Pre-Christmas

Hilary arrived from Senegal today. We all were so glad to see her.

We had a bit of a Christmas celebration before we take to the snowy road tomorrow.

(We're driving to Florida to join family for Christmas.)

This will be the first Christmas we'll spend with Tim & Wendy, Mom & Dad Seward, and Q's family. First time in 3 years. So we are excited about that.

We'll also be seeing Valerie Holsteen, and Steve as well. Looking forward to all of that.

To Hilary's distaste, Ben has passed Hilary. He is the taller one now. Its kind of funny to see.

We'll be travelling back the 2nd or 3rd of January. So we won't be posting right away. But thanks for praying and for stopping by today.

Tom & Lisa Seward

Lisa's 2nd ear activation.

Lisa went in yesterday to have her new imlant activated. The activation went well. The second ear actually started more advanced than the first ear had started out. (And if you remember, the first ear really started out better than our expectations. )
Now there is a still a lot of work to do for the new device to catch up to the same level the first one is at now... She has really come a long way to the good for her hearing.

Anyway, this bit of video you see here is her first number test with the new ear. Lisa does really well, only misses one number. But this will give you a glimpse of what it is like when they work to calibrate the hearing implant device.

Thanks for praying so faithfully.
Tom & Lisa

Thanksgiving

Alicia & the boys made a gingerbread house.


Alicia and Lisa did a new puzzle.

Caleb & Alica had a good time together.

Played in the snow, played chess, and of course Mario Kart...

This thanksgiving we have a lot to be thankful for, even though we had no idea in January that we'd be celebrating thanksgiving here in Michigan. All of our kids are doing well in their school situations. Lisa is recovering at a very good rate. We were able to celebrate this year with Alicia, our neice who was an MK in africa, but is now doing Biblical studies in Ohio.

We enjoyed turkey, stuffing, the whole hog.. :D

And we thank God for all of these blessings and more. He pours more that we can count!

Wish all of you could have been here with us...



Thanks for stopping by,

Tom & Lisa Seward