She's coming home!

Mom talked to Jeremy yesterday, and we are going to adopt Emma! She is booked on a flight tomorrow night and we will go to the airport and pick her up around 9 pm. Please pray her flights are safe and she is happy to see us. We have not seen her for 4 weeks, it has been a long time. We are so excited to get her back.

They are training a new dog for us at 4 Paws, we don't know yet when we go back, but it will be August or September.

On a sad note, Molly had a stroke on Saturday. On Sunday she could not walk, but today she is walking, eating, drinking and giving kisses. She just can't do the stairs anymore, so that's more work for Mom. Maybe Emma can help her get better. Molly is 13 and 1/2, so she has been with us a long time.

Emma is at 4 Paws

Emma in her crate on the road back to Ohio

Left: Emma with Baby Savannah, Dylan's sister

T0p: Emma and Yoko, Dylan's dog

Bottom: Emma looks outside our

front door for the last time

Here are some pictures Mom took of Emma on her last days with her. She is settling into the training center at 4 Paws, and I've talked to Jeremy twice. We miss her so much. People are so kind and ask where my dog is, and we have to say she went back to Ohio. We are still holding on to the hope she can come back and live with us. It is hard to describe how much we miss her, and we hope she is doing ok. Our little Emma. We hope to know something in a few more weeks, after Jeremy has more time to evaluate her.

There is alot of hope going on in our house.

The last day at home, for now

Here is my brother Jacob telling Emma goodbye, he loves her too.

My final kisses with Emma.

This has been terribly hard. Today my Mom drove Emma away. She is taking her back to 4 Paws to be evaluated. My hope is that they will let us adopt her. They may place her with another family. I will miss her. I love Emma. I got to talk to her on the phone, and she barked, and I heard another dog named Stitch. Friday Mom is taking her to see Jeremy. I want to talk to him to see when I get my new dog. Emma never told my mom and dad when I was gonna have a seizure, and they really need a dog that does that. It would help so much. Please pray for us, and for my Mom on this really tough day.

Love,Margs

We were in the newspaper!

Hi,
I'm just adding the link to our newspaper article:

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090216/NEWS/902160325#pluckcomments

A really nice reporter did the story, with a lot of flack from the school, and the photographers were great too.

So many people have called or written and told us they are praying for us, it has been very touching.

My Birthday!

Denny and my Dad helped me blow out my candles! I had a rainbow cake, isn't it cool? I was so glad everyone came to my birthday party. I did miss my cousins Andrew and Emma.

Here I am opening one of my gifts on my birthday, I had a lot of nice gifts.

I'm 19, I had my birthday!

Hi all, I had my 19th birthday, it was very exciting, almost all my family except 2 cousins came. And my special friends Denny, Kristi, Paige and her dog Emme came too! I got soo excited when they sang Happy Birthday that I had a seizure. Bummer. I got so many nice gifts, and today at school Mom is bringing pizza and pop for a party. I got a green iPod Nano, and I just love it, but how do you get those ear buds to stay in your ears? Hmmm.

I took the camera to school to share the pictures, so I will post some later, but I'm putting on a nice picture of Emma in the sun.

A Sad Day

Today we are discontinuing Emma's service at school. She made a counseolor afraid yesterday when she growed at him. She had seen him numerous times before. Mom will work on her training at home, but I won't have my buddy with me anymore at school.