Thank you!

First and foremost a HUGE, HUGE thanks once again to East Valley Sol (www.evsol.org) and to everyone that came out to the fundraiser last month. We received word yesterday that $12,000 was raised for Luke (and the same for Santana.) Is that awesome or what???? Thank you! Thank you! So, with that along with the money raised from the D-Backs game and other donations we have the $14,000 needed to do another Stem cell treatment. We have set a date to go back on Nov. 4th! Thank you to everyone that has helped us so much!! Please know you have played such an important part in the healing of our gladiator; I pray you will be blessed many times over for your generosity.

Luke has had a busy week. Mike took the kids with his family up to Greer this weekend while I had a scrapbooking event. They had a great time even though the weather didn't cooperate as much as they had hoped. Monday we took a walk down to the neighborhood park. Luke loved being there and going on the swings and slide. Then last night we got out the T-ball set....I tell you, the kid amazes me so much! In his first 5 swings he hit the ball off the tee with his first swing every single time. I think he played for over a half an hour just hitting the ball. Then it was time to get out the Barbie jeep...the first time around he started out good, then wasn't so sure. However, after we ate dinner, his cousins came over to get it in it with him and he loved it!!! Him and Tyler just took off down the road, Luke of course kept wanting to steer it off road to do some four-wheeling. The funny thing is, when Mike first put Luke in, he reached right down to where the gear shift is. The kid remembers everything!!! Don't worry we are not going to make him ride in a pink Barbie jeep...Mike is going to give it a custom paint job:) We just figured why spend $400 when we have one already. This week we have also started the new NACD program. I am really liking the program they gave us this time, it has a lot of school-like activities for Luke which I think is good. Yesterday was our first day back to work with it, please pray that Luke will get better every day with it because it sure beats driving to therapy. Thanks again so much for everything!! Believe!