My last pictures of everyone meeting Harrison, were taken during our week long vacation. Here is the cheering squad for Drew at the PAC 12 meet in LA.
Cougars warming up!
Here are the PAC 12 teams. For cross country, many of the top teams in the nation are represented here along with the last two national champions.
I always love the colorful starts of cross country races.
Great picture of Drew in the croud.
Love the intensity he shows when he is racing.
Four cougars all packed together.
This race was from late October and we knew Drew was battling some type of lung issue. They were treating it as either an allergy to the smoke from the forest fires that had settled in the Pullman area or a smoke induced asthma. He was struggling with chest tightness and inability to breath correctly when he was really pushing his body.
We were all hopeful that the abundance of medication and inhalers they had him on would relieve it enough for him to race well here. Sadly to say about 2/3 of the way through the race it came on full force and he finished about a 1/3 of the way back in the pack. He was hoping for top 20.
Gotta love perfectly timed pictures. Spitting is just part of the game in racing, as well as spike wounds and snot rockets. Lovely, I know.
After a couple of days with Danielle, Ryan and Harrison we headed to Lake Tahoe. Love the pictures when kids are trying to figure out how to smile. I think he is transitioning to wanting to find a 'cool' smile instead of a 'sweet' smile. I don't think he succeeded!
I love my family. This little 4 day break from everything was much needed for David especially. It was wonderfully relaxing.
David loves photographing God's beautiful creation. I think I am going to try and do the upstairs hallway full of his photos.
Yes, the kids kind of played in the water at the end of October in Tahoe. The weather was wonderful~
Sunrise and moon setting over the lake.
Isn't God's creation amazing?
Isaiah 55:12
“For you shall go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
shall break forth into singing,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
shall break forth into singing,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
This little island reminded us of Crater Lake here by us.
We were amazed to get cell coverage so far up in the mountains. We were thankful to get an update from Drew and what the doctors were going to try to get him to regionals and then to Nationals if he could run well at Regionals. They got very aggressive an moved all the meds to max and put him on some new ones since there was not time to schedule with an allergist or pulminologist they were just shooting in the dark.
Our amazing, innocent Hannah showing pure joy!
What a treasure she is!
I am blessed!
Beautiful spawning salmon. One of the joys of the Pacific Northwest.
A quick stop at kids museum in Reno thanks to our museum pass, was a great break on the trip home.
