.

Discovery in Solitude
“Discovery in Solitude”

Joyful Abandon
“Joyful Abandon”

Ft. Worth Botanical Gardens 2009-04
“On Your Mark!”

Ft. Worth Botanical Gardens 2009-04
“A Cartload of Fun”

Ft. Worth Botanical Gardens 2009-04
“Double Blessing”

Space Shuttle Atlantis

I know that many people don’t get too excited over the Space Shuttle launch anymore, but I fondly remember being a kid and what a big deal it was to get the TV rolled into the classroom and watch the launch L-I-V-E.

So today I noticed that they were going to show the launch of Atlantis live and so I put it on for Nadia and I. She was asking questions and she was really into it. I knew the rocket boosters would be coming off soon, but I didn’t say anything. Then when they flew off she said,

“That was awesome!”