Hannah's Prom

A local ministry, Adonai, puts on many events during the year to encourage critically ill kids & their families.

Yesterday was Adonai's Prom 2010.

Hannah was given a dress, received a corsage, had her hair, nails, make-up done & had a personal server to bring us drinks & our food at the prom.

Hannah danced almost the entire time ... 4 & 1/2 hours of dancing & fun!

We did not bring Lily because the music was loud last year & we thought it would be too loud for her this year. Lily is super sensitive to loud music, loud announcements in stores, you name it -- except, of course, the loudness of her own voice! :-)

The dress I wore was from last year -- a perfectly good dress but I hadn't tried it on in a year.

I guess I have grown a bit this past year.

Yeah, grown. That's it.

Literally I felt like I broke a few ribs stuffing myself in that dress for hours!






Hannah & Dr. Horvath -- the angel that walks the halls of Kaiser Fontana Hospital!

Hannah & "Tremor", the mascot from our local minor league team, The Quakes.

I didn't know her hair could stay up like that.

Doing our own Chicken dance.




We had a great prom together.

Sad that this is the last event we will attend with the Adonai Ministry. They have been such an amazing encouragement & support to us during Hannah's illness.

I will never, ever forget the kindness of these once strangers that came to the hospital to love on us & bring us encouragement. A gift I hope to one day bring to others going through what we experienced.

All God's best from HOME --

Fun Saturday

Today was an Easter Party put on by the group "Adonai". They do outreach events for families with critically ill kids. Hannah has been looking forward to this party for weeks!!! She sang karaoke, climbed the rock wall, made a huge Easter basket & had a great time! Lily ate almost an entire hot dog (rare for her!) & had a great time following her sister everywhere & making her own huge Easter basket!

Good times.

After nap time we went to the park - fed the ducks, played with puppies & enjoyed a beautiful Southern California afternoon! A blessing to just be out of the hospital & home. I still don't take any of it for granted!

Hannah is singing in the main service tomorrow at church. She has a small solo & let me just say, it is going to be very emotional to hear Hannah singing about God's healing hand. I will be sure to post a video tomorrow of her performance ... can't wait!

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"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God." 2 Corinthians 1:3,4