Vote for CHD car for NASCAR!!!!!

Please vote for the CHD NASCAR! There is only 15 more days to vote. You can vote once per day until March 15th!!! Click here to vote.

Powdered Donuts = YUMMY

Adam went to the store and brought us home a little surprise! He brought us powdered donuts. This is Thad's first time eating them and he LOVES them!

He ate the first one and just said "Mmmmmm" and then after that one he said "More!" He ate a few more and made a BIG mess but it was fun watching him eat them.

Now he looks on the kitchen counter every morning and says Done-Dones?

Making Valentine's Cookies

Thad and I made homemade chocolate chip cookies today for a Valentine treat!

Thad helped stir the cookie mix and then snuck a few bites for himself!!!

Thad helped spoon the cookie dough on the cookie sheet and also snuck a few bites!

Thad loves to say "cheese" to the camera even in the middle of baking cookies!

Now we all have a belly ache from eating too many cookies.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!

CHD Awareness week: February 7th-14th

CHD Awareness week is February 7th-14th. I encourage everyone to spread the word about CHD's!!!

What is CHD?

*A Congenital Heart Defect is a problem with the heart's structure that is present at birth.

These defects can involve:

* the interior walls of the heart

*the valves inside the heart

*the arteries and veins that carry blood to and out of the body

CHD Statistics:

* CHD's are America's #1 birth defect. Nearly 1 in every 100 babies is born with a heart defect. (almost 1% of children born each year)



* CHD's are the number #1 cause of birth defect related deaths. 1 in 3 children who die from a birth defect have a CHD.



* This year almost 40,000 babies will be born with a CHD



*In the US, twice as many children die from CHD's each year than all forms of childhood cancer. Yet funding for pediatric cancer is 5x greater!



* From 1993- 2003 deaths from CHD's have decreased by almost 31% due to advances made in research!



* There is not yet a preventive cure for any type of CHD



* Of every dollar the government spends on medical funding, only a fraction of every penny is directed towards CHD research.

CHD's have affected our life forever. It's something I never thought would ever happen to us but it did. This is our life and we deal with it everyday. We have seen the absolute worse that can come from a child having a CHD to seeing Thad grow and thrive with a CHD. Please spread the word about Conginital Heart Defects!! We pray for a cure!