Baylie 3rd grade Pioneer Elementary

Chase 6th grade Ontario Middle School

Stetson 9th grade Ontario High School

baylie is loving elementry school and is determined not to get a bad behavior slip this year.

Stetson LOVES!!!!! High School "Oh the Freedom" He is really liking Algebra "I actually get it, It isn't me it was the teacher last year!!!"

Chase is loving middle school and has decided he wants to play the Saxaphone. Ear plugs anyone????

Baylie and her puppy Missy. Loney told Boo that if she was to find a good home for Pepe the Parrot that we would get her a puppy. So he finally delivered. She is a pure bred Golden Lab. She is a very smart puppy and Baylie is very good with her especially when i threaten to give her to someone who really wants her and will take care of her. I am of course stuck baby sitting her or should I say Puppy Sitting while the kids are at school.

Stetson was diagnosed with a Chiari Malformation Type 1 in July. Surgery was needed to take care of the fluid that was being forced into his spinal cord. Surgery was on Aug. 3 and went really good. The doctor ended up not doing everything they were planning on because when they got in and did the bone decompression the fluid started flowing and doing what it was supposed to do so the doctor decided not to open up and do everything. With that being said it made the recovery easier (supposedly) and didn't make him susseptable to chemical menangitis or other complications. He did very well and has made a good recovery a followup with the doctor on the 3rd will tell us more but he will have to have another MRI in 3 to 6 months to see if this did what it was supposed to do.

Before the surgery the doctor asked stetson if he had any questions. Dumb question on his part. Yeah, Stetson said, "Can you video tape the surgery?" and "Can you save some of the bone for me?" So the doctor saved him a piece of his skull and a piece of the neck bone that he cut out. Plus he video taped the surgery it was narrated too but the sound didn't come through.

Stetson was in the hospital from Monday to Saturday. He has come home and started High School. He is also completely off of any medication for pain.

Toys for Comfort

Stetson 2 years ago after his accident wanted to do something for the Childrens hospital in Boise. So he decided to do a toy drive so that the kids in the hospital would have toys to pick from for their birthdays, Christmas, and other holidays. We collected 600 plus toys that year. We didn't do it last year due to a surgery and some other things that came up but we definitly are doing it this year. Our favorite Arena Football team helped us out this year. At the final game the team played which was also the first playoff game that our team made it to, we did a kickoff. It wasn't advertised real well so the turn out wasn't great for the toys but we did get some, and as I told the kids, "Some is better than None". I think we got 12 or so to start off with. Thank You to The Boise Burn for their help.

On another note, Stetson was invited to attend a teen panel at the hospital for the designing of the Teen Room. The teen room was a vision of one of the patients that the hospital had. He past away last year. On the panel was this young mans brother and several of his friends. Stetson was invited because of his personality and because they thought that he could help with some ideas of what they could do. The teen room will be completed in a few months.